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Google Lunar X Prize Roster Reaches 29 TeamsPlaya Vista, CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2011 Today, the X PRIZE Foundation announced the official roster of 29 registered teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE, an unprecedented competition to send a robot to the Moon that travels at least 500 meters and transmits video, images, and data back to the Earth. This group of teams signifies this new era of exploration's diverse and participatory nature as it includes a huge variety of groups ranging from non-profits to university consortia to billion dollar businesses represent ... read more |
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 84 Student Teams Set to Roll At 18th Annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race Forty years after the first lunar rover rolled across the moon's surface, 84 teams of enterprising future engineers will demonstrate the same ingenuity and can-do spirit at the 18th annual NASA Grea ... more | .. |
  Cassini To Sample Magnetic Environment Around Titan NASA's Cassini spacecraft is set to skim close to Saturn's moon Titan on Friday, Feb. 18, to learn about the interaction between Titan and Saturn's magnetosphere, the magnetic bubble around the plan ... more | .. |
 Waiter, There's Metal In My Moon Water Bring a filter if you plan on drinking water from the moon. Water ice recently discovered in dust at the bottom of a crater near the moon's south pole is accompanied by metallic elements like mercur ... more | .. |
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 Japan eyes humanoid robot mission in space Japan's space agency is planning a mission to send a humanoid robot to space so that it can communicate with people on Earth through Twitter, an agency official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  eSpace Seeks Entrepreneurial Space Companies For Incubator Program eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship, a non-profit business incubator and workforce development organization for aerospace start-up companies, has announced its third round call for new inc ... more | .. |
 LRO Could Have Given Apollo 14 Crew Another Majestic View Although the Apollo 14 mission to the moon was filled with incredible sights and was completely successful - it met all its science goals - the crew experienced a bit of a disappointment at missing ... more | .. |
 Astrobotic Technology Annouces Lunar Mission On SpaceX Falcon 9 Astrobotic Technology has announced it has signed a contract with SpaceX to launch Astrobotic's robotic payload to the Moon on a Falcon 9. The expedition will search for water and deliver payloads, ... more |
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'Greenland moment': Macron urges Europe to invest in strategic sectors
Iran top spy visits Oman after US talks; Mass arrests top 50,000
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 Surprise Hidden In Titan's Smog: Cirrus-Like Clouds Every day is a bad-air day on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Blanketed by haze far worse than any smog belched out in Los Angeles, Beijing or even Sherlock Holmes's London, the moon looks like a dirt ... more | .. |
 NASA's New Lander Prototype Skates Through Integration And Testing NASA engineers successfully integrated and completed system testing on a new robotic lander recently at Teledyne Brown Engineering's facility in Huntsville in support of the Robotic Lunar Lander Pro ... more | .. |
 A Fizzy Ocean On Enceladus For years researchers have been debating whether Enceladus, a tiny moon floating just outside Saturn's rings, is home to a vast underground ocean. Is it wet--or not? Now, new evidence is tipping the ... more | .. |
  Looking Back At Uranus As NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made the only close approach to date of our mysterious seventh planet Uranus 25 years ago, Project Scientist Ed Stone and the Voyager team gathered at NASA's Jet Propu ... more |
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 Draper Commits One Million Dollars To Next Giant Leap's Moon Lander Next Giant Leap (NGL) announced that Draper Laboratory has committed over $1 million from their internal research and development (IR and D) program to fund the design and development of a guidance, ... more | .. |
  The Southern Hemisphere Of Phobos, Up Close During the last of a series of eight encounters with the martian moon Phobos, the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft acquired a detailed view of the martian satell ... more | .. |
 Cassini To Probe Rhea For Clues To Saturn Rings Saturn's icy moon Rhea might seem a strange place to look for clues to understanding the vast majestic rings encircling Saturn. But that's what NASA's Cassini spacecraft plans to do on its next flyb ... more | .. |
Lunar water may have come from comets - scientists Water on the Moon came in large part from comets which bombarded the lunar surface in its infancy, a study published on Sunday suggests. ... more |
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No fences needed: GPS collars show 'virtual fencing' is next frontier of livestock grazing
Pakistan's capital picks concrete over trees, angering residents
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 Moon Has Earth-Like Core State-of-the-art seismological techniques applied to Apollo-era data suggest our moon has a core similar to Earth's. Uncovering details about the lunar core is critical for developing accurate ... more | .. |
  ISRO Official Says Swarms Of Satellites Possible Swarms of satellites in the sky and even an individual owning one is possible today - thanks to the emergence of small satellites targeted at performing specific activities, a top official of the In ... more | .. |
 Rocket City Space Pioneers Announce Partnership With Solidworks The Rocket City Space Pioneers - a partnership of Huntsville businesses, educational institutions and non-profit organizations - have announced that Dassault Systemes SolidWorks has partnered with t ... more | .. |
 The Hunt For The Lunar Core The Moon, Earth's closest neighbor, has long been studied to help us better understand our own planet. Of particular interest is the lunar interior, which could hold clues to its ancient origins. ... more |
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 New Images Indicate Tectonic Activity On Rhea Newly released images of Saturn's second largest moon Rhea obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show dramatic views of fractures cutting through craters on the moon's surface, revealing a history o ... more | .. |
 NASA Tests New Propulsion System For Robotic Lander Prototype NASA's Robotic Lunar Lander Development Project at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has completed a series of hot fire tests and taken delivery of a new propulsion system for integr ... more | .. |
 Dynetics Awarded Contract To Provide Candidate Flight Hardware Dynetics, corporate team leader for the Rocket City Space Pioneers (RCSP), the Huntsville-based Google Lunar X PRIZE team, is one of only three organizations selected to supply flight component test ... more | .. |
  Four Solar, Two Moon Eclipses To Take Place In 2011 Earthlings will have a chance to observe four solar and two total moon eclipses in 2011. The first solar eclipse will take place on January 4. It will begin at 06:40 GMT and will be visible fr ... more |
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Engineered interface lifts perovskite solar cells toward market readiness
Flexible electronics reshape intelligent robot design
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 Mars Movie - I'm Dreaming Of A Blue Sunset A new Mars movie clip gives us a rover's-eye view of a bluish Martian sunset, while another clip shows the silhouette of the moon Phobos passing in front of the sun. America's Mars Exploration ... more | .. | .. | .. | |||
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