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 Seoul (AFP) Aug 26, 2009 
A satellite launched by South Korea's first space rocket fell to earth and burnt up after missing its designated orbit, officials said Wednesday. The science and technology ministry said the problem was caused by one of the two fairings which covered the satellite at the rocket's tip. Because one of them did not fall away from the rocket after opening, the rocket could not achieve en ... read more 
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Aug 25, 2009A ruptured liquid hydrogen valve discovered while fueling the space shuttle Discovery led NASA to postpone a launch planned for early Wednesday and reschedule for two days later. NASA now is looking at a Friday liftoff said mission management team chairman Mike Moses, who said the launch attempt would be August 28 at 12:22 am (0422 GMT). Before then, engineers will evaluate the valve tha ... more |
G20 billionaires could end world poverty in one year's earnings: Oxfam
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Moscow (AFP) Aug 25, 2009The first launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket from the European Space Agency base at Kourou in French Guiana has been postponed until April 2010, Russia's Progress space programme said Tuesday. The postponement is due to a delay "linked to a mobile launch pad," the Itar-Tass news agency quoted Progress director Alexander Kirilin as saying. The first launch of a Soyuz in cooperation with the ... more  
Ames IO (SPX) Aug 25, 2009Srinivas Aluru recently stepped between the two rows of six tall metal racks, opened up the silver doors and showed off the 3,200 computer processor cores that power Cystorm, Iowa State University's second supercomputer. And there's a lot of raw power in those racks. Cystorm, a Sun Microsystems machine, boasts a peak performance of 28.16 trillion calculations per second. That's five ... more  
Coimbatore, India (PTI) Aug 26, 2009The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch Oceansat-2, a unique integrated satellite to track marine life and identify potential fishing zones in September. This was disclosed by Y V N Krishnamurthy, Director of ISRO's Regional Remote Sensing Service Centre here on Monday. The integration of the satellite, designed to identify potential fishing zones, assists in ... more |
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Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 25, 2009Astronomers have been mining a mother lode of astronomical data from The University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey and finding more "optical transients" than they can characterize during the past 17 months. They have found more than 700 unique "optical transients," or objects that change brightness on time scales of minutes to years. They've also found 177 supernovae. That's more ... more  
Bethesda MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2009Wow! Launchspace received a large number of emails regarding last week's commentary by George Jeffs. Most were in agreement with some or all elements of Launchspace's suggested solar system architecture approach. Many said it was a common sense way to structure affordable exploration while maintaining a continuous human space flight capability. There was considerable concern about the ... more  
San Francisco (AFP) Aug 25, 2009Google on Tuesday invited US motorists to share their progress - or lack thereof - with other drivers through the Internet giant's online mapping service linked to smart phones. Google Maps is being enhanced this week to combine feedback from individual drivers with other traffic information to let people know which roads are likely to get them to their intended destinations the quickest. ... more |
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