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Russia launches first Proton rocket after crash
Moscow (AFP) Oct 26, 2007Russia carried out its first launch on Friday of a Proton cargo rocket since a previous such rocket crashed on the Kazakh steppe, a launch official told AFP. The rocket, which is fuelled by a highly toxic propellant, was carrying three satellites that will form part of Russia's GLONASS navigation system. The rocket "launched successfully" at 0735 GMT, the official from Russia's Khruniche ... more Seven Chinese apply to be space tourists 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 26, 2007Seven Chinese have applied to become space tourists on a planned commercial flight in the United States in 2009, state media reported Friday. Six men and one woman have put their names forward in the hope of becoming the first two Chinese tourists to travel to space in "SpaceShipTwo," run by British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic company, said the Beijing Morning Post. Acc ... more Astronauts enter new module for first time 
Washington (AFP) Oct 27, 2007Astronauts entered a newly delivered International Space Station module for the first time Saturday as their colleagues prepared for a second spacewalk of the mission. Italian Paolo Nespoli and space station commander Peggy Whitson of the United States opened the hatches to the Harmony module at 8:24 am (1224 GMT) Saturday and began preparing it for future work. "For today, the biggest ... more NASA crew completes second space walk, discovers damage 
Washington (AFP) Oct 28, 2007US astronauts completed the second of five spacewalks Sunday, beginning the relocation of a key supporting truss but also detecting a problem with one of the mechanisms supporting an key energy unit of the International Space Station. Damage was discovered in a joint supporting the station's solar arrays, a problem that NASA engineers will now have to solve. US astronaut Daniel Tani not ... more Dawn Checks Out As Outbound Cruise Progresses 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 28, 2007Dawn's checkout phase continues to go very well. The spacecraft is healthy as it and Earth travel their separate ways, separating at almost 1 light second (nearly 300,000 kilometers, or 186,000 miles) per day. In our last report, thruster #3 of the ion propulsion system had been operated for 25 hours. Dawn's mission control team at JPL commanded the probe to conduct additional tests on Oct ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) Oct 28, 2007All the systems of China's lunar probe Chang'e-1 are in good conditions with the high energy solar particle detector and the low energy ion detector functioning properly on Saturday, according to the moon probe team. The Chang'e-1, China's first moon orbiter, is currently moving on a 24-hour orbit with an apogee of 70,000 kilometers after it entered the orbit following its second orbital t ... more Possible Cosmic Defect May Be A Window Into The Early Universe 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 29, 2007An unusual cold spot in the oldest radiation in the universe, the cosmic microwave background, may be caused by a cosmic defect created just after the Big Bang, a Spanish and U.K. research team has found. Although these findings need confirmation with further research, the suggestion may provide cosmologists with a long-sought clue about how the infant universe evolved. This study will be ... more Russia Plans To Test Fire 2 Ballistic Missiles 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 29, 2007A missile brigade from the Siberian military district will test fire two SS-21 Scarab short-range ballistic missiles during Nov. 13-17 exercise at a test site in south Russia, a Ground Forces spokesman said Thursday. The SS-21, or Tochka, is a road-mobile single-warhead ballistic missile designed for tactical deployment. It has been in service with missile units of the Russian Ground Forces sinc ... more Russian Bear Bombers Conduct Cruise Missile Practice 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 29, 2007Two Russian Tu-95 Bear strategic bombers will practice on Friday launches of cruise missiles at a testing site in southern Russia, an Air Force spokesman said. Russian strategic bombers began on October 16 a series of long-range training flights over the Arctic region, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and the Black Sea with simulated bomber raids and missile launches missiles at testing grounds ... more Russia Launches Proton Carrier Rocket After The Ban 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 29, 2007Russia has successfully conducted a delayed launch of a Proton carrier rocket from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) said Friday. The Proton K rocket, which has been on the launch pad since Monday, lifted off at 11.35 a.m. Moscow time (7.35 a.m. GMT) and put in orbit three Glonass global navigation satellites, the space agency said. Kazakhstan li ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Oct 28, 2007UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday he had no evidence that Iran is building nuclear weapons and accused US leaders of adding "fuel to the fire" with recent bellicose rhetoric. "We haven't received any information there is a parallel, ongoing, active nuclear weapon program," the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency told CNN. "Second, even if Iran ... more Putin wrong to liken missile defense row to Cuban crisis: US 
Washington (AFP) Oct 26, 2007The White House on Friday rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin's comparison between Moscow's dispute with Washington over defense to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. "I think that the historical comparison does not exactly work," said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. "The purpose of the missile defense system in Europe is to defend against a missile that would attack one of our Eu ... more IAEA chief lashes out over Israeli raid in Syria 
Washington (AFP) Oct 28, 2007UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei Sunday accused the Israelis of taking "the law into their own hands" with a mysterious raid on Syria last month and demanded more information about what was hit. Neither Israel nor the United States has furnished "any evidence at all" to prove that the Syrian site bombed in early September was a secret nuclear facility, the head of the International Atomic ... more Analysis: Mideast oil and Chinese arms 
Hong Kong (UPI) Oct 26, 2007 A Chinese aviation industry official says the country is introducing a new batch of military equipment to the international market. This includes an FBC2 fighter-bomber, an upgraded version of its JH7A fighter, intended for export. China is now promoting its FBC2 and J10A fighters to Iran. The J10A was officially offered on the overseas market this year, but under the name FC20. The new ... more DMCii Satellite Imaging Helps Dramatically Reduce Deforestation Of Amazon Basin 
Guildford UK (SPX) Oct 28, 2007The Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has placed a contract for a third year with DMC International Imaging Ltd., (DMCii) to acquire high-resolution satellite images of the entire 5 million square kilometres of the Amazon rainforest. Since 2004 INPE's programme to monitor deforestation has dramatically reduced the rate of logging from 27,000 sq.km. per year to about 10,000 s ... more
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