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Laser-powered robot works like a space elevator E-mail
by William Atkins   
Friday, 06 November 2009
The company LaserMotive has developed a laser-powered robot that can climb about one kilometer up a wire into the sky. The company just won part of the 2010 Space Elevator Challenge.

 
Third flyby images more of unseen parts of Mercury E-mail
by William Atkins   
Thursday, 05 November 2009
The NASA Messenger spacecraft has mapped another 6% of the surface of Mercury, leaving only the polar regions of the planet unseen by humans with the aid of spacecraft.

 
Preliminary result of Ares 1-X: 'rock-steady' E-mail
by William Atkins   
Sunday, 01 November 2009
The Ares 1-X rocket, launched by NASA on its first test flight Wednesday, October 28, 2009, performed normally except for a parachute problem and performed even better than expected with respect to its thrust oscillations.

 
Russia to develop manned nuclear powered spacecraft E-mail
by William Atkins   
Saturday, 31 October 2009
If the Russian Federal Space Agency has its way, Russian cosmonauts will fly a nuclear-powered spacecraft on a space mission, possibly to the planet Mars, sometime after 2021.

 
Star explodes 13 billion years ago; we just see it now E-mail
by William Atkins   
Friday, 30 October 2009
NASA’s Swift satellite first observed a star explosion in April 2009. It turns out that this gamma-ray burst came from a star that exploded about 13 billion years ago, the furthest that astronomers have looked back at the early beginnings of our universe.

 
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