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Medvedev fires space chiefs after satellite launch failureMoscow (AFP) Dec 29, 2010 President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday fired two top space officials and reprimanded the head of Russia's space agency after the failed launch of three vital communications satellites, the Kremlin said. Medvedev fired Vyacheslav Filin, vice president of the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation, and Viktor Remishevsky, the deputy head of Russia's Roskosmos space agency, news agencies quoted a Kremlin statement as saying. The Russian president also reprimanded Roskosmos chief Anatoly Perminov, the ... read more |
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  Galileo Pathfinder GIOVE-A Achieves Five Years In Orbit ESA's GIOVE-A satellite - the first prototype of Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system - is still working well after five years in space. The first 'Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element' ... more | .. |
  Failed rocket launch threatens India's space ambitions The explosion of an Indian space rocket is likely to hit the country's efforts to push further into the global market for launching commercial satellites, experts warned Sunday. ... more | .. |
  Suspected Debris Of Exploded Rocket Washes Ashore An oval metal object, suspected to be debris of the rocket that was blown up mid-air by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists Saturday following a failed launch, washed ashore near Pa ... more | .. |
 India Plans To Launch 30 Satellites In Next Decade India is mulling to launch at least 30 earth observation satellites in the next one decade, a senior official at the Department of Space (DoS) said. "We expect not less than 30 satellites," Di ... more |
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 GSLV Failures Fuel Disappointment And Anxiety While disappointment haunts the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) about the two successive failures of the Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) missions, there is fear whether the ... more | .. |
  TRACE Spacecraft's New Slewing Procedure The fastest path between Point A and Point B is a straight line. Not so fast, says a team of scientists and engineers who recently disproved this commonly accepted notion using a NASA satellite that ... more | .. |
  Robot built to walk like senior citizens Robots have been made to run, jump and even dance, but they might be more useful if they could walk like a senior citizen, Japanese researchers say. ... more | .. |
 S.Korea schools get robot English teachers Almost 30 robots have started teaching English to youngsters in a South Korean city, education officials said Tuesday, in a pilot project designed to nurture the nascent robot industry. ... more |
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  GOES-13 Satellite Captures Powerful Snowmaker Leaving New England Snows are finally winding down in New England as a powerful low pressure system brought blizzard conditions from northern New Jersey to Maine over Christmas weekend. The GOES-13 satellite captured a ... more | .. |
 Outer Space Issues 2011 - Upcoming Trends Forecast There are outstanding issues in the coming year that deserve increased attention in terms of global outer space activities - from tackling the growing problem of orbital space debris, enhancing Eart ... more | .. |
  J-2X Turbomachinery Complete NASA and Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne have successfully completed the heart of the J-2X upper stage rocket engine - the turbomachinery assemblies - for the first development engine off the productio ... more | .. |
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Extra Weight May Have Caused GSLV Problems Instability introduced by excessive payload weight was most likely responsible for the failure of an Indian rocket's launch on Christmas day, an expert in the field and former scientist of the India ... more | .. |
 New molecule could mean better rocket fuel Swedish scientists say they've discovered a molecule that could lead to new rocket fuels that are 20 percent to 30 percent more efficient than now. ... more | .. |
 Russia puts European satellite Ka-Sat in orbit Russia on Monday put into orbit the European Ka-Sat satellite launched overnight by a Proton-M rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, space officials said. ... more | .. |
 TerraSAR-X Image Of The Month: Ice Flow Like Molten Metal From over 500 kilometres up, as TerraSAR-X looks down on its icy surface, the Antarctic's Nimrod Glacier looks like molten metal. During its flight over the Antarctic, the German Aerospace Centre's ... more |
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 ISRO Scanning Data For GSLV Flop Scientists and technical experts led by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman, Dr K Radhakrishnan on Sunday continued to analyse the prodigious data following Saturday's failure of ... more | .. |
 Space Material Prevents Road Rash A French company has found business success by blending high-tech fibres used in an ESA space mission with old-fashioned denim to create comfortable, stylish protective gear for bikers. Like 7 ... more | .. |
Indian satellite rocket explodes after lift-off An Indian space rocket carrying an advanced communications satellite was destroyed by mission control Saturday following a malfunction after lift-off, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Eutelsat's KA-SAT Satellite Lofted Into Orbit The KA-SAT satellite of Eutelsat Communications has been successfully lofted into orbit by a Proton Breeze M rocket supplied by ILS. Lift-off of Eutelsat's 6.1 tonne satellite took place on 26 Decem ... more |
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 NASA must fund canceled rocket program NASA's Ares I rocket program is defunct but because of congressional inaction the space agency must continue to fund it until March, officials said. ... more | .. |
  IBM offers glimpse into the future Air-powered batteries, 3-D cellphones that project holographs and personalized commutes are among the predictions of IBM scientists gazing into their crystal balls. ... more | .. |
  Obama's other 'surge': US drone war in Pakistan As the United States pressed ahead with a grinding campaign in Afghanistan in 2010, President Barack Obama dramatically escalated another war across the border in Pakistan, using robotic planes to pound Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants. ... more | .. |
 US missile salvo kills 15 in Pakistan: officials A barrage of US missiles killed at least 15 militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal district on Tuesday, obliterating compounds and vehicles used by Islamist fighters, officials said. ... more |
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