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NASA tests most powerful booster rocket everWashington (AFP) Aug 31, 2010 NASA and aerospace company ATK Aerospace Systems successfully tested Tuesday the most powerful solid-fuel rocket engine ever, even though its future in the space program remains in doubt. A huge roar and massive flames accompanied the two-minute "static" or non-flight test of the five-segment DM-2 (Demonstration Motor 2) rocket booster in the western desert state of Utah. The DM-2 was designed as the first stage of the Ares I rocket to provide the lift-off thrust for the next generation of Orion ... read more |
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Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 31, 2010A new experiment designed to reveal the origin and structure of the universe has reached its last stop on Earth before it's set to ride into orbit aboard space shuttle Endeavour early next year. The long-awaited Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) arrived Aug. 26 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, secured in the belly of a U.S. Air Force C-5M cargo plane that arrived at the launch ... more 
Copenhagen (AFP) Aug 30, 2010The launch into space of Denmark's first privately-built rocket has been postponed to Thursday due to bad weather conditions, one of its builders said. "The wind delayed the transportation of the rocket from Copenhagen to (the island of) Bornholm. But we hope to take our prototype on Tuesday to the launch base in order to be able to take off on Thursday," said Peter Madsen. Madsen, 39, a ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 31, 2010China has pressed North Korea to speed up economic reforms in a summit encounter that underscored Beijing's concerns about its impoverished and wayward ally, experts said Tuesday. Many analysts said North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il's five-day tour of northeast China - which ended Monday - was aimed at conferring legitimacy on an eventual handover of power to his youngest son. But for Ch ... more |
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Destructive F-16 Test Makes Strides Toward Fighter's New RoleEglin AFB FL (SPX) Aug 31, 2010 An F-16 Fighting Falcon was blown apart on the Eglin range as part of a test to determine future development of next-generation fighter technology. The explosion was intentionally initiated to test an aerial-target flight termination system. The test was conducted by the 780th Test Squadron, and was overseen by the QF-16 special program office. The purpose was to demonstrate that the FTS design will be sufficient to immediately terminate the flight of a QF-16, as well as determine a range safety d ... read more |
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