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![]() Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 8, 2010 A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station blasted off Friday from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The rocket took off into the night sky on schedule at 3:11 am Moscow time (23:11 GMT Thursday), creating a spectacular yellow light. Russian space officials said the launch had gone according to plan. Their Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft is a modernised version of the ship used by Russia to put humans into the space. It is the first such craft to be full ... read more |
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Opportunity For Close-Up View Of Meteorite Oilean Ruaidh![]() This is an image of the meteorite that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity found and examined in September 2010. Opportunity's cameras first revealed the meteorite in images taken on Sol 2363 (Sept. 16, 2010), the 2,363rd Martian day of the rover's mission on Mars. This view was taken with the panoramic camera on Sol 2371 (Sept. 24, 2010). The science team used two tools on Opportuni ... more Orbital Environment For Dawn Spacecraft At Vesta ![]() A detailed study of the dynamics of the Dawn spacecraft as it orbits the large Arizona-sized, non-spherical asteroid Vesta next summer in 2011 reveals one of the most complex operational environments for a NASA mission to date. This work has implications for future mission planning to other large asteroids. A paper on the research titled "The Dynamical Environment of Dawn at Vesta" by Pasq ... more Space Experience Curacao Announces Wet Lease of XCOR Lynx Suborbital ![]() Space Experience Curacao (SXC) and XCOR Aerospace, Inc. jointly announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the wet lease of a production version of the Lynx suborbital spacecraft, pending United States government approvals to station the vehicle on the island of Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles. With a planned start date in January 2014, SXC will market, and XCOR w ... more |
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![]() Chiba, Japan (AFP) Oct 6, 2010 Hundreds of technology firms came together in Japan Tuesday to showcase the latest in high-end gadgetry, including wafer-thin speakers and a ring that can monitor your heart rate. The five-day Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (Ceatec) technology fair in Chiba near Tokyo features more than 600 companies from 15 countries and regions showing new gadgets. Musical instrument maker Yamaha had on show its prototype TLF speaker that can be displayed as a thin, light and flexible poster wi ... read more |
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