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Britain launches first space agencyLondon (AFP) March 23, 2010 Britain launched its own space agency Tuesday with the help of home-grown astronaut Major Timothy Peake, aimed at boosting the country's multi-billion-pound space technology industry. While Peake may be its only astronaut, Britain is a world leader in areas such as robotics, satellites and telecommunications, which contribute about six billion pounds (nine billion dollars, 6.7 billion euros) a year to the economy. The new UK Space Agency, complete with a logo depicting the Union flag morphed int ... read more |
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Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2010On Earth, helium is a gas used to float balloons, as in the movie "Up." In the interior of Jupiter, however, conditions are so strange that, according to predictions by University of California, Berkeley, scientists, helium condenses into droplets and falls like rain. Helium rain was earlier proposed to explain the excessive brightness of Saturn, a gas giant like Jupiter, but one-third the ... more 
Los Angeles (AFP) March 22, 2010Virgin Galactic's experimental SpaceshipTwo (SS2), an aircraft designed to one day carry paying customers into space, had its maiden flight in the California desert Monday, company officials announced. The spacecraft, brainchild of British entrepreneur Richard Branson, took off nestled under the wing of its mothership White Knight Two (WK2). "Virgin Galactic announced that its commercial ... more  
Creech AFB NV (SPX) Mar 24, 2010Airmen of the 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing reached a new flight milestone March 12 when they surpassed 700,000 flight hours in the MQ-1B Predator remotely piloted aircraft. The last 200,000 Predator hours were flown in just over 12 months compared to 19 months to fly the previous 250,000 hours and 12.5 years for the first 250,000 hours. Remotely piloted aircraft are one of the most d ... more |
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Russia wants US missile defence in nuclear treaty: generalMoscow (AFP) March 23, 2010 Russia and the United States have still to agree over links to missile defence issues in the nuclear disarmament treaty, the chief of Russia's general staff said in an interview published Tuesday. "The treaty is some 95 percent complete," General Nikolai Makarov told the Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily. "We still have to resolve some issues, including getting the US agreement to include the missile defense issues into the treaty," he added. "Whether the new treaty is signed, and how soon it will be ... read more |
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