China launches new type of carrier rocket: state media
Shanghai (AFP) Sept 20, 2015 -
China on Sunday launched a new, smaller type of rocket from its "Long March" family which will be primarily used for carrying satellites aloft, state media reported, as the country races ahead with an ambitious space programme.
The Long March-6, a newly developed carrier rocket which uses liquid propellant, took off from a launch base in the northern province of Shanxi on Sunday morning carr ...
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US says 5.6 mn fingerprints stolen in breach
Washington (AFP) Sept 23, 2015 -
The massive breaches of US government records resulted in the theft of some 5.6 million sets of fingerprints, officials said Wednesday, raising their estimate from 1.1 million.
Officials said the latest analysis of the two breaches - widely attributed to hackers based in China - did not change the number of people affected, which remained at 21.5 million.
A statement by the Office of P ...
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China's new carrier rocket succeeds in 1st trip
Taiyuan, China (XNA) Sep 22, 2015 -
China successfully launched a new model of carrier rocket, Long March-6, at 7:01 a.m. Sunday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province.
The rocket carried 20 micro-satellites into the space for space tests.
The new rocket, fueled by liquid propellant made of liquid oxygen and kerosene, is China's first carrier rocket that uses fuel free of toxicity and ...
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Moscow to Launch Telecom Satellites on Rokot Carrier Rocket
Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 22, 2015 -
Russian Defense Ministry announced the launch of the Rokot lightweight launch vehicle carrying Rodnik communication satellites from the Plesetsk State Test Cosmodrome.
Russian Defense Ministry on Thursday plans to launch a Rokot carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space center in northwestern Russia to put Rodnik communications satellites into orbit, the ministry's press service announced Mon ...
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Secrets of Soviet space race come to London
London (AFP) Sept 18, 2015 -
The space technology that saw the Soviet Union propel the first dog, man and woman into orbit has gone on show in London - most of it being exhibited outside Russia for the first time.
Speaking at the opening of the exhibition at the Science Museum, which runs until March 13, the first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova recalled her affection for the spacecraft that took her into orbit for ...
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Dynetics and Rocketdyne perform gas generator test using 3D printer
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 17, 2015 -
The Dynetics and Aerojet Rocketdyne team recently performed with its NASA partner the second successful gas generator test series of the F-1 engine as part of the Space Launch System (SLS) Advanced Booster Engineering Demonstration and/or Risk Reduction (ABEDRR) contract. This test series was unique, however, in that a key component of the gas generator was built using additive manufacturing - o ...
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Air Force welcomes Blue Origin to Launch Complex 36
Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Sep 22, 2015 -
The 45th Space Wing expanded commercial space launch operations by welcoming Blue Origin to the Eastern Range during a media event held at Space Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, Sept. 15, 2015.
During the Blue Origin event, Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin and Amazon.com CEO, announced his intent to build rockets on the Space Coast and launch them from Cape ...
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