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 Seoul (AFP) June 1, 2009 
An unrepentant North Korea appears to be pushing ahead with preparations to test-fire another long-range missile, defying global condemnation of its nuclear test, officials here said Monday. The secretive communist state was also said to be stepping up military drills near the border with the South, which is on heightened alert for a possible repeat of the deadly naval clashes seen in 1999 ... read more 
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (XNA) Jun 01, 2009The Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) has launched a rocket to test the facilities at the Alcantara Launching Center. The launching, which took place on Friday afternoon, was "a complete success", AEB said in a statement. The mission was code-named Maracati 1 under a partnership between Brazil and Germany. It was the first launch from the Alcantara base since 2007. The rocket, named Orion ... more
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San Francisco (AFP) May 29, 2009A US weapons lab on Friday pulled back the curtain on a super laser with the power to burn as hot as a star. The National Ignition Facility's main purpose is to serve as a tool for gauging the reliability and safety of the US nuclear weapons arsenal but scientists say it could deliver breakthroughs in safe fusion power. "We have invented the world's largest laser system," actor-turned-go ... more  
Washington (UPI) May 29, 2009 The NASA space agency says it has signed a contract extension with its Russian counterpart regarding crew transports to the International Space Station. The U.S. agency said in an online statement the $306 million deal with Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos will involve four launches by the Roscosmos Soyuz program, RIA Novosti reported Friday. NASA said on its Web site Thur ... more  
Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Jun 01, 2009Ministers in charge of space activities representing the Member States of the European Space Agency and the European Union met in Brussels for the Sixth Space Council. The Council was jointly chaired by Miroslava Kopicov�, the Czech Republic's Minister of Education, on behalf of the EU Competitiveness Council, and Mariastella Gelmini, Italian Minister for Education, University and Research ... more  
Kirkland WA (SPX) Jun 01, 2009INRIX has announced a contract with Telvent to provide additional traffic information for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's forthcoming 511 service. Through the new agreement, INRIX will provide real-time traffic data, traffic flow information and travel times for key routes on nearly 800 miles of Pennsylvania roadway in the Harrisburg, Scranton, Allentown, Pittsburgh and ... more |
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Shanghai, China (XNA) Jun 01, 2009China's first Mars probe, Yinghuo-1, is expected to be launched in the second half of this year, an official of the Shanghai Academy of Space flight Technology (SAST) has said. The probe had passed test of the research phase, Zhang Weiqiang, deputy secretary of SAST Committee of the Communist Party of China, told the third Shanghai International Aerospace Technology and Equipment Exhibitio ... more  
Moscow (UPI) May 30, 2009 Alexei Leonov, the first person to walk in space, marked his 75 birthday Saturday with a telegram from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. "You belong to the eminent corps of Russia's first cosmonauts," Dmitry said, calling Leonov a man of the "highest professionalism and personal courage." Leonov, twice honored as a Hero of the Soviet Union, was one of 20 Russian air force pilots ... more  
Seoul (AFP) May 30, 2009Unfazed by international anger at its second nuclear bomb test, a defiant North Korea was said Saturday to be preparing to launch a long-range missile. The United States stressed it would never accept the North as a nuclear-armed state and warned that more atomic tests could spark an arms race in East Asia. "A train carrying a long-range missile has been spotted at the weapons research ... more  
San Diego CA (SPX) Jun 01, 2009The Northrop Grumman-developed MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) successfully completed the latest set of fully autonomous flight operations onboard the USS McInerney (FFG-8) in support of dynamic interface testing. This was a critical step for the U.S. Navy MQ-8B Fire Scout toward Operational Evaluation (OpEval), scheduled for later ... more |
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