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US company readies first space capsule launchWashington (AFP) Dec 8, 2010 In a major test for the future of space flight, an American company tries to launch its first space capsule into orbit and back Wednesday as NASA looks to end its shuttle program next year. Never before has a private company attempted the risky feat of sending a spacecraft into orbit and bringing it back to Earth for a splash landing in the Pacific Ocean, and even the owner, SpaceX, admits it is not sure it will succeed. But NASA gave the green light for the launch of the Dragon capsule late Tue ... read more |
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 Kazakh Space Agency Seeks Extra Funding For New Baikonur Launch Pad Kazakhstan's national space agency, Kazcosmos, has requested more funding for the joint Russian-Kazakh project to build a new launch pad at the Baikonur space center. In late December 2004, Ru ... more | .. |
  NASA Ejects Nanosatellite From Microsatellite In Space On Dec. 6 at 1:31 a.m. EST, NASA for the first time successfully ejected a nanosatellite from a free-flying microsatellite. NanoSail-D ejected from the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satel ... more | .. |
  Arianespace Will Orbit Sicral 2 Milcomms Satellites Telespazio (Finmeccanica/Thales) has chosen Arianespace to launch the Sicral 2 satellite in the framework of a turnkey contract that the Italian Defense Ministry and the French DGA armament agency ( ... more | .. |
  Next-Gen Earth Imaging Satellite Advances To Critical Design Review Phase The Lockheed Martin team designing GeoEye's next-generation, high-resolution imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2, successfully completed the program's Preliminary Design Review (PDR) three weeks ah ... more |
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  ISRO Renews Deal With EADS Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has renewed a five-year contract with EADS Astrium, Europe's leading satellite system specialist, for joint marketing of satellites. Announcing this d ... more | .. |
  Israelis brace for missile firestorm For months, military leaders and commentators have been warning Israelis their cities face an unprecedented threat of missile attacks even as the country invests heavily in developing air-defense systems experts say cannot provide adequate protection. ... more | .. |
  GPS Not Working A Shoe Radar May Help You Find Your Way The prevalence of global positioning system (GPS) devices in everything from cars to cell phones has almost made getting lost a thing of the past. But what do you do when your GPS isn't workin ... more | .. |
 Federal Government Approves New German Space Strategy The German Federal Government adopted a new space strategy at its cabinet meeting on 30 November 2010. The paper defines the fundamentals of how the high-technology space sector is to develop over t ... more |
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  SwRI Researchers Continue Starfighters Suborbital Space Flight Training As part of their suborbital spaceflight training, Southwest Research Institute researchers and suborbital payload specialists Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. Dan Durda have continued their spaceflight traini ... more | .. |
 Program Error Caused Russian Glonass Satellite Loss A program error caused a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket to deviate from its course and lose a booster carrying three Glonass-M satellites, a source in the Russian space industry said on Monday. ... more | .. |
 X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Completes First Flight Boeing has announced the successful de-orbit and landing of the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), also known as the X-37B, for the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO). The X-37B landed at 1:16 ... more | .. |
  Emirates seek gulf-wide missile shield The United Arab Emirates is reported to be strengthening its missile defense network and plans to integrate it with other Arab states in the Persian Gulf to counter Iran's missile might. ... more |
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 Hezbollah has 50,000 rockets: report US officials believe the militant group Hezbollah has acquired an arsenal of some 50,000 rockets and missiles, raising fears of an enlarged conflict with Israel, the New York Times reported Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  ASU Researcher Uses NASA Satellite To Explore Archaeological Site Remote sensing has been integral to the field of archaeology for many years, but Arizona State University archaeologist Stephen H. Savage is literally taking the use of that technology to new height ... more | .. |
 Snow From Space Earth observation scientists at the University of Leicester have recorded stunning images of the UK's winter landscape by orbiting satellites. European Space Agency satellite instruments have ... more | .. |
  Twenty dead, over 100 missing in Colombia mudslide Emergency crews clawed through tons of mud Monday in a desperate bid to rescue 105 people missing in a landslide in Colombia that has claimed at least 20 lives. ... more |
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 23 dead, 100 missing in Colombia mudslide Emergency crews clawed through huge piles of mud Monday in a desperate bid to rescue more than 100 people missing in a landslide that has claimed at least 23 lives in Colombia. ... more | .. |
37 killed in Colombia mudslide, emergency declared Colombian rescue officials on Tuesday said they have recovered 37 bodies from a massive weekend mudslide, as President Juan Manuel Santos declared a local state of emergency to cope with the massive catastrophe. ... more | .. |
Toll climbs to 30 dead in Colombia mudslide Colombian rescue officials on Tuesday said they have retrieved the bodies of 30 people who died in a massive weekend mudslide, with scores of victims still missing. ... more | .. |
  Walker's World: The euro's endgame It doesn't take a seer to predict the next agonizing crisis for the eurozone. It simply requires a calendar. ... more |
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  Chase for India's rural rupee inspires tech innovations India's hunger for new technology is as sharp in its countless small villages as in its shiny office towers or shopping malls - and businesses are waking up to an area of massive potential growth. ... more | .. |
 Kindle books to open on Web browsers Amazon will make its Kindle electronic books available for reading on Web browsers beginning early next year, with people's digital collections saved in the Internet "cloud." ... more | .. |
  Alstom, Bombardier sign rail agreements with China Alstom and Bombardier on Tuesday signed agreements with China's railways ministry to speed up development of rail transport in the vast country and also in overseas markets, the companies said. ... more | .. |
 China think tank warns inflation pressures building A Chinese government think tank has warned inflationary pressures are building in the economy and consumer prices will remain "relatively high" in 2011, amid growing expectations of a rate hike. ... more |
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