Friday 31 March 2017

Success for SpaceX 're-usable rocket'

Success for SpaceX 're-usable rocket'

BBC News - ‎11 hours ago‎
All this is welcome news for the likes of Luxembourg satellite operator SES, which is having to queue up for rocket rides and wait many months to get its valuable telecoms spacecraft in orbit and earning revenue. "It's a big deal for us. If we can get ...

SpaceX successfully launches satellite in historic flight with "used" booster

CBS News - ‎8 hours ago‎
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket roared to life and streaked away through a twilight sky Thursday, boosting an SES communications satellite into orbit in the first fight of a previously flown first stage, a convincing validation of ...

SpaceX Successfully Launches, Lands Recycled Falcon 9 Rocket

NBCNews.com - ‎11 hours ago‎
SpaceX successfully launched and landed a recycled rocket on Thursday, a first for Elon Musk's company and a move that could help slash the cost of cargo transport into space. It was a one-two punch that went according to plan. After lifting off from ...

SpaceX launches its first recycled rocket in historic leap

Fox News - ‎9 hours ago‎
"Someone has to go first," Halliwell said at a news conference earlier in the week. Boosters — the most expensive part of the rocket, according to Musk — typically are discarded following liftoff, sinking into the Atlantic. SpaceX began flying back ...

SpaceX set to launch 'used rocket'

BBC News - ‎Mar 29, 2017‎
I hope so, but for us it's also about having a route to space," he told BBC News. "We've been waiting for six months now to fly SES-10, and that's because there was no other alternative opportunity. If we can start getting the rocket companies looking ...

SpaceX makes history launching first recycled rocket

ITV News - ‎3 hours ago‎
California's SpaceX has launched its first recycled rocket in an historic development to lower costs and speed up operations. The Falcon 9 rocket hoisted a satellite into orbit from Florida's Kennedy Space Centre early on Thursday evening. It was the ...

SpaceX launches and lands its first reused rocket

Science News (blog) - ‎11 hours ago‎
RECYCLED ROCKET A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully landed on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean after blasting off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, March 30. This stage of the rocket has flown before, marking the first time the ...

SpaceX successfully launches first recycled rocket booster

WHTC - ‎8 hours ago‎
"We made a little bit of history today ... opened the door into a whole new era of spaceflight,” said Martin Halliwell the chief technology officer for SES, who joined Musk at the news conference. SpaceX landed an orbital rocket after launch for the ...

SpaceX poised for historic launch of "used" booster

CBS News - ‎Mar 29, 2017‎
SciTech. Border wall a "catastrophe" for wildlife, expert says. By William Harwood CBS News March 29, 2017, 3:06 PM. SpaceX poised for historic launch of "used" booster. Comment; Share; Tweet; Stumble; Email. Last Updated Mar 30, 2017 8:43 AM EDT.

SpaceX reused rocket delivers huge revolution in spaceflight

The Weather Network - ‎18 hours ago‎
Thursday, March 30, 2017, 7:44 PM - SpaceX has made history, once again! In a Thursday night launch, one of their flight-proven Falcon 9 booster rockets made a second flawless flight to space and back, delivering what Elon Musk called "a huge ...

SpaceX Hails 'Revolution' After Recycled Rocket Launch, Landing

NDTV - ‎8 hours ago‎
The slightly scuffed Falcon 9 rocket soared into the sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida at 6:27 pm. Miami, United States: SpaceX chief Elon Musk hailed a "revolution in spaceflight" after blasting off a recycled rocket for the first time Thursday, using ...

SpaceX launches first recycled rocket

ETtech.com - ‎6 hours ago‎
"I think we are on the edge of quite a significant bit of history here," he told a news conference. "Now we are here to be the first-ever mission to fly on a pre-flown booster," he said. "This is obviously hugely exciting." When the mission was ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX launches recycled rocket in historic first

CNET - ‎11 hours ago‎
The first successful relaunch of an orbital rocket. Video capture by Eric Mack/CNET. Recycling isn't just for cans, bottles and really sucky gifts anymore. Nearly 15 years after setting out to revolutionize how we get to space, Elon Musk's company ...

SpaceX Makes History With First-Ever Recycled Rocket

National Geographic - ‎7 hours ago‎
A booster that flew to space last year made the trip again and returned to Earth, marking a major step on the road to cheaper space travel. Picture of a SpaceX shuttle launching. View Images. A previously used SpaceX booster takes off from Cape ...

Spotlight: SpaceX conducts historic launch, landing with "used" rocket

Xinhua - ‎10 hours ago‎
The photo made available by U.S. space firm SpaceX on March 30, 2017 shows the company's Falcon 9 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the United States. (Xinhua). WASHINGTON, March 30 (Xinhua) -- U.S. space firm SpaceX made history on ...

SpaceX conducts historic launch, landing with 'used' rocket

Business Standard - ‎9 hours ago‎
About 10 minutes later, the first stage achieved a successful landing on the "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship that was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, Xinhua news agency reported. "Falcon 9 first stage has landed on Of Course I Still Love You ...

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket takes off again in first successful launch of recycled orbital-class booster

ABC Online - ‎9 hours ago‎
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket recovered at sea from its maiden flight nearly a year ago has blasted off again from Florida in the first successful launch of a recycled orbital-class booster, which also then managed to return to land on a floating platform ...

SpaceX makes history flying recycled rocket

Eagle Radio - ‎4 hours ago‎
SpaceX has successfully launched and retrieved a recycled rocket - the first time in history the same booster has been used on two separate launches. The used Falcon 9 rocket took off on a satellite delivery mission from the Kennedy Space Center in ...

Elon Musk on brink of 'Wright Brothers Moment' with reused rocket

The Providence Journal - ‎12 hours ago‎
If the rocket Elon Musk's SpaceX expects to launch next week looks familiar, that's because it is. The Falcon 9 rocket slated to take off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, has flown before, marking the first time Space Exploration ...

SpaceX test-fires "used" rocket for Thursday launch

CBS News - ‎Mar 27, 2017‎
SpaceX briefly fired the nine first-stage engines of a previously flown Falcon 9 first stage rocket Monday in a dramatic pre-flight test to clear the way for launch of an SES communications satellite Thursday. The launching will mark the first flight ...

SpaceX makes history with launch of recycled rocket

The Times (subscription) - ‎2 hours ago‎
Rather like a tin can floating far above the world, rockets can now be recycled and reused. The historic feat, which could dramatically cut the cost of space travel, was achieved for the first time last night. SpaceX, founded by the tech billionaire ...

Recycled rocket launches into space

SBS - ‎11 hours ago‎
Space travel company SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, has launched its first ever recycled rocket. Source: AAP. 31 Mar 2017 - 10:14 AM UPDATED 6 HOURS AGO. Tweet. A space travel company founded by Tesla's Elon Musk has launched its first recycled ...

SpaceX making history with latest launch

KRIS Corpus Christi News - ‎Mar 30, 2017‎
The company hopes to successfully launch a used Falcon 9 rocket carrying a commercial communications satellite. The SES-10 will eventually carry TV and phone services to the Caribbean, and Central and South America. The rocket itself was previously ...

SpaceX makes aerospace history with successful launch and landing of a used rocket

The Verge - ‎11 hours ago‎
For the first few relaunches, though, Shotwell told Space News that the discounts will be more in the order of 10 percent. Neither SpaceX nor SES disclosed how much money was saved for this flight. “We did receive a discount. Obviously to fly this ...

A short history of lunar space tourism

SpaceNews - ‎Mar 27, 2017‎
Vladimir Solntsev, head of Energia, told the Russian news service Sputnik Feb. 22 that such a mission was in development, but not until the early 2020s. “I think that RSC Energia will be ready to be the first to offer this service on the international ...

SpaceX Reuses A Rocket To Launch A Satellite

OPB News - ‎11 hours ago‎
The most expensive part of doing business in outer space is getting there. The private space flight company SpaceX thinks it can change all that, and it's about to face a big test of its technology. On Thursday, SpaceX is scheduled to launch a ...

Elon Musks SpaceX to make history by launching recycled rocket

Geo News, Pakistan - ‎Mar 30, 2017‎
The good news is that if successful, the launch from Florida coast will make it significantly less costly to send rockets into space. The bad news, however, is simple – it may fail. As of today, SpaceX has recovered “eight rockets — that is, the large ...

SpaceX successfully launches first recycled rocket into orbit

Deutsche Welle - ‎6 hours ago‎
The aerospace manufacturing company has launched a rocket with boosters from a previous flight. Experts called the launch "historic," with the potential to pave the way for less expensive space travel. USA | SpaceX Falcon 9 gestarted ...

SpaceX Making History Today by Reusing Falcon 9 Rocket

PC Magazine - ‎22 hours ago‎
Today, Thursday March 30, is a historic milestone for SpaceX if the planned SES-10 Mission launch goes ahead. The reason? It will be the first reflight of an orbital class rocket as SpaceX intends to reuse the Falcon 9 first stage, which was previously ...

SpaceX poised to launch first recycled rocket

Business Standard - ‎Mar 29, 2017‎
SpaceX is poised to launch its first recycled rocket today, using a booster that sent food and supplies to the astronauts living at the International Space Station in April. The goal of the launch, scheduled for 6:27 pm from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is ...

Kim Jong-nam: Malaysians stranded in North Korea return home

Kim Jong-nam: Malaysians stranded in North Korea return home

BBC News - ‎2 hours ago‎
Malaysian Insight quoted Attorney-General Mohamed Apandi Ali as saying that authorities allowed two North Korean diplomats to leave "to secure the safe release" of the Malaysians. He did not name the diplomats. He told the news portal that they were ...

Kim Jong-nam's body released to North Korea

BBC News - ‎18 hours ago‎
Malaysia has released the body of the assassinated half-brother of North Korea's leader following negotiations with Pyongyang. Prime Minister Najib Razak said a coroner had approved the release of Kim Jong-nam's body. Mr Kim was murdered at Kuala ...

Malaysia interviewed, cleared 3 N. Koreans before they left

ABC News - ‎42 minutes ago‎
One of the Malaysians who was stranded in Pyongyang walks down from a plane after arriving at Kuala Lumpur International airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Friday, March 31, 2017. Malaysia said Thursday it has agreed to release the body of Kim Jong Nam to ...

North Korea-Malaysia deal ends diplomatic spat

Aljazeera.com - ‎18 hours ago‎
Malaysia releases body of Kim Jong-nam and allows North Koreans to depart, as Pyongyang frees Malaysians in return. 30 Mar 2017 15:30 GMT. Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker. 0; All Social. Malaysian police say Kim was killed by two women who ...

Malaysians return, Kim Jong Nam's body handed to North Korea

ABC News - ‎11 hours ago‎
"Both countries agreed to lift the travel ban imposed on citizens of the other country and guarantee their safety and security," said a statement from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency. The two countries did not say whether that ...

North Korea leader's ultimate goal: 'Destruction of South Korea'

Fox News - ‎12 hours ago‎
During U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's first official trip to South Korea, he told Fox News that “nothing has been taken off the table,” when asked whether he would rule out allowing defensive nukes on the Korean peninsula. Shrouded in secrecy ...

The news and notes

Citizentribune - ‎19 hours ago‎
A statement published by the official Korean news outlet calls out McCain and others of the same opinion of the crackpot despot who is leading a country of starving people, “As such guys as John McCain and [Sen.] Ted Cruz made a provocation tantamount ...

Kim Jong-Nam's body returned to North Korea

ITV News - ‎10 hours ago‎
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McCain, North Korea in war of words over 'crazy fat kid' crack

Fox News - ‎22 hours ago‎
Ted Cruz made a provocation tantamount to declaration of war against the [Democratic People's Republic of Korea], the DPRK will take steps to counter it,” said an official DPRK statement, published by the Korean Central News Agency. “They will have to ...

Three North Korean Kim Jong Nam murder suspects allowed to go: Malaysia police

NK News - ‎22 minutes ago‎
The news comes a day after an agreement between the Malaysian and North Korean governments over the return of Kim Jong Nam's body to North Korea. The deal also means that a ban by both countries on each other's citizens leaving their respective ...

AP News in Brief at 11:04 pm EDT

Charlotte Observer - ‎7 hours ago‎
BEIJING (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the first time on April 6-7 at Trump's Florida resort, China's Foreign Ministry announced Thursday, amid a range of pressing issues including trade, North ...

Kim Jong Nam's Body To Be Sent To North Korea, Malaysians Freed: Malaysia PM Najib Razak

NDTV - ‎16 hours ago‎
South Korea has blamed Pyongyang for Kim's death, but the North has rejected those claims. Kuala Lumpur: The body of Kim Jong-Nam will be sent to North Korea and nine Malaysians in Pyongyang will be allowed to leave, Malaysia Prime Minister Najib ...

The Latest: Malaysia interviewed N. Koreans before they left

The News Tribune - ‎1 hour ago‎
Malaysians who were stranded in Pyongyang walk with Malaysia's Foreign minister Anifah Aman, center right, after arriving at Kuala Lumpur International airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Friday, March 31, 2017. Malaysia said Thursday it has agreed to release ...

North Korean murder suspects sent home with body of victim

Jerusalem Post Israel News - ‎6 hours ago‎
Photographs obtained by Reuters from Japan's Kyodo news agency show Hyon Kwang Song, the second secretary at the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, and Kim Uk Il, a staff member of North Korea's state airline Air Koryo were on a flight from ...

North Korea accuses John McCain of 'blasphemy' for calling Kim Jong-un 'that crazy fat kid'

Telegraph.co.uk - ‎Mar 29, 2017‎
The Korean Central News Agency, widely viewed as the mouthpiece of the reclusive regime, denounced the remarks as “a grave provocation” that were a “little short of a declaration of war,” reported the Daily Caller. Mr McCain told MSNBC's Greta van ...

AP News in Brief at 12:04 am EDT

Charlotte Observer - ‎6 hours ago‎
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Nine Malaysians held in North Korea returned to Malaysia's capital early Friday after the government released the body of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader, to the North. The exchange ...

Analyst: North Korea could conduct simultaneous nuclear bomb tests

UPI.com - ‎20 hours ago‎
March 30 (UPI) -- Multiple or simultaneous tests of plutonium and uranium bombs could be North Korea's next provocation. A South Korean military source told local news service News 1 on Thursday that the "possibility of a different kind of test cannot ...

North Korea threatens war with US after John McCain brands Kim Jong-un a 'crazy fat kid'

The Independent - ‎17 hours ago‎
They could stop North Korea's economy in a week.” The 74-year-old claimed Kim was irrational. “We're not dealing even with someone like Joseph Stalin, who had a certain rationality to his barbarity,” he said. North Korea's state news agency KCNA ...

Body of Kim Jong-nam in Beijing along with N. Korean suspects

Arirang News - ‎11 hours ago‎
The North's state-run Korean Central News Agency also acknowledged that Malaysia had agreed to facilitate the transfer of the body. Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International ...

Nine Malaysians freed by North Korea arrive home

Channel NewsAsia - ‎12 hours ago‎
South Korean news agency Yonhap reported on Friday Kim's body was expected to leave for Pyongyang on an Air Koryo flight as early as on Saturday. South Korea has blamed Pyongyang for the Cold War-style killing, citing what they say was a standing ...

9 Malaysians detained in N.Korea return

Business Standard - ‎4 hours ago‎
Nine Malaysians who were detained in Pyongyang returned home on Friday, following an agreement between the two countries to end the diplomatic conflict sparked by the death of North Korean leader's half-brother Kim Jong-nam. Three employees of the ...

Murder of North Korea's Kim Jong Nam: Timeline of intrigue

ABC 57 News - ‎6 hours ago‎
After news of the death broke Tuesday, Malaysian authorities announced they would be conducting an autopsy as part of its investigation -- something North Korean officials later said they would not accept unless their officials can witness the procedure.

Exclusive: Malaysia mistook slain Kim Jong Nam for South Korean

Reuters - ‎Mar 30, 2017‎
The confusion over Kim's nationality also explains why it was the South Korean media that initially broke the news. Within 24 hours of his death, South Korea's National Intelligence Service had briefed lawmakers in Seoul that Kim Jong Nam was believed ...

'War' of Words: McCain's Response to NK Is Hilarious

Fox News Insider - ‎Mar 29, 2017‎
The Korean Central News Agency called McCain's remark "a grave provocation" that showed the "worst hostility toward [North Korea's] ideology, social system and its people." The state mouthpiece added that McCain's comments were also a "little short of ...

Malaysia says Kim Jong Nam's body released to North Korea

Fox News - ‎21 hours ago‎
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N. Korean suspects sent home with coffin

SBS - ‎3 hours ago‎
Photographs from Japan's Kyodo news agency show Hyon Kwang Song, the second secretary at the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, and Kim Uk Il, a staff member of North Korea's state airline were on a flight to Beijing on Thursday night.

Nine Malaysians return home after Kim Jong-nam's body handed over to North Korea in exchange

Telegraph.co.uk - ‎8 hours ago‎
Malaysia said on Thursday it has agreed to release the body of Kim Jong-nam to North Korea in exchange for the return of nine Malaysians held in the North's capital. Relations between Malaysia and North Korea have been badly frayed by the murder of the ...

North Korea: McCain's 'Crazy Fat Kid' Comment 'Little Short of Declaration of War'

CNSNews.com - ‎Mar 30, 2017‎
In a statement released through the regime's official KCNA news agency, the ministry lumped McCain's comment with Sen. Ted Cruz' sponsorship of legislation aimed at returning North Korea to the state-sponsor of terrorism list. In a March 22 MSNBC ...

Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment at 2:20 am EDT

WBT - ‎4 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House has invited the heads of congressional intelligence committees investigating Russia's role in the 2016 election to view materials found by the National Security Council. White House spokesman Sean Spicer says a ...

Malaysian police took statements from N.Koreans before they left

Jerusalem Post Israel News - ‎1 hour ago‎
Malaysian police took statements from three North Koreans wanted for questioning in the murder of Kim Jong Nam before they were allowed to leave the country along with the body of the victim, police chief Khalid Abu Bakar told a news conference on Friday.

Russia is now the world's third largest military spender

Russia is now the  world's  third largest military spender CNNMoney - 15 hours ago The country boosted its military spending to...