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October 28, 2009
Launch of new NASA rocket delayed by 24 hours
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Oct 27, 2009
Weather delays Tuesday forced NASA to postpone by 24 hours the launch of a prototype rocket designed to return astronauts to the Moon, and perhaps one day to Mars. Standing 327 feet (100-meters) tall, the Ares I-X is the longest rocket ever built and when lift-off goes ahead it will be the first spacecraft the Kennedy Space Center has launched other than a shuttle in 30 years. Tuesday ... read more

India Set To Join Exclusive Cryogenic Club
Chennai, India (PTI) Oct 28, 2009
After its maiden moon mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is hoping to cross another milestone in December - take India into the exclusive club of countries that have developed their own cryogenic engines to power satellites in space. ISRO is hoping to end 2009 in style with the take-off of its fully indigenous geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV) carrying an ... more

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It's A Go For Next Ariane 5 Launch
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Oct 28, 2009
Arianespace's sixth Ariane 5 flight of 2009 has been approved for its October 29 liftoff following the launch readiness review, performed at the Spaceport in French Guiana. This traditional milestone prior to every Ariane mission validated the heavy-lift launch vehicle's status, along with the NSS-12 and THOR 6 satellite payloads, the infrastructure at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana ... more

World's Fastest Supercomputer Models Origins Of The Unseen Universe
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Oct 28, 2009
Understanding dark energy is the number one issue in explaining the universe, according to Salman Habib, of the Laboratory's Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology group. "Because the universe is expanding and at the same time accelerating, either there is a huge gap in our understanding of physics, or there is a strange new form of matter that dominates the universe ... more

Martian Projects Shall Use Nuclear Energy
Moscow, Russia (XNA) Oct 28, 2009
The future Mars manned exploration projects will only become true by using nuclear energy, said President and Chief Designer of Russia's Energia Aerospace Corporation Vitaly Lopota here on Monday. Since current rocket technologies are not sufficient for the future exploration of Mars and the whole Solar system, and since no alternative energy resources have been found as of now, the only ... more

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  • Russia Needs More Volunteers For Mars Flight Simulation

  • Fastsat Instruments Shipped To NASA Marshall For Tests And Launch Preparation

  • Ball Aerospace-Built WorldView-2 Satellite Reveals First Images

  • DLR Simulates Mars' Atmosphere In Gottingen

  • The Sun's Sneaky Variability

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    Hughes And Avanti Sign Breakthrough European Ka-Band Satellite Agreement
    Germantown MD (SPX) Oct 28, 2009
    Hughes Network Systems has announced a multi-year agreement whereby its subsidiary, Hughes Network Systems will provide Avanti Communications Group plc and its partner channels, eight (8) gateways and 50,000 customer premise terminals to operate over HYLAS, Europe's first dedicated, high-throughput Ka-band broadband satellite to be launched in 2010. The initial value of the contract is in ... more

    Dead not forgotten at Facebook
    San Francisco (AFP) Oct 27, 2009
    Facebook lets people leave their marks online after they have shuffled off their mortal coils, with profiles of the dead remaining as tributes in the global social networking community. "When someone leaves us, they don't leave our memories or our social network," Facebook director of security Max Kelly said in a blog post Monday. "To reflect that reality, we created the idea ... more

    Google marches deeper into telecom turf
    San Francisco (AFP) Oct 27, 2009
    Google on Tuesday made it more tempting for people to try its nascent Voice service that lets users merge home, office and mobile phones into a single number. People can keep their current mobile telephone numbers and "still get many of Google Voice's features," product managers Craig Walker, Vincent Paquet, and Pierre Lebeau said in the blog post. Previously, it was required to switch ... more

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  • NASA's 'greenest' building opens

  • MESSENGER Gets Closest Look At Solar-Flare Neutrons

  • Astronomy Question Of The Week: What Happens When Stars Play Hide-And-Seek

  • Establish One Or More Self-Sustaining, Permanent Space Colonies

  • Iran to accept nuclear fuel deal but wants key changes: TV

  • Time to end 'on-again-off-again' US-China ties: Pentagon

  • China military growth the 'minimum requirement:' general
  • NKorea blasts US over 'bunker-buster' bombs
  • IAI Unveils Robotic Platform Designed For Ground Forces
  • Mounted laser weapon passes two key tests
  • Top US security adviser to Russia for nuclear talks: WHouse
  • Top Iran MP against shipping uranium in one shot
  • Gizmodo duped by virus ad, apologizes
  • India, China, Russia stress unity after talks

  • Rising seas 'threaten thousands of Australian homes'
  • Strong Cabinet support for emissions bill
  • Palestinian farmers struggle with water crisis
  • New Evidence Of Culture In Wild Chimpanzees
  • Ocean Acidification May Contribute To Global Shellfish Decline
  • Climate differences set to weigh on EU summit
  • Israel rations Palestinians to trickle of water: Amnesty
  • Solving Hydrogen Storage Limit To Power Green Cars

  • Armenia approves expansion of nuclear plant
  • Yahoo! shuts down GeoCities
  • Bulgaria welcomes more EU funding for nuclear shutdown
  • Detecting Life-Friendly Moons
  • Rapid Assistance From Space - From Concepts To Application
  • Ares 1 Test Launch Delayed
  • Meteorite Hoax In Northern Latvia, Many Tricked
  • Better Electric Propulsion May Boost Satellite Lifetimes



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