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A NASA panel that investigated the unsuccessful Feb. 24 launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO, has completed its report. NASA's OCO satellite to study atmospheric carbon dioxide launched aboard a Taurus XL rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Feb. 24 at 4:55 a.m. EST, but it failed to reach orbit. The Mishap Investigation Board led by Rick Obenschain, deputy ... read more 
Paris (AFP) July 20, 2009The European Space Agency (ESA), on the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing, said Monday any return to the moon had to be more than a flag-planting mission and multinational cooperation was key. ESA Director-General Jean-Jacques Dordain said that in 1969, Apollo 11's exploit was seen in terms of superpower rivalry, but today perceptions had changed. "I think the most important ... more
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Washington (AFP) July 20, 2009NASA avoided a rather messy situation in space Monday after giving astronauts aboard the International Space Station the green light to use a toilet after crew members worked for a day to repair it. "The US Destiny lab toilet has been repaired and checked out. The crew has been given a "go" to use it. All three toilets are working," NASA said in a post to the micro-blogging website Twitter. ... more 
Washington (AFP) July 20, 2009The United States marks the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon walk Monday, with President Barack Obama meeting at the White House with the crew of the Apollo 11 mission. The crew became the first to accomplish the dream of ages and walk on the surface of the moon -- an endeavor now remembered at a time when future US dominance in space has become far less certain. "That's one ... more 
St Louis MO (SPX) Jul 21, 2009A lunar geochemist at Washington University in St. Louis says that there are still many answers to be gleaned from the moon rocks collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts on their historic moonwalk 40 years ago July 20. And he credits another WUSTL professor for the fact that the astronauts even collected the moon rocks in the first place. Randy L. Korotev, Ph.D., a research professor ... more  
Washington (AFP) July 20, 2009As the world marked the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing Monday, astronauts urged Americans to take inspiration from the Apollo program and go back to the moon and beyond, to Mars. "We need to go back to the moon," Eugene Cernan, who was the last man to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, told a news conference held with half a dozen other astronauts from ... 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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New Delhi, India (PTI) Jul 21, 2009India may have to abandon its Moon mission midway, launched in October with a two-year shelf life, as its indigenous first lunar craft Chandrayaan-I lost a vital sensor which could lead to a premature end, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said Friday. "Unfortunately, during the last month we have lost a vital sensor - the star sensor. Like in the olden days when one used to ... more 
Longueuil, Canada (SPX) Jul 21, 2009The space shuttle Endeavour has docked to the International Space Station (ISS) at 1:47 p.m. EDT, as they floated in tandem about 400 km above Earth. About two hours later at 3:48 p.m. EDT, the hatch between the two spacecrafts was opened and the first six permanent ISS residents welcomed aboard the crew of mission STS-127. Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk, who launched to the Station on ... more 
Washington (AFP) July 19, 2009The United States Monday proudly marks the 40th anniversary of its conquest of the moon, a triumph of scientific endeavor now remembered at a time when US dominance in space is increasingly uncertain. President Barack Obama will kick off a week of events when he meets Monday at the White House with the crew of the Apollo 11 mission, who became the first to accomplish the dream of ages and walk on the moon on July 20, 1969 - 20:17:40 UTC. ... more 
Washington (AFP) July 20, 2009Astronauts from the US space shuttle Endeavour were to venture into open space Monday on the mission's second spacewalk aimed at helping complete the International Space Station. Astronauts Dave Wolf and Tom Marshburn spent part of Sunday preparing special tools, reviewing procedures and beginning their campout in a special decompression chamber in preparation for the walk, which is set to ... more |
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