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Despite the Iran-North Korea-Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA) regulations, which prevent US organizations from conducting business with Russia while the latter is supporting any of the countries mentioned in the Act, NASA still hoped for a government waiver that would allow them to continue using Russian rockets.... |
10 October 2008
08:23 GMT |
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Rocket propelled grenades are explosive projectiles currently used in modern warfare to attack or destroy enemy targets from a distance. RPGs have their origins in mortars, which have been used as weapons of siege ever since the 1500s. Basically, a mortar is a metal tube aiming into the air, inside which mortar shell... |
18 July 2008
08:58 GMT |
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The Rocket Racing League company was created by Granger Whitelaw and X-Prize Foundation chairman Peter Diamandis in 2005. Participants in the challenge that will be held for the first time on August 1st, 2008, will need to pilot rocket-powered airplanes and compete with each other for the 350,000 US dollars prize mon... |
14 April 2008
10:50 GMT |
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Today, anybody or anything which must be transported into Earth's orbit is carried with the help of space rockets. Nonetheless, alternative space transportation devices such as space elevators, for example, could one day make space travel a whole lot faster, safer and cheaper than the conventional methods curren... |
29 March 2008
06:06 GMT |
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No surprise here! Out of the few couple of millions of objects floating around in Earth's orbit, at least some must come back from time to time. Just last week, a cattle farmer from Australia reported another incident in which a strange object suddenly appeared in a remote region of the northern outback. He beli... |
28 March 2008
06:45 GMT |
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The Russian Roskosmos agency was recently sued by an inhabitant of Russia's Altai region for 42,000 US dollars, in compensation for the fact that a 3 meters piece of metal from one of its space rockets fell on his property, near the outdoor toilet. Shepherd Boris Urmatov lives in a area which is located right in... |
27 March 2008
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Exactly a week ago, the state-run Iranian television published a brief news report which stated that Iran had officially opened its first space center and launched its first rocket into space. Not much has been said about the rocket, except that it carried a payload consisting of some scientific instruments to measur... |
11 February 2008
07:17 GMT |
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Iran had a field day on Monday after reporting that it had successfully launched into space its first rocket, thus becoming one of the 11 countries in the world to have capabilities of launching satellites into space. The launch hasn't been confirmed yet by the international community, but could be one of those ... |
4 February 2008
07:23 GMT |
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Successfully landing micro sensor device on the surface of a planet, during planetary exploration missions, could prove somewhat difficult, especially when trying to deploy them without causing critical failures during the impact phase. Swiss and German researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, alon... |
30 January 2008
09:21 GMT |
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Missiles were first launched 8 centuries ago by the Chinese, during their battles with the Mongols. The first Chinese missiles were propelled by gunpowder. When arrows and spears were stuck to it, the missile made a dreadful weapon. The Mongols were so impressed, that they made their own missiles employed against the... |
17 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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"Come Josephine in my flying"… digital video rocket?! Surprised? Wait until you hear all of it. From the same series that includes weird digital cameras, the guys from Hammacher Schlemmer are selling this item to the ones that always appreciate a good old spying.This baby can unbelievably fly 500 feet high, while car... |
3 September 2007
02:54 GMT |
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A test flight of the SpaceShipOne went terribly wrong, resulting in an explosion that killed two people and critically injured four others, at the test site in the Mojave Desert, California. The ship, belonging to Scaled Components, is the first private manned rocket to reach space.The airport site was used by the p... |
27 July 2007
04:26 GMT |
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A new rocket was launched this week from the Alcantara launch site near the northeastern city of Sao Luis, in an effort to revive Brazil's space program, halted after a terrible accident that claimed the lives of 21 people, in 2003, including several scientists, when a satellite-launching rocket exploded at the... |
20 July 2007
11:05 GMT |
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Ever had problems braking from 100 km/h (60 mph) to a full stop when seeing a red light in front of you? Braking is a huge stress factor for your tires, which try to make the most out of friction with the road.But how would you brake in a rocket to land on the surface of the Moon? Atmospheric friction can no longer ... |
18 July 2007
09:10 GMT |
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Yesterday, the space shuttle Endeavour rolled out of the hangar and was taken to the vehicle assembly building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where a fuel tank and the booster rockets were mounted on it, in preparation for the next mission, scheduled on August 7.Endeavour, one of the original five spaceships i... |
3 July 2007
02:50 GMT |
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Investing in space technology now may be similar to buying Microsoft shares two decades ago: highly profitable. It seems the next industry area to experience an economic boom will be the exploration of space and space tourism.That's exactly what a company called Space Adventures, headquartered in Vienna, Virgin... |
29 June 2007
08:18 GMT |
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The new spaceship currently under development at NASA, Ares V, will be able to transport people on the Moon and maybe even on Mars. A scientist is proposing a new type of rocket that, if mounted on Ares V, could dramatically reduce the costs of future manned missions.Steven Howe, director of the Center for Space Nuc... |
28 June 2007
08:31 GMT |
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China's shootdown of an old communication satellite two months ago using a new missile was the first successful demonstration of an anti-satellite missile by any country in more than 20 years. The U.S. perceived the test not only as a proof of China's increasing military capabilities and ambitions, but als... |
25 June 2007
03:33 GMT |
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The director of US national intelligence stated this week that a multibillion-dollar spy satellite program has been canceled, but gave no reason for his recent decision. Mike McConnell is the spy chief that almost ventured into disclosing some juicy details about the mission, but, unfortunately for us, he stopped in... |
22 June 2007
02:49 GMT |
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The Atlas 5 rocket - built by Lockheed Martin Corp. and marketed under a new Lockheed-Boeing Co. joint venture called United Launch Alliance and directed by the National Reconnaissance Office that was carrying a secret spy satellite into space, encountered some technical problems right after launch.The NRO - one of ... |
18 June 2007
15:36 GMT |
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China's ambition seems to be surpassed only by the number of inhabitants, when it comes to space exploration. The official state media reported plans to develop a new generation of carrier rockets having the largest payload capacity ever, able to launch a space station into orbit.China is the third country, aft... |
18 June 2007
10:49 GMT |
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NASA's space program is not the only one to carry people and equipment into orbit. There is also the spy-satellite program, which is not so exposed to the media, and not much is disclosed about the secret cargo of some rockets that also take off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.As secret as t... |
16 June 2007
06:15 GMT |
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A new plasma rocket design underwent thorough testing and eventually broke the endurance record for its class, and could provide the next generation of propulsion systems for future space missions.Plasma propulsion engines use accelerated plasma for propulsion. Though far less powerful than conventional atmospheric ... |
14 June 2007
11:24 GMT |
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Among the arsenal of the most advanced military superpowers, one weapon is the most feared. It's not the atomic bomb, it's even more powerful, while being almost undetectable and can launch a devastating surprise attack on almost any country in the world.Operating underwater at pressures beyond the range o... |
5 June 2007
11:18 GMT |
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Russia performed a test fire of its newest Inter Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) this week and officials say it was a complete success. Capable of carrying multiple independent warheads, it's also able - according to government officials - to penetrate any defense system in the world.An intercontinental ba... |
30 May 2007
02:50 GMT |
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It might sound strange, but there are some scientists (not few) who propose building a space elevator to take people to space on a cable. That would eliminate the need for rockets, or at least today's spaceships.This would be the supreme high-rise project in the world. The concept of the space elevator is actual... |
28 May 2007
12:16 GMT |
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NASA tested a new reusable solid rocket motor last week at the Utah test facility. It was a full scale 2-minute test that would help the development of new engines for the next generation of space shuttles, possibly even the one that will carry the next human spacecraft to the moon.It was a static firing, the engine... |
28 May 2007
09:03 GMT |
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In recent years, space tourism has been a refreshing alternative and even if for the moment the pioneers pay around $20 million for a trip to the International Space Station, future trips will get more affordable, as many companies are trying to get a piece of the space cake. One of them is Benson Space Company of P... |
26 May 2007
06:30 GMT |
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Two weeks ago, on April 29, the ashes of the actor James Doohan, who played the starship Enterprise's chief engineer Montgomery Scott in the original 1966-1969 Star Trek series, have been sent to the edge of space by a Houston-based company.The rocket, belonging to Space Services Inc., which organized the "memo... |
14 May 2007
15:31 GMT |
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Once again, China has proved that it's a force not to be taken lightly. Sure, it's a communist country, but who cares. We all have some piece of electronics with the nice Made in China label that we all know and "love."Last month, they shot down one of their own satellites with a missile launched from Eart... |
14 May 2007
09:59 GMT |
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A mysterious silvery space object crashed through the roof of a house.The owners of a New Jersey home were alarmed by the loud noise coming from the bathroom. First, they thought a piece of the ceiling had fallen. Srinivasan Nageswaran and his family were startled to see a chunk of metal that had crashed through the... |
12 May 2007
04:33 GMT |
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How do you send a package from space down to Earth without using expensive rockets and fuel? You drop it from space and hope it won't land in the ocean? Well, not exactly, but close enough. The answer is called YES2 (Young Engineers Satellite) and it's a joint project involving almost five hundred students... |
10 May 2007
06:59 GMT |
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The Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB) used on NASA's current space shuttles use solid fuel to get the thrust required to defeat the Earth's gravitational pull. The fuel is made of grains molded from a thermoset elastomer, fuel, oxidizer and catalyst. This fuel mixture is known as Ammonium perchlorate composite ... |
7 May 2007
05:30 GMT |
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