Washington: Satellite imagery shows North Korea is upgrading its old launch site in the secretive country's northeast to handle larger rockets, like space launch vehicles and intercontinental missiles, a US institute claimed on Tuesday. The US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies said the upgrade of the Musudan-ri site began last summer and reflects North Korean determination to expand its rocket program. The US and other nations...
03:58 AM, May 23, 2012
Tokyo: Analysts say a half dozen ominous new North Korean missiles showcased at a lavish military parade were clumsy fakes. Their conclusions cast more doubt on the country's claims of military prowess after its recent rocket launch failure. The weapons displayed on April 15 appear to be a mish-mash of liquid-fuel and solid-fuel components that could never fly together. Undulating casings on the missiles suggest the metal is too thin...
10:20 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Pyongyang: North Korea said its much hyped long-range rocket launch failed on Friday, in a very rare and embarrassing public admission of failure by the hermit state and a blow for its new young leader who faces international outrage over the attempt. The isolated North, using the launch to celebrate the 100th birthday of the dead founding president Kim Il-sung and mark the rise to power of his grandson Kim...
02:37 PM, Apr 13, 2012
Pyongyang: North Korea's much-anticipated rocket launch ended quickly in an embarrassing failure early on Friday, splintering into pieces over the Yellow Sea soon after takeoff. Within minutes of the early morning launch, the US and South Korea declared it a failure. North Korea acknowledged that hours later in an announcement broadcast on state TV, saying the satellite had failed to enter into orbit. World leaders were swift to denounce the...
11:00 AM, Apr 13, 2012
Seoul: North Korea's much hyped long-range rocket apparently crashed into the sea a few minutes after launch on Friday, South Korean and other officials said, dealing a blow to the prestige of the reclusive and impoverished state. Pyongyang had defied international pressure from the United States and others to push ahead with the launch, which even its close ally China had warned against. According to Japanese broadcaster NHK, citing a...
06:07 AM, Apr 13, 2012
Pyongyang: Fighter jets roared through the skies over downtown Pyongyang on Thursday as the world watched to see whether North Korea would defy international warnings and launch a long-range rocket over the Yellow Sea. The five-day window for the launch of a rocket mounted with an observation satellite opened on Thursday as North Koreans woke to details about developments at a Workers' Party conference where leader Kim Jong Un ascended...
09:43 AM, Apr 12, 2012
A defiant North-Korea has decided to go ahead with its planned rocket launch ignoring calls from around the world to stop. ...
09:31 AM, Apr 12, 2012
Pyongyang: North Korea was poised on Thursday to send a rocket into space as the nation's young leader ascended to new top political posts strengthening his hold on power. There was no word early on Thursday morning on the timing of the launch, which the North has said will take place sometime between Thursday and Monday. The launch, which the North says is for peaceful purposes, has raised international concern....
08:17 AM, Apr 12, 2012
Pyongyang: Impoverished North Korea rejected international protests over its planned long-range rocket launch and said on Wednesday that it was injecting fuel "as we speak", meaning it could blast off as early as Thursday. If all goes to plan, the launch, which North Korea's neighbors and the West say is a disguised ballistic missile test, will take a three-stage rocket over a sea separating the Korean peninsula from China before...
01:51 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Pyongyang: Isolated and impoverished North Korea said on Tuesday it was ready to go ahead with its proposed long-range rocket launch, an announcement that sparked immediate condemnation from South Korea and Russia and a plea from China, its main ally, for calm. The launch of the Unha-3 rocket, which North Korea says will merely put a weather satellite into space, breaches UN sanctions imposed to prevent Pyongyang from developing a...
05:36 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Beijing: China is planning to launch "100 rockets, 100 satellites" by 2015 as part of its ambitious space expansion programme. China has set a target of completing a space mission of "100 rockets, 100 satellites" between 2011 and 2015, according to a space official. On average, China will complete about 20 launch missions each year before 2015, Zhang Jianheng, deputy general manager of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp...
12:37 PM, Mar 11, 2012
Sao Paulo: An unidentified metal object that may have come from a spacecraft caused a huge commotion when it fell to the Earth in a small town in Northern Brazil. The spherical object, weighing about 30 kg and with a diameter of one meter, was found earlier this week in Anapurus town. "The noise I heard made me weak in the knees. I went to see what it was. I...
07:31 AM, Feb 26, 2012
London: Singer Elton John will make a biopic about his life titled 'Rocketman'. John and his partner David Furnish - who own production company Rocket Pictures - have teamed up playwright Lee Hall to create 'Rocketman', which will tell the story of John's life through his music. Steve Hamilton Shaw will produce the show along with Furnish. "'Rocketman' will be a radically different kind of biopic. It will be as...
12:41 PM, Sep 23, 2011
Washington: To soar far away from Earth and even on to Mars, NASA has dreamed up the world's most powerful rocket, a behemoth that borrows from the workhorse liquid-fuel rockets that sent Apollo missions into space four decades ago. But with a price tag that some estimate at $ 35 billion, it may not fly with Congress. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and several members of Congress on Wednesday unveiled the...
08:52 AM, Sep 16, 2011
Cape Canaveral: NASA unveiled plans on Wednesday for a mammoth deep-space rocket to carry astronauts to the moon, Mars and other destinations beyond the International Space Station. The rocket project would cost $10 billion through 2017, when the first test flight of the Space Launch System is scheduled to take place from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Another $6 billion is allotted to building the Orion deep-space crew capsule,...
01:34 AM, Sep 15, 2011
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