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NASA Avionics Testing
An avionics system is the "brains" for a launch vehicle.
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CH Cyg: Codependent Stellar Living
A new Chandra image shows the symbiotic system known as CH Cyg, located only about 800 light years from Earth.
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NASA's FASTSAT Satellite Readies for Shipment to Alaska
NASA has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review of FASTSAT, a small, microsatellite class spacecraft bus that will carry six experiment payloads to low-Earth orbit.
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Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina Rocketeers Take Top Trophies in University Division of 2009-10 NASA Student Launch Projects
NASA has named the top university winners in the 2009-10 NASA Student Launch Projects, its annual rocketry challenge.
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Small-Scale Rocket Motor Tests New Materials
NASA engineers successfully tested a sub-scale solid rocket motor on May 27.
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Stellar Shrapnel Shows Explosion Aftermath
Observations from Chandra have captured a stellar "bullet" traveling at five million miles an hour away from a supernova explosion.
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Hinode Discovers the Origin of White Light Flare
A joint Japan-United States research team has identified the origin of the white light emission in solar flares.
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Using 'Polka Dots' for Precision
NASA is developing a fuel tank dome for its next-generation launch vehicles.
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Using Satellites to Check for...Ticks?
Using state-of-the-art NASA satellite information, students are busy checking state forests for ticks that may carry Lyme disease.
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The Sculptor Wall
Observations from Chandra and XMM-Newton have detected a vast reservoir of intergalactic gas about 400 million light years from Earth.
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NASA’s Marshall Center Honors Athens, Ala., Native Linda Yarbrough with Women’s Equality Day Award
Linda Yarbrough, a native of Athens, Ala., has received a Women’s Equality Day award for exceptional administrative service from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
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NASA’s Marshall Center Honors Tuscumbia, Ala., Native Tereasa Washington with Women’s Equality Day Award
Tereasa Washington, a native of Tuscumbia, Ala., has received a Women’s Equality Day award for exceptional supervisory service from the Marshall Center.
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NASA Marshall Center's Thea Baskerville-Brown of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Honored with Women’s Equality Day Award
Thea Baskerville-Brown, a native of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and a management support assistant at the Marshall Center has received a Women’s Equality Day award for excellence in clerical service.
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NASA’s Marshall Center Honors Crossville, Ala., Native Judy Ballance With Women’s Equality Day Award
Judy Ballance, acting deputy chief engineer for the Science & Mission Systems Office at the Marshall Center, has received a Women's Equality Day award for exceptional professional service.
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DM-2 Motor Assembly
NASA and ATK are assembling the final segments of NASA's five-segment development motor, or DM-2, in preparation for the second full-duration ground test.
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Starburst Galaxy M82
'Survivor" black holes may sow the seeds required for the growth of supermassive black holes in galaxies.
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Annual NASA Student Rocketry Challenge Concludes April 17-18 with Smoke, Thunder, Accolades for Inventive Young Flight Engineers
More than 300 students vied to see whose rocket could fly closest to the 1-mile altitude goal and safely return to Earth at the 2009-2010 NASA Student Launch Projects rocketry challenge.
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Testing Technology is an Art
An engine nozzle turns a dramatic array of colors during a recent hot-fire test.
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Drogue Parachute Drop Test
NASA has conducted a drogue parachute drop test at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz.
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Galaxy Cluster Abell 3376
Chandra uses observations of galaxy clusters to study the properties of gravity.