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Posts Tagged ‘rocket’
Daddy Elton John! “Rocket Man†Singer & Partner David Furnish Welcome Baby Boy
December 28th, 2010 |
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Just call him Papa John! Singing legend Elton John and his partner David Furnish have become parents after a surrogate mother gave birth to the couple’s baby boy on Christmas Day. Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John was born in California Dec. 25, weighing seven pounds, five ounces, the proud parents said in a statement Monday. “We [...]
Israel strikes Gaza tunnels after rocket attack
August 1st, 2010 |
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The Israeli army says warplanes have launched an attack on two tunnels used by smugglers in the southern Gaza Strip in response to a rocket attack. The military said Sunday two Israel Air Force jets struck two Gaza targets just hours after a Qassam rocket hit a building in the Israeli border town of Sderot, a frequent target of rockets fired from Gaza.
Online TV And Video Viewing Figures Rocket Posted By : Paddy Chang
July 12th, 2010 |
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Live Internet TV | Online TV technology allows you to watch over 4,500 HD channels right on your PC.
SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Blasts Off for First Test Space Flight
June 5th, 2010 |
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A possible replacement for the space shuttle, SpaceX’s $100 million investment, the Falcon 9 cargo rocket, faces a critical moment with a test launch. – The Falcon 9 rocket, built by aerospace technology company SpaceX, blasted
off on its first test flight June 4, continuing the company’s push to create
private vehicles that someday could take passengers and cargo beyond
Earth’s boundaries.
The rocket reached orbit in about 9 minutes.
The F…
Kurds kill Turkish soldiers in rocket attack
May 31st, 2010 |
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Six Turkish soldiers have been killed and seven injured in a rocket attack on a navy base in the country’s south, state media reports. Suspected Kurdish rebels fired on a military vehicle carrying troops in the Mediterranean port of Iskenderun.
VASIMR rocket with capability to reach Mars in 40 days will launch in 2014
May 6th, 2010 |
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Ad Astra Rocket Co. is planning to develop a plasma-powered rocket named Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) which would carry astronauts to Mars I period of 40 days.
VASIMR incorporates the technology of radio waves, ionize propellants like argon, xenon or hydrogen, and heat the resulting plasma to temperatures 20 times hotter than that of [...]
GSLV-D3 failed to launch successfully
April 16th, 2010 |
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The 50 meter tall GSLV-D3 rocket that was scheduled to launch today on 15 April blasted off at 4.27 pm. This GSLV vehicle was powered by an indigenous cryogenic engine that has taken GSAT-4 satellite but stopped giving singles at the last minute.
ISRO informed that as soon as the rocket reached to the height of [...]
Of six GSLV launches, only two were successes
April 15th, 2010 |
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The GSLV rocket mission that failed Thursday was the sixth launched by India. Of the six, only two were successes and one a partial success. The rest could not accomplish their missions.
The two successful launches by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) were in 2003 and 2004 – and put into space GSAT-2 and Edusat, [...]
Filling fuel for cryogenic engine to start
April 15th, 2010 |
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Scientists were Thursday getting ready to launch an Indian-designed and built cryogenic engine to inject an advanced communication satellite into space. The filling of liquid fuel that will power the third stage of the 50-metre tall, 416-tonne Indian rocket to inject the satellite in geo-synchronous orbit is expected to start around 11.30 a.m.
The filling super [...]
Rocket fired while EU foreign chief in Gaza
March 18th, 2010 |
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A rocket fired from inside the Gaza Strip into Israel has struck a kibbutz and killed a foreign farm worker. It happened during a high-profile visit to the enclave by the EU’s foreign policy chief.
Chip Shot: The Rocket Project Powered by Sony and Intel Helps Science Students Reach for the Stars
March 3rd, 2010 |
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High school students given Intel® Core powered Sony VAIO® notebooks to design, build and launch a high-power rocket. The Rocket will be 25 feet tall, weigh over 500 pounds and be capable of reaching the stratosphere. The students are in an accelerated rocketry course by Tom Atchison, Director of the Association of Rocket Mavericks and leading figure in the high power rocket community. The launch day will be in April at Black Rock Desert north of Reno, Nevada. Learn more about the Rocket Project.
Erik Gates, “Mythbusters†Expert, Dies In Fall
December 31st, 2009 |
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Erik Gates, who guest-starred as an Amateur Rocket Expert on the popular Discovery Channel show MythBusters, died in a freak accident Dec. 20. He was 47.
Gates was doing electrical work on a roof at a building in Newbury Park, California when he fell 30 feet from a skylight. Gates was an owner of Gateco Electric, [...]
US rocket shoots third strategic military satellite into space
December 6th, 2009 |
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A rocket carrying an Air Force satellite that will be used by the military has launched from Cape Canaveral. The rocket blasted off Saturday evening after thick clouds, heavy rains and a system problem postponed two earlier attempts. The rocket is carrying the Air Force’s Wideband Global
Microsoft Sells Folio, NXT to Rocket Software
December 2nd, 2009 |
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Microsoft will divest itself of two enterprise products, NXT and Folio, selling them to software development company Rocket Software. Microsoft originally created NXT in an effort to attract ISVs to Windows Server products, while Folio came to Microsoft as part of the $1.2 billion acquisition of enterprise search company Fast Search Transfer in 2008. Microsoft’s reasons for the divestment remain cloudy.
– Microsoft will divest itself of Folio and NXT, products that facilitate the
management of online content, in a deal with Rocket Software, which develops
enterprise infrastructure products. No terms of the agreement were disclosed.
Rocket Software will provide support and new product releases to …
NASA’s new rocket: The first (and last?) flight of Ares
October 29th, 2009 |
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The launch of the Ares I-X raises hopes at NASA
NASA’s new Ares I-X rocket was launched successfully from the Kennedy Space Centre, in Florida, on October 28th. It is part of the American space agency’s programme to replace its ageing shuttles and create a vehicle that could take people to the moon. The political backdrop to this test flight, which cost $455m and lasted only a few minutes before splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean, is uncertainty over whether Barack Obama’s administration will continue the course set by President Bush (high in ambition, low in funding) or set out on a new path that matches the agency’s goals with its budget. Without more money, this will mean conceding that Americans will not return to the moon by 2020, as Mr Bush hoped. And a change in this direction might mean scrapping Ares in favour of something cheaper.
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NASA Sets Critical Launch of Untested Rocket
October 26th, 2009 |
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The space agency’s next-generation rocket gets its first test launch Oct. 27 from Kennedy Space Center. The Ares I-X rocket is designed to launch the Orion spacecrafts into space for low-orbit flights to the International Space Station and, eventually, the moon as NASA phases out the space shuttle fleet by the end of next year.
– NASA plans a $445
million, 2-minute test launch of its experimental test booster rocket Ares I-X
Oct. 27. Barring weather delays, which forecasters predict is likely, the Ares
I-X is scheduled for an 8 a.m. EDT launch from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39B.
The Ares I-X is currently schedu…
South Korea gives rocket launch a second shot
August 25th, 2009 |
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South Korea will try again on Tuesday to launch its first space rocket, a move that will be watched warily by reclusive North Korea, after halting last week’s countdown minutes before lift-off. South Korea’s space agency said the Aug. 19 launch was aborted because of a glitch with pressure
Fear and violence in Afghan countryside ahead of vote
July 31st, 2009 |
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Walking to a polling station in rural Afghanistan can be risky — even for 250 troops armed with a guided missile, whose recent visit was disrupted by rocket attacks and gunfire. At around 7:00 am, several hours after dawn, 30 armoured vehicles deposited NATO troops, joined quickly by Afghan