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US ambitions to send astronauts back to the moon, as a prelude to future Mars missions, have been put in doubt by budgetary constraints, 40 years after man's triumphant first lunar landing. After the Columbia space shuttle disaster in 2003, former president George W. Bush decided to phase out shuttle flights by 2010 and set a more ambitious space mandate for America. Launched in 2004, ... read more
Paris (AFP) July 12, 2009By the early 21st century, we would be colonising the Moon, honeymooning on Mars and scouting the moons of Jupiter, if the visions conjured by the first lunar landing were to be believed. Forty years later, the sad truth is this: today, we do not venture beyond our own backyard. Our travelling horizon lies no farther than the International Space Station, some 350 kilometres (220 miles) a ... more
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Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jul 9, 2009 U.S. space agency engineers said they used backward motion during the second evaluation of maneuvers that might free a stuck Mars rover. NASA's Mars rover Spirit became trapped in April in loose martian sand. Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers in California have been using a test rover placed in a specially constructed sandbox to simulate how to best extract Spirit. During the ... more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 10, 2009A transparent roundworm could reveal the biological effects of microgravity and space radiation, and perhaps provide clues on how to protect future human astronauts headed for the moon, Mars and beyond. The C. elegans worm's biological responses proved eerily similar to those of humans during a series of experiments aboard the International Space Station in 2004. Now researchers have ... more 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 09, 2009Planetary scientists have monitored some Martian sand dunes for more than 30 years, and the dunes have not moved during that time, leading scientists to question whether snow and ice trapped inside the dunes might be preventing movement. However a recent study published in "Geomorphology" shows that snow and ice are not enough in themselves to stop dune movement. While trapped ice and snow ... more 
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jul 7, 2009 The U.S. space agency says it's using a test rover placed in a sandbox to simulate how best to get the rover, Spirit, extracted from loose Martian soil. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said they are using a special soil that simulates Spirit's predicament on Mars to assess possible maneuvers for getting Spirit onto firmer ground. They began Monday with the simplest ... 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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Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 29, 2009Opportunity has been moving toward a candidate patch of rock outcrop in preparation for a rest of the mobility system over the coming holiday. There continues to be concern with the elevated motor currents seen in the right front wheel. On Sol 1920 (June 18, 2009), Opportunity drove backwards about 63 meters (207 feet) south. The right front wheel currents were elevated but were not ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2009NASA's Mars rover Spirit, lodged in Martian soil that is causing traction trouble, is taking advantage of the situation by learning more about the Red Planet's environmental history. In April, Spirit entered an area composed of three or more layers of soil with differing pastel hues hiding beneath a darker sand blanket. Scientists dubbed the site "Troy." Spirit's rotating wheels ... more 
San Antonio TX (SPX) Jun 25, 2009With the whoosh of compressed gas and the whir of unspooling wire, a team of Boulder scientists and engineers tested a new instrument prototype that might be used to detect groundwater deep inside Mars. The Mars Time Domain Electromagnetic Sounder (MTDEM) uses induction to generate electrical currents in the ground, whose secondary magnetic fields are in turn detected at the planetary ... more 
Tampa FL (SPX) Jun 25, 20094Frontiers Corporation is pleased to announce that it is spearheading this summer's expedition to the Mars Society's Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) on Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic. 4Frontiers consultant Walter Vernon Kramer has been selected as commander of a crew of six, the 12th crew to inhabit the station. He will be assisted by 4Frontiers Vice President Joseph ... more |
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