The satellite launched by Seoul is designed to analyze weather data, measure radiation in space, gauges distances on earth and test how effectively South Korean-made devices installed on the satellite operate in space.
It'll also find time for its studies, beaming VGA images snapped with an onboard camera back to Earth, to test a high-speed data transmitter.
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An analogous test on Earth, Rayman said, would be a scenario in which an automobile found its own way from Los Angeles to Washington, D.
The flight, perhaps climbing to around 5, 000 miles above the earth, is intended to test the capsule's emergency launch-abort system, as well other systems, and Orion's protection against damage from micro-meteorites.
It coincided with the release of a report commissioned by Cuadrilla which found it was "highly probable" that shale gas test drilling triggered two earth tremors near Blackpool.
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And an optical mission to test laser relay capabilities from earth geosynchronous (GEO) orbit will soon follow.
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The film is reportedly about a test pilot who returns to Earth after an experimental flight to discover it's 96 years in the future.
For years, he had been making the case that polymerase chain reaction (PCR) would be the best way to test for the existence of Earth-like DNA on Mars.
That combination cannot be duplicated here on Earth, but we tried as best we could to test our equipment for those conditions.
By pairing the 3-D printed fossils with robotics, scientists are able to test how dinosaurs actually moved when they roamed the Earth millions of years ago.
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The next hitch-hikers she plans to subject to a shock test are bacterial spores, which some have proposed arrived on Earth via comets to jump-start evolution.
Dr. Freire and his colleagues put Einstein to the test in a cosmic laboratory 7, 000 light years from earth, where two exotic stars are circling each other.
The research could help test simulations of how the outer, fluid core generates the Earth's magnetic field, which shields our planet and the teeming life on it from harmful cosmic rays.
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The severity of the laboratory test was equivalent to an oblique collision with the rocky surface of the Earth - a comet coming in at an angle of less than 25 degrees from the horizon, rather than head on (perpendicular to the Earth's surface).
Since Russia and the U.S. signed a partial test-ban treaty in 1963, their blasts have been deep below the earth's surface.
There was a ripple of fear in Britain when test-drilling for shale gas in north-west England set off small earth tremors, but the evidence so far suggests that earthquakes should not be a worry.
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The test was designed to simulate the type of impact that would have been frequent during Earth's early history, some four billion years ago, when rocky, icy debris in our Solar System accumulated to form planets.
It is the only place on earth where, under the anti-ballistic missile treaty, the United States was allowed to test its strategic interceptor missiles, a key component of President Bush's missile-defence programme, sometimes known as Star Wars II.
To test out this idea, Paek simulated the asteroid Apophis, which will pass nearby the Earth in 2029.
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Curiosity will likely drill a number of shallow test holes, using the tailings to scrub the metal bit of any contaminants carried from Earth.
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