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alarm:clock: Space-based Solar Power Firm Solaren Raises Further FundingSpace-based Solar Power Firm Solaren Raises Further Funding Manhattan Beach, CA-based Solaren raised $600K from un-named investors for its plans to build space-based solar generators. The company had previously raised $1.3M from angels in December 2006. The company's CEO told a crowd of clean ...
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New NASA Images Indicate Object Hits Jupiter - NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryJuly 20, 2009 Scientists have found evidence that another object has bombarded Jupiter, exactly 15 years after the first impacts by the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Following up on a tip by an amateur astronomer, Anthony Wesley of Australia, that a new dark "scar" had suddenly appeared on ...
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SPACE.com -- U.S. Air Force Aims to Launch Space Plane Next YearU.S. Air Force Aims to Launch Space Plane Next Year It has been a long haul to the launch pad, but the U.S. Air Force and Boeing are gearing up to loft the X-37B – an unpiloted military space plane, SPACE.com has learned. Tucked inside the shroud of an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle ( ...
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Planet-Hunting Method Succeeds at LastCaption: This artist's concept shows the smallest star known to host a planet. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech May 28th, 2009 ( PhysOrg.com) — A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch -- a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known. The technique, ...
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Boldly Going Nowhere - NYTimes.comBoldly Going Nowhere Mountain View, Calif. IT’S a birthright proffered by science and prophesied by “Star Trek,” “Battlestar Galactica” and a thousand other space operas: We’re destined to go to the stars. Our descendants will spread beyond this nondescript solar system and seek adventure ...
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NASA Planet Hunter to Search Out Other EarthsNASA Planet Hunter to Search Out Other Earths By Anna Bogdanowicz PHOTO: Kim Shiflett/NASA 27 February 2009—For centuries, humans have looked up at the sky and wondered if they were alone in the universe. Now we’re one step closer to finding an answer. On 5 March, NASA’s first planet-hunting ...
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NASA Spacecraft Falling For MarsArtsit concept of the Dawn spacecraft near Mars. Image credit: NASA/JPL (PhysOrg.com) -- Launched in September of 2007, and propelled by any one of a trio of hyper-efficient ion engines, NASA's Dawn spacecraft passed the orbit of Mars last summer. At that time, the asteroid belt (where Dawn's ...
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Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected - Yahoo! NewsLONG BEACH, Calif. -- Space is typically thought of as a very quiet place. But one team of astronomers has found a strange cosmic noise that booms six times louder than expected. News, Headlines and Latest Stories on Yahoo! News
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SpaceShipTwo Carrier Craft Makes Successful First FlightA carrier aircraft designed to be the first stage of a commercial spaceline system made its maiden test flight today at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Designed by Scaled Composites, the huge and unique WhiteKnightTwo mothership rolled down the runway and muscled itself into the ...
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Science's Alternative to an Intelligent Creator: the Multiverse Theory | Cosmology | DISCOVER MagazineA sublime cosmic mystery unfolds on a mild summer afternoon in Palo Alto, California, where I’ve come to talk with the visionary physicist Andrei Linde. The day seems ordinary enough. Cyclists maneuver through traffic, and orange poppies bloom on dry brown hills near Linde’s office on the ...
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