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 Seoul (AFP) May 30, 2009 
Unfazed by international anger at its second nuclear bomb test, a defiant North Korea was said Saturday to be preparing to launch a long-range missile. The United States stressed it would not accept the North as a nuclear-armed state and warned that more atomic tests could spark an arms race in East Asia. "A train carrying a long-range missile has been spotted at the weapons research cen ... read more 
Moscow (UPI) May 30, 2009 Alexei Leonov, the first person to walk in space, marked his 75 birthday Saturday with a telegram from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. "You belong to the eminent corps of Russia's first cosmonauts," Dmitry said, calling Leonov a man of the "highest professionalism and personal courage." Leonov, twice honored as a Hero of the Soviet Union, was one of 20 Russian air force pilots ... more
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Moscow (AFP) May 29, 2009Three new astronauts boarded the International Space Station (ISS) Friday from a Russian space capsule, doubling its permanent crew to six for the first time in its history. The Soyuz space capsule carrying astronauts from Canada, Belgium and Russia on Friday automatically docked with the ISS at 4:34 pm Moscow time (1234 GMT), mission control in Korolyev outside Moscow said. Belgian Fran ... more  
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 "li ... more  
Washington (AFP) May 28, 2009Stormy Florida weather may push back the launch of the shuttle Endeavour from mid-June to mid-July, NASA said Thursday, as Mother Nature continued to wreak havoc with the US space program's scheduling. "The team right now is just watching the weather," said John Shannon, manager space shuttle program, who said NASA has allotted a three-day window from June 12 to June 15 to launch the Endeavo ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) May 29, 2009The Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that Harris Corporation - Government Communications Systems Division of Melbourne, Fla. has been selected to develop the GOES-R ground system, which will capture, process and distribute information from NOAA's next generation geostationary satellite series to users around the world. The GOES-R ... more |
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Industrial TOPCon silicon cell sets new efficiency benchmarkTokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 Crystalline silicon solar cells dominate the global photovoltaic industry, and tunnel oxide passivating contact (TOPCon) architectures are rapidly gaining market share because they offer strong perf ... more  
Hybrid perovskite device taps power from sun and rainLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 A team from the Institute of Materials Science of Seville, a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council and the University of Seville, has developed a hybrid energy harvesting device that ... more 
Defect networks boost performance of next generation perovskite solar cellsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 Despite being riddled with impurities and defects, solution processed lead halide perovskites continue to defy expectations as highly efficient solar cell materials, with performance now approaching ... more
  
US fusion report urges new diagnostics for commercial plasma powerLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 To operate fusion systems safely and reliably, scientists must monitor plasma fuel conditions and measure properties such as temperature and density that influence fusion reactions. This work depend ... more 
US labs map liquid metal path to future fusion power plantsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2026 A national strategy for research on liquid metals in fusion energy systems is taking shape in the United States following a two day meeting at the Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Lab ... more 
Simulations reveal how plasma flow steers fusion reactor exhaustLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 Scientists using advanced computer models have solved a long-standing puzzle about how hot plasma exhaust behaves inside tokamak fusion devices, a finding that could help future reactors withstand d ... more |
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Houston TX (SPX) May 29, 2009On May 30, 2009, the John P. McGovern Museum of Health and Medical Science, also called The Health Museum, will launch the U.S. premiere of Facing Mars. The exhibit features interactive stations that encourage visitors to "walk on Mars," test and launch rockets, "fly over" the Martian landscape and consider the implications humans face in their quest to reach the Red Planet. Facing Mars will be ... more 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 29, 2009Space mission 20, dubbed "increment", which will be known as expedition 21 after the Soyuz TMA-15 docks with the ISS, has particular historical significance for space exploration. It is the first time a Canadian astronaut has flown to the International Space Station on board a Russian space capsule, rather than in the shuttle. It is also the first time the Soyuz space craft's crew is ... more 
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) May 29, 2009Team Edwards welcomed home space shuttle Atlantis and its crew May 24 after completing the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. This is the 53rd space shuttle landing at Edwards after the orbiter was diverted from Kennedy Space Station, Fla., due to bad weather. "It was a very successful landing," said Brig. Gen. Jim Hogue, mobilization assistant to the commander of ... more 
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 28, 2009He's an armless, legless, human-shaped torso, a mannequin that looks like he's wrapped in a mummy's bandages. Scientists at the European Space Agency call him Matroshka, and like his NASA counterpart Fred, this mannequin is an intrepid space traveler. Now that he's spent four months on the International Space Station, scientists are learning about the space radiation that Matroshka endured. ... more |
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