Science news articles about 'new orbit'

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station used its robotic arm on Friday to grapple and then hoist a storage room onto Japan's new orbital research laboratory.

... Sept. 30 has put NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft on track for a new orbit around the Red Planet. The change, part of a two-year extension for the mission, will give an ASU-operated ...

NASA's new Orbiting Carbon Observatory will map Earth's carbon dioxide levels to help climate studies.

... on the night side. New and better data "The new orbit means we can now get the type of ... the poles that never pass directly underneath the orbiter. In addition, the sideways views let THEMIS fill ...

... Jupiter [1]. They were ejected from their asteroidal "parent body" after a collision, were injected into a new orbit, and they finally felt onto the Earth. Meteorites are a major tool for knowing the ...

... Jupiter [1]. They were ejected from their asteroidal "parent body" after a collision, were injected into a new orbit, and they finally felt onto the Earth. One fundamental difficulty is that we do ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., July 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says its new orbiting gamma-ray telescope, still in its checkout phase, has detected 12 powerful gamma-ray bursts.

... last ice age was triggered by a change in Earth's orbit that caused the northern part of the planet to warm. ... already taking place due to the earth's new orbital position. Anderson and his colleagues ...