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U.K. predicts 'spaceplane' in 10 yearsLondon (UPI) Sep 17, 2010 British engineers say they believe spacecraft taking off from an ordinary airport runway and carrying tourists into space might be a reality in 10 years. A British company, Reaction Engines Ltd., is developing a spaceplane it says will travel five times the speed of sound and carry up to 24 passengers and up to 12 tons of cargo into space, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday. The unpiloted craft would take off from an airport runway and use its two hydrogen/oxygen engines to propel it mo ... read more |
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Athens, Greece (UPI) Sep 17, 2010 After long and acrimonious talks, Greece has clinched a deal to transfer Germany's ThyssenKrupp's control of Hellenic Shipyards to Abu Dhabi's MAR group. "A new page opens for the Greek navy, Skaramanga Shipyards and the entire Greek shipbuilding and ship repair sector," a statement by the Greek Defense Ministry said. Under the agreement the German group will transfer its stake o ... more 
Dhaka (AFP) Sept 19, 2010Global retailers fleeing China's rising labour costs now find themselves facing growing pressure for higher wages in countries from Bangladesh to Cambodia, Vietnam, India and Indonesia. The latest sign that workers are becoming more militant in their demands for a larger share of the region's economic success came in Cambodia last week, when tens of thousands of workers went on strike. T ... more  
Washington (AFP) Sept 17, 2010South Korea's Samsung took aim at Apple's iPad and iTunes on Friday with the US launch of its new Galaxy tablet computer and an online entertainment hub for movies and television shows. Samsung said US wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon will sell the Galaxy Tab, which was unveiled at the IFA electronics trade fair in Berlin, Germany, in early September. Samsung said the ... more |
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ARTEMIS - The First Earth-Moon Libration OrbiterGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 16, 2010 In August 1960, NASA launched its first communications satellite, Echo 1. Fifty years later, NASA has achieved another first by placing the ARTEMIS-P1 spacecraft into a unique orbit behind the moon, but not actually orbiting the moon itself. This type of orbit, called an Earth-Moon libration orbit, relies on a precise balancing of the Sun, Earth, and Moon gravity so that a spacecraft can orbit about a virtual location rather than about a planet or moon. The diagrams below show the full ARTEMIS-P1 ... read more |
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