Kapustin Yar is located on the banks of the Volga River, about 75 miles east of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) and less than 30 miles east of Kazakhstan.
Latitude: 48°30' N. Longitude: 45°48' E
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Russia has launched a Kosmos-3M rocket on Saturday for the Defence Ministry.
"The launch of the light carrier with a payload in the interests of the Defence Ministry was executed at 19:40 Moscow time from the State Central Inter-Service Range Kapustin Yar" - Defence Ministry spokespe...
Minotaur, the Orbital/Suborbital Program Space Launch Vehicle, will launch COSMIC (Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate), a cluster of tiny satellites for a joint Taiwan-U.S. project to study the atmosphere, on April 15th 00:10 - 03:10 GMT (8:10...
OrbitFiles is offering 1000Mb of free space to store any data, for example, MP3s to share with friends, or saved security backups.
Uploaded files can be made "public", to allow anyone to download via URLs or secured with (or without) a password.
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A new version of TwinVNC, for the Amiga OS is available on its website. TwinVNC is a VNC client which can take remote control of any computer running a VNC server.
TwinVNC 0.7beta incorporates various modifications as well as major new functionalities, making TwinVNC not only a command...
A Proton-K Auxiliary Motor that was launched on the 25th July 2002 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome LC81, on the Cosmos 2392 mission, was predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 28th February 2006 @ 13:19 UTC ± 20 minutes[img]http://static.flickr.com/43/106358930_82c014...
Australia is one of hundreds of countries targeted for the June worldwide release of Megaglobe – a revolutionary new search engine incorporating innovative new search engine technology described as the “future” of internet surfing.
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Title: A Hot DQ White Dwarf in the Open Star Cluster M35
Authors: Kurtis A. Williams (1), James Liebert (1), Michael Bolte (2), Robert B. Hanson (2) ((1) Steward Observatory, (2) UCO/Lick Observatory)
Researchers report the discovery of a hot DQ white dwarf, NGC 2168:LAW...
A loud explosion was heard yesterday morning in the area of the Comanesti city, in Bacau County, Romania, but authorities were unable to explain what caused the sound that was heard from tens of kilometres around the town.
Comanesti Mayor Viorel Miron said he believed the blow was a result of the ac...
A Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket (AV-008) will launch from SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, at 20:27-23:16 GMT (4:27-7:16 p.m. EDT) April 20th, carrying the ASTRA 1KR television broadcasting spacecraft for SES ASTRA of Luxembourg.
The A2100AX model satel...
Microsoft Brings Programming to the Masses With Visual Studio Express
Microsoft has announced that effective from April 19th, 2006, all Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions including Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual J#, Visual C++, and Visual Web Developer Express will be free permanently!...
Venus and Uranus will have a close encounter in the dawn sky of April 18th.
Look to the east, before the Sun rises and find the bright `star` in Aquarius.
A pair of binoculars (or a small telescope) will show up Uranus right below it.
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The outer wall in the northern part of the complex of Tsar Samuil's Stronghold, located above the town of Ohrid, has collapsed because of heavy rains.
Restoration work had never been done in the damaged part of the 10th/11th-century complex.
The section of the wall, which collapsed, is 10-me...
A Proton-K Auxiliary Motor, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome LC200, on 24th June 2000, on the Ekspress A mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on 17th April 2006 @ 15:18 UTC ± 23 hours
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At 20.40 GMT on Saturday night a large slow moving giant meteorite exploded into hundreds of fragments over Erfoud, Morocco.
Position: Latitude 31.4361 Longitude -4.2328
The bolide was wi...
