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National Defense July 2010 Stew Magnuson	Taking Out the Trash: What Can Be Done About Space Debris? What goes up doesn't necessarily come down when it comes to manmade objects orbiting the planet.
Wired June 23, 2008 Michael D. Lemonick	Watching the Skies: Space Is Really Big -- But Not Too Big to Map The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will be the first telescope to take images of the entire.
National Defense June 2009 Stew Magnuson	Air Force Faces Daunting Task to Determine What's Happening in Space The Air Force needs to monitor to have a complete picture of what is happening to the thousands of orbiting systems that circle the planet.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006	Corning NetOptix Provides Optical Components for NASA Mission to Pluto The New Horizons craft began its Pluto journey with seven specialized scientific instruments for gathering new information-including components for the "Ralph" telescope assembly manufactured at the diamond-turning team at Corning NetOptix.
National Defense June 2009 Stew Magnuson	New Satellites to Keep Watch Over Space-Based Systems Two new satellites may be launched later this year that will help the U.S. defense community better understand what is happening to the multi-million dollar spacecraft it depends on.
Popular Mechanics December 10, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	What NASA's WISE Space Mapper Will Look for in the Sky Hunting for brown dwarf stars, crashing galaxies, and asteroids.
Popular Mechanics January 23, 2009 Andrew Moseman	The 5 Most Powerful Telescopes, and 5 That Will Define the Future of Astronomy Today's best telescopes are astounding feats -- and astronomers are improving them constantly.
Science News May 6, 2000	A Hubble Decade To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 10th anniversary, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., has created a new Web site devoted to the Earth-orbiting telescope and its spectacular images....
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John Keller	DARPA Seeks to Develop Optics for Space-Based Video Surveillance System Astronomers plan to develop a large, diffractive optics membrane and communications equipment for a geosynchronous orbit-based telescope, which is to be part of a space-based video surveillance system.
Popular Mechanics May 2006 Karen C. Fox	How it Works: Large Binocular Telescope The world's most powerful optical telescope will soon be peering at objects that date back to the dawn of time.
National Defense July 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh	New Chinese Threats to U.S. Space Systems Worry Officials If China continues to make strides and develops weapons that reach farther, it could one day threaten key satellites in geosynchronous orbit.
Popular Mechanics October 9, 2008 Karen Fox	How To Build a Dobsonian Telescope: DIY Astronomy Project The actual construction took a weekend, and it would be a great project to tackle with kids.
Searcher September 2011 David Mattison	Searching for the Stars: Cosmic Views and Databases While amateur astronomers continue to play an important role in the field and are supported by numerous clubs, associations, and their peers, I have primarily examined resources originating from government and academic research environments.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 Ben Ames	General Dynamics to build antennas for ALMA radio telescope Defense contractors are helping build the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) telescope that will allow astronomers from around the world see galaxies out to the edge of the universe, and stars and planets in their formative stages.
Popular Mechanics November 2008 Toby Jorrin	New Earthbound Telescopes Will Be Hundreds of Times Sharper Than Hubble The $45 million array of telescopes will reveal enlightening details of stars and black holes.
Wired November 2002 Richard Martin	The Planet Seekers Giant ground-based telescopes and adaptive optics have brought a new age in astronomy. Now the field's brightest stars are racing to take the first photograph of another world.
Popular Mechanics July 2009 Glenn Harlan Reynolds	Collision Course: The Need for Better Space Junk Regulations Space is getting crowded, and the problem urgently needs attention from all spacefaring nations, lest we find ourselves earthbound under a shroud of orbiting trash.
IEEE Spectrum March 2010 Bikkannavar & Redding	Software for Optical Systems Spells the End of Blur NASA software that calculates optical aberrations will sharpen images from space and could redefine perfect vision for humans
Popular Mechanics March 6, 2009 Mark Wolverton	Can KEPLER Help Us Find Earth's Twin? With the latest universe-gazing technology, KEPLER (along with Hubble and the most advanced ground-based telescopes) will give extrasolar planet hunters a boost in the search for Earth-like planets.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Joshua J. Romero	Searching the Sky Image-recognition software for astronomy pictures brings professional and amateur astronomers together.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames	Astronomers Need Adaptive Optics for 30-Meter Telescope Space-based telescopes do not have to use adaptive optics to correct for peering through the Earth's atmosphere; the biggest advances in space-telescope technology come from the mirrors, which rely on near-perfect calibration and lightweight materials to catch maximum radiation.
Popular Mechanics June 25, 2009 Lisa Merolla	High-Tech Telescopes Yield New Galactic Photos: Gallery Space photos from advanced telescopes provide new views of the cosmos.
Geotimes October 2007	Hubble Sees Evolving Galaxies Researchers at the Space Telescope Science Institute recently compiled more than 500 images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to reveal a tapestry-style image of at least 50,000 galaxies in a small stretch of sky near the Big Dipper.
Fast Company September 2008 Robert Scoble	Microsoft Worldwide Telescope vs. Google Sky How Microsoft and Google's battle for the stars illuminates their competing strategies for the future of tech and advertising.
Geotimes November 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Two More Moons for Pluto In addition to Pluto's confirmed moon Charon, astronomers have detected two more orbiting celestial bodies, which could help reveal how the planet and moon system formed.
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Sarah Adee	Sigrid Close: Star Struck This engineer tracks meteors and other phenomena in the ionosphere that can impede satellite communications.
Linux Journal January 1, 2004 Tony Steidler-Dennison	Linux, Talon and Astronomy A new open-source application lets professional and amateur astronomers explore space from their desktops.
Scientific American December 2005 W. Wayt Gibbs	Breaking the Mold As the glass cools on his latest giant mirror, Roger Angel keeps pushing telescope design. His next one might even find Earth-like planets around other stars
Science News May 23, 2009 David H. DeVorkin	Enjoy The Indelible Experience Of Emulating Galileo As a reader of Science News, you don't have to be told to go outside some night and look through a telescope at Mars, Saturn or the moon.
Outside August 2007 Will Palmer	Celestron NexStar 5 SE The Celestron NexStar 5 SE portable telescope takes up less space in your trunk than a case of beer, and it can locate over 40,000 preprogrammed celestial bodies. Find yourself a starry, starry night, and a chair, and gaze away.
Smithsonian November 2005 Don Moser	35 Who Made a Difference: John Dobson He is the father of sidewalk astronomy, the designer of a portable mount that supports his large, inexpensive telescopes, and, perhaps, astronomy's greatest cheerleader, and he has brought the farthest stars to the man on the street.
Wired July 24, 2007 Erin Biba	Son of Hubble, Prepare for a 2013 Liftoff The James Webb Space Telescope will soon replace its aging predecessor.
Popular Mechanics March 22, 2010 Cassie Rodenberg	The Best in Armchair Astronomy Some online sites post images from powerful telescopes around the world; others let viewers take control of the scopes.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Monte Ross	The New Search for E.T. If extraterrestrials are trying to communicate with us, they're probably using lasers, not radio waves.
Defense Update Issue 2, 2005	Surveillance Systems for Perimeter Defense A variety of surveillance systems are employed to maintain perimeter security around military bases.
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Carl Hoffman	China's Space Threat: How Missiles Could Target U.S. Satellites The Chinese have successfully destroyed an old weather satellite in space, prompting other countries to respond.
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Popular Mechanics May 15, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	The Future of 5 Telescopes in Space This week has been an active one for earthlings' quest to understand the universe. Here is the big news on five telescopes in the sky.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2007 Tom Taulli	Business Objects Splurges on M&A A recent acquisition should help fuel the company's growth.
Geotimes September 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Floral Shade Aids Search for Earths The search continues for the Earth-like planets that scientists think are most likely to harbor life, and a newly refined sunflower-shaped device could one day reveal scores of candidates currently obscured by their neighboring star's light.
InternetNews May 22, 2007 Clint Boulton	Business Objects Pays to Handle Disorder Business Objects bids for unstructured data specialist Inxight.
Smithsonian October 2006 Robert Irion	The Planet Hunters Never mind the demotion of Pluto to a dwarf planet. Astronomers have found about 200 planets orbiting other stars, and they say it's only a matter of time before they discover another Earth.
PC Magazine August 3, 2005	Beyond the PC Resolving today's PC problems is just one focus for technical research. Computer-driven innovations help solve today's challenges in nearly every facet of human endeavor. We'll tell you how computing may change our lives in space, at war, in the hospital, and at home.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 John Keller	Adaptive Optics Blends the Best of Electronic and Optoelectronic Technologies This approach uses deformable mirrors, MEMS, or liquid-crystal technologies to adjust for optical distortion in the atmosphere, which yields a new level of focus and resolution to high-energy lasers, deep-space exploration, and perhaps even eye surgery.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John Keller	Air Force Kicks Off Five-Part Electro-Optics Research Program Called LITE The program consists of five areas involving surveillance, adaptive optics, multispectral data processing, and advanced beam control. Conducting the research are experts at the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed-Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.
InternetNews August 23, 2007 Gene Hirschel	For Google, Not Even The Sky is Off Limits The Google Earth Sky feature may keep us on Google Earth longer.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources NASA is using the unique optical capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope for a new class of scientific observations of the Earth's Moon.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 John McHale	Payload Systems designs satellites that move in formation The bowling ball-sized satellites, called Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, and Reorient Experimental Satellites (SPHERES), comprise a test bed for maneuvering satellites and orbiting telescopes, Payload Systems officials say.