A new satellite image shows North Korea's rocket in flight soon after its launch a few days ago, experts said.
American officials condemned the North Korean launch of a long-range rocket Sunday, with President Obama calling it a "provocative act."
North Korea's thinly disguised missile test violates U.N. resolutions and should be condemned. But it is not a serious threat to the United States, nor does it justify a crash program to deploy an expensive, unproven anti-missile system.
Iran Tuesday successfully launched its first satellite into orbit, a step hailed by Iran's president as a "source of pride" for the Islamic republic, according to state-run news outlets.
Author Arthur C. Clarke, whose science fiction and non-fiction works ranged from the script for "2001: A Space Odyssey" to an early proposal for communications satellites, has died at age 90, associates have said.
Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90
Use this explainer to help students understand the history of the space shuttle program, a topic relevant to current news.
For most of his career, Neville Hockley has faced the tech headaches that confront the owner of any small design firm: finding time to read the hundreds of e-mails he receives each day and waiting for high-res graphics to upload. But in a few months he'll face a new set of challenges, such as preparing his workstation for an oncoming nor'wester or searching for a satellite signal off the Caymans.
One of the best times to visit China's capital, some tourist guidebooks say, is in August, despite temperatures that can soar as high as 40 degrees Centigrade -- and despite the rain.
FOR MOST OF HIS CAREER, NEVILLE HOCKLEY has faced the tech headaches that confront the owner of any small design firm: finding time to read the hundreds of e-mails he receives each day and waiting ...
A new satellite image shows North Korea's rocket in flight soon after its launch a few days ago, experts said.
American officials condemned the North Korean launch of a long-range rocket Sunday, with President Obama calling it a "provocative act."
North Korea's thinly disguised missile test violates U.N. resolutions and should be condemned. But it is not a serious threat to the United States, nor does it justify a crash program to deploy an expensive, unproven anti-missile system.
Iran Tuesday successfully launched its first satellite into orbit, a step hailed by Iran's president as a "source of pride" for the Islamic republic, according to state-run news outlets.
Author Arthur C. Clarke, whose science fiction and non-fiction works ranged from the script for "2001: A Space Odyssey" to an early proposal for communications satellites, has died at age 90, associates have said.
Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90
Use this explainer to help students understand the history of the space shuttle program, a topic relevant to current news.
For most of his career, Neville Hockley has faced the tech headaches that confront the owner of any small design firm: finding time to read the hundreds of e-mails he receives each day and waiting for high-res graphics to upload. But in a few months he'll face a new set of challenges, such as preparing his workstation for an oncoming nor'wester or searching for a satellite signal off the Caymans.
One of the best times to visit China's capital, some tourist guidebooks say, is in August, despite temperatures that can soar as high as 40 degrees Centigrade -- and despite the rain.
FOR MOST OF HIS CAREER, NEVILLE HOCKLEY has faced the tech headaches that confront the owner of any small design firm: finding time to read the hundreds of e-mails he receives each day and waiting ...
Private-equity firms are paying themselves lavish dividends and fees from the companies they acquire, loading up the acquired companies' balance sheets with debt, according to a published report.
As Category 4 Hurricane Rita headed toward the Gulf Coast, thousands of residents in the greater Houston area jammed highways Thursday only to sit in traffic that moved no faster than a pedestrian's gait.
Stocks look set for a lower start Monday as Hurricane Katrina's fury sent investors running for cover before the opening bell with oil touching a record $70 a barrel.
Use this explainer to help students understand the history of the space shuttle program, a topic relevant to current news.
When space shuttle Discovery blasted off, it joined thousands and thousands of manmade objects orbiting Earth.
Buyout firms have been reaching for the skies--literally. In December, Apax Partners and Permira Advisers acquired Inmarsat. In April, Thermo Capital bought the bankrupt Globalstar satellite phone ...
A commission chartered by U.S. President George W. Bush to advise him on implementing a broad new space exploration vision is recommending streamlining the NASA bureaucracy, relying more heavily on the private sector, and maintaining more oversight of the nation's space program at the White House.
The next time American armed forces go to war--if they're not already fighting in Iraq as you read this--the nature of the battle will be unlike anything the world has ever known. Afghanistan provi...
One of the last remaining refuges from the onslaught of electronic mail is about to disappear. Beginning in late November, Singapore Airlines will test a new system to allow business- and first-cla...
A year or so ago, when the term "broadband" first entered the tech vernacular, there were three competing strategies--cable modems, DSL (through existing phone lines), and satellites. That meant th...
Armsmakers just can't seem to hit their targets. Last year it was Boeing that missed its earnings and saw its stock go into a tailspin. Last summer it was Lockheed Martin. Then, on Oct. 12, highfly...
Orbit is a tough place to get to, and an even tougher place to come back from. Yet an unprecedented number of commercial enterprises--Lockheed Martin and four smaller companies, Kelly Space & Techn...
Often credited with brilliance, John C. Malone, 55, CEO of cable TV giant Tele-Communications Inc., seems lately to be trending toward incoherence. He laid the base for confusion in May, when the o...
AMERICA'S hottest industry has staked out a place on the map. New York was Radio City; so many machine-tool makers once lined the banks of the Black River in Springfield, Vermont, that the area was...
HARD BY THE runways of Los Angeles International Airport stands a Hughes Electronics factory called High Bay. The reason for the name is immediately apparent: The brightly lit space is five stories...
Companies are getting even tougher on cigarette fiends now that the Environmental Protection Agency has declared that secondhand smoke causes cancer. Employers such as PepsiCo, Federal Express, Du ...
EVER SINCE man landed on the moon in 1969, adventure capitalists have dreamed of colonizing and commercializing the high frontier. Microgravity manufacturing. Mining the moon. Tourism. Space burial...
WHAT IS THE BEST way for a board of directors to fire a company's chief executive officer? That's easy: quick, quiet, and cheap. In this imperfect world, though, it rarely works that way. Allegheny...
ONCE A VAST WASTELAND for viewers, advertisers, and investors, European television is turning into a go-go business. Guided by free-market policies, governments from Norway to Spain are selling the...
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES can produce more snores than fireworks, but a meeting in August of some 160 countries to regulate satellite orbit positions promises a kind of Star Wars on earth. The gath...
NO ONE IS OFFERING free tickets or frequent-flier bonuses yet, but a fare war of sorts -- with discounts in the millions of dollars -- has broken out in space. Newcomer Arianespace, a consortium of...
Congress may be ready to trim defense spending, but Wall Street has already wielded its ax--the stocks of many defense contractors are down sharply from their recent highs. FORTUNE agrees with the ...
THOUGH AT&T now has lots of company in the U.S. telephone business, satellite communications with the rest of the world have largely remained the preserve of Washington-based Communications Satelli...
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