Post Tagged with: “Chile”

NASA Technology Spinoff Offers Breath of Fresh Air to Miners

Rescue workers prepare to pull up Chilean miners trapped underground for 69 days using a capsule that incorporated suggestions from NASA (Credits: Alex Ibanez/AP).

Mine Shield LLC, a Kentucky based company, has recently acquired life saving technologies from Paragon Space Development Corporation that were originally developed to purify air for astronauts travelling to and from low Earth orbit. The air purifier is being implemented in Mine Shield’s Guardian Refuge Chamber, which can provide physical shelter as well as food and water rations for up [...]

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The Enduring Saga of Phobos Grunt

Radar image of the Phobos-Grunt probe in Earth orbit (Credits: Fraunhofer FHR).

Almost three months since the launch of Phobos-Grunt and fifteen days since the ill-fated spacecraft returned to Earth after being stranded in orbit, the chronicle of the mission endures and has yet to come to a conclusion.  During the telling of the tale, speculation about the spacecraft has run unbridled with conjecture relating to the technical aspects concerning the failure [...]

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