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Orbital Sciences Corporation were hoping to launch the Antares rocket on its maiden flight Wednesday. However, a premature disconnection of an umbilical between the second stage and the tower caused an abort of the countdown just prior to T-10 minutes.
SCRUB: Liftoff from Launch Pad 0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island was scheduled for the beginning of what became a 10 minute launch window at 21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT). Just [...] WASHINGTON — North Korea is upgrading one of its two major missile launch sites, apparently to handle much bigger rockets, and some design features suggest it is getting help from Iran, a U.S. research institute said Thursday. A successful satellite launch in December and a nuclear test on Tuesday, both in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions, have intensified concern that North Korea is moving toward its goal of building a [...] During the nuclear honed days of the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed a uniquely dangerous missile able to strike anywhere in the U.S.
Loaded with multiple maneuverable warheads (MIRVs), while carrying decoys and chaff to keep from getting struck down, the technology undermined the entire balance of power between the two superpowers and struck fear into hard hearts at the Kremlin and the Pentagon alike. It was a difficult era, fraught [...] The Japanese government has ordered its military to shoot down the missile that is expected to be launched by North Korea as early as Monday. The order to destroy the missile should any part of it threaten to fall onto Japanese territory was issued after a meeting of the Security Council of Japan met and was informed that North Korea has begun filling a fuel tank alongside the launch pad at the Sohae [...] Mike Adams A prominent South Korean news agency is reporting that North Korea is only one week away from having a long-range rocket capable of reaching California. “North Korea is believed to have completed the installation of a long-range rocket on the launch pad” at the Dongchang-ri base in the country’s northwest, reports Yonhap News Agency in South Korea. According to the Yonhap report, the North Korean Unha-3 rocket has an [...] Anthony Gucciardi In another massive victory against Monsanto and the spread of genetically modified crops, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayraul has announced that the nation will be maintaining a key ban on the only remaining GMO currently allowed in Europe. Known as Monsanto’s GMO maize crops, or MON810 maize, the original ban was brought forth back in March following the French court’s previous annulment on a November ban. Thanks to activism by [...] Facebook resumes trading on Wall Street on Monday with shares being closely watched to see how well they stand on their own after stumbling out of the gate in a historic but lackluster debut. Second-guessing continued through the weekend as analysts and others debated whether the leading social network’s decision to price its initial public offering at $38 per share on Friday was overreaching or right on target. Shares briefly climbed above [...] Launch delayed after ‘computer problems’ on board commercial rocket
A private space cargo firm’s historic launch to the International Space Station descended into chaos this morning when the mission was abandoned just one second before lift-off. The unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was set to blast off from Cape Canaveral just before 10am [...] N. Korea prepping for nuclear test: intelligence official SEOUL, April 8 (Yonhap) — North Korea is believed to be gearing up for a nuclear test, an intelligence official said Sunday, a move certain to fuel the already high tensions over its planned long-range rocket launch. Satellite images show the communist nation digging a new tunnel underground in the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in the country’s northeast, where it conducted two previous nuclear [...] Tthe Zenit-2SB rocket with the Phobos-Ground probe blasts off from its launch pad at the Cosmodrome Baikonur, Kazakhstan From Telegraph: The minibus-sized Russian craft has been in a low orbit around Earth since losing contact with engineers shortly after its launch on November 8. It had been intended to explore Phobos, one of Mars’s two moons, but became stranded while still orbiting Earth and attempts to put it back on its original course [...] tribune.com.pk QUETTA: An American aircraft reached Pakistan on Sunday to carry US nationals who are vacating the Shamsi airbase in Balochistan. Sources said that the aircraft landed in Pakistan today (Sunday), and the passengers were shifted to the aircraft amongst strict security. Officials from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) were also present at the site. Residents living around the area were told not to leave their homes while the American nationals were being [...] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Atlantis and four astronauts rocketed into orbit Friday on NASA’s last space shuttle voyage, dodging bad weather and delighting hundreds of thousands of spectators on hand to witness the end of an era. It will be at least three years — possibly five or more — before astronauts launch again from U.S. soil, and so this final journey of the shuttle era [...] From FT: Harold Macmillan, the prime minister who watched US power rise as the British empire crumbled, used to say that Britain would play ancient Greece to America’s Rome. These days it looks as if Rome is declining too. The US finds it increasingly hard to drive forward its vision of international trade and economics over the objections of big emerging-market countries. The Visigoths and the Vandals who [...] From FT: Harold Macmillan, the prime minister who watched US power rise as the British empire crumbled, used to say that Britain would play ancient Greece to America’s Rome. These days it looks as if Rome is declining too. The US finds it increasingly hard to drive forward its vision of international trade and economics over the objections of big emerging-market countries. The Visigoths and the Vandals who [...] As oil prices race toward $100 a barrel, the expectations that gasoline prices will make a leap are running high. Some traders say $4 a gallon will be a reality in the not-too-distant future, and prices could shoot even higher. But that might be the exception rather than the average in the United States this year unless the Middle East unrest spreads to Saudi Arabia or another [...] |
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