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Elon Musk might deliver new plasma drive to ISS Private space couriers vie for NASA deliveries A high-efficiency plasma drive designed for faster interplanetary journeys may be lifted into space by a privately-developed launcher. The candidates for the job include PayPal zillionaire Elon Musk's Falcon 9 rocket.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Now 0-for-3, SpaceX's Elon Musk Vows to Make Orbit The third time was definitely not a charm for SpaceX. The spaceflight company run by PayPal founder Elon Musk suffered its third high-profile mishap Saturday when an undisclosed problem caused a rocket launch to fail. The light-lift Falcon 1 was lost after its two stages failed to Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Now 0-for-3, SpaceX's Elon Musk Vows to Make Orbit The third time was definitely not a charm for SpaceX. The spaceflight company run by PayPal founder Elon Musk suffered its third high-profile mishap Saturday when an undisclosed problem caused a rocket launch to fail. The light-lift Falcon 1 was lost after its two stages failed to Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Elon Musk's SpaceX offers non-ISS spaceship Cutting NASA's apron strings? PayPal multihecamillionaire Elon Musk's rocket company, SpaceX, has announced that it will fly a genuinely private-sector space mission - including return to Earth - as soon as 2010.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Marveling at Elon Musk Silicon Insider: Why Elon Musk might be a modern-day Thomas Edison. Home > Rss Directory > Business > ABC News |
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Elon Musk to bail out Tesla Motors with own money Personally guarantees $100k supermilkfloat deliveries Famous battery-supercar firm Tesla Motors has said that it expects to secure its financial position by raising further investment within a week, following rumours that it might not be able to deliver cars it has already taken deposits on.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Elon Musk delays SpaceX launch until 2009 'Off the shelf' rocket suffering technical hiccups Visionary PayPal multi-millionaire Elon Musk has revealed setbacks in his plans to develop cheaper access to space. It now appears that the inaugural flight of Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher and Dragon capsule will be put back from early Q4 this Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Third time unlucky for Elon Musk's Falcon rocket Volcano lair rather than space station for now SpaceX, the commercial space launch company run by PayPal multimillionaire and tech visionary Elon Musk, has suffered another technical hitch. The third test flight of the Falcon 1 rocket has been unsuccessful, after the upper stage failed to separat Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Elon Musk's Falcon 1 launches successfully Fourth time's the charm Multimillionaire tech visionary Elon Musk has finally achieved a long-sought goal on the fourth attempt, as his privately-funded SpaceX Falcon 1 is now circling the Earth. The rocket, launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific, reached orbital velocity at 00:26 UK time.â Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Plasma rocket space drive in key test milestone Nuke tech could carry astronauts beyond Mars NASA spinoff firm the Ad Astra Rocket Company has announced a key milestone in ground testing of its prototype plasma drive technology, Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR).… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Samsung to deliver 256GB solid-state drive in 2009 Samsung Electronics could deliver 256GB solid-state drives next year, quadrupling the capacity of SSDs it is currently shipping to PC makers, the company said.Samsung recently plugged 64GB SSDs into Lenovo's Thi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Elon Poll: Obama Leads in North Carolina A new Elon University poll in North Carolina shows Sen. Barack Obama leading Sen. Hillary Clinton in the state's Democratic presidential race, 45% to 31%. In the GOP race, Sen. John McCain is way ahead of Mike Huckabee, 62% to 24%. Caveat: "The sample is of the populati Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Audio-Enhancing Mini-Amp, New Palm Treo Pro and More : Need to juice up your desktop music scene? Nuforce has just the thing. Its new Icon is a miniature, multithreat amplifier that can be used to pump music from a computer or audio player to your speakers and headphones. Although it's only 12 watts per channel, the Icon is powerful enough to act a Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Audio-Enhancing Mini-Amp, New Palm Treo Pro and More : Need to juice up your desktop music scene? Nuforce has just the thing. Its new Icon is a miniature, multithreat amplifier that can be used to pump music from a computer or audio player to your speakers and headphones. Although it's only 12 watts per channel, the Icon is powerful enough to act a Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Gear Gallery: Sexy Ultralight, New Camcorders and More : The U110 ultralight we received looks striking, with a scarlet paisley-etched aluminum lid paired with a shiny jet-black keyboard area. As soon as you open it up and power it on, you come face to face with one of the U110's most interesting yet unsettling features: VeriFace recognition. After b Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Gear Gallery: Sexy Ultralight, New Camcorders and More : The U110 ultralight we received looks striking, with a scarlet paisley-etched aluminum lid paired with a shiny jet-black keyboard area. As soon as you open it up and power it on, you come face to face with one of the U110's most interesting yet unsettling features: VeriFace recognition. After b Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Astronauts in seven-hour ISS construction session Canadian robot grappled by spacegoing veterinarian Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) astronauts have completed a seven-hour spacewalk and robot-arm session, in which a number of construction and assembly tasks were completed. Part of Japan's "Kibo" ISS module was plugged in, a m Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Crew illness delays ISS spacewalk A crew member's medical problem delays the first spacewalk of the shuttle mission to the ISS. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC |
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Samsung's new drives can give laptops 1TB of storage To meet the growing storage needs of laptop users, Samsung Electronics on Tuesday introduced a 500GB hard drive that could provide a notebook PC with as much as 1TB of storage.The Spinpoint M6, a 2.5-inch hard d Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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ESA's space truck heads for ISS Automated Transfer Vehicle is go The European Space Agency's "Jules Verne" Automated Transfer Vehicle yesterday hitched a lift on a specially-adapted Ariane 5ES rocket from the Guiana Space Centre en route to "re-supply and re-boost" the International Space Station (ISS).… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |