The Americans seem determined to flood outer space with weapons. In early April U.S. Missile Defense Agency Director Lt. Gen. Henry Obering again called for the early deployment of space-based missile defense systems, a universal means of hitting either ground or space targets. His Russian counterpart and longtime opponent on this issue, Space Forces Commander …
Satyam Computer Services has announced that it has embarked on a revolutionary program to deliver world-class healthcare to remote villages in India. The public/private partnership between the government of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and Satyam provides a fleet of healthcare vans – mobile health units (MHU) – that visit villages on designated days …
Scientists will gather in Siberia to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska Event June 26-28, one of the world’s most mysterious explosions which flattened 80 million trees but largely went unnoticed at the time. The massive blast, equivalent to around 15 megatons of TNT, occurred approximately 7-10 km (3-6 miles) above the Stony Tunguska …
The JH-7A fighter-bombers of China’s No. 5 Attacker Division deployed on the Shandong Peninsula theoretically could cover all the U.S. military bases in Korea and the Taiwan Strait. They also could receive aerial support from the J-11 fighters deployed at the No. 19 Fighter Division at Jining in southwestern Shandong. Jining has the best military …
Russia’s global space navigation system Glonass is available for India to use, Russia’s defense minister said Monday. Sergei Ivanov, who is also a deputy prime minister, said Moscow and New Delhi had agreed to launch Glonass M satellites with the help of Indian carrier rockets, and to create new-generation navigation satellites.“Two agreements are to be …
Russia And China Could Sign Moon Exploration Pact In 2006 One big happy moon family. Russia and China may conclude a Moon exploration agreement by the end of the year, the head of the Russian Space Agency said. China has already successfully launched into orbit two manned space vehicles. Its first manned flight three years …
Mark Psiaki, left, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, hooks up an experimental GPS/Galileo digital storage receiver and patch antenna with the assistance of graduate students Todd Humphreys, center, and Shan Mohiuddin in Rhodes Hall. by Staff WritersIthaca NY (SPX) Jul 19, 2006Members of Cornell’s Global Positioning System Laboratory have cracked the so-called pseudo random …
New Horizons Crosses The Asteroid Belt New Horizons has entered the main asteroid belt and will be traversing this part of our solar system through August. May, like April, was a busy month for New Horizons’ instrument payload commissioning. In particular, our instruments LORRI, PEPSSI, Alice and Ralph all continued their in in-flight checkouts.In addition, …
ISRO And DRDO Deal Differently With Disastrous LaunchesFile photo: The doomed Agni-III missile.by Staff WritersNew Delhi, India (PTI) Jul 18, 2006It was a Black Sunday and an even worse Monday for India’s aerospace ambitions. Two much-hyped rocket systems – one the guided missile Agni-III, and another the GSLV-FO2 launch vehicle carrying a satellite – built …
China To Develop Deep Space Exploration In 5 YearsChina hopes to send its spacecraft beyond the moonBeijing, China (SPX) Jul 20, 2006A senior Chinese space agency official said Wednesday that China would actively plan its deep space exploration over the next five years, focusing on lunar and Mars exploration. Sun Laiyan, administrator of the China …
