Media in category space exploration:
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Rocket Launch to Space - GoPro Awards |
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On November 6th, 2015 UP Aerospace Inc. launched the 20-foot (6 meter) tall SL-10 rocket into near-space. The mission: deploy the Maraia Capsule testing the aerodynamics and stability of the payload on re-entry to the atmosphere. The rocket reached an altitude of 396,000ft (120,700 meters) and speed...
Date: 2016-05-05 19:34:33 |
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SpaceX Falcon 9 - Successful Drone Ship Landing - 8th April 2016 |
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SPACEX successfully lands reusable rocket onto a drone ship: “This was the fifth attempt in 15 months by SpaceX to land one of its rocket boosters on a drone ship; in each of the previous four tries, the rocket reached the ship successfully, but failed to stick the landing. During today’s landing, S
Date: 2016-04-09 15:58:56 |
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Flight Three: Pushing the Envelope |
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Watch Amazon Jeff Bezos’ space company successfully land a rocket for the 3rd Time. New Shepard flew again on April 2, 2016 reaching an apogee of 339,178 feet or 103 kilometers. It was the third flight with the same hardware. We pushed the envelope on this flight, restarting the engine for the prop
Date: 2016-04-04 12:48:04 |
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Solar Eclipse From Alaska Flight #870 |
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Alaska Airlines Flight 870, alter its flight path on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 so that passengers could get a glimpse of a rare solar eclipse from the plane’s windows.Wrote the airline: “Tuesday’s rendezvous over the Pacific Ocean is not luck, but a precisely planned equation. The calculations began a
Date: 2016-03-10 15:50:24 |
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Gravitational Waves Hit The Late Show |
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Brian Randolph Greene is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. He stopped by The Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert to demonstrate an exciting new sci...
Date: 2016-02-25 22:43:09 |
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Gravitational Waves Discovered - Community of Lights |
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Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein's Theory: A team of scientists announced on Thursday, February 11, 2015 that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the last prediction of Einstein's general theo...
Date: 2016-02-12 16:31:22 |
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LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves |
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fter a decades-long quest, The MIT-Caltech collaboration LIGO Laboratories has detected gravitational waves, opening a new era in our exploration of the universe.
Date: 2016-02-12 14:36:27 |
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Have Gravitational Waves Been Discovered? |
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For the past 90 years, the predictions laid out Einstein's general theory of relativity have continued to be confirmed by experimental science. The last hold out is gravitational waves - the idea that certain gravitational events cause actual ripples in Spacetime. The problem is that the effects are...
Date: 2016-02-12 14:33:18 |
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