Posts Tagged ‘Astronomy’
NASA Stereo Mission: Update
The STEREO probes continue to orbit the earth and obtain data despite completing its mission two years into the mission.October 1st, 2014, communications were disrupted between NASA and the Behind craft after a planned reset of the spacecraft’s systems. Ongoing attempts to resume communications with the Behind STEREO are happening. The two probes still monitor…
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The Messenger mission came to an official end the previous year in 2015 with a planned impact with Mercury’s surface The spacecraft began orbiting Mercury on March 17, 2011 and orbited a total of 4,105 times.The craft was successfully able to receive all the data it was sent to collect and more, wildly exceeding its…
Read MoreNobel Physics Prizes and 2nd International Light Seminar
Earlier this month, on October 4, we had Dr John C Mather speak at our 2nd International Light Seminar. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his part in the COBE mission regarding the Big Bang theory and the expansion of the universe. On that very day, the Nobel Prize in Physics…
Read MoreNasa Stereo Mission
NASA’s recent STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) project is a mission to capture the sun in three dimensions. The two-year long project involves having two near-identical telescopes (one ahead of earths’ orbit and one behind) to record the behavior of the sun, studying phenomena like coronal mass ejections. Lenox Laser fabricated custom parts for the…
Read MoreNASA Messenger
NASA’s MESSENGER – set to become the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury – launched today at 2:15:56 a.m. EDT aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. NASA: Lenox Laser fabricated High Power Ceramic Apertures for spatial filtering aboard NASA’s Messenger Mission. We personally hand delivered these critical…
Read MoreNASA Kepler Mission
This special purpose space mission that has been proposed to NASA Headquarter’s Discovery Program as a practical method for detecting Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets, that is, rocky and Earth-size. Lenox Laser fabricated a custom Starfield Plate for the Kepler Mission. Quote from NASA’s Kepler Mission Web Site “The star plate has a large number of holes…
Read MoreShadow Science
Wired Magazine – 06-01-01 http://www.wired.com/2001/06/kepler-2/
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