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NASA Launches Tiny Climate Change Satellite To Study Earth's Poles
A tiny NASA satellite was launched Saturday from New Zealand with the mission of improving climate change prediction by measuring heat escaping from Earth's poles for the first time.
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NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Discovers "Mini Moon" Orbiting Asteroid Dinkinesh
With its first flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh, Lucy discovered it is not one single asteroid, but a system of two, with a small 220m-wide satellite spinning around it.
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Zimbabwe Launches First Nano-Satellite To Help Boost Agriculture
A rocket carrying the tiny satellite, dubbed ZIMSAT-1, successfully launched from Virginia in the United States alongside Uganda's first satellite as part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) multi-nation project.
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NASA, Astra to Send Another Set of Satellites in Orbit After Failure of Previous Weather Mission
NASA, along with Astra, will send another tiny storm-monitoring satellites to orbit as the companies lost their previous mission after engine failure. The earlier test had a rocket carrying two MIT-designed small satellites to measure moisture and precipitation in tropical storm systems.
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NASA's Tiny Satellites Fall Silent After Proving New Tech at Mars
The twin CubeSats, nicknamed WALL-E and EVE, shadowed NASA's InSight lander to Mars last year.
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Stunning Image Of Moon's Rear Side Captured By Chinese Satellite
A Chinese lunar orbiter has taken a stunning image that shows the giant rear side of the moon with a tiny planet Earth nearby, the media reported.
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MIT Researchers Propose Tiny Satellites to Guide Huge Space Telescopes
NASA engineers are developing designs for next-generation space telescopes.
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No Sabotage In PSLV Failure, It will Fly In November: Space Agency Chief
The launch of India's first private-sector assembled satellite, the IRNSS-1H, failed last month because a tiny but vital equipment had failed, space agency ISRO has said. Brushing away speculations of an internal sabotage on social media, ISRO chief Dr AS Kiran Kumar told NDTV that the same equipment had "worked perfectly 60 times" earlier.
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1000s Of Tiny Satellites About To Go Into Space, Possibly Ruin It Forever
Halfway through the European Space Agency's new film, we're at the part where - if this were some happy space documentary from yesteryear - Carl Sagan might be giving us a tour of a distant galaxy.
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Miniature Lab Begins Science Experiments In Outer Space
Orbiting the earth at more than 500 kilometres (300 miles), a tiny satellite with a laboratory shrunk to the size of a tissue box is helping scientists carry out experiments that take gravity out of the equation.
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Meet Earth's 'Quasi-Satellite' - A Tiny Asteroid That's Followed Us For A Century
Earth has only one true natural satellite: the moon. But now scientists have found a fellow satellite of the sun that's been our constant companion for more than 100 years. Because of the way the space rock wobbles in orbit, it actually circles our own planet in addition to circling the sun.
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Spacewalking Astronauts Release Peruvian Satellite
Spacewalking astronauts launched a tiny Peruvian research satellite yesterday, setting it loose on a mission to observe Earth.
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Tips from Space Give Long-Range Warning of Flood Risk
Satellite monitoring of tiny changes in the gravitational field of river basins may give up to 11 months' warning of disastrous floods, a study published on Sunday said.
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NASA Launches Tiny Climate Change Satellite To Study Earth's Poles
A tiny NASA satellite was launched Saturday from New Zealand with the mission of improving climate change prediction by measuring heat escaping from Earth's poles for the first time.
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NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Discovers "Mini Moon" Orbiting Asteroid Dinkinesh
With its first flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh, Lucy discovered it is not one single asteroid, but a system of two, with a small 220m-wide satellite spinning around it.
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Zimbabwe Launches First Nano-Satellite To Help Boost Agriculture
A rocket carrying the tiny satellite, dubbed ZIMSAT-1, successfully launched from Virginia in the United States alongside Uganda's first satellite as part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) multi-nation project.
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NASA, Astra to Send Another Set of Satellites in Orbit After Failure of Previous Weather Mission
NASA, along with Astra, will send another tiny storm-monitoring satellites to orbit as the companies lost their previous mission after engine failure. The earlier test had a rocket carrying two MIT-designed small satellites to measure moisture and precipitation in tropical storm systems.
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NASA's Tiny Satellites Fall Silent After Proving New Tech at Mars
The twin CubeSats, nicknamed WALL-E and EVE, shadowed NASA's InSight lander to Mars last year.
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Stunning Image Of Moon's Rear Side Captured By Chinese Satellite
A Chinese lunar orbiter has taken a stunning image that shows the giant rear side of the moon with a tiny planet Earth nearby, the media reported.
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MIT Researchers Propose Tiny Satellites to Guide Huge Space Telescopes
NASA engineers are developing designs for next-generation space telescopes.
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No Sabotage In PSLV Failure, It will Fly In November: Space Agency Chief
The launch of India's first private-sector assembled satellite, the IRNSS-1H, failed last month because a tiny but vital equipment had failed, space agency ISRO has said. Brushing away speculations of an internal sabotage on social media, ISRO chief Dr AS Kiran Kumar told NDTV that the same equipment had "worked perfectly 60 times" earlier.
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1000s Of Tiny Satellites About To Go Into Space, Possibly Ruin It Forever
Halfway through the European Space Agency's new film, we're at the part where - if this were some happy space documentary from yesteryear - Carl Sagan might be giving us a tour of a distant galaxy.
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Miniature Lab Begins Science Experiments In Outer Space
Orbiting the earth at more than 500 kilometres (300 miles), a tiny satellite with a laboratory shrunk to the size of a tissue box is helping scientists carry out experiments that take gravity out of the equation.
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Meet Earth's 'Quasi-Satellite' - A Tiny Asteroid That's Followed Us For A Century
Earth has only one true natural satellite: the moon. But now scientists have found a fellow satellite of the sun that's been our constant companion for more than 100 years. Because of the way the space rock wobbles in orbit, it actually circles our own planet in addition to circling the sun.
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Spacewalking Astronauts Release Peruvian Satellite
Spacewalking astronauts launched a tiny Peruvian research satellite yesterday, setting it loose on a mission to observe Earth.
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Tips from Space Give Long-Range Warning of Flood Risk
Satellite monitoring of tiny changes in the gravitational field of river basins may give up to 11 months' warning of disastrous floods, a study published on Sunday said.
