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Russia Watches Another American Robot Visit The Red Mars Again
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 28, 2008It looks as if the Americans have turned their attention to the Red Planet for real. NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander touched down near the North Pole on May 25. The first shots sent back to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California report that the probe is in excellent health. NASA is exhilarated. The very fact of a safe landing on Martian soil is already a success considering that it is the ... more French skydiver fails record freefall bid 
North Battleford, Saskatchewan (AFP) May 27, 2008French skydiver Michel Fournier's bid to set a new altitude freefall record was scuppered Tuesday when the balloon that was to carry him into the stratosphere separated from his gondola. The balloon had been scheduled to take off at around 4:30 am (1030 GMT) from North Battleford in western Canada's Saskatchewan province, but somehow detached from the gondola and drifted away, leaving the 64 ... more Space Systems Loral Delivers ProtoStar I to Launch Base 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) May 28, 2008Loral has shipped ProtoStar I to Kourou, French Guiana, where it is scheduled to launch as early as June 24th aboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle. "Space Systems/Loral has been able to deliver a satellite customized to our requirements in a timely and professional manner," said Philip Father, chief executive officer of ProtoStar. "We have worked closely with SS/L throughout this projec ... more NASA revises shuttle launch schedule 
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) May 27, 2008 The U.S. space agency says it has revised two launch dates for 2008 space shuttle missions. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials said the liftoff of shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to the Hubble Space Telescope is targeted for Oct. 8, while Endeavour's STS-126 supply mission to the International Space Station has been moved from Oct. 16 to Nov. 10. The final ... more China Launches Weather Satellite For Olympic Games 
Taiyuan, China (XNA) May 28, 2008China launched a second Olympic weather forecasting satellite, the Fengyun-3 (FY-3), Tuesday morning. The satellite was launched on a Long March-4C carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province at 11:02 a.m. (Beijing Time). It entered the preset orbit 27 minutes later. Gao Huoshan, general director of the FY-3 research team, said the satell ... more |
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Washington (AFP) May 27, 2008A communications glitch between the Phoenix Mars probe and Earth has delayed operations, two days after the spacecraft landed on the Red Planet in search of conditions to support life, NASA said Tuesday. A "transient event" knocked out UHF radio transmissions between Phoenix and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which relays data and instructions between the Phoenix and Earth, said Fuk ... more NASA Mars Lander Prepares To Move Arm 
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 28, 2008NASA's Phoenix Lander is ready to begin moving its robotic arm, first unlatching its wrist and then flexing its elbow. Mission scientists are eager to move Phoenix's robotic arm, for that arm will deliver samples of icy terrain to their instruments made to study this unexplored Martian environment. The team sent commands for moving the arm on Tuesday morning, May 27, to NASA's Mars R ... more Medvedev To Discuss Space Center And Some Arms Dealing During Kazakh Visit 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 28, 2008Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is expected to discuss space exploration and military cooperation with his Kazakh counterpart, Nursultan Nazarbayev, during his first trip abroad as president on May 22-23. Medvedev's visit to Kazakhstan 'reaffirms the maturity of the Russian-Kazakh strategic partnership,' Russian presidential aide, Sergei Prikhodko, said. The two-day talks will see ... more Atom-smashing lab says experiment to start end-June 
Geneva (AFP) May 27, 2008European particle physics laboratory CERN is set to launch its gigantic experiment which hopes to throw light on the origins of the universe within a month, the laboratory's head said Tuesday. If things go according to plan, the greatest experiment in the history of particle physics could unveil a sub-atomic component, the Higgs Boson, known as "the God Particle." The "Higgs," named afte ... more Rokot Carrier With Three Military Satellites Blasts Off From Plesetsk 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 26, 2008A Russian Rokot carrier rocket with three military satellites and one civilian satellite has been successfully launched from the Plesetsk space center in northwest Russia, the Russian Space Forces said on Friday. The Rokot launch vehicle, developed by the state-run Khrunichev Center, is a modification of the RS-18 (SS-19 Mod.1 Stiletto) two-stage ballistic missile that is being decommissio ... more |
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Berlin (UPI) May 27, 2008 Deutsche Telekom, Germany's state-influenced telecommunications giant, has become entangled in an embarrassing corporate spying scandal that has the country outraged. On Monday, Telekom head Rene Obermann confirmed a weekend report by German newsmagazine Der Spiegel that Europe's largest telecommunications company had monitored hundreds of thousands of phone calls to find where employee ... more McCain wants nuclear talks with China, Russia 
Washington (AFP) May 27, 2008Republican presidential candidate John McCain Tuesday pledged to launch a new dialogue with China and Russia to reduce nuclear weapons and proliferation, and backed a US-India civil nuclear pact. The Arizona senator also took a fresh swipe at potential Democratic general election foe Barack Obama, over his offer to talk to the leaders of US foes like Iran, Syria and Cuba. McCain has prev ... more Raytheon Tests Distributed Common Ground System Block 10.2 System 
Garland TX (SPX) May 28, 2008Raytheon has accomplished a major requirement of the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) contract -- completing the end-to-end factory acceptance testing of the DCGS 10.2 system. During the test, Raytheon conducted a series of on-site evaluations with representatives from the U.S. Air Force exercising the system and evaluating the results. In the next phase, Raytheon will deliver the ... more RBS15 Mk3 Successfully Fired 
Vidsel, Sweden (SPX) May 28, 2008On Saturday March 15 2008 the RBS15 Mk3 was launched at the FMV test range Vidsel in northern Sweden, witnessed by government delegations from several nations such as Sweden, Germany and Poland. The missile was launched from a truck, previously belonging to the Swedish Armed Forces Coastal Missile Battery, and primed to perform a land attack mission at long range. The missile cruised over ... more Troops Scramble To Blow Quake Lake As More Evacuations Ordered 
Beichuan, China (AFP) May 27, 2008Troops armed with dynamite scrambled Tuesday to blast through debris damming a quake lake in southwest China, as forecasts of heavy rain threatened more misery for millions of homeless people. With the May 12 earthquake death toll already standing at more than 65,000, officials desperate to avoid another disaster sent 1,800 troops and engineers to try to reduce the dangerously high water lev ... more
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