European industry will now take key elements from the design of its ATV to make the Orion service module.

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Their latest plan: make the thin, white subscriber identity module (SIM) card inside your phone smaller, Reuters reported Tuesday.

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If aimed at mobile phones, foneGEAR should probably produce a smaller module in order to make the entire kit more portable.

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Leading the campaign for a global response to NEOs and a closer exploration of their physical make up is former astronaut Russell Schweickart, who piloted the lunar module of Apollo 9 in 1969.

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However, staff at Lagan College said A-level module exams will continue if students can make their way safely to and from the school.

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Declining module prices are expected to help drive down the costs of solar energy and eventually make it competitive with traditional sources of energy such as coal and gas power plants, even without government subsidies.

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