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South Korea's First Rocket Launch A Success: Former Official
Seoul, South Korea (Yonhap) Aug 31, 2009
South Korea's first launch of a rocket must be viewed as a success, despite its inability to place a satellite into orbit, a former science and technology minister claimed Sunday.
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Tribute to the great designers
http://www.flankers-site.co.uk/mos2009_day01.html
http://www.flankers-site.co.uk/mos2009_day01.html
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Iran says develops stealth missile interceptor system
Its amazing. How do they do that?!
Its amazing. How do they do that?!
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^^^
Just like the Djinns fought for the Paki army in 1965
Seriously, the Iranians have been making tall claims like the fighter they developed(lightening?) was better than F18/22 yada yada, these reports must be taken with a bucket of salt
Just like the Djinns fought for the Paki army in 1965
Seriously, the Iranians have been making tall claims like the fighter they developed(lightening?) was better than F18/22 yada yada, these reports must be taken with a bucket of salt
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JASSM Chasm in Design, Quality, Cost
After 13 long years in development, the $7.1 billion Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) was reported still to be missing its target 40 percent of the time in early 2009 testing.
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Amazing pics and clip of a UFO sighted by the Chinese during the recent eclipse.Check into the site for the video link.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... nutes.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... nutes.html
Chinese scientists 'filmed UFO for 40 minutes'
The UFO world is alive with speculation that China is about to reveal details of startling and detailed footage of an unidentified flying object taken during the solar eclipse on July 22.
Scientists at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing are reported to have confirmed that they filmed a UFO during the eclipse for 40 minutes. They say that they will spend the next 12 months studying the footage before drawing any conclusions.
'UFO' spotted during TV broadcast The director of the observatory, Ji Hai-sheng, told sina.com that scientists would not be speculating publicly on the nature of what was captured on film until it had been properly studied.
He added:"'Purple Mountain Observatory and Chinese Academy of Sciences said that during the July 22 total solar eclipse observation, China had discovered near the sun, by observing staff, an unidentified object, it's physical nature remains to be further studied.
"Currently manpower is being organized to deal with this data, complete the data analysis and reveal the scientific results and this will take at least one year's time to finalise."
The incident follows a series of UFO sightings in China which culminated in an object being captured on film by students in Deqing. The footage, which was featured on Chinese television, appears to show the object repeatedly changing shape after initially appearing as a glowing blue sphere.
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China unveils its largest commercial jet http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-new ... -fgny.html
"An arm of the state-owned Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC) exhibited a miniature of its C919 in Hong Kong, with some observers hailing the occasion as proof the fast-rising communist country has arrived in the industry." Its a 168 - 190 seater.
Its just a model but delivery delivery to customers is by 2016
"....and is part of China's long-term plan to break the duopoly of Airbus and Boeing in the production of large commercial aircraft."
On a side note "..He also announced that the company had received a total of 208 confirmed and unconfirmed orders for its 70-seater ARJ21 -- which stands for Advanced Regional Jet for the 21st Century -- China's first home-made commercial plane."
"An arm of the state-owned Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC) exhibited a miniature of its C919 in Hong Kong, with some observers hailing the occasion as proof the fast-rising communist country has arrived in the industry." Its a 168 - 190 seater.
Its just a model but delivery delivery to customers is by 2016
"....and is part of China's long-term plan to break the duopoly of Airbus and Boeing in the production of large commercial aircraft."
On a side note "..He also announced that the company had received a total of 208 confirmed and unconfirmed orders for its 70-seater ARJ21 -- which stands for Advanced Regional Jet for the 21st Century -- China's first home-made commercial plane."
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Liftoff for Japan's H2B rocket headed for ISS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV9NgsxihcE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eohgwwxUOQ
Heh, like India, they don't seem to put any cameras onboard the rocket, and instead show us some stupid plotgraph or pictures of the launchsite for the duration of the flight. Like I said before, even a private company like SpaceX knows to put cameras on their Falcon rocket.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV9NgsxihcE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eohgwwxUOQ
Heh, like India, they don't seem to put any cameras onboard the rocket, and instead show us some stupid plotgraph or pictures of the launchsite for the duration of the flight. Like I said before, even a private company like SpaceX knows to put cameras on their Falcon rocket.
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Gerard wrote:Japan's space freighter in orbit
Japan's H2A launch vehicle is able to lift 20 tonnes to LEO, while the rocket itself only weighs 530 tonnes.
How can they achieve such efficiency, which is obviously quite superior even to the upcoming GSLV Mk3.
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Here's a cool concept called Ajax, which is based on MHD propulsion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wsDSRKIEiw
http://translate.google.com/translate?j ... ry_state0=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wsDSRKIEiw
http://translate.google.com/translate?j ... ry_state0=
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The article you quoted says 16.5 tonnes capacity and JAXA is way more advanced than ISRO. Also, they dont import nearly as many components as ISRO does as they can fabricate most of the components locally. Finally, they have much bigger budget (even though they are in a budget crunch right now) and lots of help from Nasa .Sanjay M wrote:Gerard wrote:Japan's space freighter in orbit
Japan's H2A launch vehicle is able to lift 20 tonnes to LEO, while the rocket itself only weighs 530 tonnes.
How can they achieve such efficiency, which is obviously quite superior even to the upcoming GSLV Mk3.
ISRO should have been eying the ISS "freight market" a long time ago if they wanted a piece of that pie.
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Dont ALL heavy lifting rockets use staged combustion cycle cryo engines in their core stages these days ? Even the new Korean Naro-1 used a modified version of the RD-191 URM. The ULA's Atlas family also uses first, second and booster stage staged combustion cycle engines with RP-1.
Maybe ISRO's current needs in cost/tonne to GTO favors the hydrazine based engines in the core stage like NASA did back in the day with the early Titans. But I cant see them flogging the hypergol engines forever when the rest of the world is on the full-cryo bandwagon.
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F16 Jet crash kills Israel hero's son
The 21-year-old pilot, Assaf Ramon, was the son of Israel's only astronaut, Ilan Ramon, who died in the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003.
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http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnol ... 6&fsrc=rss
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Drones also enable a government to avoid the political risk of putting combat boots on foreign soil.
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Now what if non-state actors get hold of this technology.
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Drones also enable a government to avoid the political risk of putting combat boots on foreign soil.
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Now what if non-state actors get hold of this technology.
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Boeing has 2 planes for tanker contest
The St. Louis-based defense unit of Boeing Co. on Monday offered details of its tanker proposals that would be either a KC-767 or a larger, converted 777. The latter would be comparable in size to the modified A330 offered by competitor Northrop Grumman Corp. and European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co.
It seems US does want to retain manufacturing of the flagship defence products by hook or crook.f it wins the contract, Boeing projects 50,000 jobs will be dedicated to the tanker. The planes would be built in Washington state.
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Pakistan is getting to be rather good at manufacturing and handling drones.tarun wrote:http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnol ... 6&fsrc=rss
Now what if non-state actors get hold of this technology.Drones also enable a government to avoid the political risk of putting combat boots on foreign soil.
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Still more arm twisting by US
Boeing Meets With Brazilian Industry, Reaffirms Super Hornet as Best-Value Solution
Boeing Meets With Brazilian Industry, Reaffirms Super Hornet as Best-Value Solution
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Dmurphy wrote:Still more arm twisting by US
Boeing Meets With Brazilian Industry, Reaffirms Super Hornet as Best-Value Solution
Bottom line: Sharky was UNABLE to close the deal on his last trip.Competitors have been given until Sept. 18 to make further improvements to their offers, and Boeing is looking at all options.
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Here's a rather niche product:
http://www.orbitaloutfitters.com/SpaceSuits.html
I wonder who would use such a suit, other than an SR-71 or Foxbat pilot?
http://www.orbitaloutfitters.com/SpaceSuits.html
I wonder who would use such a suit, other than an SR-71 or Foxbat pilot?
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Maybe they are targeting the space tourism market ...Sanjay M wrote:Here's a rather niche product:
http://www.orbitaloutfitters.com/SpaceSuits.html
I wonder who would use such a suit, other than an SR-71 or Foxbat pilot?
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Russia set to finish development of new air defense system
The S-500 is currently at the blueprint stage at the Almaz-Antei company and is expected to be rolled out by 2012.
"This work is in progress...I think this system will appear in the near future," Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin said.
The S-400 Triumf (SA-21 Growler) is capable of intercepting and destroying airborne targets at a distance of up to 400 kilometers (250 miles), and can simultaneously engage up to six targets.
The S-500 is expected to have an extended range of up to 600 km (over 370 miles) and simultaneously engage up to 10 targets. The system will be capable of destroying hypersonic and ballistic targets.
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The "transfer of technology" buzzword is useless as hardly anything ever comes of it. Local companies never get to use their brains.
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Brazil won't buy off-the-shelf arms like Venezuela
BRASILIA (AFP) - Brazil is looking to boost its technical capacity with its military purchases and is not "a Venezuela, buying in the world's arms supermarket," Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said Wednesday.
"We're not on a shopping spree. We're on a spree to boost national capacity," he told Brazil's Congress.
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Brazil won't buy off-the-shelf arms like Venezuela
BRASILIA (AFP) - Brazil is looking to boost its technical capacity with its military purchases and is not "a Venezuela, buying in the world's arms supermarket," Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said Wednesday.
"We're not on a shopping spree. We're on a spree to boost national capacity," he told Brazil's Congress.
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Masten Space Systems makes their attempt at the X-Prize:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/ ... 69817.aspx
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/ ... 69817.aspx
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Gates endorses new U.S. bomber project
So the F-35 is not the last manned military aircraft by US after all.
So the F-35 is not the last manned military aircraft by US after all.