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Thermal expansion has now been measured at low temperatures for future space missions. The results of the project are of importance for further space missions that have already been planned, such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), for which temperatures of use below - 220 °C are planned, or the Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA), for which even lower temperatures of use are envisaged.
via Science Daily
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There are advances being made almost daily in the disciplines required to make space and its contents accessible. This blog brings together a lot of that info, as it is reported, tracking the small steps into space that will make it just another place we carry out normal human economic, leisure and living activities.
Monday, 23 November 2015
Schiaparelli’s namesakes
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Space science image of the week: What do a 19th-century astronomer, an impact basin and a mission to Mars have in common?
via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2015/11/On_the_rim_of_Schiaparelli_crater
Space science image of the week: What do a 19th-century astronomer, an impact basin and a mission to Mars have in common?
via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2015/11/On_the_rim_of_Schiaparelli_crater
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