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First Contracted SpaceX Resupply Mission Launches with NASA Cargo to Space Station

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket carrying its Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 8:35 p.m. EDT Sunday, beginning NASA’s first contracted cargo delivery flight, designated SpaceX…

Posted: October 7, 2012 in Space

Energy Storage: Q4 2012 Winners and Losers

In late June I wrote a forward looking article that identified several companies in my energy storage and vehicle electrification group that I expected to perform well or perform poorly during the third quarter. Since short-term market changes are noto…

Posted: October 5, 2012 in Storage

NASA and International Partners Approve Year-Long Space Station Stay

NASA and its international partners have announced an agreement to send two crew members to the International Space Station on a one-year mission designed to collect valuable scientific data needed to send humans to new destinations in the solar system…

Posted: October 5, 2012 in Space

NASA’s Swift Satellite Discovers A New Black Hole In Our Galaxy

NASA’s Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The outburst, produced by a rare X-ray nova, announced the presence of a previously unknown stellar-mass black hole.

Posted: October 5, 2012 in Space

NASA Mars Curiosity Rover Prepares to Study Martian Soil

NASA’s Curiosity rover is in a position on Mars where scientists and engineers can begin preparing the rover to take its first scoop of soil for analysis.

Posted: October 4, 2012 in Space

NASA’s Infrared Observatory Measures Expansion of Universe

Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have announced one of the most precise measurements yet of the Hubble constant, or the rate at which our universe is stretching apart.

Posted: October 3, 2012 in Cosmology

Google Signs 20-Year Agreement for Oklahoma Wind

To power its Oklahoma data center with renewable energy, Google has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement for 48 megawatts of generation capacity of the Grand River Dam Authority’s Canadian Hills Wind Project.

Posted: September 30, 2012 in Wind

Puerto Rico Manufacturer Installs 100% Solar Power

Master Paints & Chemical Corporation of Puerto Rico is the first business of its kind to power itself with 100% renewable electricity.

Posted: September 30, 2012 in Solar

NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed On Martian Surface

NASA’s Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving. There is earlier evidence for the presence of water on Mars, but this evidence – images of rocks containing ancient strea…

Posted: September 27, 2012 in Space

NASA’S Chandra Shows Milky Way is Surrounded by Halo of Hot Gas

Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to find evidence our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years.

Posted: September 24, 2012 in Space