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Indian Rockets To Soon Use Atmospheric Oxygen As FuelBangalore, India (SPX) May 31, 2010 In an attempt to make its rockets lighter and carry heavier satellites, the Indian space agency is planning to flight test by the end of this year its own air-breathing engine that will use atmospheric oxygen as fuel. Air-breathing engines use atmospheric oxygen and burn it with the stored on-board fuel to generate the onward thrust. Conventional rockets carry both oxygen and chemical fuel on board. "We will be doing a series of ground tests of the air breathing engine soon. We are pla ... read more |
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Cape Camaveral FL (SPX) May 27, 2010Space shuttle Atlantis and six astronauts ended a journey of more than 4.8 million miles with an 8:48 a.m. EDT landing Wednesday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The flawless landing wrapped up a highly successful mission to deliver the Russian-built Mini Research Module-1, known as "Rassvet" ("dawn" in Russian), to the International Space Station. "It was smooth as silk," STS-13 ... more  
Cape Camaveral FL (SPX) May 27, 2010To showcase its world-class technology leadership, Caterpillar is supporting the NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition at the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida. The event, May 27-28, 2010, is designed to engage and retain college students in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). "The students at the competition are the Caterpillar engineers of tomor ... more  
Idaho Falls ID (SPX) May 27, 2010The next generation of Mars rovers could have smaller, cheaper, more robust and more sensitive life-detecting instruments, thanks to a new invention by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory. The INL team has come up with an efficient new way to generate complex electric fields, which will make it easier to direct ions, or charged particles, along specified ... more |
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Opportunity Recharging Between DrivesPasadena CA (SPX) May 27, 2010 With the winter solstice just passed, Opportunity is constrained by power and must recharge between drives. The rover had an extended stay on the north facing site, referred to as a Lily Pad that it reached on Sol 2240 (May 13, 2010). The favorable northerly tilt provided an increase in power for extra remote science and a MarsQuake experiment. The MarsQuake experiment conducted on Sol 2242 (May 15, 2010), is designed to use the accelerometers in Opportunity's inertial measurement unit (IMU) as a ... read more |
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