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India Sees Big Setback In Cryogenic Engine Tech EffortsNew Delhi, India (VOA) Apr 19, 2010 India's ambitious attempt to master a technology needed to launch heavy satellites into space has not succeeded. This could setback the country's hopes of getting a bigger share of the multibillion dollar global satellite launch market. The launch of a rocket using a domestically built cryogenic engine Thursday evening from Sriharikota in southern India was meant to demonstrate India's mastery of a complex technology. Cryogenic engines are rocket motors designed for fuels that have to be hel ... read more |
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Jiegu, China (AFP) April 16, 2010The death toll from a strong quake that rocked a remote Tibetan region of China surged past the 1,000 mark on Friday, as tonnes of food, clothes and other vital supplies started pouring in. Preparations were meanwhile under way for the cremation of hundreds of victims of the disaster as concern turned toward the risk of disease outbreaks in the quake zone, centred on the town of Jiegu in Qin ... more
Jiegu, China (AFP) April 18, 2010Buddhist monks cremated hundreds of China quake victims over sanitation fears Saturday as hopes dimmed of finding further survivors, with the death toll rising to more than 1,400. Naked, bloodied and bruised corpses were piled on a massive funeral pyre outside the shattered town of Jiegu on the remote Tibetan plateau and lit by chanting Buddhist monks, three days after the quake left thousan ... more
Kolkata, India (AFP) April 16, 2010Anger at the slow pace of relief efforts in storm-ravaged northeast India boiled over on Friday as destitute and hungry locals attacked officials and looted an aid depot, a minister said. A violent thunderstorm and tornado ravaged hundreds of thousands of mud and tin-roofed homes and killed more than 130 people on Tuesday night when it tore across several northeastern states of India and nei ... more |
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India Set To Launch Satellite With Cryogenic Rocket EngineBangalore (IANS) Apr 15, 2010 India Wednesday readied itself to join the elite space club by firing for the first time its own cryogenic rocket engine to launch an advanced communication satellite. "The 29-hour countdown began 11.27 a.m. at Sriharikota for launching the geo-synchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-D3) Thursday at 16:27 IST with a geo-stationary satellite (GSAT-4) as its main payload," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Director S. Satish told IANS. The Sriharikota spaceport is located on a small ... read more |
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