Posts Tagged ‘Aeronautics’

Japan Will Launch Solar-Powered Space Ship

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans to launch the first space shuttle in the world to use solar-powered display to show off a new generation of renewable energy technologies.

According to agency reports, spaceship that will be wrapped in a screen size of 20 meters and will be developed when the plane leaves the earth’s atmosphere.

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Hubble Telescope After The 20th Year

It was the end of April and the Hubble telescope in space was 20 years old.

No one ever suspected, the presence of the Hubble telescope has answered the most fundamental human questions about the formation of universe, the solar system, Earth, and particularly human origin. “The key was the finding that new stars are born containing the same chemical element with the compiler of the human body,” said John Grunsfeld, a former astronaut who three times follow the Hubble telescope repair mission, told CNN.

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Meteor is Similar with Metal and Rock on the Earth

Materials of meteor is not more special than rock or metal in the earth. They differ only on the meteor-forming structures.

According to a senior researcher from the Institute of Astronomy National Aeronautics and Space Thomas Djamaluddin, meteors consist of three types. Based on its content, which contain no metal, such as rocks, and a mixture of both.

Same metal in meteorites such as iron and nickel. The rocks consist of the types of carbon and silicates. “Scientifically generally the same as on earth,” he said.

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