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Back in the space race: Russian revival raises new questions
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 17, 2007The Soyuz rocket, carrying an American, a Malaysian and a Russian, was a study in world peace as it thundered toward the stars on the latest mission to the International Space Station. "The more people in space the better it is for human beings," declared American reserve astronaut Michael Fincke as he drank toasts with Russian colleagues at a dilapidated viewing platform at Baikonur cosmodr ... more Internet preparing to go into outer space 
Seoul (AFP) Oct 17, 2007After expanding across Earth, the Internet is now set to spread into outer space to reach parts no network has gone before, one of its co-creators predicted Wednesday. Vinton Cerf said the proposed "interplanetary" Internet would allow people an ability "to access information and to control experiments taking place far away" from Earth. Expanding into the solar system would bring new rul ... more SpaceX Completes NASA CDR For New Dragon 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Oct 18, 2007SpaceX has successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for its first Falcon 9 / Dragon mission as part of the NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration program. During a three day period, SpaceX hosted a group of over forty top level NASA representatives and key SpaceX customers for a review of the design of the Falcon 9 rocket, Dragon spacecraft and associ ... more Space Systems Loral-Designed Satellites For Globalstar Mobile Voice And Data Services 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Oct 18, 2007Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that the final four SS/L designed satellites built for Globalstar, Inc. are scheduled to be launched October 21st on a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellites, built as spares, will augment the existing Globalstar constellation, which provides worldwide mobile satellite voice and data services. The four Globalstar ... more ATK Propulsion And Composite Technologies Help Launch GPS Satellite 
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Oct 17, 2007Alliant Techsystems propulsion and composite technologies supported today's successful launch of the United Launch Alliance's Delta II rocket carrying the fourth modernized NAVSTAR Global Positioning System Block 2R military navigation satellite. Nine GEM-40 solid propulsion strap-on boosters manufactured in ATK's Salt Lake City, Utah facility provided augmented thrust for the launch. ATK' ... more |
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Edwards CA (SPX) Oct 18, 2007Nine-year-old Gary Cosentino watched the television with awe on July 20, 1969, as two men exited an odd-looking craft called the Eagle lunar module, climbed down a ladder and set foot on the moon. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission, it was an event that went on to inspire Cosentino, like many others, ... more Russia To Develop New Carrier Rocket For Kliper 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 18, 2007Russia's space agency will soon announce a tender to develop a new carrier rocket, to ensure successful implementation of its manned-flight program, a top space official said Wednesday. "A special commission will determine the design criteria [for the new space vehicle] and the domestic companies eligible for participation in the tender," said Anatoly Perminov, the head of the Federal Space Agen ... more Science With Integral - Five Years On 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 18, 2007With eyes that peer into the most energetic phenomena in the universe, ESA's Integral has been setting records, discovering the unexpected and helping understanding the unknown over its first five years. Integral was launched on 17 October 2002. Since then, the satellite has helped scientists make great strides in understanding the gamma-ray universe - from the atoms that make up all matter, gia ... more Hawaii Reveals Steamy Martian Underground 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 18, 2007Is Mars dead, or is it only sleeping? The surface of Mars is completely hostile to life as we know it. Martian deserts are blasted by radiation from the sun and space. The air is so thin, cold, and dry, if liquid water were present on the surface, it would freeze and boil at the same time. But there is evidence, like vast, dried up riverbeds, that Mars once was a warm and wet world that could ha ... more The Fantastic Skies Of Orphan Stars 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 18, 2007What a view! It's late summer, after dark, and you're flat on your back in a sleeping bag watching the camp fire's last embers drift up to the heavens. Overhead a magnificent band of stars divides the night-it's the Milky Way. Now, imagine that scene doubled in brightness and beauty. No, that's not quite right. Imagine an entire galaxy of stars spinning overhead. The galaxy's blue-white core of ... more |
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St. Louis MO (SPX) Oct 18, 2007Boeing has been awarded a $46 million contract by F-22 prime contractor Lockheed Martin to integrate the air dominance fighter into the U.S. Air Force Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) training network. The contract allows for the design and test of new software and systems for the F-22 Full Mission Trainer (FMT) that will enable Raptor pilots to train with other aircrews flying different sim ... more Bar Iran from nuclear arms to avoid World War III : Bush 
Washington (AFP) Oct 17, 2007President George W. Bush Wednesday warned Iran must be barred from nuclear weapons to avoid the prospect of "World War III," and dismissed suggestions of a US-Russia rift on the crisis. Bush intervened hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin made a new proposal to end the nuclear crisis as he met Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for landmark talks in Tehran. Iran's top nuclear ... more Analysis: A new USAF cyber-war doctrine 
Washington (UPI) Oct 17, 2007 Recent pronouncements by U.S. Air Force officials about their view of cyberspace as a war-fighting domain have attracted little attention. But the questions they raise for U.S. military policy and doctrine are profound. "Cyber(space) is important to the nation," said Gen. Robert Elder, the military officer in charge of the U.S. Air Force's day-to-day cyberspace operations, acknowledging ... more US could change missile shield plan if Iranian threat subsides 
Brussels (AFP) Oct 17, 2007The United States could change its approach to developing a missile shield if Iran were to suspend uranium enrichment in its nuclear programme, a senior US State Department official said Wednesday. Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried said US officials had explained Washington's stance to Russia in talks at NATO headquarters to help allay any fears that the missile shield would be a thr ... more Barak, Gates discuss joint US-Israel anti-missile system 
Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 17, 2007Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has held Washington talks with his US counterpart Robert Gates on the joint development of a missile interception system, his office said on Wednesday. On his first trip since taking office in June, Barak and Gates also discussed regional issues on Tuesday, including Iran's controversial nuclear programme, which Israel and the United States say is cover fo ... more
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