The mission GOCE
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The mission GOCE is an international project for the measurement of the gravitational field and the determination of the geoid. GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) is a mission dedicated to measuring the Earth’s gravitational field and the determination of the geoid. Selected by ESA in 1999 – as part of the ESA
Another postponed mission of NASA
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Without a crew, bolted on a Delta IV Heavy, the capsule Orion Deep Space is still on the launching pad at Cape Canaveral. It is yet another postponement for NASA that in all ways is trying to return to perform manned space missions. Goal: to bring the man to the moon, to reach asteroids and
SIR-C / X-SAR 1-2 and SRTM
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Satellites for Earth Observation today have an increasingly important role for the protection of the environment, the prevention of natural disasters, homeland security and citizens. The ASI is committed to this industry first with the satellite system COSMO-SkyMed, the largest space program ever undertaken by Italy, and other important missions of scientific and application. Source:
SORA (Sounding Radar)
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The objective and mission responsibility stands for ASI in the domain of Line Topics Development and Test of radar sounding. The date scheduled for launch was in June 2009, but it was launched 1 July. The mission was ended in 2009. Source: ASI The experiment SoRa (Sounding Radar) is part of a wider program of
2014 KC46 not hit the Earth, word of LBT
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The asteroid 2014 KC46 will not hit Earth: confirmation comes from observations made with the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), the large binocular telescope operating in Arizona (USA), and of which the National Institute of Astrophysics is a partner. 2014 KC46 was in fact considered a dangerous asteroid: previous measurements considered it a potential impact for
Rosetta continues the journey towards the Sun
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The moment of closest approach will take place on August 13, 2015, when it will pass 183 million kilometers from our parent star in an orbit between Earth and Mars. The technicians of the ESA continue to analyze data from different instruments on board and the images sent by the probe. There are “only” 429
Orion is GO for flight test
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Without crew, screwed on a Delta IV Heavy: this is the program for the inaugural flight of the capsule Orion Deep Space set on 4 December at the launch pad Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral. For the SLS program we have to wait but we proceed quickly because a configuration can take off
The effects of Comet Siding Spring on the atmosphere of Mars
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The data collected from the missions Mars Express (ESA), MAVEN and MRO (NASA) have also allowed us to analyze the properties of the nucleus of Comet Siding Spring Three probes dedicated to the study of the Red Planet have recently had the opportunity to conduct observations very close to a comet that has made a
BeppoSAX – The enigma of the Gamma-ray bursts
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One of the greatest successes of the recent scientific history Italian, BeppoSAX (Satellite per Astronomia X, “Beppo” as the nickname the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Goggles, one of the pioneers of the study of cosmic rays) was born of a collaboration between the Agency Italian Space agency (ASI) and the Netherlands Agency for aerospace programs (NIVR).
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