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NUI Galway Scientists Selected by the European Space Agency for Gravitational Wave Spacecraft Study 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- June 12, 2019
Scientists from the Applied Optics group in the School of Physics at NUI Galway have been selected by the European Space Agency to carry out a study to detect gravitational waves from many different kinds of sources, such as massive stars rotating each other, or black holes spiralling into each other, as part of the
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International Space Station teeming with bacteria and fungi that can corrode spacecraft, study finds 0
- BUSINESS
- April 8, 2019
The International Space Station is brimming with bacteria and fungi that can cause diseases and form biofilms that promote antibiotic resistance, and can even corrode the spacecraft, a new study has found. The station, built in 1998 and orbiting around 250 miles above the Earth, has been visited by more than 222 astronauts and up
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New series of fast radio burst from deep space detected 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- February 8, 2019
CHIME radio telescope features no moving parts. Image credit: CHIME-experiment. For the second time in history, astronomers have detected a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) originating from outside the Milky Way. The new repeating FRB, dubbed FRB 180814.J0422+73, was detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope in July/August last year. In the
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NASA’s liquid hydrogen tank to undergo tests at Marshall Space Flight Centre 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- January 31, 2019
Image shows SLS fuel tank standing on the test stand at Marshall Space Flight Centre. Image: NASA/Tyler Martin NASA will soon start stress-testing the liquid hydrogen tank of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. On 14 January, the test article was loaded onto Test Stand 4693 at Marshall Space Flight Centre in Huntsville, Alabama. NASA’s
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Saturn’s rings only formed in the past 100 million years, suggests analysis of Cassini space probe data 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- January 29, 2019
Saturn was formed about 4.5 billion years ago. Image via Pixabay Saturn’s rings are much younger than the planet itself, and likely formed only in the last 100 million years. That’s according to a new analysis of observations from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Cassini was launched in 1997 and entered the orbit of Saturn in 2004.
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Japanese firm sends micro-satellites into space to deliver artificial meteor showers on demand 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- January 29, 2019
The first artificial meteor shower event is scheduled to be performed over Hiroshima in early 2020. Image via Pixabay Tokyo-based firm Astro Live Experiences (ALE) has sent micro-satellites into space to deliver the world’s first artificial meteor shower. On Friday, a Japanese Epsilon-4 rocket carrying seven micro-satellites lifted off from the Uchinoura Space Centre and
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