Science news articles about 'lofts'

Wind tunnels experiments show sand grains can be lofted on Mars to create dunes.

Launch countdown coverage of NASA's GLAST space telescope.

... have been holed up in a Mojave Desert hangar for four years, fashioning a commercial spaceship to loft rich tourists some 62 miles above Earth. Now the wraps come partially off the top-secret project ...

... plain this week and sensed a dip in air pressure as one passed near the lander. These dust-lofting whirlwinds had been expected in the area, but none had been detected in earlier Phoenix images...

Launch coverage for SpaceX's fourth Falcon 1 rocket test.

... learned that certain species, such as vultures, kiwis and albatrosses, use olfaction to help find food, and homing pigeons seem to rely at least partly on their nostrils to find their lofts. [More]

Launch countdown coverage for the NOAA-N Prime weather-watching satellite.

Europe's Ariane 5 rocket launches two satellites to test technology for a missile early warning system.

A Land Launch Zenit 3SLB rocket lofted a new communications satellite Thursday.

... and steady-state Ocean Circulation 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 ...

... a paper which he says proved that rocket exhaust gases from the Apollo 11 Lunar Module had lofted dust and debris which then coated the surface of a lunar seismometer — the first instrument deployed ...

Launch coverage for a Delta 2 rocket carrying the STSS-ATRR missile defense satellite.

The Ariane 5 that will loft Herschel and Planck into space has been declared ready for launch following the conclusion of the Launch Readiness Review held on 9 May and a close-out review held on 12 ...

The U.S. Air Force and Boeing are gearing up to loft the X-37B into space in 2010.

... proposed to harvest this energy, including tethered, kite-like wind turbines that would be lofted to the altitude of the jet streams. Up to 40 megawatts of electricity could be generated by current ...