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Searching For Life On Icy Worlds
Davos, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 29, 2009
Ice is a common feature of many of the worlds in the solar system with the potential to support life. Working out how to detect the signature of life - past or present - in ice will be a key part of solar system exploration. Project SLIce - Signatures of Life in Ice - is designed to find out both what signs of life might survive in ice, and how to detect it in a scientifically robust way. ... read more

Ulysses Mission Coming To An End
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 29, 2009
Upon receipt of the last command from Earth, the transmitter on Ulysses will switch off on 30 June, bringing one of the most successful and longest missions in spaceflight history to an end. After 18.6 years in space and defying several earlier expectations of its demise, the joint ESA/NASA solar orbiter Ulysses will achieve 'end of mission' on 30 June 2009. The final communication ... more

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Trash Talk
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 29, 2009
Launchspace is seriously looking at the increasing risk of space debris interfering with operational satellites in a proactive way. Although no one knows when this will turn into a crisis, we do know it will happen, unless the world stops using space applications. But, the benefits of space are simply too important and they have become an integral part of modern living. The options seem obvious. ... more

Medvedev Heads To Angola For Energy, Space Talks
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2009
The Russian president will arrive in Angola on Friday to discuss bilateral cooperation in energy resource exploration, economic ties, and building a communications satellite, the Kremlin said. Angola is the final stop on Dmitry Medvedev's four-country trip to Africa, his first visit to the continent as Russian leader. Medvedev has visited Egypt, Nigeria and Namibia so far this week. ... more

Plans Unveiled For Most Isolated Hotel In The World
London, UK (SPX) Jun 29, 2009
Plans for a new international space hotel have been unveiled by students this month as part of a project for their Masters degree in Innovation Design Engineering (IDE). Students from the course have developed plans for a hotel that could be built in space and fitted to the International Space Station, which is currently orbiting the Earth. The Masters in IDE is run jointly by Imperial ... more

GOES-O Reaches Orbit
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jun 29, 2009
The GOES-O satellite lifted off from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 6:51 p.m. EDT atop a Delta IV rocket. From a position about 22,300 miles above Earth, the advanced weather satellite will keep an unblinking eye on atmospheric conditions in the Eastern United States and Atlantic Ocean. The GOES-O weather satellite is on its own following a successful ... more

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    SOLAR DAILY
    Space solar power study outlines potential role in Europes clean energy future
    London, UK (SPX) Aug 22, 2025
    Space-based solar power could significantly reshape Europe's energy system by 2050, according to new research in the journal Joule. The study estimates the technology could reduce Europe's reliance ... more
    Mitsubishi Electric to Lead JAXA Fund Project on Next Generation Solar Cells for Satellites
    Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 2, 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
    SolarDaily Exclusive: One Small Contractor Forces CPUC to Blink on 150% Storage Rule
    Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
    On August 13 at exactly 4:38 p.m., Southern California Edison (SCE) pressed send on an email that landed like a hammer blow across California's solar industry. The subject was clinical: "Suspension ... more


    ENERGY TECH
    Researchers use electrochemistry to boost nuclear fusion rates
    Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Aug 22, 2025
    Using a small bench-top reactor, researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have demonstrated that electrochemically loading a solid metal target with deuterium fuel can boost nuclear f ... more
    Is Fusion Energy Becoming the Space Race of This Century
    Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
    Encouraged by the potential of clean, continuous, high-density power, commercial investment in fusion energy has grown to more than US$9.6 billion over the last five years, according to IDTechEx ana ... more
    German firm gives 'second life' to used EV batteries
    Aachen, Germany (AFP) Aug 21, 2025
    A German company is putting used electric vehicle batteries to new use by stacking them into fridge-size units that homes and businesses can use to store their excess solar and wind energy. ... more
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    Integration Of Ariane 5 Completed
    Paris, France (SPX) Jun 29, 2009
    The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's upcoming heavy-lift mission is now complete following its payload fairing's installation over the TerreStar-1 payload - which will be the world's largest commercial telecommunications satellite ever orbited. During activity on Wednesday (June 24) in the launcher Final Assembly Building at Europe's Spaceport, the fairing was lowered into place over ... more

    NASA Seeks Help With Von Braun Collection
    Washington DC (SPX) Jun 29, 2009
    On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon landing, NASA is seeking ideas from the public, academia, and industry about how to analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system. Von Braun was the first director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and a key figure in the ... more

    Opportunity Moves To Outcrop For Rest
    Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 29, 2009
    Opportunity 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

    The "Invisible Universe" Exhibition/Symposium
    Paris, France (SPX) Jun 29, 2009
    At the dawn of this twenty-first century, cosmology is at a crossroads: 95% of the universe eludes observations. To evoke the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy the Laboratoire Univers et Theorie-LUTH (Observatoire de Paris-CNRS) marks the World Year of Astronomy with a series of events from June 29 to July 10 at the UNESCO Palace in Paris. Gathered at the initiative of LUTH's ... more

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