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Frank De Winne's WEAR training session
Augmented reality to help astronauts make sense of space
 
22 September 2009   Life aboard the International Space Station is hard work. Crewmembers have a multiplicity of complex tasks, potentially involving thousands of tools, components and other items. But ESA astronaut Frank De Winne has begun testing the prototype of an unusual helper designed to make astronaut life easier.
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AIS polar signal detection probabilities
Columbus to host worldwide sea traffic tracking experiment
 
18 September 2009   ESA's Columbus module on the International Space Station is being fitted with experimental hardware to track the passage of ships across the world's oceans. A pair of European-built signal receivers designed for wide-area vessel detection are being ferried to the orbital outpost aboard Japan's newly-launched H-II Transfer Vehicle.
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Chinks in ISS armour deliver data on space junk impacts
 
14 September 2009   Speeding along in orbit at more than seven kilometres per second, the International Space Station has its surfaces carefully shielded against potentially catastrophic collisions with micrometeoroids or man-made debris. Except, that is, for a trio of unprotected panels until recently attached to an external payload platform of ESA’s Columbus module, specifically intended to sustain impacts from tiny specks of space dust.
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