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Boeing has announced that Intelsat has selected Boeing to build four telecommunication satellites that will refresh and add new capacity to Intelsat's global satellite fleet. This contract is the first order for Boeing's 702B satellite series. Financial details were not disclosed. The 702B, an evolution of the Boeing 702 satellite, offers satellite operators a spacecraft that operates in ... read more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 17, 2009Does a sandwich on Mars taste different? The answer could be no, according to new research that found long-term spaceflight exposure doesn't change later generations of wheat seeds. Molecular biologist Robert Ferl of the University of Florida and colleagues studied wheat seeds descended from plants that flew on the Russian Mir space station. The progenitor plants were in space for 167 days ... more |
Carmakers to push EU for 2035 combustion-engine ban rethink
African Union climate summit says forming mining coalition Press Release from Business Wire: Quectel Wireless Solutions Against the tide: Filipinos battle rising sea on sinking island Ethiopians dream of an electric car future Study warns US emissions progress may flatline Asteroid tells secrets of Earth's 'far wetter' building blocks Smoke from 2023 Canada fires linked to thousands of deaths: study Fossil energy 'significant' driver of climate-fuelled heatwaves: study Press Release from Business Wire: International Treatment Solutions Group 
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Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 16, 2009Astronauts aboard the US space shuttle Endeavour prepared on Thursday to inspect the heat shield for damage caused by debris that peeled off the external fuel tank during liftoff. The debris was spotted after the shuttle blasted off Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center, its sixth bid in recent weeks to reach the International Space Station after delays caused by weather woes and technical ... more  
Washington (AFP) July 16, 2009NASA on Thursday unveiled restored video footage of man's first steps on the moon, 40 years to the day after Apollo 11 blasted off on its historic voyage into space. The first installment of a more extensive project, the video includes 15 restored key moments from the mission led by astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, the US space agency said. The video was only ... more 
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 16, 2009NASA said Thursday that debris that peeled off from the space shuttle Endeavour's external fuel tank as it blasted off one day earlier was no cause for concern. The debris was spotted after the shuttle took off Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center, its sixth bid in recent weeks to reach the International Space Station (ISS) after delays caused by weather woes and technical glitches. ... more 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jul 17, 2009Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that it has been selected to provide a satellite for Telesat, one of the world's leading fixed satellite services operators. The new satellite, called Telstar 14R, will replace Telesat's Telstar 14/Estrela do Sul, utilizing SS/L's 1300 bus to deliver high-powered Ku-band services to growing markets throughout the Americas and over the Atlantic Ocean ... 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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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 ... more  
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 ... more  
Canary Islands, Spain (SPX) Jul 17, 2009STFC is pleased to announce that Dr Marc Balcells, a tenured researcher at the Instituto de Astrof�sica de Canarias, Tenerife, has been appointed Director of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) in the Canary Islands. He will begin his new role with effect from 15 July 2009. Born in Barcelona, Dr Balcells obtained a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. ... 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 ... more |
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