A Russian RS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile (NATO name Stilet), which was launched from the Baikonur Space Centre, has hit its target, according to the Russian Defence Ministry.
The missile was launched at 07:30 GMT (11:30 a.m. Moscow time) toward the Kura test range in...
A Titan 4B rocket, known as B-26, will launch a classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office on October 19th.
This will be last Titan 4 flight, ending the program that began launches in 1989.
NOVA SCUTI 2005 Number 2
V477 SCUTI discovery magnitude 10.6 (photographic)
Position(2000): R.A. = 18h 38m 42.93s Dec = -12o 16' 15.6"
Field of view 45 x 60`
Spectra taken Oct. 15.75 UT by R. K. Das, N. M. Ashok...
Free public lecture: The quest for antimatter
Why do we exist? Matter and antimatter should annihilate one another, leading to an empty Universe!
This, one of the fundamental questions of the Universe will be discussed at a free public lecture at the University of Bath, UK, next we...
The Terra satellite captured an image at 10:40 a.m. local time, on October 12, 2005 of Typhoon Kirogi, a small powerful storm system about 500 kilometres from Okinawa. It is travelling roughly southwest, but as yet poses no threat to any populated areas.
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Scientists aboard the Scripps research vessel Roger Revelle this week solved a 45-year-old geological mystery.
In 1960, Scripps oceanographer Dale Krause reported the discovery of extraordinary deep-sea volcanic rocks in waters off Mexico, near Guadalupe Island, approximately 2...
An Ariane 4 Stage 4 Rocket Body launched on 13th November 1999 Centre Spatial Guyanais ELA-2, Kourou, French Guiana for the GE 4 mission will re-enter the Earths atmosphere on 16 October 2005 @ 07:49 UTC ± 17 hours
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A FSW-3 4 rocket body launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre will re-enter the earth’s atmosphere on 15 October 2005 @ 04:55 UTC ± 10 hours
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Rocket body FSW-3 5 launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre will re-enter the earth’s atmosphere on 17 October 2005 @ 02:09 UTC ± 20 hours
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In the early 1950s, workers for the U.S. Navy drilled test wells in an area of the North Slope known as the Naval Petroleum Reserve. The drillers sent core samples of rock to Fairbanks, where Florence Weber and Florence Collins, both geologists with the U.S. Geological Survey, noticed something odd...
Russia on Friday successfully test-launched a mini-shuttle spacecraft on a sea-based ballistic missile.
The Demonstrator-2R spacecraft was launched at 21:30 GMT, on a converted Volna booster rocket from the Borisoglebsk nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea, and was supposed to l...
Microsoft warned users of its Windows operating system on Tuesday of three newly found "critical" security flaws in its software that could allow attackers to take complete control of a computer.
Microsoft has issued patches to fix the problems as part of its monthly security bulletin.
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A Russian rocket topped with a Soyuz spacecraft was launched to the International Space Station.
The sunrise launch took three astronauts, Italian ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori, Russian cosmonau...