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August 18, 2009
Planned Rover Test To Run A Week Or More
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 17, 2009
Mars rover team members are planning a long-duration experiment with the test rover at JPL beginning next week. This test will check whether favorable motion seen in earlier tests can be sustained to gain as much distance in the sandbox as Spirit would need to complete on Mars to escape its predicament. The team expects to drive the test rover for several hundred meters, or yards, worth of ... read more

Roving The AMASEing Arctic
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 18, 2009
This is my first post to the blog about AMASE 2009. I am writing it from the Spitzbergen Guest house, a nice little accommodation place located in Nybyen at the southeast end of Longyearbyen (Svalbard), the place where part of the members of the AMASE expedition are staying before flying to Ny-Alesund. I am writing this blog while lying on bed because I am very tired...after a full week of work. ... more
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    Germany may target the moon by 2015
    Berlin (UPI) Aug 13, 2009
    Germany is debating whether to launch an unmanned mission to the moon to help German companies secure expertise in the aerospace sector. "A German moon landing is possible during the course of the next decade, around 2015," Peter Hintze, state secretary for economy and technology, on Wednesday told public broadcaster ZDF. Such a mission would cost at least $2.2 billion, but ... more

    Orbiting The Moon With Orion
    Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 13, 2009
    In December 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first humans to orbit the Moon. Going further than any explorers before them, they gazed at the barren, cratered landscape beneath them, saw the Moon's far side with their own eyes, and took some history-making photographs of the Earth rising above the lunar horizon. On Christmas Eve, the crew made a live television broadcast to millions of ... more

    Oberpfaffenhofen Opens Fourth ESA Hotbed For Innovative Companies
    Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Aug 14, 2009
    ESA, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the German federal state of Bavaria and the German bank Kreissparkasse Munchen Starnberg opened the fourth ESA Business Incubation Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen on 3 August. Over the next four years, some 40 company start-ups are expected to be supported there. The cooperation between ESA and DLR for the transfer of aerospace technology to other sectors ... more

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    US general pushes for unmanned vehicles
    Washington (AFP) Aug 11, 2009
    As pilotless US drones do battle from the sky in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, a top US Army general is urging the military to step up the deployment of unmanned vehicles on the ground. "It's all about saving lives," said Lieutenant General Rick Lynch, the commander of the III Armored Corps and the holder of a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Te ... more

    AMASE 2009 Expedition Takes Off In The Arctic
    Washington DC (SPX) Aug 12, 2009
    From August 1 to 24, 2009 AMASE (the Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition) will be taking place in Svalbard (Norway, 76-81 degrees N). This expedition involves different researchers from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, NASA/JPL, ESA, Cornell University, the Earth and Planetary Exploration Services (Norway), DLR (Germany), the University of Valladolid (Spain) and the University of Leed ... more

    Meteorite Found On Mars Yields Clues About Planet's Past
    Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 11, 2009
    NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet's environmental history. The rock, dubbed "Block Island," is larger than any other known meteorite on Mars. Scientists calculate it is too massive to have hit the ground without disintegrating unless Mars had a much thicker ... more

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