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NZ Rocket's GPS Battery DiesAuckland NZ (NZPA) Dec 03, 2009 The battery powering a lost New Zealand rocket's connection to its tracking satellite died about 2pm today, its owner says. A fisherman yesterday found the first stage booster from Atea-1, the first rocket from New Zealand aerospace company Rocket Lab, which was launched from Great Mercury Island off the Coromandel Peninsula on Monday afternoon. But the 2kg payload and the flight computer, both of which could have valuable data about the flight, has yet to be recovered. ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2009Spirit's right-rear wheel stalled again on Sol 2099 (Nov. 28, 2009) during the first step of a two-step extrication maneuver. This stall is different in some characteristics from the stall on Sol 2092 (Nov. 21). The Sol 2099 stall occurred more quickly and the inferred rotor resistance was elevated at the end of the stall. Investigation of past stall events along with these character ... more  
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Dec 03, 2009Arianespace's wrap-up Ariane 5 flight of 2009 has entered final preparations for its liftoff next week with France's Helios 2B military observation satellite. This seventh launch of the year is set for 1:26 p.m. on December 9 from the Spaceport in French Guiana, with its payload to be injected into a Sun-synchronous polar orbit during a mission lasting 59 min., 23 sec. Helios 2B will ... more  
Taipei (AFP) Dec 2, 2009Taiwan plans to invest more than 65 million US dollars in its competitive electronic-book sector over the next five years, the economic ministry's Industrial Development Bureau said. The bureau said it will provide up to 40 percent of the research and development costs for creating an online Chinese-language digital publications service similar to the English-language version operated by ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 2, 2009A US House of Representatives committee on Wednesday approved key regulatory legislation intended to curb the harmful economic effects of financial services institutions deemed "too big to fail." The bill, which is meant to keep the collapse of large institutions from provoking system-wide crises, passed in the Financial Services Committee by 31 votes to 27. The Financial Stability ... more  
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 03, 2009A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers at IBM, Purdue University and the University of California at Los Angeles. The researchers have learned how to create nanowires with layers of different materials that are sharply defined at the atomic ... more  
Chatsworth CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2009Capstone Turbine is pushing traditional hybrid-electric vehicle barriers with the introduction of the CMT-380, a high-performance, hybrid-electric supercar powered by traditional batteries and an untraditional, ultra-low emission, range-extending microturbine. The Capstone microturbine is essentially an ultra-clean and quiet jet engine under the hood. The prototype hybrid-electric supercar ... more |
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