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Surplus Fuel Believed Cause For Russia's Glonass Satellite LossMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Dec 13, 2010 The main cause of the loss of Russia's three Glonass-M satellites was due to human error from fueling the booster rocket with an excess of 1.5-2 tons of fuel, the head of the Russian state commission probing the incident said on Friday. The excessive fuel caused the DM-3 booster rocket to deviate from its course, leading to the subsequent loss of the satellites in the Pacific Ocean earlier in the week. "According to preliminary information, the problem was not with the fuel service unit at t ... read more |
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  Taiwan confirms mass producing cruise missiles Taiwan has confirmed for the first time that it is mass-producing cruise missiles, despite fast warming ties with China. ... more | .. |
  Emirates seek gulf-wide missile shield The United Arab Emirates is reported to be strengthening its missile defense network and plans to integrate it with other Arab states in the Persian Gulf to counter Iran's missile might. ... more | .. |
  Joint High Power Solid State Laser Keeps Lasing And Lasing The beat goes on for the world's most powerful and reliable solid-state military laser. Since becoming the first to reach the 100-kilowatt power level threshold for a solid-state laser in 2009 ... more | .. |
 India's test of nuclear-capable missile fails India's maiden test of an upgraded version of its nuclear-capable, medium-range Agni-II ballistic missile ended in failure Friday, when the missile dropped into the Bay of Bengal. ... more |
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  Wind And Water Have Shaped Schiaparelli On Mars The small crater embedded in the north-western rim of the Schiaparelli impact basin features prominently in this new image acquired by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) operated by the German ... more | .. |
  The Flight Of The Dragon Last Wednesday, at 18:55 GMT, a space capsule opened the typical orange-and-white landing parachutes above the Pacific, 500 miles off the coast of Mexico. But there was nothing else typical about th ... more | .. |
  South Africa Launches Space Agency South Africa launched its space agency last Thursday on what has been described as a historic day for the country. Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor and experts from the space agencies o ... more | .. |
  WISE Sees An Explosion Of Infrared Light This oddly colorful nebula is the supernova remnant IC 443 as seen by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Also known as the Jellyfish nebula, IC 443 is particularly interesting beca ... more |
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  Japan's robot suit to bring hope to the disabled Japan's Cyberdyne may share its name with the company responsible for nuclear destruction and the killer robots of the "Terminator" movie series, but the similarities end there. ... more | .. |
  Fueling error blamed in loss of satellites Russia's loss of three satellites during launch this week was caused by an off-course booster rocket that had been given too much fuel, officials said. ... more | .. |
  NASA Scientists Theorize Final Growth Spurt For Planets A team of NASA-funded researchers has unveiled a new theory that contends planets gained the final portions of their mass from a limited number of large comet or asteroid impacts more than 4.5 billi ... more | .. |
  Tablet computers come of age in 2010 with iPad mania Yearning for an Internet-linked gadget bigger than a smartphone but smaller than a laptop merged with always-connected lifestyles to make tablet computing a defining trend for 2010. ... more |
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 NASA, SpaceX giddy over historic orbit launch NASA and SpaceX chiefs shook their heads with disbelief and joy Wednesday after a perfect launch into orbit and back of the company's Dragon capsule, a historic first for the future of space travel. ... more | .. |
 Brazil launches rocket into orbit Brazil on Sunday successfully launched a midsized unmanned rocket into space, with hundreds of kilograms (pounds) in cargo and experiments in tow, space officials here said. ... more | .. |
 Austria to launch first satellites in 2011 Austria will launch its first ever satellites into space next year to measure variations in the brilliance of stars, a project leader from the Technical University (TU) of Graz announced Friday. ... more | .. |
  Double Vision: New Instrument Casts Its Eyes To The Sky The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer has taken its first images of the star Beta Peg in the constellation Pictor - an encouraging start for an instrument designed to probe the cosmic neighbo ... more |
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 Odyssey Orbiter Nears Martian Longevity Record By the middle of next week, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will have worked longer at Mars than any other spacecraft in history. Odyssey entered orbit around Mars on Oct. 24, 2001. On Dec. 15, the 3,34 ... more | .. |
  Fahrenheit -459: Neutron Stars And String Theory In A Lab Using lasers to contain some ultra-chilled atoms, a team of scientists has measured the viscosity or stickiness of a gas often considered to be the sixth state of matter. The measurements veri ... more | .. |
  Army Nanosatellite On First Flight The first U.S. Army nanosatellite lifted off of Launch Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral at 10:43 a.m. Eastern. This is the launch of the first U.S. Army-built satellite in more than 50 years. U.S. Army Spac ... more | .. |
  ISS Tracks Months-Long Voyages Of Ships At Sea ESA's experimental ship detector on the International Space Station has pinpointed more than 60 000 ocean-going vessels so far. It has been able to follow the routes of individual ships for months a ... more |
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 New JPL Workers Shed Training Wheels For Rocket Launch Less than three years after obtaining college degrees, a group of early-career employees at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., can now add "rocket launch" to their resumes. Re ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Detect First Carbon-Rich Exoplanet A team led by a former postdoctoral researcher in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics, recently measured the first-ever planeta ... more | .. |
  Intergalactic Weather Map This composite image shows an intergalactic "weather map" around the elliptical galaxy NGC 5813, the dominant central galaxy in a galaxy group located about 105 million light years away from Earth. ... more |
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