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China Sends Research Satellite Into SpaceJiuquan, China (XNA) Jun 16, 2010 China has successfully sent into space a scientific research satellite at 9:39 a.m. Tuesday from northwest China's Gansu Province. The satellite "Shijian XII," sent from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center of Gansu Province, was carried by the China-developed Long March 2D rocket. Sources with the launch center said the satellite was designed for carrying out scientific and technological experiments including space environment probe, measurement and communications. "Shijian XII" was develope ... read more |
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Los Angeles (AFP) June 15, 2010Nintendo on Tuesday unveiled a new generation DS handheld videogame system that lets people play in 3-D without using special glasses. "I can't wait for you to try this," Nintendo chief executive Satoru Iwata said as he held a 3DS above his head at a press conference in the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on the opening day of the Electronic Entertainment Expo. "It will show you full 3-D gr ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 16, 2010The Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three new Expedition 24 flight engineers bound for the International Space Station lifted off at 5:35 p.m. EDT Tuesday. As the launch of the Soyuz TMA-19 lit up the pre-dawn skies around the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, NASA astronauts Doug Wheelock and Shannon Walker and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin began the two-day journey to catch up w ... more  
Durham, UK (SPX) Jun 15, 2010New research by astronomers in the Physics Department at Durham University suggests that the conventional wisdom about the content of the Universe may be wrong. Graduate student Utane Sawangwit and Professor Tom Shanks looked at observations from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite to study the remnant heat from the Big Bang. The two scientists find evidence that the ... more |
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Japan's 'space yacht' starts sailingTokyo (AFP) June 11, 2010 Japan said Friday its kite-shaped "space yacht", designed to float through space using only the power of the sun, successfully started sailing with solar power generation. A Japanese rocket last month launched the experimental "Ikaros" - Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun - designed to be propelled by the pressure of sunlight particles. The technology could eventually enable space travel without fuel, as long as there is sunlight. Similar to an ocean yacht pushed ... read more |
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