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On its website, NASA explains that it does use the materials for wind experiments launched on sounding rockets to the upper atmosphere.

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Blue Origin to make 10th flight test of space tourist rocket

The liftoff is scheduled for 8:50 am Central time (1450 GMT) from a Texas launchpad.

23 Jan 2019 10:17 AM IST

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Lord of the rings: Saturn's halo may be relatively recent trait

Findings say that the rings developed soon after Saturn formed about 4.5 billion years ago.

19 Jan 2019 11:07 AM IST

The tiny satellites are called CubeSats , and will collect data on phenomena such as radiation belts or on autonomous movement in space for a group of universities and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

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Florida rocket project: Firefly Aerospace is involved

Beginning around 2020, around 800 small satellites are expected to launch annually.

17 Jan 2019 10:07 AM IST

The so-called Transonic Truss-Braced Wing aircraft boasts a 170-foot (52 meter) wingspan that sits atop the fuselage and is braced from underneath by a truss in a design reminiscent of biplanes from the early years of aviation.

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Boeing unveils ultra-thin wings on new jets

Boeing and NASA have been studying the concept plane for nearly a decade.

9 Jan 2019 11:29 AM IST

This artists illustration obtained from NASA on December 21, 2018 shows the New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69 nicknamed Ultima Thule a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one billion miles beyond Pluto. (Photo: AFP)

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After historic flyby, New Horizons probe treks deeper on hunt for...

The piano-sized probe is travelling deep into the ring of celestial bodies known as the Kuiper Belt.

4 Jan 2019 6:32 PM IST

Scientists had not discovered Ultima Thule when the probe was launched. (Photo: SpaceNews)

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NASA says faraway world Ultima Thule shaped like 'snowman'

Ultima Thule's surface reflects light about as much as "garden variety dirt.

3 Jan 2019 8:27 AM IST

During a 2015 fly-by, the probe found Pluto to be slightly larger than previously thought. In March, it revealed methane-rich dunes on the icy dwarf planets surface.

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NASA space probe 'phones home' in landmark mission to solar system's...

The spacecraft will ping back more detailed images and data from Thule in the coming days.

2 Jan 2019 9:28 AM IST

$Cheers erupted at Johns Hopkins Universitys Applied Physics Laboratory, home to Mission Control, as mission operations manager Alice Bowman declared: \We have a healthy spacecraft.\$ Science

NASA spacecraft opens new year 4 billion miles from Earth

Word of success came 10 hours after the middle-of-the-night encounter.

2 Jan 2019 8:15 AM IST

$Cheers erupted at Johns Hopkins Universitys Applied Physics Laboratory, home to Mission Control, as mission operations manager Alice Bowman declared: \We have a healthy spacecraft.\$ Science