Новости за 16.09.2020

Qingdao, China (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
China successfully sent nine satellites into planned orbit at the Yellow Sea Tuesday. The nine satellites, belonging to the Jilin-1 Gaofen 03-1 group, blasted off atop a Long March-11 carrier rocket, China's first sea-launched rocket, at 9:23 a.m. (Beijing Time). The satellites were developed by the Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. Three of the satellites will be used for v

Promontory UT (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Northrop Grumman Corporation and NASA have donated a set of flight-worthy solid rocket boosters from the Space Shuttle Program to the California Science Center, located in Los Angeles, California, to display with the Space Shuttle orbiter Endeavour and a real Space Shuttle external tank in a launch configuration. "The contributions made by the Space Shuttle Program to space science and exp

Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 16, 2020
US company United Launch Alliance (ULA) plans to end operation of the Atlas-5 launch vehicle with the Russian RD-180 engine in the mid-2020s, Julie Arnold, an ULA spokeswoman, told Sputnik. The RD-180 engine is manufactured at the Energomash rocket engine manufacturer (an enterprise of Russian state space corporation Roscosmos) and is used in the first stage of the Atlas-5 rocket. ULA prov

Elche, Spain (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Spanish reusable launch vehicle developer PLD Space has announced the closure of further financing through a tie-up with independent financial advisory and alternative asset management group Arcano Partners. The 7M euro venture will fund the buildout of the PLD Space aerospace project in a deal forming part of its Series B investment round. PLD Space, based out of Elche (Spain) and f

Ithica NY (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
In a little more than a decade, samples of rover-scooped Martian soil will rocket to Earth. While scientists are eager to study the red planet's soils for signs of life, researchers must ponder a considerable new challenge: Acidic fluids - which once flowed on the Martian surface - may have destroyed biological evidence hidden within Mars' iron-rich clays, according to researchers at Cornell Uni

Washington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Today, we are on the cusp of amazing discoveries that could tell us more about the possibility of life off the Earth. In fact, astrobiology, which includes the search for life elsewhere, is one of our key priorities at NASA. The Spirit and Opportunity rovers enabled NASA to discover that Mars had a massive ocean, a thick atmosphere, and a magnetosphere that protected it from the radiation

As the teams are setting up for the track action at Le Mans, which starts tomorrow, ACO Sporting Director Vincent Beaumesnil offered some thoughts on the race to come, but in particular about something rather different in 2020, Hyperpole, a new qualifying format designed to provide real spectacle from the very fastest runners! Can you […]

Children in Syria are facing the brutal brunt of the ongoing civil war in the country, now rendered further paralysed owing to the COVID-19 pandemic and United States sanctions. At the Sept. 15 launch of the report investigating human rights violations in Syria by the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, experts warned that in addition […]

MANILA, Philippines — Despite being thousands of miles away, Ella Fajardo stressed she will always be on call for flag and country when asked. Fajardo vowed that her commitment to Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU), a US NCAA Division 1 school in New Jersey, won’t be of hindrance to her from suiting up for Gilas Pilipinas […]

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Parliament on Tuesday voted to allow some gas projects to get support from the European Union's flagship green transition fund, teeing up tough talks

MOLLY-MAE Hague couldn’t believe her luck when her boyfriend Tommy Fury surprised her by returning from holiday because she was “miserable” without him. The 21-year-old had set off on a six-week road trip with his boxing legend brother Tyson and pals as they focus on training for Tommy’s upcoming fights. But he came back unexpectedly […]

“Most voters in six 2020 swing states,” an early September CNBC/Change Research poll finds, “do not consider either President Donald Trump or Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden mentally fit to be president.” In Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, 51% consider Trump mentally unfit for the office, while 52% feel the same way More

SHOCKING figures reveal that 173,000 patients suffering from life-threatening diseases did not attend hospital appointments between March and June this year.

India is becoming a hub for large office space requirements. Multinational companies are eyeing India as a hub for Data Centre Offices, especially in cities like Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai.

Developers have confirmed the scheme is being scrapped.

A 69-year-old man from Imphal West district died of Covid-19 at RIMS Hospital in Imphal, a state health department statement said on Tuesday. This took the total death toll in the state to 47.

At the same time, although the absolute number of hospitalisations in the city has gone down, but the proportion of active cases being hospitalised has declined. In mid-August, just over 32% of around 10,800 active cases were in hospitals.

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MANCHESTER UNITED are refusing to give up on signing Gareth Bale – with Real Madrid still seeing the Red Devils as a potential landing spot, say reports in Spain. The LaLiga champions are itching to get the Welsh flop – and his £650,000-a-week wages – off their books after being frozen out by Zinedine Zidane. […]

China’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that a ruling by the World Trade organization (WTO) proved the United States had been breaking international trade rules.For all the latest headlines follow