It appears that the technique being used is low orbit ion cannon, popularly known as LOIC.
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Two more Lunar Prospector, which will scan the moon from a low orbit, and Stardust, which will taste a comet's tail have been approved.
For much of last year, supporters of Anonymous downloaded a program called Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC) to launch their DDoS attacks.
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However, since Ares I is capable only of reaching low Earth orbit and the space station is the only habitable thing in low Earth orbit, Ares I by itself would be a road to nowhere.
Even though Anontune's creators say the service isn't a rebuttal to the shuttering of the file-sharing service, its timely unveiling could serve as a model for a different way for Anonymous to respond to incidents (as opposed to, say, directing Low Orbit Ion Cannons at the website of the Recording Industry Association of America).
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The shuttle did some extraordinary work in low-orbit experiments, the International Space Station, moving cargo.
And Richard Branson is planning to take tourists on jaunts into low-orbit space via Virgin Galactic.
There's also the ORS-1, a low-orbit reconnaissance satellite that takes just 90 minutes to circle the globe.
But unlike Iridium's 66 low-orbit birds, Astrolink will cover the earth with only four high-orbit geostationary fliers.
In fact China is, at the moment, the only entity that can launch astronauts into low earth orbit.
The risks and burdens of developing transport to low Earth orbit will thus fall to the private sector.
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The commercial efforts to low Earth orbit, which SpaceX achieved, are only a piece of the U.S. space program.
Instead of putting the probe on a course for Phobos, the probe is now trapped in low Earth orbit.
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McCaw also has intellectual property rights to a system that connects low-orbit satellite systems like Iridium with midaltitude projects like ICO.
It was also keen on a proposal to use Virgin's White Knight launch system to put satellites into low Earth orbit.
The shuttle was a big bus -- a reusable vehicle that could carry both cargo and people to low Earth orbit.
This marks a big step forward for the commercial space company, which aims to build inexpensive commercial space stations for low Earth orbit.
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This is opening new opportunities for even high school students and hobbyists to launch satellites into low earth orbit and dream of going there themselves.
If the Chinese get their hands on advanced rebar technology, this would enable them to build concrete platforms robust enough to reach low earth orbit.
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However, aside from a lack of gravity, Logan says high radiation is the real hurdle for living and procreating in low earth orbit and beyond.
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Fearful that one network of low-orbit birds is as bad as another, investors had lopped 30% off Globalstar's stock value by early August before shares rebounded a bit.
During the gap, the United States has no independent way to get astronauts into low earth orbit until it develops new capabilities, either through government or commercial spaceflight development projects.
Such journeys into low Earth orbit do not need the heavy-lifting oomph that more wide-ranging missions require, so the proposal is to contract out all of this local delivery work.
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The modular tin cans that took us to the moon and back, and have kept us in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) ever since, will eventually be superceded by full-scale space cities.
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Mr Bennett, whose love of rocketry was inspired by the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds, has predicted that he could put a small satellite in low Earth orbit by the year 2001.
The Augustine report now makes it more likely the government will dispense with NASA's services entirely in low Earth orbit and ask private firms to deliver crew to the station, as well as cargo.
More like a mission to low Earth orbit.
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In fact, the plan to rely on commercial companies for access to low Earth orbit was initiated more than seven years ago under President George W. Bush as part of his Vision for Space Exploration.
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While we applaud the work that has been accomplished by the private spaceflight industry, such programs are focused exclusively on developing systems for access to low Earth orbit following the 2011 retirement of the Space Shuttle.
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He explained that ground-based radars are able to track objects of about 10cm (3.9 inches) and sometimes smaller, depending on altitude above the earth, while other sensors can detect particles down to about 5mm (0.2 inches) in low earth orbit.
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