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Two Crews For TiangongSydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 05, 2010 We've recently had another short "up periscope" moment in monitoring China's human spaceflight program. This latest scan, produced from some Chinese media statements, suggests that the Tiangong space laboratory will be launched in 2011, and three Shenzhou missions will be sent to it in the future. The launch of Tiangong next year is a disappointment to those who were hoping for some action in 2010, but it's not surprising. China had always specified a broad timeframe for the launch. Tiangong is a ... read more |
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Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 05, 2010Internationally noted artist Robert McCall died last Friday in Scottsdale, Ariz. The 90-year-old artist and Paradise Valley resident whose works are included in the University of Arizona Museum of Art, won decades of acclaim for his depiction of space and human space travel. As much as anyone outside the scientific community, McCall popularized the U.S. space program with his fanciful, and ... more  
New Delhi, India (PTI) Mar 05, 2010The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted the flight testing of its new generation high performance sounding rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) on Wednesday. Advanced Technology Vehicle (ATV-D01), weighing 3 tonnes at lift-off, is the heaviest sounding rocket ever developed by the ISRO. It carried a passive scramjet engine combustor module as a ... more  
Petah Tikva, Israel (SPX) Mar 05, 2010Gilat Satellite Networks has announced it has been chosen by service provider Satcom Systems to provide a SkyEdge II broadband satellite network to serve several hundred sites throughout Africa. The new network, comprising a SkyEdge II hub located in Germany and hundreds of VSATs, will enable Satcom Systems to expand its services in West Africa. Satcom Systems is launching a new serv ... more |
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Iran making new smart bombsTehran (UPI) Mar 3, 2009 With defense and acrimony building in the Persian Gulf, Iran announced plans to test a new laser-guided bomb. Iran's Fars News Agency reported that a prototype of the 2,000-pound smart bomb would be tested "in the near future," the country's air force commander Brig. Gen Hassan Shahsafi said. He said the smart bomb, dubbed Qassed-2, had a longer range and better vision than its earlier version, the Qassed-1. That weapon made its debut four years ago and has since then been in mass produc ... read more |
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