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SpaceX scrubs launch to ISS over rocket engine problemCape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) May 19, 2012 SpaceX on Saturday scrubbed the highly anticipated launch of its Dragon capsule toward the Space Station due to a rocket engine problem. The last-second abort came when one of the Falcon 9's engines exceeded a technical limit that forced a shutdown of the launch attempt, which may be rescheduled as early as May 22. "Launch aborted: slightly high combustion chamber pressure on engine 5. Will adjust limits for countdown in a few days," SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweated. ... read more |
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  NASA chooses rocket for Orion launches NASA says it will modify an existing and proven Delta IV rocket second stage to launch an Orion spacecraft on an unmanned test flight in 2017. ... more | .. |
  N. Korea denies jamming GPS of civilian aircraft North Korea on Friday denied it had jammed the GPS systems of hundreds of civilian aircraft and ships in South Korea, accusing the South of using problems with navigation equipment to smear the North. ... more | .. |
  Fuel for the black hole An international research team led by Gerd Weigelt from the Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie in Bonn reports on high-resolution studies of an active galactic nucleus in the near-infrared. The ... more | .. |
 Solar Eclipse this Weekend Watching an electron being born Ariane 5 ECA rocket orbits JCSAT-13 and VINASAT-2 Mission accomplished New Space Station Crew in Orbit German Astronomers Finish Europe's Largest Solar Telescope On Tenerife Space Systems Loral Provides High Capacity Broadband Satellite to Hughes NASA trains astronauts to land on asteroid |
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 Timely discovery: Physics research sheds new light on quantum dynamics Kansas State University physicists and an international team of collaborators have made a breakthrough that improves understanding of matter-light interactions. Their research allows double io ... more | .. |
  XCOR Announces Lynx Suborbital Flight Winner XCOR Aerospace has announced the grand prize winner of a trip aboard the Lynx Mark I suborbital launch vehicle. XCOR Chief Operating Officer Andrew Nelson made the announcement at the Spacecraft Tec ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Orbits 100th and 101st Commercial Geo Satellites The 100th and 101st Lockheed Martin commercial geostationary communication satellites have been successfully placed in orbit after a dual launch aboard an Ariane 5-ECA launch vehicle. Both satellite ... more | .. |
  Baby galaxies grew up quickly Baby galaxies from the young Universe more than 12 billion years ago evolved faster than previously thought, shows new research from the Niels Bohr Institute. This means that already in the early hi ... more |
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 US lawmakers back nuclear weapons near N. Korea China pursuing steady military buildup: Pentagon US House passes huge defense spending bill US votes to sell Taiwan 66 new fighter jets Russia jails missile spy for eight years: report Baghdad pet market bombs kill five: officials Iran looks to 'delay, deceive' in atomic talks: Israel NATO protesters occupy Chicago streets Cockpit fumes ground Aussie Tiger choppers UN wants 'strong' pledges for Afghanistan at NATO summit ARL-led program enables new manufacturing processes for ballistic protection Raytheon awarded $313.8 million for Standard Missile-6 all-up rounds Lockheed Martin's Second Generation Aegis BMD System Successfully Intercepts Missile Northrop Grumman to Explore Opportunities with Brazilian Machining Companies | .. |
 A deeper look at Centaurus A Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128, is a peculiar massive elliptical galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its heart. It lies about 12 million light-years away in the southern constellation of C ... more | .. |
 Celestial Tapestry Is Born Of Uncertain Parentage A new Legacy Image from the Gemini Observatory reveals the remarkable complexity of the planetary nebula Sharpless 2-71 (Sh 2-71). Embroiled in a bit of controversy over its "birth parents" the nebu ... more | .. |
 Andre Kuipers: world ambassador Observing Earth from far above, ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers is acting as a world ambassador for the WWF, which issued its flagship publication the Living Planet Report. The Living Planet Report meas ... more | .. |
 Three-Telescope Interferometry Allows Astrophysicists To Observe How Black Holes Are Fueled By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international research team has observed the active accretion phase of a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy tens of mi ... more |
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 Ariane 5's second launch of 2012 Early this morning, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, JCSAT-13 and Vinasat-2, into their planned tra ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin's Second Generation Aegis BMD System Successfully Intercepts Missile The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin team successfully intercepted a ballistic missile target for the first time, using the second generation of the Aegis Ballistic Missil ... more | .. |
  Raytheon awarded $313.8 million for Standard Missile-6 all-up rounds The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon a $313.8 million contract for low-rate initial production of Standard Missile-6 all-up rounds. SM-6 leverages the legacy Standard Missile airframe and propulsion ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Begins Full Rate Production of Infrared Missile Warning System The U.S. Air Force has authorized full rate production of the NexGen Infrared missile warning system (MWS), a Northrop Grumman-designed, built and tested protection system for C-17, EC-130J, HC/MC-1 ... more |
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 Mixed bacterial communities evolve to share resources, not compete Growing risks from hatchery fish 'Citizen science' tracking climate change Ultrasensitive biosensor promising for medical diagnostics Anti-whaling leader freed on bail while extradition decided Anthropologists discover earliest form of wall art Farewell to the Sun 5-limbed brittle stars move bilaterally, like people Manmade pollutants may be driving Earth's tropical belt expansion Health experts narrow the hunt for Ebola Protective Clothing With Built-In Air Conditioning UN talks take first steps on 2015 climate deal China blind activist to get passport 'within 15 days' First troops of west African force arrive in G.Bissau | .. |
 Habits and hidden journeys of ocean giants Using the latest satellite tracking technology, conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Exeter (UK), and the Government of Mexico have completed a ground-breaking ... more | .. |
 US to bolster Israel's anti-rocket shield: Panetta The United States plans to bolster an Israeli anti-rocket system with $70 million in assistance this year and more funding is likely in the future, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin's Aegis Combat System Showcases Integrated Air and Missile Defense Capabilities Lockheed Martin's Aegis Combat System recently demonstrated simultaneous anti-air warfare and ballistic missile defense capabilities during its first integrated air and missile defense test. T ... more | .. |
 TRS delivers key missile defense component Ballistic missile defense for NATO countries will be a major topic of discussion at the NATO summit next week in Chicago. ... more |
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  NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids. The results reveal new in ... more | .. |
  Thuraya and GTNT Say in One Voice 'Hello Russia' A mere 200 meters away from the Kremlin, Thuraya Telecommunications Company, the leading international mobile satellite operator has announced the launch of its mobile satellite services in Russia i ... more | .. |
  Manmade pollutants may be driving Earth's tropical belt expansion Black carbon aerosols and tropospheric ozone, both manmade pollutants emitted predominantly in the Northern Hemisphere's low- to mid-latitudes, are most likely pushing the boundary of the tropics fu ... more | .. |
 ILS Proton Launches Telesat's Nimiq 6 Satellite International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing mission and launch services to the commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the Nimiq 6 satellite into the planned orbit t ... more |
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 Japan in first commercial satellite launch Japan joined the commercial space race Friday after its workhorse rocket put a paid-for South Korean satellite into orbit, pitting the country against Russia and Europe in the competition for customers. ... more | .. |
 Thousands of Young Adventurers Kept Safe with M2M Connectivity from Eseye More than 2,400 teenagers aged between 14 and 19 took part in Saturday's event, trekking 35, 45 or 55 miles over what the Ten Tors director Brigadier Piers Hankinson called the "forbidding Dartmoor ... more | .. |
 A Supernova Cocoon Breakthrough Observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding the star that exploded. This discover ... more | .. |
  Shenzhou 9 to be ready for mid-June launch? China seems poised to launch three astronauts into space, in the middle of June, onboard Shenzhou 9, the country's fourth, and most ambitious manned spaceflight. Shenzhou 9 is scheduled to ren ... more |
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  Paralysed woman's thoughts control a DLR robot Almost 15 years after being paralysed by a stroke, a 58-year-old US-American woman was once again able to serve herself a drink of coffee. This was possible thanks to a state-of-the-art DLR robot ar ... more | .. |
 NASA says competition is key to private space race Competition is vital to the race among private companies to replace the space shuttle, NASA said Thursday, after Congress called for the US space agency to fund a single company. ... more | .. |
  Russia delivers three astronauts to ISS: official A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and an American on Thursday successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), two days after their launch from Earth, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Mercury's Magnetic Field Measured by MESSENGER Orbiter Researchers working with NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft report the frequent detections of Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) waves at the edge of the ... more |
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