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SpaceX's Dragon Spacecraft Completes High Altitude Drop TestHawthorne CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2010 SpaceX has announced their Dragon spacecraft has successfully completed a high altitude drop test - meeting 100% of test objectives. This is the last in a series of tests to validate parachute deployment systems and recovery operations before the craft's first launch. During the August 12th test, an Erikson S-64F Air-Crane helicopter dropped a test article of the Dragon spacecraft from a height of 14,000 feet, roughly nine miles off the coast of Morro Bay, California. In a carefully timed se ... read more |
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Tehran (AFP) Aug 22, 2010Iranian leaders on Sunday unveiled a bomber drone with a range of up to 1,000 kilometres, touting the Islamic republic's home-grown capacity to resist attack, state media reported. Television footage showed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad applauding as a blue cloth covering the drone - called Karar ("Assailant") - was removed to reveal a short aircraft marked "bomber jet" in military-green. ... more  
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 22, 2010As the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, a community haunted by one of the deadliest disasters in US history is struggling to regain trust in its police force. In the chaotic aftermath of the storm, which barreled in from the Gulf of Mexico on August 29, 2005 and cost more than 1,500 lives, the New Orleans Police Department was accused of terrible crimes. Half a decade l ... more  
Paris (AFP) Aug 20, 2010Google said Friday it had resumed photographing France with its Street View bikes and cars but without gathering fragments of personal data sent over unsecured Wi-Fi systems for which it is being probed. The French data protection agency CNIL said in June it was examining private data collected for Street View, including emails and possibly banking details, to decide if the firm should face ... more |
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Energy stored in giant buried air bagsCopenhagen, Denmark (UPI) Aug 20, 2010 Researchers in Denmark say a project to store wind energy in giant synthetic air bags buried under sand dunes has been successful. A test in Southern Jutland showed 97 percent efficiency in storing wind energy, the Copenhagen Post reported Friday. Wind powered compressors inflate the bags, and the compressed air is later released to generate power using the same kind of pump and turbine system used for energy storage in lakes, the newspaper said. Researchers said the most difficul ... read more |
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