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ill be there , but well does anyone else feel saddened at the fact government dont seem to care about space anymore budget cuts everywhere awesome projects binned, makes me sad

Sounds exciting (more than particle physics, if you ask me).

excellent posting ORION111

STS-130 launch scrubbed.

scrub due to weather constraints (clouds) at end of T-9 built-in hold.

launch re-scheduled: Monday, Feb. 8 at 4:14 a.m. EST


re-use ORION111 links near top of this page.

Shadowdraxx wrote:ill be there , but well does anyone else feel saddened at the fact government dont seem to care about space anymore budget cuts everywhere awesome projects binned, makes me sad

I thought they'd canned the moon project but at the same time they've actually increased NASA's budget ? Or have I misunderstood ?

Similar issues to colliders, projects are now so large that they struggle to survive changes of governments.

ORION111 wrote:The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment leaves CERN on the way to NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC).

Superconducting magnets in space ? Interesting.

I have read that some cooling solutions developed for the satellite were working so surprisingly well that they were applied in LHC as well.

cryogenics in sattelites is nothing really new since they already often used sensors or cameras which had to be operated at almost 0°k.

The Herschel and Planck satellites launched together last May are also operating at extremely cold temperatures.

In fact two of the detectors in Planck are said by the ESA to be "the coldest known objects in space"!... http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM0Y5S7NWF_index_0.html
More detail... http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object ... ctid=45133

Herschel is also quite cold... http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Herschel/SE ... l#subhead3

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