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Paul Scott Anderson | The Meridiani Journal - Kepler finds ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet in first discovery of new mission
The Kepler space telescope has found its first new exoplanet, a “super-Earth,” of its secondary mission phase. The discovery adds to a current tally of 996 confirmed exoplanets and 4,183 planetary candidates already found by the revolutionary planet-hunting telescope.
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Universe Today - 10 Space Science Stories to Watch in 2015 Here are six of the ten
1. New Horizons at Pluto
2. Dawn at Ceres
3. Long Duration ISS Missions - Beginning in 2015, astronauts and cosmonauts will begin year-long stays aboard the ISS to study the effects of long duration space missions. In March of 2015, cosmonaut Mikhail Korniyenko and U.S. astronaut S
5. SpaceX will make multiple Attempts to Land on a Sea Platform [first one reached the platform but stuck the landing too hard, possibly ten more attempts]
6. Akatsuki at Venus - Japanese mission
9. Advanced LIGO - Earth based gravitational wave detector goes online
10. LISA Pathfinder - The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, and the Pathfinder mission will journey to the L1 Lagrange point between the Earth and the Sun to test key technologies. LISA Pathfinder will pave the way for the full fledged LISA space platform, a series of three free flying spacecraft proposed for launch in the 2030s.
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Paul Scott Anderson | The Meridiani Journal - Kepler finds ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet in first discovery of new mission
The Kepler space telescope has found its first new exoplanet, a “super-Earth,” of its secondary mission phase. The discovery adds to a current tally of 996 confirmed exoplanets and 4,183 planetary candidates already found by the revolutionary planet-hunting telescope.
Universe Today - 10 Space Science Stories to Watch in 2015 Here are six of the ten
1. New Horizons at Pluto
2. Dawn at Ceres
3. Long Duration ISS Missions - Beginning in 2015, astronauts and cosmonauts will begin year-long stays aboard the ISS to study the effects of long duration space missions. In March of 2015, cosmonaut Mikhail Korniyenko and U.S. astronaut S
5. SpaceX will make multiple Attempts to Land on a Sea Platform [first one reached the platform but stuck the landing too hard, possibly ten more attempts]
6. Akatsuki at Venus - Japanese mission
9. Advanced LIGO - Earth based gravitational wave detector goes online
10. LISA Pathfinder - The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, and the Pathfinder mission will journey to the L1 Lagrange point between the Earth and the Sun to test key technologies. LISA Pathfinder will pave the way for the full fledged LISA space platform, a series of three free flying spacecraft proposed for launch in the 2030s.
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