According to US AF’s Strategic Command, Russia’s Phobos-Grunt ( grunt is Russian for “ground” or “soil”) probe, which was to land on Mars’s moon Phobos, will re-enter our atmosphere between January 14 and January 17. It’s currently stuck in a decaying Earth orbit – falling from a perigee (low point)...
An hour after Iranian state television aired images purporting to show off a captured LockheedMartin RQ-170 Sentinel , General Norton Schwartz, the Air Force’s top uniformed officer, raised the specter of a foreign power copying the stealthy jet’s top-secret technology . The RQ-170 is a flying...
According to NASA, another satellite will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere next week. This time, it’s the 2.4 ton defunct German Aerospace Center X-ray telescope ROSAT [1] . It will contact the atmosphere sometime between October 21 and October 23, and probably won’t complete an entire orbit before impacting...
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Apple Inc. said late Wednesday that the company's founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs has died. Jobs was 56. "We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations...
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Our last shuttle Lifted off from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 1129 on Friday morning, beginning STS-135, a twelve-day mission to the International Space Station. After its recovery, we will voluntarily hand manned space operations to the Russians and Chinese. America is fundamentally changing...
By now, you've no doubt seen the first preview of Microsoft's follow-up to the hit Windows 7 release (if not, take five minutes and check-out the video on YouTube - don't worry, it's "official" and not a leak). Windows 8 finally has a name and a face, and we finally have a ...
Photos from Chinese internet/montage by EagleWatch Chinese J-20 stealth fighter prototype I have written of PRC’s epiphany regarding their outmoded military doctrine, and the resultant rush to modernize both platforms and methods since, in these pages before [1] . While their work on aircraft carriers...
Philips Internal Wireless 802.11 a/b/g Drivers for Microsoft Windows XP. After spending almost an entire day trying to find these drivers, I thought I should post them here to help others. * NOTE: Download these drivers at your OWN RISK! I have tested the file for viruses, and I was able to get these...
An employee at an Apple parts supplier has been caught on tape selling inside information about Apple to a hedge fund broker. The information, potentially worth millions to the broker, was sold by Walter Shimoon for a mere $22,000. Shimoon has since been fired by camera and charger component maker Flextronics...