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Record-Breaking X-ray Blast Briefly Blinds Space ObservatoryUniversity Park PA (SPX) Jul 15, 2010 A blast of the brightest X-rays ever detected from beyond our Milky Way galaxy's neighborhood temporarily blinded the X-ray eye on NASA's Swift space observatory earlier this summer, astronomers now report. The X-rays traveled through space for 5-billion years before slamming into and overwhelming Swift's X-ray Telescope on 21 June. The blindingly bright blast came from a gamma-ray burst, a violent eruption of energy from the explosion of a massive star morphing into a new black hole. "This ... read more |
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Sriharikota, India (PTI) Jul 14, 2010An unmanned crew module will be put in orbit around the earth by a modified Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in 2013 as a forerunner to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) sending two Indians into space, S. Ramakrishnan, Director, Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, ISRO, said here on Monday. India has plans to send two astronauts in a low-earth orbit and they will stay in spa ... more 
Sriharikota, India (PTI) Jul 14, 2010An unmanned test crew module will be put into orbit by space agency ISRO in 2013 as a prelude to India's maiden manned mission to send two Indians into space. A third launch pad, at a cost of Rs.1,000 crore, is proposed to be built at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh where the rocket that will take the Indian astronauts into space will be assembled and blast off, the Indian Space Research Org ... more 
Abu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Jul 14, 2010In Feberuary 2006 a huge move took place that would launch the United Arab Emirates into the private spaceflight industry. On that day in the beginning of a new year, a company known as Space Adventures announced its plans to build a $265 Million spaceport in the warm desert of Ras Al-Khaimah in a joint ventures with an Emirati known as Prodea Systems. This story is just one of many coming ... more |
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Space arms control treaty unlikely in near-term: USGeneva (AFP) July 13, 2010 The United States said Tuesday that a space arms control treaty was unlikely to emerge in the near future as it still sees flaws in drafts being tabled at the moment. "I don't see any near-term progress on a space arms control treaty, but again I think there is a lot of shared interest between the US, Russia, China and others on providing space stability," said Frank Rose, deputy assistant secretary of state at the Bureau of Verification, Compliance and Implementation. "There are a lot of near-t ... read more |
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