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Bonn Astronomers Simulate Life And Death In The Universe
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 30, 2007Stars always evolve in the universe in large groups, known as clusters. Astronomers distinguish these formations by their age and size. The question of how star clusters are created from interstellar gas clouds and why they then develop in different ways has now been answered by researchers at the Argelander Institute for Astronomy at the University of Bonn with the aid of computer simulations. ... more Astronauts find damage on space station 
Washington (AFP) Oct 28, 2007US astronauts completed the second of five spacewalks Sunday, shifting around a key piece of equipment but also finding a problem with mechanisms supporting an energy unit at 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 noticed metal shavings and unusual ... more Canine pioneer: Soviet mutt was first earthling in space 
Paris (AFP) Oct 30, 2007Fifty years ago Saturday, a perky-eared mutt named Laika, scooped up from the streets of Moscow, became the first earthling to breach our planet's atmosphere and enter space. It was a short and painful voyage for the docile little stray, which died within hours after launch, but a crowning coup for the Soviet Union. Only a month earlier, Moscow had humiliated the United States by lobbin ... more Astronauts Enter Harmony For First Time 
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 30, 2007ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson were the first astronauts to enter the newest addition to the International Space Station after opening Harmony's hatch at 14:24 CEST (12:24 UT) today. "It's a pleasure to be here in this very beautiful piece of hardware," said Nespoli, during a short ceremony to mark the occasion. "I would like to thank everybody who worked h ... more Shuttle may stay in space extra day for station inspection 
Washington (AFP) Oct 29, 2007The US shuttle Discovery will likely stay in orbit a day longer than planned to give astronauts time to examine a mechanical glitch on the International Space Station, NASA said Monday. NASA plans to prolong the fourth space walk of the mission scheduled for Thursday, a change that would force the shuttle to stay in space 24 extra hours, ISS program manager Mike Suffredini told reporters. ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Oct 29, 2007China announced Monday it would build its fourth space launch centre, just a week after it fired off its first lunar orbiter. The new launch centre, to be built on the southern island province of Hainan, is scheduled to be completed in 2012 and start operating in 2013, Xinhua news agency reported. The location of the launch centre in Hainan, a low-latitude region, could help increase the ... more Outside View: China takes space race lead 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 29, 2007 What is most appealing about Oriental martial arts is the precise manner in which a set mission is accomplished, with an almost total lack of publicity. On Oct. 4, with Russia and the United States apparently unable to do more than talk about flights to the moon, China, strictly on schedule, launched a Long March 3A rocket carrying the satellite Chang-e 1 on a mission to map the moon's ... more Lockheed Martin's THAAD Weapon System Conducts Exo-Atmospheric Interceptor Test 
Dallas TX (SPX) Oct 30, 2007Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) conducted a successful exo-atmospheric test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Weapon System at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) on Kauai, HI. The flight test demonstrated the system's ability to detect, track and intercept an incoming unitary target above the Earth's atmosphere. Preliminary data indicates ... more Raytheon Teams With Industry Best To Pursue Army Satellite Communications Program 
Orlando FL (SPX) Oct 30, 2007Raytheon will team with the industry's best communication solutions providers in pursuing the Army's next generation of satellite communications, the High Capacity Communications Capability, or HC3. Raytheon's significant systems integration expertise includes its work on the Navy's Zumwalt class destroyer program and its recent $1 billion Navy Multiband Terminal win to provide the Navy's future ... more Russia test fires inter-continental missile 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 29, 2007Russia test fired an inter-continental ballistic missile on Monday from a cosmodrome in neighbouring Kazakhstan, Russian news agencies reported. The RS-18 missile, known under Western classification systems as an SS-19 Stiletto, was aimed at a test ground in the Kamchatka peninsula in far eastern Russia, said a spokesman for Russia's strategic missile forces. The test was intended to che ... more |
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Del Mar, California (AFP) Oct 28, 2007Dozens of tables are stacked with potato chips, granola bars, baby formula, diapers, toothpaste and toilet paper. A hot lunch buffet sends the odor of fried coconut shrimp wafting across the room as a handful of people crowd computers marked "Free Internet Access." Upstairs at a two-story race track building decorated with murals of horses which has become a fire victims' shelter at the ... more Tropical Storm Noel kills 11 
Santo Domingo (AFP) Oct 29, 2007At least eleven people were killed and 13 were missing as Tropical Storm Noel lashed the Caribbean island of Hispaniola shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, officials said on Monday. As Noel made its way across Haiti, drenching the vulnerable country and stirring fears of dangerous floods and landslides, authorities in the Dominican Republic blamed at least eleven deaths on the storm' ... more PetroChina Shanghai IPO attracts record 440 billion dlrs: report 
Shanghai (AFP) Oct 29, 2007PetroChina, the country's largest oil and gas producer, has attracted a record 3.3 trillion yuan (440 billion dollars) in orders for its Shanghai initial public offering, state media said Monday. Demand exceeded the previous record set by China's top coal company, Shenhua Energy, which drew 2.67 trillion yuan in a share offer last month, the China Securities Journal reported. PetroChina, ... more GM looks to China for cleaner cars 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 29, 2007US giant General Motors said Monday it would launch a 250-million-dollar alternative fuel research centre in China, as it looks to dramatically ramp up production of more environmentally friendly cars. The new centre in Shanghai, which will conduct research into fuels and vehicles, will be launched in conjunction with the firm's Shanghai auto partner, SAIC, General Motors chief executive Ric ... more ElBaradei urges global cooperation to supply nuclear fuel 
United Nations (AFP) Oct 29, 2007The head of the UN atomic watchdog agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, on Monday pressed for a global reserve of nuclear fuel to safely meet growing worldwide demand for nuclear energy. In a report on his agency's activities to the UN General Assembly, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief said his agency was weighing a proposal for "an actual or virtual reserve fuel bank of last resort ... more
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