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New Materials Designed To Deal With Hypersonic And Supersonic Hot StuffBrisbane, Australia (SPX) Dec 28, 2009 University of Queensland researchers are testing new materials to withstand the extreme heat experienced by hypersonic vehicles in flight so they can fly for substantially longer. Previous Australian experimental flight tests of scramjets, a type of very fast jet engine, have not lasted longer than five seconds. The tests, conducted at Woomera in South Australia over the past eight years, have used scramjet engines made of conventional materials which have problems with extreme heat including melting, and are not designed for re-use. ... read more |
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New Delhi, India (PTI) Dec 22, 2009The next moon mission - Chandrayaan-II - will use advanced technologies, the Rajya Sabha was told today. The next moon mission will have an orbiter, a lander and rovers which use advanced technologies, Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan said in a written reply. Concepts of low-cost planetary mission have been discussed at an international conference recently in Goa ... more  
Seoul, South Korea (XNA) Dec 22, 2009South Korea will put together a plan to attempt the second firing of the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1), its first locally developed space rocket, local media on Monday quoted a report to President Lee Myung-bak as saying. Initially described as a "half success" by local officials and engineers, KSLV-1 is currently under examination by the South Korean government to find the cause ... more  
Fayetteville AK (SPX) Dec 23, 2009A University of Arkansas scientist has received funding from NASA to simulate conditions found on Saturn's moon Titan to help better understand the origins of the liquids found on its surface and in its atmosphere. Vincent Chevrier, assistant research professor in the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences, conducted preliminary studies in a planetary environmental simulation ... more |
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Zirakpur, India (SPX) Dec 23, 2009Only 20% of the 12,000-odd artificial objects, including satellites, are operational in space, but unwanted "debris" are causing a lot of problem in launching new ones, former ISRO director Suresh Naik said. There are around 12,000 satellites and other artificial objects in the space, out of which only 20% are active. Satellites have a life of 15-20 years, and then they get lost in space ... more  
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 23, 2009Ominous black smoke rose over California's high desert on a crisp, cold December morning in 1962, and there was no sign of a parachute. Della Mae Bowling, the pilot's office secretary at NASA's Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, was crying as fire trucks raced across the vast expanse of Rogers Dry Lake toward the crash scene. But Bowling and others were to learn that what ... more  
Moscow, Russia (AFP) Dec 23, 2009A Russian rocket carrying three astronauts from Japan, Russia and the United States docked at the International Space Station Wednesday, the Russian flight control centre said. The Soyuz rocket, which blasted off early Monday, docked at 1:48 am Moscow time (2248 GMT Tuesday), an official from the centre said in a report by the Interfax news agency. It left from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in the barren Kazakh steppe carrying Soichi Noguchi of Japan, US astronaut Timothy Creamer and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov ... more |
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