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Ball Aerospace's GMI Instrument Arrives in Japan Onboard NASA's Global Precipitation ...
2013-11-25 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
BOULDER, Colo. – A Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. instrument essential for a new era in precipitation measurements has arrived in Japan where it will launch aboard NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission.<br /> <br /> Ball's GPM Microwave Imager (GMI) is a multi-channel, conical-scanning, microwave radiometer that is part of an international satellite mission led by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Following launch in early 2014 aboard the ...This story is related to the following:Test and Measuring InstrumentsSatellite Components, Parts & Systems | Radiometers |
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NASAs MAVEN mission lifts off on its way to Mars (live launch video)
2013-11-18 19:53:16| Extremetech
NASA's newest Mars mission aims to learn what sapped all the moisture away from the Red Planet.
BEI Kimco's Custom Voice Coil Actuator Meets Space Requirements for NASA's Asteroid Sample ...
2013-11-06 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
BEI Kimco Magnetics designed a customized Moving Magnet Voice Coil Actuator (VCA) to meet the requirements for the flatplate Michelson moving mirror application on the Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-Rex) spacecraft. The OSIRIS-Rex will launch in 2016, rendezvous with the Asteroid Bennu in 2018 and return samples to Earth in 2023. Redundant technology, low-outgassing and high precision for exact motion control positioning were all ...This story is related to the following:Actuators | Magnetically Coupled Actuators
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Mars soil contains a huge amount of water, reports NASAs Curiosity rover
2013-09-27 17:02:41| Extremetech
If you heat up a cubic foot of Mars soil, you can harvest around two pints (one liter) of water. According to new data returned by NASA's Curiosity rover, this isn't just a one-off lucky find, either: It seems that most of the dirt on Mars harbors large amounts of water. This is very exciting news for future human exploration of Mars, because it's prohibitively difficult to transport water from the surface of Earth to the Red Planet -- and, in one fell swoop, it also makes the eventual terraforming and colonization of Mars a lot more feasible.
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NASAs Curiosity detects no methane on Mars, ruling out life on Mars
2013-09-25 18:11:06| Extremetech
In a surprising and probably killer blow to the possibility of finding microbial life on Mars, Curiosity has reported that there's no methane in the Martian atmosphere. New findings from Curiosity strongly suggest that previous observations from Earth, which indicated that there was actually quite a lot of methane on Mars, were false. With no methane, it is very unlikely that there's life on Mars.
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