NASA's proposed $17.7 billion budget includes plans to capture and redirect an asteroid into orbit around Earth so astronauts can study it. Ultimately, the project looks to learn more about the makeup of asteroids in an attempt to protect ...
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I may be barking up, or rather hugging, the wrong tree but I wouldn’t be surprised were the bioplastics industry to be looking to sever its no longer so comfortable links with the environmentalist lobby. Having fuelled the booster ...
As jumbled news reports of what appeared to be a meteor shower over Russia trickled out of the country, some of the best views of what happened were from the dashboards of Russian cars. Over 400 people were injured in the event, many from ...
The Opel Insignia OPC will take top spot on the German brand’s performance ladder when the $59,900 sedan goes on sale locally later this month. The Opel Insignia OPC sits above the Opel Corsa OPC and Opel Astra OPC to complete the ...
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A new company is looking to launch spacecraft to mine asteroids and one day act as an outer space gas station and an oasis for human colonies in space. Deep Space Industries Inc. announced Tuesday that it hopes to launch a fleet of small ...
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In a shot heard round the GM world,Mark Lynas,a pioneer in the anti-GM movement,came out as a full-fledged advocate of genetic crop modification. Speaking at a farming conference Jan.3,in Oxford,England,Lynas'blunt words served as both ...
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After pencilling in birthday celebrations, extensive press trips, events and launches and other shenanigans my diary for the coming weeks looks do-able (apart from two jam-packed days at BLE next week). But recently, Toyology has been ...
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The far north of Siberia is believed to have vast and untouched diamond reserves in a unexplored crater. The 100-kilometre (60-mile) Siberian Popigai Crater was formed by a huge asteroid 35 million years ago and is lying 2,000 kilometres ...
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With NASA's super rover Curiosity successfully investigating Mars,the space agency announced plans to extend its work there and even send up another robotic rover. "The Obama administration is committed to a robust Mars exploration ...
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Computerworld - A robotic arm onboard the International Space Station reached out and grabbed hold of the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship today, attaching the commercial craft to the station. The station's Canadarm captured the spacecraft at ...
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Two representatives of Parrot SA, a France-based company engaged in the field of telecommunications equipment, came with a two-day visit to Elinext Group's Development Center in Minsk to discuss ongoing and future projects MINSK, BELARUS, ...
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Sentinel aims to go asteroid hunting 11 Jul 2012 The first privately funded deep-space mission will map the inner solar system and track dangerous asteroids. Watchful eye:Sentinel will track near-Earth asteroids A proposed space ...
The first Lockheed Martin Orion capsule scheduled for a ride to space has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space centre,Florida. At present,the capsule is little more than a pressure vessel.The next two years will be spent populating it with ...
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