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Baikonur Turns 55Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 03, 2010 Baikonur, the world famous launch pad from where the first Soviet and world cosmonaut Yury Gagarin was sent to space has turned 55 years. It was here that the voice of the Soviet Union's Chief Designer, Sergei Korolev boomed out loud and clear "I am Zarya. Can you hear me?" The decision to establish a testing range for inter-continental ballistic missile and the launching of earth satellites was taken on February 12th 1955. A month earlier, the first construction brigade had arrived in Tura-Tam, a ... read more |
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Bangalore, India (SPX) Jun 03, 2010Noted rocket scientist S. Ramakrishnan is the new director of the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) liquid propulsion systems centre at Thiruvananthapuram. The space agency Wednesday said Ramakrishnan, as director of projects at its Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre at Thiruvananthapuram earlier, had played a key role in the development of polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) and its ... more  
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 03, 2010Almost 20 years ago, Iridium, ICO, ORBCOMM and other telecom companies got serious about launching hundreds of communications satellites to low- and medium-altitude orbits. The objective was to establish constellations which could provide continuous worldwide coverage for telephony and data relay services to users with special handsets and other devices. This was a time when cellular syste ... more  
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 02, 2010The Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie (Bonn) and the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik (Garching), both run stations of the International LOFAR telescope (ILT), coordinated by ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy. By connecting the German LOFAR stations with the central stations in the Netherlands, an international group of scientists led by Olaf Wucknitz from th ... more |
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Taiwan to test missile that could reach Beijing: reportTaipei (AFP) June 2, 2010 Taiwan is to test a missile for the first time that could hit Beijing, a report said Wednesday. The island's defence ministry immediately denied the report on the medium-range surface-to-surface missile, but said research was being carried out on "various weapons systems". The missile, designed to hit targets up to 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles) away, will be launched Thursday and Friday from Chiupeng, a tightly-guarded base in southern Taiwan, Taipei-based Next Magazine said. If successful, ... read more |
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