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Weak Russian component downed Indian rocket Says Ex-ISRO chiefChennai, India (IANS) Apr 25, 2011 The destruction of India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) in mid air in 2010 was due to an inherent weakness in a component in the Russian supplied cryogenic engine. "We did several simulation tests to find out why the connectors - the wires that carry command signals from the onboard computers at the top to the rocket's engines down below - snapped," former ISRO chief Madhavan Nair told IANS. Nair, who headed the Failure Analysis Committee, said the 12-member panel submitted ... read more |
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 Russia may launch light Soyuz carrier rocket by 2012 Russia will be ready to launch a light version of a Soyuz carrier rocket by 2012, commander of the Russian Space Forces Oleg Ostapenko said on Thursday. The Soyuz 2-1V launch vehicle, also kno ... more | .. |
  Ariane Ariane 5 enjoys second successful launch for 2011 An Ariane 5 launcher has lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, Yahsat Y1A and Intelsat New Dawn, into their planned transfer ... more | .. |
  A New Dawn For Africa's Communications Infrastructure Intelsat S.A., the world's leading provider of fixed satellite services, reports that Arianespace has successfully launched the Intelsat New Dawn satellite. The Ariane 5 vehicle lifted off from Kour ... more | .. |
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 Space Systems/Loral Announces Early Delivery Of Telstar 14R Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that Telstar 14R/Estrela do Sul 2 was delivered ahead of schedule for the start of its launch campaign. The satellite, designed and built for Telesat, one of ... more | .. |
  SpaceX Wins NASA Contract To Complete Development Of Successor To Space Shuttle NASA has awarded Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) $75 million to develop a revolutionary launch escape system that will enable the company's Dragon spacecraft to carry astronauts. The Congres ... more | .. |
 More Than Two Million First Orbits Since its release on 12 April, the film recreating Yuri Gagarin's pioneering flight has been seen almost 2.6 million times. Much of the footage was shot aboard the Space Station by ESA astronaut Pao ... more | .. |
 SpaceX aims to put man on Mars in 10-20 years Private US company SpaceX hopes to put an astronaut on Mars within 10 to 20 years, the head of the firm said. ... more |
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 Ariane rocket launches two telecoms satellites An Ariane-5 rocket placed two telecommunications satellites into geostationary orbit early Saturday, the 43rd successive success for the European rocket, Arianespace announced. ... more | .. |
 Russians 'never ever did it in space': official Russian or Soviet cosmonauts never had sex in space in the 50 years of human exploration of the cosmos. And that's official, according to a Russian expert. As for Americans, well, you'd better ask them. ... more | .. |
  GPS use said to dull 'direction finding' Growing reliance on satellite navigation and Global Positioning System devices is creating a generation with little sense of direction, a U.K. scientist says. ... more | .. |
  Underwater robots join search for tsunami victims Two underwater robots operated by a joint US-Japanese team have searched a bay in northeast Japan for bodies of victims swept away by a tsunami nearly six weeks ago, officials said Thursday. ... more |
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Ariane 5 Cleared For Launch With Yahsat Y1A And Intelsat New Dawn Arianespace's second heavy-lift flight of 2011 has been authorized for its April 22 liftoff following the launch readiness review at the Spaceport in French Guiana. Originally scheduled for li ... more | .. |
 Iran To Put Monkey Into Orbit Iran plans to launch a monkey into space in mid-September, the ISNA news agency said on Wednesday, citing Iranian Space Agency head Hamid Fazeli. The monkey will be sent into orbit in a capsul ... more | .. |
  Resourcesat-2 Will Beam Back Huge Data On Resources The remote-sensing satellite, Resourcesat-2, put up by PSLV-C16 on Wednesday, "will become a workhorse for the global community" with the huge data it will send back on the earth's resources, said R ... more | .. |
 PSLV-C16 Puts Three Satellites In Orbit It was "a sweet seventeen" for the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on Wednesday, with the PSLV-C16 scoring a spectacular success by putting three satellites into orbit with precision. It ... more |
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AI enables tailored education for medical students at scale
MIT senior turns waste from the fishing industry into biodegradable plastic
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 PSLV Success Lifts ISRO Gloom Putting the dreaded 63-second failure of last Christmas when GSLV-F06 burst into flames and plunged into the Bay of Bengal behind them, Indian space scientists drew solace from yet another edition o ... more | .. |
S. Korean firm unveils robot playmate for kids South Korean telecoms operator KT on Wednesday rolled out a robot playmate for children in a move aimed at cashing in on the potentially lucrative industry. ... more | .. |
US lawmakers ask Apple about tracking feature US lawmakers are seeking an explanation from Apple following claims that iPhones and iPads constantly log the location of the devices and store the information in a hidden file. ... more | .. |
 Design Flaw Behind GSLV Crash Design deficiency in the shroud (cover) at the bottom of the cryogenic stage has been identified as the primary factor in the crash of Isro's GSLV-F06 flight on December 25, 2010, over the Bay of Be ... more |
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  U.S. Army Awards Raytheon $173 Million Contract for Excalibur Raytheon has received a $173 million U.S. Army fiscal year 2010 contract for the production of Excalibur precision-guided projectile rounds for in-theater use. This contract marks the beginning of f ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Demonstrates Integration of MONAX Communications System with Air Force Base Network Military commanders may soon have the ability to access the full range of smartphone applications anywhere on their installations with the Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) MONAX 3G wireless communication ... more | .. |
  US carries out first drone strike in Libya: Pentagon The United States carried out its first drone strike in Libya on Saturday, the Pentagon said, two days after approving the use of pilotless aircraft to aid rebels fighting Moamer Kadhafi's forces. ... more | .. |
 Pakistan tests latest defensive missile Pakistan successfully test-fired a new short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile, the Hatf-9, at an undisclosed location, the Defense Ministry said. ... more |
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  Biden, Putin discuss trade, missile defense US Vice President Joe Biden and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday discussed Moscow's goal of joining the World Trade Organization and missile defense cooperation, the White House said. ... more | .. |
 LockMart Tactical Reconn Radar Completes UAV Test Flights Lockheed Martin's Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter-Concealment-Enabled Radar, TRACER, has completed flight testing aboard a Predator B MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial System. TRACER is a dual-band (UHF and ... more | .. |
  World remembers Chernobyl, haunted by nuclear fears The world on Tuesday marks a quarter century since the world's worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in Ukraine, haunted by fears over the safety of atomic energy after the Japan earthquake. ... more | .. |
 Japan advisor says nuclear threat receding: report The Japanese prime minister's special advisor on the nuclear crisis says the immediate risk of a major radiation leak from the Fukushima power plant has receded, the Wall Street Journal reported. ... more |
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EDF wants nuclear crisis task force French utility Electricite de France has proposed a series of measures to improve the safety of its reactors, including the creation of a rapid reaction force that would respond to nuclear accidents. ... more | .. |
Japan PM says country facing 'crisis within crisis' Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Friday it is his "destiny" to serve during "a crisis within a crisis" as the tsunami and quake-hit nation battles the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. ... more | .. |
  Bank of Japan to halve growth forecast: report The Bank of Japan is expected to downgrade its economic growth outlook for the year to March 2012 from 1.6 percent to around 0.8 percent in light of the deadly disasters in March, a report said Monday. ... more | .. |
 3-D towers of information double data storage areal density Using well-known patterned media, a team of researchers in France has figured out a way to double the areal density of information by essentially cutting the magnetic media into small pieces and bui ... more |
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