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Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:08:00 GMT

Space elevator team wins $900,000 from NASA

A Seattle-based team has won $900,000 in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsored contest to build machines powered by laser beams that can climb a cable in the sky. The homemade cable-climber built by the LaserMotive team climbed a 3,000-foot
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:08:00 GMT

Space junk storm will up mission costs: experts

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Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:43:00 GMT

Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes a Chaotic Planetary System

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured this infrared image of a giant halo of very fine dust around the young star HR 8799. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Ariz. Before our planets found their way to the stable orbits they circle in today, they
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 10:48:00 GMT

Seattle team wins $900,000 in space elevator games

The team's robotic machine raced up more than 2,950 feet (900 meters) of cable dangling from a helicopter. Powered by a ground-based laser pointed up at the robot's photo voltaic cells that converted the light into electricity, the LaserMotive machine
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 10:26:00 GMT

Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games

LOS ANGELES --A space elevator may not be rocket science but it can be just as complicated -- and rewarding. After three years without a winner in a NASA-backed competition to develop the science fiction space elevator concept, a team from Seattle on
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 09:39:00 GMT

Chaotic Mars Terrain Identified in New Images

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has recently snapped a new series of photos of the planet's surface, revealing scarred terrain stretching for large distances, as well as several impact craters, most likely caused by asteroids that struck
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 09:25:00 GMT

The Quercus Trust Announces Acquisition of Applied Solar, Inc.

Applied Solar, Inc. (OTCBB:APSO) has closed the sale of their assets and operations to Quercus APSO, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Quercus Trust. Following the combination of the businesses Quercus APSO will change their name and conduct business
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 09:21:00 GMT

Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games

After three years without a winner in a NASA-backed competition to develop the science fiction space elevator concept, a team from Seattle on Friday collected $900,000 after its laser-powered robotic machine raced up more than 2,950 feet of cable
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:49:00 GMT

Comet chaser Rosetta’s Earth swingby right on schedule

Estimates have shown that European Space Agency’s (ESA) comet chaser Rosetta’s Earth swingby is right on schedule, and it would pass within a few kilometers of the planned point of closest approach during the swingby. After the trajectory
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:45:00 GMT

Comet chaser Rosetta's Earth swingby right on schedule

Estimates have shown that European Space Agency's (ESA) comet chaser Rosetta's Earth swingby is right on schedule, and it would pass within a few kilometers of the planned point of closest approach during the swingby. After the trajectory correction
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:43:00 GMT

Where the Wind Comes From, on Earth and Other Planets

Caltech Committee on Institute Programs Winds on Earth have prevalent directions, a fact that has been exploited by sailors and explorers in centuries past and still influences the routes airplanes take today. Surface winds blow predominantly from the
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:34:00 GMT

International Space Station / NASA Uses Rotary Inertia of a Flywheel to Generate Resistance For Exercise In Zero Gravity

Inventor and owner's Richard and Dan Charnitski of Heart Rate Inc. (VersaClimber), Costa Mesa, CA demonstrated the advantage of a Flywheel Exercise Device to NASA in 1996 at the Johnson's Space Center in Houston, Texas. The goal was to introduce their
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:24:00 GMT

International Space Station / NASA Uses Rotary Inertia of a Flywheel to Generate Resistance For Exercise In Zero Gravity

Much to the delight of Heart Rate Inc., manufacturers of the VersaPulley & VersaRower, which uses rotating flywheel resistance technology is presently being used on board the International Space Station as part of NASAs fitness training and maintenance
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:07:00 GMT

International Space Station / NASA Uses Rotary Inertia of a Flywheel to Generate Resistance For Exercise In Zero Gravity

Much to the delight of Heart Rate Inc., manufacturers of the VersaPulley & VersaRower, which uses rotating flywheel resistance technology is presently being used on board the International Space Station as part of NASAs fitness training and maintenance
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:06:00 GMT

International Space Station / NASA Uses Rotary Inertia of a Flywheel to Generate Resistance For Exercise In Zero Gravity

Much to the delight of Heart Rate Inc., manufacturers of the VersaPulley & VersaRower, which uses rotating flywheel resistance technology is presently being used on board the International Space Station as part of NASAs fitness training and maintenance
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:06:00 GMT

Moon’s ‘friends’ say no to future lunar crashes

When a NASA spacecraft rammed into the moon in October, it tossed up a hard-to-see plume of lunar material. But the event also stirred an observable cloud of public anxiety and protests in some quarters about 'bombing' the moon, a backlash that may hint
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:36:00 GMT

New survey finds 22 of the earliest galaxies

A new survey has found 22 of the earliest galaxies to form in the universe, confirming the age of one at just 787 million years after the theoretical Big Bang. These and other galaxies from the universe's childhood could help shed light on the conditions
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:36:00 GMT

Seattle Team Wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Contest (SPACE.com)

This story was updated Friday at 9:50 p.m. EST. A Seattle-based team has won $900,000 in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsored contest to build machines powered by laser beams that can climb a cable in the sky. The homemade cable-climber
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:14:00 GMT

Take Me Out to the Ballpark - On Mars!

NASA and JPL have partnered with the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum to host a workshop for kids on Sat., Nov. 7, in Cooperstown, N.Y. Image credit: NASA/JPL Students in fourth through seventh grade will work to create the ultimate baseball
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:57:00 GMT

NASA Seeks Student Payloads for High-Flying Research Balloon

(National Aeronautics and Space Administration Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- Nov. 6, 2009 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Keith Koehler Wallops Flight Facility, Va.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:44:00 GMT

Early Galaxy Pinpoints Reionization Era

Astronomers looking to pinpoint when the reionozation of the Universe took place have found some of the earliest galaxies about 800 million years after the Big Bang. 22 early galaxies were found using a method that looks for far-away redshifting sources
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:16:00 GMT

Space Junk May Force Crew from ISS

Update #2, 5:30 pm: NASA has now said that after further analysis, the space debris they have been tracking no longer poses any concern or threat to the ISS. Everyone can rest easy tonight! The piece of debris was only 5 cm long, and will not pass within
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:16:00 GMT

Podcast: Planet X

Astronomers have been searching for the mysterious Planet X for hundreds of years. It was the search for a theoretical planet beyond Uranus that turned up Neptune, and then again for Pluto. And even now there are some astronomers who think there's a more
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:16:00 GMT

Podcast: Pulsars

Imagine an object with the mass of the Sun, crushed down to the size of Manhattan. Now set that object spinning hundreds of times a second, blasting out powerful beams of radiation like a lighthouse. That's a pulsar, one of the most exotic objects in the
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:16:00 GMT

High School Students Get Published in Astrophysics Journal

From the left: Klaus Beuermann (group leader), Jens Diese (back,teacher), and the high-school students Joshua Zachmann (front), Alexander-Maria Ploch (back), Sang Paik (front). JD, JZ, and AMP are from the Max-Planck-Gymnasium, SP is from the
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:16:00 GMT

Found: Theoretical Supernova Actually Exists

Astronomers have identified a type of supernova that appears to be a type predicted in theory but never actually observed before. Two years ago Lars Bildsten from UC Santa Barbara and his colleagues predicted a new type of supernova in distant galaxies
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:16:00 GMT

Hubble Unveils Stunning Star Birth in M83

It appears Hubble's new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) is working. And how! The new camera installed during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed view of star birth in the graceful, curving arms of the nearby spiral galaxy M83. Nicknamed
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:15:00 GMT

Space Junk Buzzes Station as Astronauts Sleep

A small chunk of space trash made an uncomfortably close pass by the International Space Station late Friday, but not close enough to force the astronauts aboard to take shelter in their Russian lifeboats. NASA's Mission Control woke the six astronauts
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:21:00 GMT

Astronaut: Students can soar with science and math

Astronaut Bernard Harris has logged almost 200 hours in space, completed 129 orbits of Earth and traveled more than 2.9 million miles. But without science, technology, engineering and math, he would have never gotten off the ground. "In the 21st century,
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:20:00 GMT

Telescopes Take Advantage of Former TV Wavelenghts

Astronomers working on radio observatories in the United States are, at this point having a field day. Most television networks have moved to all-digital signals this June, and so a significant portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, on which they sent
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 03:33:00 GMT