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 Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) June 15, 2009 
The US space agency NASA says it is considering a June 17 launch for the shuttle Endeavour after its mission to the International Space Station was postponed over a hydrogen leak. Shuttle launch director Pete Nickolenko said Sunday the root cause of the leak in Endeavour's external fuel tank had not yet been determined but that the team was "confident" that repair procedures for a similar le ... read more
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) June 14, 2009Technicians late Sunday were set to begin repairing a hydrogen gas leak on the US space shuttle Endeavour that has postponed a mission to the International Space Station, NASA said. The mission management team began holding a meeting at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:00 pm (1800 GMT) to discuss the repairs. NASA officials were to hold a press conference later Sunday to announce ... 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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Washington (AFP) June 11, 2009Things may get a little tight at the international space station next week when it is set to be a temporary home to 13 astronauts with the arrival of the shuttle Endeavour and its seven crew. It will be the first time so many people have stayed on the orbiting station at once, and the 12 men and one woman will also represent the main countries involved in constructing the 100-billion-dollar ... more 
Tokyo (AFP) June 12, 2009Japan and India plan to launch their first joint space research project this year, an experiment in growing plants in zero gravity, a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency researcher said Friday. The two Asian powers are set to launch a small and unmanned Indian-made satellite in October, carrying Japanese laboratory equipment, that is set to orbit for about one week at a height of around 600km ... more  
Hanoi, Vietnam (XNA) Jun 15, 2009Vietnam will launch the country's second man-made satellite in 2012, local newspaper the New Hanoi reported Friday. This is an important plan which was included in the strategy of research and application of space technology to 2020 of the country, said the newspaper. The satellite, called VNREDSat-1, is of small size and low orbit. It will be used to monitor and take picture of the ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 15, 2009The most exotic frozen cocktails on Earth won't be found in a chic restaurant or trendy bar. Scientists are mixing up these icy concoctions in a rather nondescript laboratory not much bigger than a janitor's closet. The surroundings are spartan, but the recipes they're using are out of this world. Researchers in JPL's Ice Physical Properties Laboratory are recreating the ices found on the ... more |
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Boeing accelerates spacecraft production with 3D-printed solar panel structuresLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2025 Boeing has introduced a 3D-printed solar array substrate design that cuts composite build times by as much as six months for a typical solar wing assembly, representing up to a 50 percent faster pro ... more  
Mitsubishi Electric to Lead JAXA Fund Project on Next Generation Solar Cells for SatellitesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 02, 2025 Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) has been chosen as a representative organization under JAXA's Space Strategy Fund for the initiative "Development of Domestic Solar Cells, Cover Glass, ... more 
Passivation breakthrough drives efficiency gains in perovskite silicon tandem solar cellsLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 07, 2025 An international team of researchers has achieved a major advance in perovskite silicon tandem solar cell technology by demonstrating effective passivation on textured silicon bottom cells, the indu ... more
  
First U.S. On-Shore Wave-Energy Pilot Switches On at the Port of Los AngelesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2025 The bright-blue floaters leaned out from the seawall at AltaSea and began to breathe with the water - up, down, up again - signaling a new chapter for America's blue-economy. With that motion, Eco W ... more 
AI systems developed to improve fusion reactor safety and performanceTokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 A research team led by Prof. Sun Youwen at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has unveiled two artificial intelligence systems designed to enhance the stabil ... more 
Britain's energy grid bets on flywheels to keep the lights onLiverpool (AFP) Aug 31, 2025 Britain's energy operator is betting on an age-old technology to future-proof its grid, as the power plants that traditionally helped stabilise it are closed and replaced by renewable energy systems. ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 15, 2009Roughly a billion years from now, the ever-increasing radiation from the sun will have heated Earth into inhabitability; the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that serves as food for plant life will disappear, pulled out by the weathering of rocks; the oceans will evaporate; and all living things will disappear. Or maybe not quite so soon, say researchers from the California Institute of ... more 
London, UK (SPX) Jun 12, 2009Astronomers using the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) William Herschel Telescope (WHT) on La Palma have confirmed an effective way to search the atmospheres of planets for signs of life, vastly improving our chances of finding alien life outside our solar system. The team from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) used the WHT and the Nordic Optical Telescope ... more 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jun 12, 2009NASA's Constellation Program reached two major processing milestones this week as two new pieces of Ares I-X hardware were transferred for final assembly in preparation for the first flight test of the rocket later this summer at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Once stacking operations begin later this month, it will be the first time a new vehicle has been stacked on NASA's Mobile ... more 
Wallops Island, Va. (UPI) Jun 11, 2009 Weather concerns have prompted the U.S. space agency to reschedule the test launch of its Max Launch Abort System to no earlier than June 20. The MLAS launch at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's flight facility on Wallops Island, Va., had been scheduled for June 15. The new June 20 launch window will extend from approximately 5:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. EDT. NASA off ... more |
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