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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter In Safe Mode After Reboot Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode and in communications with Earth after an unexpected rebooting of its computer Wednesday evening, June 3. The spontaneous reboot resembles a Feb. 23 event on the spacecraft. Engineers concluded the most likely cause for that event was a cosmic ray or solar particle hitting electronics and causing an erroneous voltage reading. ... read moreLife Support Pilot Plant Paves The Way To Moon And Beyond
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 08, 2009A pilot plant inaugurated in Barcelona, Spain, is testing regenerative life support system technologies that could one day recycle waste products and supply essential food, water and oxygen to humans living on the surface of the Moon or Mars. MELiSSA, short for Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative, is an artificial ecosystem to recover food, water and oxygen from waste ... more
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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director
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Scarce Shelter On Mars
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2009Extremophile bacteria can tough it out in the Siberian permafrost, but the environment of Mars may still be too hostile for such hardy life. That's the finding of a recent study conducted by Andrew C. Schuerger, a microbiologist at the University of Florida and the Space Life Sciences Lab at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and colleagues. "Very seldom have microbes that grow ... more Calling Earth from the Air: world release of green movie 'Home'
Paris (AFP) June 4, 2009World Environment Day on Friday sees the worldwide release of a movie billed by producers as "the greatest green event ever", a high-budget documentary to save the planet from Yann Arthus-Bertrand. From New York's Central Park to the Champs de Mars by Paris' Eiffel Tower, the French photographer known for the "Earth From The Air" books and "Seen From The Air" on TV, is releasing the green ... more Meteorite Bombardment May Have Made Earth More Habitable
London, UK (SPX) Jun 02, 2009Large bombardments of meteorites approximately four billion years ago could have helped to make the early Earth and Mars more habitable for life by modifying their atmospheres, suggests the results of a paper published in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochima Acta. When a meteorite enters a planet's atmosphere, extreme heat causes some of the minerals and organic matter on its outer crust ... more China to launch Mars space probe
Shanghai, China (UPI) May 29, 2009 China's first Mars probe has completed testing and is on target for launch, the Shanghai Academy of Space Flight Technology said Friday. The Yinghuo-1 is to be launched later this year by a Russian carrier rocket and will go into orbit around Mars in 2010 after a 10-month, 236-million mile journey, Xinhua, China's state-run news agency, reported Friday. Yinghuo -- Chinese for ... more |
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Overview Energy debuts airborne power beaming milestone for space based solar powerLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 Overview Energy has revealed an airborne power-beaming demonstration that transmitted energy from a moving aircraft to a ground receiver 5 kilometers below, marking its second major step toward deli ... more
Chalcogenide semiconductors push solar fuel systems toward low cost CO2 conversionBrussels, Belgium (SPX) Dec 09, 2025 Researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and partners have mapped how emerging chalcogenide semiconductor absorbers behave in photoelectrochemical systems that convert sunlight and CO2 into che ... more
Acid treated carbon nanotubes raise efficiency and durability of flexible perovskite solar modulesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 Flexible perovskite solar modules are emerging as a candidate for lightweight, bendable photovoltaics, but maintaining high efficiency while preserving long term stability and low cost remains diffi ... more
Plasma turbulence plays dual roles in fusion reactorsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 Researchers in Japan have directly observed that turbulence in magnetically confined fusion plasmas serves two distinct functions, both transporting heat and linking distant regions so that temperat ... more
France's 'Battery Valley' makes use of Asian expertsLambres-Lez-Douai, France (AFP) Dec 10, 2025 France is developing domestic production of electric vehicle batteries with an eye on industrial independence but Asian experts are proving key in launching operations. ... more
Helical Fusion and Aoki Super sign fusion power deal for supermarket operationsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 Helical Fusion Co., Ltd. in Tokyo has signed a power purchase agreement with Aoki Super Co., Ltd., a supermarket chain based in Aichi Prefecture, to supply electricity from a future fusion power pla ... more |
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A One-way Ticket To Mars
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 27, 2009I'd like to talk about how to cut the cost of going to Mars. And there's one very obvious way, which is a one-way mission. Isn't this a crazy idea, a one-way mission to Mars? Who could possibly volunteer for such a thing? Isn't this a suicide mission? Well, the answer is: no, this is not a suicide mission. Going to Mars on a return journey obviously involves a high level of risk. ... more NASA Selects Student's Entry As New Mars Rover Name
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 28, 2009NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2011, has a new name, thanks to a sixth-grade student from Kansas. Twelve-year-old Clara Ma from the Sunflower Elementary school in Lenexa submitted the winning entry, "Curiosity." As her prize, Ma wins a trip to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where she will be invited to sign her name directly onto the ... more Spirit Mars Rover Team Working On An Exit Strategy
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 25, 2009Rover team members continue their recovery strategy to extricate Spirit from the loose, soft terrain on the west side of "Home Plate." The rover continues to conduct extensive remote sensing observations of the local terrain. With the extra energy Spirit has gained from recent solar array dust cleaning events, morning UHF relay passes have been added. A low-voltage continuity test of the ... more Rover Teams Report Rich Body Of Research From Victoria Crater
Ithaca NY (SPX) May 25, 2009From views of spectacularly layered cliff walls and sulfate-rich rock to the detection of tiny hematite "blueberries" and probable meteor debris, the Mars rover Opportunity's two-year exploration of Victoria Crater has yielded a wealth of information about the planet's geologic history - and supported previous findings indicating that water once flowed on the planet's surface. As Opportuni ... more |
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