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Space X Launches Falcon 9 On First Test FlightWashington (AFP) June 4, 2010 The privately-owned US firm SpaceX launched a rocket on its first test flight Friday, in what observers say is a milestone for the space industry and in the race to develop commercial carriers. The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off at 2:35 pm (1835 GMT) from Cape Canaveral in Florida, shortly after aborting a first attempt just a few seconds before the launch, due to an automatic computer override of the system. The first and second stage of the white, 180-foot (55-meter) tall rocket separated success ... read more |
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Paris, France (SPX) Jun 07, 2010ESA's Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli will soon visit the International Space Station, and he needs your help to name his mission. Paolo Nespoli is now in intensive training for his challenging 6-month mission that will start next November. He will be launched in a Soyuz TMA spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 30 November with Dmitri Kondratyev and Catherine Coleman. ... more  
Canoga Park CA (SPX) Jun 07, 2010Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne celebrated 50 years of powering Delta-family rockets into orbit with the successful launch of the first NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIF military navigation satellite on May 27. The mission launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket with Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne's RS-68 and RL10 eng ... more  
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Jun 04, 2010A Russian Proton rocket carrying an Arabsat telecommunications satellite was launched into orbit Friday, the Russian space agency said. Arabsat 5B, launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, would be part of the ARABSAT satellite communications grid, and was the third such satellite launched by Russians. It is due to serve the Middle East and North Africa, the RIA Novosti news ... more |
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Thermal Energy Storage Device For Directed Energy Weapons TestedSan Diego CA (SPX) Jun 07, 2010 General Atomics' Advanced Power Systems Division has announced that it has completed testing of an advanced thermal energy storage device capable of cooling directed energy weapons (DEW). The 3 megajoule device is the first large scale module capable of storing heat at a high rate as required for DEW. "We are very pleased with its performance, which shows that it can store heat at an average rate of 230 kilowatts. To put it into perspective, it's the equivalent of melting about 20 pounds of ice in ... read more |
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