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First South Korean Space Rocket To Launch In 2008 Seoul (AFP) Jan 02, 2007 
South Korea plans to launch its first space rocket next year, becoming the world's ninth country to do so, officials said Tuesday. A space centre on the country's south coast is some 90 percent complete after construction began in late 2000 at a cost of 265 billion won (285 million dollars). "This means that we'll have our own satellites and launch vehicles at the same time, laying the foundation for further space development," Hwang Pan-Sik, a deputy director of the Ministry of Science and Technology, told AFP. South Korea began developing the two-stage rocket through a technology tie-up with Russia in 2004. The first stage is based on Russia's Angara rocket while the second stage is of South Korean origin, Hwang said. |
Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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Sirius Exceeds Six Million Subscribers And Achieves First Cash Flow Positive Quarter
New York NY (SPX) Jan 03, 2007Sirius Satellite Radio has reported that it ended 2006 with approximately 6,024,000 subscribers, an 82% increase over the company's 2005 ending subscriber base of 3,316,560. Sirius added a record 2.7 million net subscribers in 2006. Based on preliminary financial data, Sirius achieved its first ever quarter of positive free cash flow in the fourth quarter of 2006. Services Of Insat-4A Disrupted For Over 30 Minutes 
Chennai, India (SPX) Jan 03, 2007The services of the INSAT-4A satellite were disrupted for over 30 minutes at 4 pm this afternoon (January 2, 2007) due to solar disturbances. A press release from the Indian Space Research Organisation said the satellite "lost earth lock" when one of the momentum wheels used for stabilising it got switched off at around 4 pm. Ball Aerospace Wins Worldview 2 Contract 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 03, 2007Ball Aerospace and Technologies has been selected by DigitalGlobe, provider of the world's highest resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, to build WorldView 2, its third satellite in a constellation of spacecraft that offer the highest-resolution imagery of Earth. WorldView 2 is the fourth remote-sensing satellite built by Ball Aerospace for Digital Globe. |
Three Makes For A Crowd This New Year In Space
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 03, 2007The three residents of the International Space Station spent a busy week unpacking, inventorying and stowing more than two tons of equipment and supplies left by the Space Shuttle Discovery. The week began with Christmas, a day off for the crew except for required maintenance and exercise. Commander Mike Lopez-Alegria and flight engineers Mikhail Tyurin and Sunita Williams were back on their regular schedule Tuesday, waking at midnight CST and going to bed at 3:30 p.m. Five Volunteers Picked For Simulated Mars Mission In Russia 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 03, 2007Five volunteers have been selected for a simulated Mars mission, expected to be launched in Russia late next year, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency said Friday. China Reports Breakthrough In Space Determination And Control Technology 
Beijing (XNA) Jan 03, 2007China recently reported breakthroughs in space tracking and control technology. Projects to develop sophisticated spacecraft orbit computing technology and USB-VLBI moon orbit determination testing and verification technology were undertaken by Xi'an Satellite Monitoring and Control Center, and recently passed an assessment by a panel of experts from China's space authority. |
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The Dark Side Of Nature Makes For Almost A Perfect Crime
Paris, France (ESO) Jan 03, 2007Nature has again thrown astronomers for a loop. Just when they thought they understood how gamma-ray bursts formed, they have uncovered what appears to be evidence for a new kind of cosmic explosion. These seem to arise when a newly born black hole swallows most of the matter from its doomed parent star. India To Test Space Capsule As Part Of Moon Mission 
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 03, 2007India plans to launch a capsule into orbit early next year and bring it back to Earth, an initial step towards an unmanned mission to the moon by 2010, a news report said Sunday. Afghanistan Opium Cultivation Monitored By International DMC Constellation Of Small Satellites 
Guildford, UK (SPX) Jan 03, 2007After extensive trials in 2005, DMC International Imaging (DMCii) won a contract from the UK Government to supply high-resolution satellite coverage of the whole of Afghanistan to support the surveying of opium crops. |
Portrait Of A Dramatic Stellar Crib
Paris, France (ESO) Jan 03, 2007A new, stunning image of the cosmic spider, the Tarantula Nebula and its surroundings, finally pays tribute to this amazing, vast and intricately sculpted web of stars and gas. The newly released image, made with ESO's Wide Field Imager on the 2.2-m ESO/MPG Telescope at La Silla, covers 1 square degree on the sky and could therefore contain four times the full Moon. Cassini Sends End-Of-Year Greetings From Across The Solar System 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 03, 2007In celebration of the holiday season and the close of another remarkable year at the Saturnian frontier, the Imaging Team for NASA's Cassini mission is presenting a smorgasbord of Saturnian imagery showing heavenly bodies great and small, in motion, and in three dimensions. From Shampoo Aroma To Ice Cream Texture 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Jan 03, 2007Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are putting a different kind of "foursome" together in hopes of someday developing smart materials called biomimetics that mimic nature. |
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