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  NASA's Moon Twins Going Their Own Way

  October 7, 2011 — NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-B spacecraft successfully executed its first flight path correction maneuver Wednesday, Oct. 5. The rocket burn helped refine the spacecraft's ... > full story
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  Krypton Hall Effect Thruster for Spacecraft Propulsion

  October 6, 2011 — Electric propulsion (EP) is the future of astronautics. It can already compete successfully with chemical thrusters, especially for attitude control, orbit transfer and/or orbital station-keeping as ... > full story
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  Saturn's Geyser Moon Enceladus Shows Off for NASA's Cassini

  October 3, 2011 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its Oct. 1 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and its jets of water vapor and ice. At its closest approach, the spacecraft flew approximately 62 miles ... > full story
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  NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Begins New Vesta Mapping Orbit

  October 3, 2011 — NASA's Dawn spacecraft has completed a gentle spiral into its new science orbit for an even closer view of the giant asteroid Vesta. Dawn began sending science data on Sept. 29 from this new orbit, ... > full story
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  Engineers 'Cook' Promising New Heat-Harvesting Nanomaterials in Microwave Oven

  September 29, 2011 — Waste heat is a byproduct of nearly all electrical devices and industrial processes, from driving a car to flying an aircraft or operating a power plant. Engineering researchers have developed new ... > full story
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  New Theory Explains Collapse of World Trade Center's Twin Towers

  September 21, 2011 — According to a theory advanced by a materials scientist in Norway, a mixture of water from sprinkler systems and molten aluminum from melted aircraft hulls created explosions that led to the collapse ... > full story
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  Study on Emissions from BP/Deepwater Horizon Controlled Burns Completed

  September 20, 2011 — During the 2010 Gulf oil spill, an estimated one of every 20 barrels of spilled oil was deliberately burned to reduce surface oil slick size and minimize impacts of oil on sensitive shoreline ... > full story
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  NASA's WISE Mission Captures Black Hole's Wildly Flaring Jet

  September 20, 2011 — Astronomers using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have captured rare data of a flaring black hole, revealing new details about these powerful objects and their blazing ... > full story
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  NRL TacSat-4 Spacecraft Encapsulated

  September 20, 2011 — Encapsulated into the nose cone of an Orbital Sciences Corporation Minotaur-IV+ launch vehicle, TacSat-4 is scheduled to launch from the Alaska Aerospace Corporation's Kodiak Launch Complex into a ... > full story
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  NASA's WISE Raises Doubt About Asteroid Family Believed Responsible for Dinosaur Extinction

  September 19, 2011 — Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission indicate the family of asteroids some believed was responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs is not likely the culprit, ... > full story

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