Space and Science News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on February 12, 2003 at 3:50:04 AM
Welcome again to the space and science news section, the most some witty remark that I haven't thought of yet... Yeah.
Another year in ISS.
A picture of the young universe.
T-Rays.
Possible cause of the Columbia Disaster.
Another year in ISS.
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"We told our management that if they need us to stay a year, that's fine. They've got blanket approval for that. If they want us to go longer than year, just a give us a couple of months' notice," station commander Kenneth Bowersox said.
A picture of the young universe.
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The cosmic image, unveiled on Tuesday, was taken by the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) spacecraft during a 12-month scan of the entire sky. It is the most detailed all-sky image of the infant Universe, just 380,000 years after the Big Bang.
T-Rays.
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The European Space Agency's project to develop the camera was first reported by SPACE.com last June. While largely unheralded, T-ray imaging does not appear to be pie-in-the sky. In fact, a camera built by a company called QinetiQ and working in similar millimetric waves already last year had demonstrated the ability to peer through clothes and reveal a concealed weapon, along with much of a person's body.
Possible cause of the Columbia Disaster.
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Each shuttle wing has 22 carbon-carbon sections about 26 inches long and weighing perhaps 30 pounds. In between the sections are special T-seals of the same material that allow for expansion and contraction.
The leading edge of the hypersonic space shuttle takes the greatest heat when the shuttle re-enters Earth's atmosphere. The carbon-carbon was deemed better for that than the shuttle's thermal tiles, so it was placed on the nose cone and the front edge of the wings.
Curry studied what happens to reinforced carbon-carbon when it is hit by tiny, super-fast space junk, which is another active theory for what happened to Columbia.