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Europe launcher puts Spanish, S.Korean satellites into orbitKourou, French Guiana (AFP) Dec 30, 2010 An Ariane 5 heavy rocket lifted off from Europe's space base on French Guiana Wednesday and put into orbit the South Korean Koreasat 6 and Spanish Hispasat 1E telecommunications satellites. The launch from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou was the Ariane 5 launcher's sixth and last mission of the year, Arianespace said in a statement. Lift-off at 6:27 pm (2127 GMT) was delayed by about 24 hours because of high winds. It had already been pushed back by a week to allow one of the clients to carry out c ... read more |
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 Arianespace Flight 199: Launch Postponed 24 Hours The launch of Arianespace Flight 199 has been postponed for 24 hours due to the unfavourable weather conditions over the launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana. Flight 199 will place into geostat ... more | .. |
  Artificial intelligence to transform web: Russian tycoon The emergence of artificial intelligence is to transform the Internet industry and social networking over the next decade, Russia's leading web tycoon said in an interview on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Astrobiology Top 10: Viking Results Revisited Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of l ... more | .. |
 Suspected Debris Of Exploded Rocket Washes Ashore An oval metal object, suspected to be debris of the rocket that was blown up mid-air by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists Saturday following a failed launch, washed ashore near Pa ... more |
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  TRACE Spacecraft's New Slewing Procedure The fastest path between Point A and Point B is a straight line. Not so fast, says a team of scientists and engineers who recently disproved this commonly accepted notion using a NASA satellite that ... more | .. |
  Robot built to walk like senior citizens Robots have been made to run, jump and even dance, but they might be more useful if they could walk like a senior citizen, Japanese researchers say. ... more | .. |
 S.Korea schools get robot English teachers Almost 30 robots have started teaching English to youngsters in a South Korean city, education officials said Tuesday, in a pilot project designed to nurture the nascent robot industry. ... more | .. |
  Cassini Marks Holidays With Dramatic Views Of Rhea Newly released for the holidays, images of Saturn's second largest moon Rhea obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show dramatic views of fractures cutting through craters on the moon's surface, rev ... more |
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  IceBite Blog: Trek to University Valley Preparing for University Valley By Margarita Marinova: We have spent the past week getting all of our equipment ready: sleeping bags, personal tents, work tents, food, drilling equipment, weather st ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Studying A Football-Field Size Crater On Dec. 16, 2010, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reached a crater about the size of a football field-some 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter. The rover team plans to use cameras and s ... more | .. |
 NASA's Next Mars Rover to Zap Rocks With Laser A rock-zapping laser instrument on NASA's next Mars rover has roots in a demonstration that Roger Wiens saw 13 years ago in a colleague's room at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. ... more | .. |
  NASA Railroad Keeps Shuttle's Boosters on Right Track For nearly three decades, the NASA Railroad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida has kept the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters on track. The mighty boosters fly in pairs and generate a comb ... more |
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 New Technology: Hybrid Ion Rocket Engine The greatest advancement to jet aviation since the first Heinkel He178 V1 took off was, of course, the afterburner. The greatest thing that could happen to the scientific community would be if it wa ... more | .. |
 Mars Movie - I'm Dreaming Of A Blue Sunset A new Mars movie clip gives us a rover's-eye view of a bluish Martian sunset, while another clip shows the silhouette of the moon Phobos passing in front of the sun. America's Mars Exploration ... more | .. |
 New molecule could mean better rocket fuel Swedish scientists say they've discovered a molecule that could lead to new rocket fuels that are 20 percent to 30 percent more efficient than now. ... more |
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Extra Weight May Have Caused GSLV Problems Instability introduced by excessive payload weight was most likely responsible for the failure of an Indian rocket's launch on Christmas day, an expert in the field and former scientist of the India ... more | .. |
 Russia puts European satellite Ka-Sat in orbit Russia on Monday put into orbit the European Ka-Sat satellite launched overnight by a Proton-M rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, space officials said. ... more | .. |
  Argentina to record UFO sightings The Argentine Air Force has created a commission to record and investigate reports of unidentified flying objects (UFO) in the South American country's airspace, a spokesman told AFP Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 ISRO Scanning Data For GSLV Flop Scientists and technical experts led by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman, Dr K Radhakrishnan on Sunday continued to analyse the prodigious data following Saturday's failure of ... more |
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Indian satellite rocket explodes after lift-off An Indian space rocket carrying an advanced communications satellite was destroyed by mission control Saturday following a malfunction after lift-off, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Eutelsat's KA-SAT Satellite Lofted Into Orbit The KA-SAT satellite of Eutelsat Communications has been successfully lofted into orbit by a Proton Breeze M rocket supplied by ILS. Lift-off of Eutelsat's 6.1 tonne satellite took place on 26 Decem ... more | .. |
 IBM offers glimpse into the future Air-powered batteries, 3-D cellphones that project holographs and personalized commutes are among the predictions of IBM scientists gazing into their crystal balls. ... more | .. |
  First Super-Earth Atmosphere Analyzed The atmosphere around a super-Earth exoplanet has been analyzed for the first time by an international team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope. The planet, which is known as GJ 12 ... more |
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