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One Tiny Satellite In Space, Whiz Kids Plan Two MoreBangalore, India (PTI) Jul 19, 2010 Driven by their maiden success in placing a tiny satellite in polar orbit early this week, the young pioneers are raring to launch two more satellites. "The successful launch and placing of our first pico-satellite (StudSat) in the earth's lower orbit has inspired us to build two similar satellites for the next launch," the project's core member G Kartik said here. Riding piggy back on India's advanced remote sensing satellite Cartosat-2B and three other satellites, the 850gm cubical StudSat ... read more |
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Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 15, 2010The ESA space probe Rosetta flew past the Lutetia planetoid at around 6 p.m. CEST on Saturday. The OSIRIS camera system, built and developed under the direction of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, provided unique images of this rendezvous. They not only show a large number of craters on the surface of the celestial body, but also individual ... more  
Sriharikota, India (PTI) Jul 14, 2010A little over than three years ago, D.V.A. Raghava Murthy, Project Director, Small Satellites Projects, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, was telling a group of college students what a fascinating subject space was and why students should develop an interest in it. His speech was so inspiring that at the end of the meeting a group of students asked him why ISRO should not help them build a ... more 
Washington (UPI) Jul 13, 2010 A spacecraft bound for Jupiter will get a suit of armor to protect it from the fiercest radiation any space probe has ever encountered, NASA officials say. The unmanned Juno space probe will face a treacherous environment with more radiation than around any other planet and will need an armored shield around its sensitive electronics, NASA said in a release Monday. "Juno is basic ... more |
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NASA Needs Total Strategy To Control CostsWashington DC (SPX) Jul 14, 2010 NASA should develop a broad, integrated strategy to contain costs and maintain schedules as earth and space science missions are planned and designed, says a new report by the National Research Council. The report also calls on NASA, Congress, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to consistently use the same method to quantify and track costs. "Cost and schedule considerations are important for NASA missions," said Ronald M. Sega, chair of the committee that wrote the report and the Woodw ... read more |
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