- Author: RocketLab
MISSION OVERVIEW
The launch window for Rocket Lab’s tenth mission, ‘Running Out Of Fingers,’ is scheduled to open on 25 November 2019 NZDT from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Māhia Peninsula.
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Read more: NEXT MISSION: Running Out Of Fingers
- Article: https://www.rocketlabusa.com/missions/next-mission/
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- Author: Joel Achenbach
The universe doesn't look right. It suddenly looks . . . out of whack.
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Read more: Scientists are baffled: What's up with the universe?
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/117114279/scientists-are-baffled-whats-up-with-the-universe
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- Author: RocketLAB
Extended range Photon missions to medium, geostationary and lunar orbits will support deeper space exploration and the return of human presence on the moon
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Read more: Rocket Lab to deliver payloads to the Moon and beyond with Photon
- Article: https://www.rocketlabusa.com/news/updates/rocket-lab-to-deliver-payloads-to-the-moon-and-beyond-with-photon/
- Note from Nighthawk.NZ:
- Author: Brent Melville
Scientists can breathe easy, following the launch of Dunedin's Clean Lab.
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Read more: 'Amazing science': Otago Uni's new Clean Lab hailed
- Article: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/university-of-otago/amazing-science-otago-unis-new-clean-lab-hailed
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- Note from Nighthawk.NZ:
This is the lab my work got the contract to build much of the ducting... all plastic. and I was on this job for over 8 months...
click here for some photos of the ducting that was made: http://quantumillusions.co.nz/cv/custom_ducting.php
- Author: Dan Satherley
Star Trek's Montgomery Scott famously said "ye cannot change the laws of physics", but a real-life space engineer says he might have just done that.
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Read more: NASA engineer invents physics-breaking new space engine
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/10/nasa-engineer-invents-physics-breaking-new-space-engine.html
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- Note from Nighthawk.NZ:
- Author: Alison Ballance
Read and hear about how mechanical engineers at the University of Auckland use New Zealand’s largest wind tunnel(external link) and DTA's UAV to help them understand the impact of wind on a wide range of objects, from cities to Olympic cyclists, and UAVs or drones to ancient buildings.
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- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ourchangingworld/audio/2018713619/shaped-by-the-wind
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- Author: Dan Satherley
Astronomers have come up with a new theory explaining why they can't find the hypothesised 'Planet Nine' - it's not actually a planet, but a black hole.
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Read more: Scientists think there might be a black hole orbiting the sun
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/09/scientists-think-there-might-be-a-black-hole-orbiting-the-sun.html
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- Author: Tsvetana Paraskova
A team of scientists say they have found a new way to generate electricity from capturing heat with the help of magnetic particles that were thought to have been useless in generating energy from heat until now.
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Read more: Scientific Breakthrough? A New Way To Make Electricity From Heat
- Article: https://nz.finance.yahoo.com/news/scientific-breakthrough-way-electricity-heat-170000256.html
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