News articles tagged with 'propulsion'
The strongest animal in the world
— 13 May 2010 10:57 | BiologyThe world's strongest animal, the copepod, is barely 1 mm long. It is also the world's fastest animal and the most abundant multicellular animal on the planet. So what is it that makes…
'Lighting a match in a tornado' is 1 of multiple feats for propulsion centre
— 1 Apr 2010 10:36 | TechnologyWhen Walter O'Brien was a young boy, he recalls a moment of complete exhilaration when he was able to design and build a balsa wood airplane model that actually flew from his parents'…
ESA designs its smallest ever space engine to push back against sunshine
— 11 Mar 2009 13:10 | TechnologyThis month an ESA team is preparing to test the performance of the smallest yet most precisely controllable engine ever built for space, sensitive enough to counteract the force of…
Cassini thruster swap planned
— 3 Feb 2009 09:58 | AstronomyThe Cassini spacecraft will swap to a backup set of propulsion thrusters in mid-March due to degradation in the performance of the current set of thrusters…
Baby beetles inspire Pitt researchers to build 'mini boat' powered by surface tension
— 22 Jan 2009 20:18 | TechnologyInspired by the aquatic wriggling of beetle larvae, a University of Pittsburgh research team has designed a propulsion system that strips away paddles, sails, and motors and harnesses…
Dawn glides toward a Mars flyby
— 21 Nov 2008 13:48 | AstronomyNASA's Dawn spacecraft shut down its ion propulsion system today as scheduled. The spacecraft is now gliding toward a Mars flyby in February of next year. 'Dawn has completed the thrusting…
Ripple effect: Water snails offer new propulsion possibilities
— 13 Oct 2008 09:00 | PhysicsA UC San Diego engineer has revealed a new mode of propulsion based on how water snails create ripples of slime to crawl upside down beneath the surface. Eric Lauga, an assistant professor…
Propulsion technology mostly unchanged after 50 years
— 31 Jan 2008 13:46 | AstronomyAlthough it's been a half century since America entered the space age, the basic propulsion concepts used to push Explorer I into space will be the same type of propulsion that the…
European Mercury mission swings into action
— 22 Jan 2008 10:53 | AstronomyThe European Space Agency (ESA) signalled the start of a busy period for the planet Mercury, when it signed the contract for industrial development to start for the BepiColombo mission…
Boosting capability: Santa Maria station to join ESTRACK
— 11 Jan 2008 19:22 | AstronomyA new station will join ESA's tracking network on 17 January 2008. Located on the Portuguese island of Santa Maria in the Azores, the station will track launches from Europe's spaceport…
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