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• Frozen death looms for Phoenix Mars Lander
During the summer, there is plenty of sunlight hitting Phoenix's wing-like solar arrays, its sole source of power on the planet. But once the sun is gone, so is its energy supply. "The sun is going down, so there's less and less energy being fed into ...
• Snow spotted falling from the Martian sky
As winter approaches in the Northern hemisphere of Mars, the sun dips lower in the horizon, providing Phoenix' solar arrays with less and less sunlight to convert into electricity to run its instruments. Eventually the sun will set above the arctic ...
• Orion vs. Apollo: NASA's new moonshot
Both Apollo and Orion's Service Module will have batteries and electricity generating fuel cells, but the Orion also has a pair of solar arrays to help keep the vehicle powered during its intended long stay in lunar orbit. And that brings to light ...
• China gears up for third manned spaceflight
The orbital module is outfitted with solar arrays to supply it with power, and could become the base for a space station or a docking target for future spacecraft. This third spaceflight was originally scheduled for the end of October, but was moved ...
• Hurricane Ike disrupts traffic in space
ET Friday, but flight controllers at NASA's Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston had yet to move the orbiting laboratory's expansive solar arrays into position for the docking before closing down Thursday to evacuate ahead of ...