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UK Space Agency Funds International Mars RoverLondon, UK (SPX) Jun 16, 2010 The UK Space Agency is announcing Pounds 10.5M for the development of instruments to search for signs of past or present life on Mars. The instruments are part of the scientific payload on the ExoMars rover to be launched in 2018 as part of a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and US space agency NASA. ExoMars is a flagship project in the UK Space Agency's science and exploration programme. A two-step programme, the adventure begins in 2016 when NASA will launch an ESA-led orbi ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 04, 2010After more than 2.5 years of spaceflight, and more than 6 months in the asteroid belt, Dawn's interplanetary journey continues smoothly. The mission remains on course and schedule for this expedition to the dawn of the solar system. Our Dawn is not the first spacecraft to use this name, although it is traveling farther from home than any other Dawn. This month 2 more craft traveled into sp ... more  
Washington (AFP) June 3, 2010Deepsea robots in use for three decades in oil exploration are built for demanding tasks, but perhaps none as daunting as the effort to fix the ruptured Gulf of Mexico pipeline, experts said Thursday. The precision hands of underwater robots successfully sliced through an underwater wellpipe using hydraulic shears and are now set to undertake the task of placing a containment cap over the le ... more  
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) June 3, 2010The US government sent BP a 69-million-dollar bill for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill Thursday, warning it was only the first invoice, as undersea robots poised to try to curb the leak. "The federal government will, at some point today, send what I would call a bill for 69 million dollars of expenses incurred up to this point to BP," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. He said the bil ... more |
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Northrop Grumman To Supply Nav Systems For Italian Navy SubmarinesFreiburg, Germany (SPX) Jun 03, 2010 Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by the Italian shipyard Fincantieri to deliver two full navigation suites for the second pair of U212A class submarines being built for the Italian Navy. This new contract represents the natural evolution of the joint German-Italian Submarine Program. Fincantieri, which has already constructed and delivered the first two submarines to the Italian Navy, is also building the second pair of boats at its Muggiano shipyard. The navigation suites, compr ... read more |
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