Genesis &#39;faulty battery&#39; probed
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A faulty battery has emerged as one of the likeliest causes for the crash-landing of the Genesis space probe. Scientists have been removing pieces of dirt and mud that lodged in the damaged canister after it smashed at high speed into the Utah desert.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY - A preliminary investigation shows faulty switches caused the parachute system of NASA&#39;s Genesis mission to fail.
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Problems with the battery pack's latch could lead to overheating, company says.
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A design flaw in the reentry system of NASA&#39;s Genesis space probe has been pinned as the most likely cause behind the spacecraft&#39;s wild plunge into the Utah desert last month, investigators said Thursday.
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - The Genesis space capsule, which promised scientists potential clues to the origin of the solar system, crashed to Earth on Wednesday after its parachute failed to deploy.    It wasn't immediately known whether the cosmic samples had been destroyed...
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Thought all the laptop battery problems were over? Think again. Gateway recalled Samsung-made batteries due to a fire risk, while Toshiba reports a defective Sony-made battery sparked a laptop fire last month.
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Apple has had to recall up to 28,000 notebook batteries that were sold for use with their 15-inch PowerBook. Apple reports that faulty batteries sold between January 2004 and August 2004 can overheat and pose a fire hazard.
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No low-cal versions in the pipeline though... Sony's battery boffins seem to have learnt some lessons from the previous few month's, ahem, problems. They've developed a battery that generates power from sugar and, they claim, can create enough power to run an MP3 player.â¦
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Lenovo confirms that one of its laptops overheated and caught fire, but it doesn't yet know if Sony batteries were inside.
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MUCH LOVED music firm Apple has had to recall more than 28,000 rechargeable batteries that it jacks into its aluminium 15-inch PowerBook G4 because they may overheat.
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Problems with switches aboard NASA's Genesis solar probe may have kept its parachute from opening, which led to the craft's crash-landing in the Utah desert, the U.S. space agency said.
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Engineers sought to determine what caused a temperature control system to malfunction after an aborted launch Saturday.
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Sony's battery woes continued late Monday, as laptop manufacturer Toshiba announced it was recalling 340,000 batteries across its Dynabook and Satellite lines. Unlike the Dell and Apple recalls, however, Toshiba says the defective batteries do not pose a fire risk.
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Japanese electronics maker Sony 6758.T   said on Saturday it is investigating a fire incident on a   Lenovo 0992.HK laptop PC that reportedly used a Sony-made   battery.
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Investigators may have discovered what caused the Genesis spacecraft to crash into the Utah desert this September. Some crucial switches were installed backwards, because of an error in the instructions.
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A board investigating the crash of NASA&#39;s Genesis spacecraft has found the design for a key system was drawn backward. The result: improper orientation of switches that were supposed to detect its entry into
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(InfoWorld) - Months after joining other PC vendors in aÂ massive recall of faulty notebook batteries, Lenovo Group has found a different problem with some models, and will recall 205,000 notebook batteries worldwide, the company said Thursday. Lenovo made the move after four customers complained their batteries overheated after they had dropped or hit the notebooks. The defect caused minor eye irritation for one user, and damaged the property and computers of the others, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The recall affects the nine-cell, extended-life version of a battery pack manufactured by Sanyo Electric, of Japan. Lenovo sold the packs between November 2005 and February 2007 as an option in certain versions of ThinkPad notebook PCs in the R series, T series and Z series model lines, the commission said. The faulty packs have the part number FRU P/N 92P1131. Buyers of those PCs had the choice to purchase either a standard four-cell battery pack or longer-endurance six-cell or nine-cell packs, said Lenovo spokesman Ray Gorman. The problem occurred with the pack, a box designed in tandem by Lenovo and Sanyo that holds the battery cells. That is a different fault than the metal shards that contaminated battery cells made by Sony, causing some batteries to overheat or catch fire and leading to the recall in 2006 of millions of notebook batteries used by nearly every PC vendor.