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 Washington (AFP) Aug 27, 2009 
Initial testing on a malfunctioning valve that grounded the space shuttle Discovery is encouraging and countdown will resume Thursday ahead of the next launch attempt, NASA said. "There is no issue in the initial testing," Kennedy Space Center spokesman Allard Beutel told AFP late Wednesday. Engineers, he said, commanded the liquid hydrogen fill-and-drain valve in Discovery's main propul ... read more 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 27, 2009When Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte flies as the latest tourist to the International Space Station (ISS) next month, he promises to bring a comic touch to the mission. Already his screen saver pictures his mission colleagues - US astronaut Jeffrey Williams and cosmonaut Maksim Surayev - in space suits and red clown noses, and he says he will bring six more clown snouts to those now ... more |
G20 billionaires could end world poverty in one year's earnings: Oxfam
Australia set to cede COP31 hosting rights to Turkey COP30 dragged into clash over gender language Brazil's Lula hunts for deal at Amazon climate summit EU states back new delay to anti-deforestation rules Lula lands in Amazon to press for climate deal To combat climate anxiety, COP negotiator recommends meditation Nations 'still far' from deal at UN climate talks: France Nearly a third of women face partner or sexual violence: WHO Belgian climate case pits farmer against TotalEnergies 
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Seoul (AFP) Aug 26, 2009A 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 ... more  
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 |
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Washington DC (SPX) Aug 25, 2009Does an exciting but controversial new model of quantum gravity reproduce Einstein's theory of general relativity? Scientists at Texas A and M University in the US explore this question in a paper appearing in Physical Review Letters and highlighted with a Viewpoint in the August 24th issue of Physics. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," sums up fairly well how many scientists have viewed ... more  
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 |
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