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Added on the 20/06/2013 02:00:00 - Copyright : Endemol UK
Right on time for the start of the IAA MOBILITY 2021 in Munich (from 7 to 12 September), Porsche is to provide a spectacular look into the automotive future. The Mission R concept car combines state-of-the-art technologies and sustainable materials, such as natural fibre-reinforced plastics, with a passion for racing.
This four-wheeled robot rover is undergoing its final trials on Japan's Tottori Sand Dunes before it will be flown into space and out to its final test - a 1,640 foot ride on the surface of the moon. Called the Moonraker, the rover was built by Team Hakuto of Japan to compete with 15 other teams from all over the world for the $20 million dollar grand prize in the Google Lunar XPrize competition. Google's Lunar XPrize competition calls for participating teams to create a rover, launch it into space, land it on the moon, have it travel at least 1,640 feet, and then send images of its travels back to the earth. The first team to successfully complete the challenge will take home the grand prize. Team Hakuto, which means 'white rabbit' in Japanese, is well on its way to securing the prize money - their Moonraker rover is scheduled to be launched from Earth by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket soon. The purpose is to create a cheap machine to help humans easily explore the moon, and maybe even prepare it for colonization. The Hakuto team hope that the Moonraker will be able to explore holes on the moon's surface and perhaps discover cave systems. The future looks interesting indeed.
Staff at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California waited with bated breath as their latest project entered the make or break phase. The agency's latest spaceraft, called Juno after the wife of Jupiter, the Roman king of the gods, blasted off from Cape Canaveral in 2011 and traveled over 400 million miles through our solar system to reach its final destination, the largest planet in our solar neighborhood, Jupiter.
French President Emmanuel Macron and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attend an official lunch and exchange gifts, on the last day of Macron's three-day visit to Brazil. IMAGES
Images show Spanish police leaving the headquarters of the country's football federation (RFEF) and other locations, following searches conducted as part of an investigation into alleged corruption and other crimes, judicial sources say. According to Spanish media, the operation is part of a court proble into contracts signed by former RFEF chief Luis Rubiales to take Spanish Super Cup matches to Saudi Arabia. IMAGES
The United States plays down Kenya's announcement it was putting on hold a police mission to Haiti, saying a transition deal will bring a new government as sought by Nairobi. "I would be concerned of course about any delay, but we don't think that there will need to be a delay," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE