Science news articles about 'earth orbits'

NASA's scientists discuss the Orion in low-Earth Orbit and its missions to the ISS. Credit: NASA

... but less massive than Uranus and Neptune (about 15 Earth masses). The group of astronomers have now discovered a ... 2, 6.7, and 9.4 times the mass of the Earth, orbit the star with periods of 4.3, 9. ...

... data while being able to filter out disturbances caused by the remaining traces of the atmosphere in low Earth orbit (at an altitude of only 260 km). This resulted in a slender 5-m-long arrowhead ...

... destroy an aging Chinese meteorological satellite, creating thousands of chunks of debris in low-Earth orbit, a region heavily used by spacecraft, including the International Space Station. A better ...

... . Now, they soon expect to get some answers to these and other compelling carbon questions, thanks to the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, a new Earth-orbiting NASA satellite set to launch in early 2009.

Here are some quick facts about the Earth-orbiting satellite, scheduled to launch on Feb. 24, 2009.

... Explorer (GOCE) satellite developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) was lofted into a near-Sun-synchronous, low Earth orbit by a Rockot launcher lifting off from the Plesetsk ...

... would take 10 years. In contrast, an Earth orbiting a mid-sized red dwarf ... best possibility of detecting biomarkers in a transiting Earth's atmosphere," said Kaltenegger. "Ultimately, direct imaging ...

Here are some quick facts about the Earth-orbiting satellite, scheduled to launch on Feb. 24, 2009.

... as pristine as a mountain stream. But in truth, at least in Earth's vicinity, the trash factor in space may be more akin ... s East River. The region known as low Earth orbit (extending from 160 to 2,000 ...

Completing an 18-month mission orbiting the Earth more than 6,000 times on-orbit the International Space Station (ISS), the Optical Reflector Material Experiment (ORMatE-1) ...

A half--century ago, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Explorer 1 spacecraft became America's first Earth-orbiting satellite when it sailed into space on Jan. 31, 1958.

... represents an opportunity for validating in-orbit critical satellite technologies, characterising the Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) radiation environment, and to test a key element of the future Galileo ...

... have occurred, largely as a result of cyclical changes in Earth’s orbit around the sun. “These natural cycles ... during the past 800,000 years, the Earth has experienced long, cooler periods about 80, ...

... Little Red Spot has been combined with powerful Earth-orbital and ground-based imagery made ... would make it a Category 5 storm on Earth. "This storm is still developing, and some of the changes remain ...