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 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 
Chennai, India (PTI) Oct 28, 2009After 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 |
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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Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Oct 28, 2009Arianespace'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  
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Oct 28, 2009Understanding 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  
Moscow, Russia (XNA) Oct 28, 2009The 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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Germantown MD (SPX) Oct 28, 2009Hughes 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  
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 27, 2009Facebook 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 
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 27, 2009Google 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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