Sweden has announced the first live firing of the Meteor beyond visual range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) from a Saab JAS 39 Gripen, less than two months after the decision was made to integrate the missile onto the aircraft. The test took place on 6 October at the Vidsel range in northern Sweden. [url...
Super Cyclonic Storm Giri (04B) is forecast to make landfall in Myanmar probability for CAT 1 or above is 100% currently probability for TS is 100% currently Kyaukpyu (19.4 N, 93.6 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 85% within 12 hours probability for TS is 90% currently Cheduba (18.8 N, 93.7 E) proba...
Space balloon rips from mooring The launch of a giant space balloon went badly wrong Thursday in the Australian Outback when it and its heavy payload of scientific equipment broke from a mooring and dragged across the desert, overturning an SUV and narrowly missing bystanders. One witness said she...
NASA to launch Kentucky satellite A satellite built by a consortium of Kentucky universities, public agencies and businesses will be launched during a NASA space shuttle mission sometime in mid-2009. KySat-1, the first satellite built in Kentucky, is a cube-shaped unit powered by solar energy,...
Building Europe's vision for space exploration Europe's vision for launching astronauts and robot explorers out into the Solar System will come into sharper focus on 21 October when the ministers responsible for space activities meet in Brussels to discuss Europe's goals for space exploration...
A Lebanese genetic scientist who has been following the genetic footprint of the ancient Phoenician civilisation across the Mediterranean for the last five years has found that close to one-third of modern-day Maltese share a genetic link with the ancient Phoenicians. Thirty per cent of DNA samp...
Huddled over a computer in his bedroom, Kevin Apps could barely believe what he had found. From his modest bungalow near Gatwick Airport, he had spent days poring over observations sent back to Earth by a telescope orbiting our planet. While Nasa had a team of more than 30 full-time scientists analys...
An online mapping service launched by China to rival 'Google Earth' shows Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin as part of this country, in what is being seen as the latest move by Beijing to assert it claim over the Indian territory. The 'Map World' displayed on the internet in Chinese language, which is a...
MAXI/GSC detects a X-ray transient MAXI J1409-61 The MAXI/GSC has detected a faint X-ray transient, MAXI J1409-619, with a position of (R.A., Dec) = (212.26, -61.95) = (14h09m02s.4, -61d57m00s.0) (J2000) with a typical error of about 0.2 degrees. [url=http://maxi.riken.jp/news/en/?p=632]...
NASA Releases Report About Australia Balloon Mishap A NASA panel that investigated the unsuccessful April 28 launch of a scientific balloon from Alice Springs, Australia, has released its report. NASA was attempting to launch the balloon carrying a gamma-ray telescope belonging to the Univers...
A Jaxa H2A F12 rocket body debris that was launched on the 24th February, 2007 from the Tanegashima Space Centre, on the IGS 4A mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 18th October, 2010 @ --:-- GMT ± - hours. TLE Data Not available Period: 90.2 minutes Incli...
The 15 - 34 metre wide asteroid 2010 UO made a close pass (11.1 lunar distances, 0.0285 AU), travelling at 4.98 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th October, 2010 @ 02:05 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the di...
