Space Probe Fails to Deploy Its Parachute and Crashes
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NASA's $264 million Genesis mission came to a sudden and violent end on Wednesday morning, when a capsule returning with samples of the Sun slammed into the desert.
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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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NASA -- As scientists begin to unpack more than 3,000 containers of samples of the sun brought to Earth by NASA's Genesis mission, the Mishap Investigation Board (MIB) has identified a likely direct cause of the failure of Genesis' parachute system to open.     The parachute system failed to deploy when Genesis returned to Earth September 8, 2004...
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The main oxygen generator for the international space station has failed, and the two astronauts on board will tap into an attached cargo ship's air supply this weekend, NASA said Thursday.
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Scientists believe a faulty battery may have led to the high-speed crash to Earth of Nasa's Genesis space capsule.
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The crash of a capsule last month was likely to have been caused by a design flaw that led to the sensors that were to deploy the capsule's parachutes being pointed in the wrong direction, a NASA investigatory panel reported.
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Europe's first probe to the Moon, SMART-1, crashed onto the lunar surface as scheduled at 7.42 am (0542 GMT) Sunday, ending a successful 16-month mission, the European Space Agency announced.
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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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By PAUL FOY     DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah  -- Scientists with tweezers picked through the twisted wreckage of a space capsule that crash-landed on Earth, hoping that microscopic clues to the evolution of the solar system weren't completely lost in Utah's salt flats.    NASA engineers were stunned Wednesday when neither parachute deployed aboard the Genesis capsule and the craft plummeted to the ground at 193 mph, breaking open like a clamshell and exposing its collection of solar atoms to contamination...
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ANY one of a number of technical malfunctions might have caused the loss of Beagle 2, the ill-fated British space probe that vanished while attempting to land on Mars, an investigation found today.
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The space capsule Genesis that was bringing to Earth solar particles, crashed Wednesday morning into the Utah Test and Training Range, and a live NASA feed to the Space
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Genesis project officials failed to catch the flaw that doomed the Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft despite extra layers of scrutiny added after two of the company&#39;s other NASA probes failed.
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An attempt by Israel to launch a sophisticated spy satellite into space failed Monday afternoon, the Defense Ministry announced. According to a statement, the rocket, known as a Shavit I, failed in its third stage.
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A test of the planned US anti-missile defence shield fails in the first mission in almost two years.
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Any one of a number of technical malfunctions might have caused the loss of Beagle 2, the ill-fated British space probe that vanished while attempting to land on Mars, an investigation found.
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Europe's lunar satellite, the Smart 1 probe, ends its mission by crashing onto the Moon's surface.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY - A preliminary investigation shows faulty switches caused the parachute system of NASA&#39;s Genesis mission to fail.