Flights rerouted as enormoussolar tempesslam Earth
Posted by brandoniswrite on March 21, 2012
Radiation storm are not damaging to humans, on soil at least, according to the US room agency. They can, however, have an effect on satellite operation and small wave radio. Solar radiation from a huge sun storm – the main in nearly a decade – collide with the Earth’s atmosphere on Tuesday, prompt an airline [...]
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Progress Launch: Russia successfully resumes Soyuz booster flights to the ISS
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 31, 2011
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has successfully returned the venerable Soyuz booster to flight via the launch of the Soyuz-U booster carrying the uncrewed Progress M-13M/45P resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch is the first successful Soyuz booster flight to the ISS since the 24th August failure of the Soyuz-U booster carrying [...]
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NASA’s Global Hawks Mark Year of Science Flights
Posted by brandoniswrite on March 14, 2011
This week marks the first anniversary of the NASA Global Hawk project’s initial science mission. On April 7, 2010, Global Hawk No. 872 took off from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., for its first science foray over the Pacific Ocean in the Global Hawk Pacific 2010 – or GloPac [...]
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