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 Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Sept 30, 2009 
The billionaire founder of the Cirque du Soleil blasted off into orbit on a Russian rocket on Wednesday to bring his trademark humour and acrobatic energy into the ultra-serious world of space flight. Guy Laliberte, 50, a Canadian who spent millions from a personal fortune on his two week visit to the International Space Station (ISS), is likely to be the last such "space tourist" for ... read more 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 30, 2009Pavel Popovich, a leading figure in the pioneering generation of early cosmonauts and the fourth Soviet man to go to space, died on Wednesday at a sanatorium aged 79, space officials said. Popovich is best known for piloting the Vostok-4 probe that in August 1962 took part in the first ever instance of two manned satellites orbiting the earth at the same time, a trip that made him the sixth ... more
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Washington DC (SPX) Oct 01, 2009Completing an 18-month mission orbiting the Earth more than 6,000 times on-orbit the International Space Station (ISS), the Optical Reflector Material Experiment (ORMatE-1) returns to Washington, D.C., to NRL's Electronics Science and Technology Division to begin experiment testing and analysis. Retrieved September 2009 by the crew of NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour, ORMatE-1 is a passive ... more  
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 01, 2009Arianespace is continuing its sustained launch pace - with the next mission ready for an October 1 liftoff, and payloads for the following flight now undergoing final checkout at the Spaceport. The October 1 liftoff will be Ariane 5's fifth mission of 2009, carrying the civilian Amazonas 2 satellite for Spain's HISPASAT, along with the German COMSATBw-1 military telecommunications platform ... more  
Thiruvananthapuram, India (PTI) Oct 01, 2009Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair has said that the country was all set to launch a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) using an indigenously developed cryogenic engine. Talking to reporters here on Monday, Nair said, "I have to say that it is yet another historic event for ISRO. Till now we were using Russian built cryogenic stages. We had ... more |
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Nuku'Alofa (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Desperate tsunami survivors on a remote Tongan island have appealed for urgent aid -- and comforting music -- as they remained homeless and cut off from the outside world. Hundreds of Niuatoputapu residents said Wednesday they needed medical supplies, fresh water and shelter, after more than 90 percent of homes on the tiny island were destroyed. They also requested "radio programmes of ... more  
San Francisco (AFP) Sept 30, 2009Google on Wednesday released free software that lets website operators automatically translate online pages into any of 51 languages. A "translator gadget" powered by Google Translate offers to transform pages for visitors if the language settings in their browsers are different from the language of a particular website, according to Google product manager Jeff Chin. "Automatic ... more  
Shanghai (AFP) Sept 30, 2009China's manufacturing activity continued to expand at a steady rate in September, as domestic and overseas demand continued to improve, an independent survey published Wednesday indicated. The HSBC China Manufacturing PMI, or purchasing managers index, fell slightly to 55.0 in September, from 55.1 in August. A reading above 50 nevertheless means the sector is expanding, while a reading ... more |
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