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India's GSLV rocket launch failsBangalore, India (AFP) April 15, 2010 Indian space engineers lost contact with a rocket showcasing new indigenously built booster technology on Thursday soon after launch, in a major blow to the country's space ambitions. The launch of the first India-made rocket powered by cryogenic motors, a complex technology mastered by just five countries, failed soon after lift-off from India's space centre at Sriharikota in southeast Andhra Pradesh state. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K. Radhakrishnan told reporters that ... read more |
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Bangalore (PTI) Apr 14, 2010The stage is all set for India to test its first domestically developed cryogenic engine for the first time on the locally built GSLV-D3 rocket - with the countdown for the April 15 launch expected to begin on Wednesday at the Sriharikota spaceport on Andhra coast. "A 29-hour countdown is expected to start at 11.27 AM tomorrow for the launch of GSLV-D3 on Thursday at 4.27 PM," Indian Space ... more  
Beijing (XNA) Apr 14, 2010China will push ahead with its lunar exploration program despite the United States' decision to suspend its return to the moon, a senior space exploration scientist has said. "China should not slow down its pace of lunar exploration even if other countries change their plans," said Ye Peijian, chief designer of the nation's first lunar probe, Chang'e-1. The country plans to launch it ... more  
Washington (AFP) April 13, 2010US astronauts on Tuesday completed the third and last space walk of their mission to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said. The outing kept mission specialists Rick Mastracchio and Clayton Anderson outside the ISS for six hours and 24 minutes, and was the sixth space walk for both astronauts. During the space walk, the two astronauts finished installing a new ammonia tank for ... more |
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Udall Bennet Ask President To Re-evaluate Constellation CutsWashington DC (SPX) Apr 13, 2010 U.S. Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet met with NASA Administrator, General Charlie Bolden, to urge President Obama to re-evaluate his proposed cancellation of the Constellation program. While expressing support for certain aspects of NASA's funding in the proposed 2011 federal budget, both Senators voiced concern about terminating the Constellation program, which would provide a replacement for the retiring space shuttle fleet. In anticipation of President Obama's conference on the NASA budg ... read more |
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