NASA is beginning the final preparations for next Wednesday's launch of the Dawn probe, aboard a Delta II rocket. The Dawn probe, costing over $250 million, will visit the dwarf planet Ceres and the asteroid Vesta. The launch was originally planned for mid-June, however due to a damaged crate, shipping delays, and a damaged solar panel, NASA chose to delay it until now. Last week the spacecraft was delivered to the launch pad, and engineers performed tests to ensure that it is ready for launch. Today, the payload fairings were installed, and the probe is ready for its launch next week onto its 5 billion kilometer (3.2 billion mile) mission.
As the Delta II launches, three stages of rockets will propel the probe towards its first target. With the help of ion thrusters, it will reach Mars in mid-2009. Using Mars' gravity, the probe will speed up and proceed towards the first asteroid, Vesta, in late 2011. After orbiting for 7 months, it will leave Vesta in mid-2012, and arrive at ... Go to Complete Coverage
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2007 Intel Developer Forum Taipei, held at Taipei International Convention Center, started at October 15-16. With the great technology trends of wireless networking, this time, Intel Global led Navin Shenoy, Anand Chandrasekher, Shmuel ... Go to Complete Coverage
Current Global News Add Your News to Free News Source (Wednesday, September 5, 2007)
A Proton rocket which was intended to launch the JCSAT-11 satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit lifted off and successfully completed its first stage burn, but the second stage failed leading to loss of the rocket and satellite.
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Current Global News Add Your News to Free News Source (Thursday, August 30, 2007)
Announced early Wednesday morning at Nokia's GoEvent, in a plan to expand the companies revenue, Finland-based company Nokia Inc. is developing a mobile phone similar to its rival iPhone, which will be available in the near future for ... Go to Complete Coverage
Current Global News Add Your News to Free News Source (Friday, August 24, 2007)
George Hotz, 17, confirmed on Friday that he has cracked the lock that joins the Apple iPhone to AT&T's wireless network and was using it on T-Mobile's network—the only other major U.S. carrier compatible with iPhone technology. This ... Go to Complete Coverage
Current Global News Add Your News to Free News Source (Tuesday, August 7, 2007)
The largest extrasolar planet or exoplanet has been discovered orbiting the star GSC 02620-00648, around 1,435 light years away. The planet, named TrES-4, after the Transatlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES) is 1.7 times the size of the planet ... Go to Complete Coverage
Current Global News Add Your News to Free News Source (Tuesday, August 14, 2007)
Nokia, the Finnish telecommunications firm has issued a warning that 46 million BL-5C batteries on popular phones it sold from December 2005 to November 2006 could be faulty and overheat.
After recording approximately 100 incidents, ... Go to Complete Coverage
Current Global News Add Your News to Free News Source (Thursday, June 28, 2007)
CNN today announced that it would be discontinuing it's Pipeline service, which allowed news from the channel to be viewed online. According to the announcement, the service would be offered at no charge to online viewers beginning July ... Go to Complete Coverage
Technology often evolves more rapidly than the laws needed to regulate it, especially in the realm of copyright law. The Associated Press, Viacom and ...
Nintendo has been hit with a lawsuit alleging patent infringement. Hillcrest Labs has filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission and a ...
By just about any measure, the Apple iPhone App Store has been an astounding success. It reportedly did $30 million in business in its first 30 days, ...
There's something both primal and communal about the beat of a drum, whether it's just one or 2,008 of them -- as the world experienced at Beijing's ...
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