Solar plane flies into the night
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A lightweight solar-powered UK plane smashes the official world record for the longest duration unmanned flight.
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A Hampton University professor is shedding new light on night-shining clouds that might be affected by climate change. Jim Russell is the lead scientist for the NASA-funded AIM satellite, the first to study the wispy "noctilucent" clouds, which only appear above Earth's poles.
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com September 29, 2004, 7:06 AM PT. MOJAVE, Calif.--A specialized plane carrying a suborbital spacecraft took off shortly before 7:15 am PDT in an attempt to complete the first phase in the race to privatize space travel.
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When the Genesis capsule comes back to Earth with its samples of the sun, helicopter pilots will be waiting for it, ready to snag it out of the sky.
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ONE of natureâs greatest spectacles will be visible in the small hours of tomorrow morning - weather permitting - as the Moon passes into the Earthâs shadow, causing a total lunar eclipse.
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A scientist using the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has found a way to forecast solar radiation storms.
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Imagine a drive-in movie screen that floats 1,000 feet in the air &amp;#151; and travels 15 mph. An Orlando-based blimp company called The Lightship Group has effectively made one, and it could be coming to a night sky near you.
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The surface of one of the brightest stars in the night sky is imaged by scientists.
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A total eclipse of the Moon will occur overnight Wednesday, an event that can turn Earth&#39;s satellite to a colourful shade ranging from deep red to dark brown and sometimes an existential grey.
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A three-seat rocket plane with stubby wings and a nose studded with round windows will try to blast out of Earth&#39;s atmosphere above the Mojave
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Amateur stargazers who stayed up into the early hours today were rewarded with fleeting glimpses of a total eclipse of the moon. Bad weather had threatened to obscure
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An unmanned solar-powered aircraft that soared for 54 hours more than 50,000 feet above New Mexico may hold the record for unmanned flight, defense research company QinetiQ announced Monday.
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Space shuttle Discovery lit up the sky over Daytona Beach, Florida, this weekend in NASA's first night launch since 2002.
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Authorities are investigating a mysterious laser beam that was directed into the cockpit of a commercial jet traveling at more than 8,500 feet.
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THE year is 2007. A five-seater spacecraft powers away from an aeroplane &quot;mother ship&quot; ten miles above the Mojave Desert in the United States and shoots into the stratosphere.
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Huge new solar wings have been unfurled on the International Space Station.
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How do you look for something if you don't know what it looks like? The parachutes deploy perfectly, and gradually, swinging gently through the tenuous atmosphere, the little probe falls to the ground. Minutes later it jerks slightly as it unfurls its solar panels. Like a butterfly newly emerged from a chrysalis, it soaks in the rays of the sun.â¦