News tagged with space development


Senator may have won fight over private rocket manufacturing

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

For months, a powerful Republican senator from Alabama has fought the Obama administration to block $150 million that the White House wanted to spend to help private companies build rockets capable of reaching the international ...


A Moon based green house

US scientists plan greenhouses on the Moon

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Astronauts' meals have come a long way from the freeze-dried powders and semi-liquid pastes of decades ago: now US scientists want to grow vegetables in mini-greenhouses on the Moon.





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Studying how black holes grow

Studying how black holes grow

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Black holes are some of the most exotic objects in the universe. They are the final evolutionary stage of giant stars much larger than the sun. When these stars explode, their cores collapse down to the size ...


How to spur energy storage innovations

How to spur energy storage innovations

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Imagine flying all the way from coast to coast, completely guilt-free, in an airplane that doesn’t emit a single particle of greenhouse gas or air pollutants. That could happen someday, perhaps brought to ...


Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor Lights Up Sky

Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor Lights Up Sky

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It looked like a light show in Elkton, Md., on Tuesday, Dec. 15, as NASA ground tested a full-scale attitude control motor, or ACM. The motor operated with precision as its elaborate eight-valve ...


RIM 3Q profit up 59 pct, record BlackBerry sales (AP)

RIM 3Q profit up 59 pct on record BlackBerry sales

Technology / Business

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. surprised Wall Street on Thursday as it reported a 59 percent increase in third-quarter income, boosted by new subscribers and record sales of its smart phones.


Microsoft, Google in battle to win over students

Technology / Business

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As they plunged into a project on ancient Egypt this fall, Jay Martino's Cupertino (Calif.) Middle School students probably didn't realize they were on the front lines of a high stakes battle between Google and Microsoft.


Forests take center stage at Copenhagen

Forests take center stage at Copenhagen

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen approaches its conclusion, negotiations are focusing on the role of forests in mitigating climate change. The new 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest ...


New Study of Meteorite Provides More Evidence for Ancient Life on Mars

New Study of Meteorite Provides More Evidence for Ancient Life on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (31) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1996, when scientists examined a meteorite from Mars previously uncovered in Antarctica, they were intrigued by what looked like microscopic fossils of ancient Martian life forms. Now, ...


Taiwan has developed tiny microchips that could lead to lighter and cheaper laptops or mobile phones

Taiwan unveils super-tiny microchip

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Taiwan has developed tiny microchips that could lead to lighter and cheaper laptops or mobile phones, researchers and observers said Wednesday.


Miracle light: Can lasers solve the energy crisis?

Technology / Energy

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Next year will mark the 50th birthday of the laser, one of the most productive and widely used mega-inventions of the last century. Scientists hope that 2010 also will see the launch of laser technology's greatest challenge: ...


Seattle Charges Up for Electric Cars

Seattle Charges Up for Electric Cars

Technology / Energy

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Over the next two years, 2,500 charging stations for electric vehicles will be built in the Seattle area as part of a partnership between Nissan North America and the Electric Transportation Engineering ...



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