
SoftBank-Saudi high-tech Vision fund raises $93bn
Tokyo (AFP) May 21, 2017 - Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank said, with Saudi partners, it has raised nearly $100 billion in pledges to launch a major global fund for long-term, high-tech investments.
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Tokyo (AFP) May 21, 2017 - Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank said, with Saudi partners, it has raised nearly $100 billion in pledges to launch a major global fund for long-term, high-tech investments.
May 21, 2017

Cannes, France (AFP) May 21, 2017 - Arnold Schwarzenegger laid into US President Donald Trump Sunday, saying his plans to revive coal would bring the world back to the horse and cart.
May 21, 2017

Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) May 19, 2017 - Arianespace has orbited the SES-15 telecommunications satellite for European operator SES. Liftoff took place on Thursday, May 18 at 8:54 a.m. (local time in Kourou) from the Guiana Space Center (CS
May 19, 2017

Washington DC (SPX) May 19, 2017 - Pursuant to their shared goal of continuing to advance bilateral space cooperation and further strengthen the U.S.-Japan alliance as declared by their leaders, the Government of the United States of
May 19, 2017

Seattle WA (SPX) May 18, 2017 - Spaceflight has announced the purchase of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket to increase the frequency of its dedicated rideshare missions. The Electron is an ideal launch vehicle for dedicated and
May 18, 2017

Washington (UPI) May 17, 2017 - Aerojet Rocketdyne has successfully tested a 3D-printed engine in a series of 17 experiments. The engine being tested is a liquid oxygen/kerosene, regenerative cooled, liquid rocket thrust chamber assembly design.
May 17, 2017

Paris, France (SPX) May 17, 2017 - Airbus Safran Launchers, the joint venture created at the initiative of the Airbus and Safran groups in order to reorganize the European launchers sector, is to be known as ArianeGroup. The change i
May 17, 2017

Moscow (Sputnik) May 17, 2017 - US aerospace company Blue Origin suffered a setback while testing its Blue Engine 4 (BE-4), a staged-combustion rocket engine designed to replace Russian-made RD-180s, meaning that Washington still
May 17, 2017

Moscow (AFP) May 17, 2017 - Soviet cosmonaut Viktor Gorbatko, a colleague of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, died Wednesday at the age of 82, Russia's space agency said.
May 17, 2017

Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand (Sputnik) May 17, 2017 - Rocket Lab, the aerospace company whose mission is to create rocket launch platforms that are lightweight and efficient, will begin test flights of their signature Electron small-launch vehicle on M
May 17, 2017

Washington DC (SPX) May 17, 2017 - Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), co-chairs of the Senate Career and Technical Education (CTE) Caucus, are leading a group of 32 Senators in a letter urging the Senate
May 17, 2017

Washington (AFP) May 17, 2017 - Americans over age 65 have stepped up their use of technology, with a growing number using the internet along with smartphones and other electronics, a survey showed Wednesday.
May 17, 2017

Biscay, Spain (SPX) May 17, 2017 - Regenerative medicine is a discipline that is continually growing and encompasses a whole arsenal of therapeutic strategies, from recombinant proteins and stem cells right up to materials and matric
May 17, 2017

New Delhi (Sputnik) May 17, 2017 - Following the successful launch of the South Asia Satellite, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now focused on the launch of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV
May 17, 2017

Houston TX (SPX) May 17, 2017 - While preparing for the 200th spacewalk on the International Space Station, the crew members in orbit performed the latest harvest of vegetables grown in space. NASA astronaut Jack Fischer collected
May 17, 2017

Miami (AFP) May 16, 2017 - SpaceX on Monday launched a communications satellite for Inmarsat, marking its first launch for the London-based mobile broadband company.
May 16, 2017