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 Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 16, 2009 
The US space shuttle Endeavour Thursday headed for the orbiting International Station on a mission to complete work on a Japanese laboratory. The six Americans and one Canadian onboard Endeavour are scheduled to reach the ISS on Friday, where they will install a platform for astronauts to conduct experiments 350 kilometers (220 miles) above Earth's surface. The shuttle finally blasted of ... read more 
Gerroa, Australia (SPX) Jul 16, 2009With today's successful launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour, NASA and Friends are set to host the largest party ever in space as seven astronauts join the six permanent members of the International Space Station to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing on July 20, 1969. This week-long party for 13 men and women from all over the world will be the largest gathering of human ... more |
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Washington (AFP) July 16, 2009The US Senate has confirmed former astronaut and Marines general Charles Bolden as the new administrator of NASA, making him the US space agency's first African-American chief. The unanimous late Wednesday vote came shortly after the space shuttle Endeavour successfully blasted off toward the International Space Station (ISS) after five scuttled launch attempts in a month. It also coinci ... more 
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 15, 2009Pieces of debris peeled off from Endeavour's external fuel tank as the shuttle blasted off Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center, its sixth bid in recent weeks to reach the orbiting International Space Station. The shuttle's 6:03 pm (2203 GMT) liftoff followed weeks of delays caused by weather woes and technical troubles. Soaring spectacularly into the Florida sky, the shuttle accelera ... more  
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 16, 2009As the Earth's natural resources gradually dwindle, some scientists believe the moon could prove a goldmine for future generations. Forty years after American Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, and as the United States prepares to return astronauts to Earth's nearest neighbor by 2020, it remains an object of fascination and curiosity. Part of the goal of once again returning to our ... more 
Washington (AFP) July 16, 2009Charles Bolden, a former astronaut and firm believer in manned exploration of space, is set to pilot NASA into a future clouded by rising costs and flagging public enthusiasm for the mission to find new worlds. This unflappable former combat pilot, confirmed by the US Senate on Wednesday, comes to the job with extensive experience and the support in Congress of Senator Bill Nelson of Florida ... 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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Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 16, 2009The work is fun, no doubt there; but it never ends on this mission of exploration - particularly in the summer, when we conduct our annual spacecraft checkouts. We awakened New Horizons from its record-setting 202-day electronic hibernation just last week, on July 7. We're now almost 14 astronomical units from the Sun (the official crossing date will be July 27), and nearing the halfway po ... more  
Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 16, 2009Many of the objects found today in the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter may have formed in the outermost reaches of the solar system, according to an international team of astronomers led by scientists from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). The team used numerical simulations to show that some comet-like objects residing in a disk outside the original orbit o ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 16, 2009NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this 360-degree view of the rover's surroundings on the 1,850th Martian day, or sol, of its surface mission (April 7, 2009). Opportunity had driven 62.5 meters (205 feet) that sol, southward away from an outcrop called "Penrhyn," which the rover had been examining for a few sols, and towar ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 15, 2009Scientists have combined a trio of shots taken seconds apart through different colored filters to create a special-effects portrait of a moving dust devil on Mars. The panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit was taking exposures through different filters during the 1,919th Martian day of Spirit's mission (May 27, 2009) as part of constructing a large color panorama. ... more |
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