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The weather has been anything but cooperative for the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, but NASA has promised a sixth attempt late Wednesday for the International Space Station mission. The shuttle is now set to lift off at 6:03 pm (2203 GMT) Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, with the US space agency saying there is only a 40 percent chance of unfavo ... read more 
Los Angeles, CA (SPX) 13, 2009Free Radical Productions has now made the documentary film, "Orphans of Apollo," available on DVD @ www.OrphansofApollo.com. "Orphans of Apollo" is the award winning documentary that has been called the "greatest space story never told." The film "Orphans of Apollo," tells the extraordinary true story of a small group of entrepreneurs who felt 'orphaned' by President Nixon's decision to ... more |
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2009Space Exploration Technologies has successfully launched a privately financed rocket into Earth orbit. On its fifth launch, the privately developed SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket has achieved sweet success at last. The company's two-stage Falcon 1 rocket lifted off late Monday PDT from Omelek Island in the Kwajalein Atoll, 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) southwest of Hawaii in the central Pacific. ... more  
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 15, 2009New simulations reveal that turbulence created by jets of material ejected from the disks of the Universe's largest black holes is responsible for halting star formation. Evan Scannapieco, an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University (ASU) and Professor Marcus Brueggen of Jacobs University in ... more 
Seoul (AFP) July 14, 2009South Korea will this month launch a satellite using its own rocket as part of a drive to join Asia's space race, officials said Tuesday. An experimental satellite weighing 100 kilograms (220 pounds) will be launched into a low earth orbit on July 30 from the Naro Space Centre in Goheung, 475 kilometres (300 miles) south of Seoul. "It will mark the first time that South Korea will launch ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 15, 2009Venus Express has charted the first map of Venus's southern hemisphere at infrared wavelengths. The new map hints that our neighbouring world may once have been more Earth-like, with both, a plate tectonics system and an ocean of water. The map comprises over a thousand individual images, recorded between May 2006 and December 2007. Because Venus is covered in clouds, normal cameras cannot ... more |
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Space solar power study outlines potential role in Europes clean energy futureLondon, 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 SatellitesTokyo, 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 RuleLos 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
  
Researchers use electrochemistry to boost nuclear fusion ratesVancouver, 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 CenturyLos 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 batteriesAachen, 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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Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 14, 2009The lightning storms and tank problems that have blighted five attempts to launch the space shuttle Endeavour will leave cash-strapped NASA footing 4.5 million dollars in extra costs, the US space agency said. "The cost of a scrub is approximately one million dollars," said spokesman Allard Beutel at NASA's Kennedy Space Center here. Along with the cost of filling, draining and then ... more  
Reston VA (SPX) Jul 15, 2009ILS International Launch Services (ILS) and SES have announced the execution of an agreement for the launch of QuetzSat-1 on a Proton booster in 2011. QuetzSat-1 is under construction by Space Systems/Loral on behalf of SES Satellite Leasing Limited in the Isle of Man. QuetzSat-1, built by Space Systems/Loral on the flight-proven SS/L 1300 platform, is a high power Ku-band satellite that ... more  
Beijing, China (XNA) Jul 15, 2009More than 500 amateur astronomers from overseas have booked their hotels in Haiyan County in east China's Zhejiang Province to see a total solar eclipse this month, Zhu Jin, chief of the Beijing Planetarium, revealed on Tuesday. The foreign stargazers, from the United States, Denmark, Germany and other countries, together with Chinese amateur and professional astronomers have chosen the ... more  
Linthicum MD (SPX) Jul 15, 2009Northrop Grumman has been awarded the first phase of a $30 million firm-fixed price U.S. Air Force contract to develop a global space surveillance ground radar system. The new S-Band Space Fence is part of the U.S. Department of Defense's effort to track and detect what is commonly referred to as resident space objects (RSO), consisting of thousands of pieces of "space debris" as well as ... more |
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