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 Hanoi, Vietnam (XNA) Sep 08, 2009 
Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communication said that Vietnam expects to launch the second satellite in 2012, the local newspaper Vietnam Investment Review reported Monday. The state-owned Vietnam Post and Telecommunication (VNPT) is the investor of the project of the second satellite, named Vinasat-2, with a total investment of about 350 million U.S. dollars. VNPT is ... read more 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Sep 08, 2009From 7-21 September 2009, the German Aerospace Center will perform, for the 14th time, a series of research flights to provide weightlessness conditions, using the Airbus A300 ZERO-G. The event will also celebrate ten years of activity for DLR's parabolic flight programme for microgravity research. The largest flying laboratory in the world will take off from Cologne/Bonn airport for a ... more
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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Sep 08, 2009On Tuesday 1 September 2009, the German Aerospace Center announced the third contest in the REXUS/BEXUS (Rocket/Balloon EXperiment for University Students) programme. Students are invited to submit their proposals for experiments to be carried in the gondola of a stratospheric balloon in Autumn 2010 or in a high-altitude rocket in Spring 2011. The deadline for proposal submission is 16 November ... more  
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia (SPX) Sep 08, 2009Proba-2 has reached Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, where it is being prepared for launch this November. Among the smallest satellites ever built by ESA, it was transported there aboard an Ilyushin cargo plane. Proba-2 is a mission of ESA's General Support Technology Programme (GSTP) , building on almost eight years of operational experience gained with Proba-1. ... more 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 08, 2009Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., responsible for developing propulsion elements for the Orion crew capsule's Launch Abort System passed a major milestone Aug. 31 with the completion of Orion's Preliminary Design Review. The Launch Abort System is the critical element of the Orion capsule that will pull its crew safely away from the Ares I rocket in the ... more |
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Kochi, India (PTI) Sep 08, 2009The Indian Space Research Organisation is in the process of designing a satellite for providing connectivity to villages, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said Friday. "We have plans to use multiple spot beams for the satellite, which is expected to be launched in another two and a half years time," Nair told reporters here in southern Indian state of Kerala. There are about 600,000 ... more  
Moscow (UPI) Sep 4, 2009 Russia has begun deliveries of Pantsir S1 air-defense missiles to Syria, some of which are expected to be passed on to Iran, Syria's strategic ally that has largely bankrolled the deal, according to the Interfax-AVN military news agency. Interfax quoted Yuriy Savenkov, deputy director general of the Instrument Design Bureau, or KBP, as saying that deliveries started several weeks ago. ... more  
Mumbai (AFP) Sept 7, 2009One in three hand grenades used by Indian soldiers is a dud, while their rifles are no match for those of extremists, a newspaper report said Monday. The Times of India said 30 percent of grenades fail to blow up after being thrown by troops in combat situations, while those that do work take four seconds to explode -- 1.5 seconds longer than those used by militants. ... more |
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