
India lags China in research, complains PM
Bhubaneswar, India (AFP) Jan 3, 2012 - India's prime minister on Tuesday said the country was not spending enough on scientific research, meaning it lagged badly behind regional rival China.
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Bhubaneswar, India (AFP) Jan 3, 2012 - India's prime minister on Tuesday said the country was not spending enough on scientific research, meaning it lagged badly behind regional rival China.
Jan 3, 2012

Seoul (AFP) Jan 2, 2012 - South Korea's Samsung Electronics will this year focus on developing new products and tapping into new businesses to get ahead of competitors amid the global economic slowdown, its chairman said Monday.
Jan 2, 2012

Beijing (XNA) Dec 30, 2011 - China will launch the Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 spacecraft and achieve space rendezvous and docking missions with the orbiting Tiangong-1 vehicle in 2012, a spokesman for the China National Space A
Dec 30, 2011

Beijing (XNA) Dec 30, 2011 - A white paper published on Thursday said that China has made innovative achievements and breakthroughs in major space projects, and space technology has been upgraded remarkably. The white pap
Dec 30, 2011

Beijing (XNA) Dec 30, 2011 - China will push forward human spaceflight projects and make new technological breakthroughs, creating a foundation for future human spaceflight, according to a white paper titled China's Space Acti
Dec 30, 2011

Hawthorne, CA (SPX) Dec 30, 2011 - Orbcomm Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) today announced the launch schedule for Orbcomm's second generation (OG2) satellites. The updated plan includes launching the first OG2
Dec 30, 2011

Beijing (XNA) Dec 30, 2011 - China on Thursday issued a white paper on the development of space industry since 2006 and the major tasks for the next five years. The white paper titled China's Space Activities in 2011 wa
Dec 30, 2011

Houston TX (SPX) Dec 29, 2011 - They likely don't make a notation of the star date or call it a captain's log, but astronauts aboard the International Space Station, like many other voyagers, keep journals during their journeys. T
Dec 29, 2011

Beijing (AFP) Dec 29, 2011 - China said Thursday cleaner fuel will power its next-generation rockets, which will launch heavy cargoes into space, bringing nearer plans to build a space station and put a man on the moon.
Dec 29, 2011

Fort Lee, NJ (SPX) Dec 29, 2011 - LuxSpace, an affiliate of OHB System AG, has confirmed that construction and testing of the LuxSpace VesselSat2 AIS satellite has been successfully completed. The spacecraft has been shipped t
Dec 29, 2011

Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Dec 29, 2011 - Arianespace wrapped up another busy - and historic - 12 months of commercial launch services today by orbiting six satellites for mobile voice and data services on the ninth flight of 2011 - during
Dec 29, 2011

Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 28, 2011 - The best tech gift for propulsion engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.? It's NASA's first new human-rated rocket engine to be developed in 40 years. The J-2X engine - hi
Dec 28, 2011

Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Dec 28, 2011 - Another Soyuz is ready for liftoff at the service of Arianespace - with this workhorse launcher to carry six Globalstar second-generation satellites in a mission scheduled for tomorrow night from th
Dec 28, 2011

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 27, 2011 - The launch of a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with a Dutch telecommunications satellite SES-4 (NSS-14) onboard was called off on Monday due to technical problems, a spokesman for the Khrunichev
Dec 27, 2011

Washington DC (SPX) Dec 27, 2011 - NASA successfully conducted a drop test of the Orion crew vehicle's parachutes high above the Arizona desert Tuesday, Dec. 20, in preparation for its orbital flight test in 2014. Orion will carry as
Dec 27, 2011

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 27, 2011 - The Russian Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on Friday with a new crew of three onboard. The spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhs
Dec 27, 2011