. Medical and Hospital News .




.
TECH SPACE
Belarus Strongman Vows Nation Will Build World's Best Spacecraft Ever
by Staff Writers
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 22, 2011

Alexander Lukashenko.

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday the former Soviet republc would build the best spaceship the world has ever seen.

Lukashenko, once famoulsy dubbed "Europe's last dictator" by the United States over the country's poor human rights record, said he had spoken with the country's leading scientists on the "construction of our own spacecraft."

"We agreed: the craft will be the best in the world," Lukashenko told an energy conference in Minsk.

"Who would have thought in the 1990s that we'd be making a spacecraft?" the 57-year-old former collective farm boss asked.

On Wednesday, Belarus signed an agreement with Russia on space cooperation and announced plans to launch its BelKa-2 satellite early next year. The first BelKa crashed on liftoff in 2006.

Source: RIA Novosti

Related Links
-
Space Technology News - Applications and Research




.
.
Get Our Free Newsletters Via Email
...
Buy Advertising Editorial Enquiries




.

. Comment on this article via your Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail login.

Share this article via these popular social media networks
del.icio.usdel.icio.us DiggDigg RedditReddit GoogleGoogle



TECH SPACE
SSTL tests TechDemoSat-1 plasma population payload
Guildford, UK (SPX) Dec 20, 2011
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has completed another milestone in the UK's technology demonstration satellite TechDemoSat-1 with the successful testing of the engineering model of the first payload, a novel charged particle spectrometer design. The Charged Particle Spectrometer (ChaPS) built by UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory (UCL-MSSL), has a form factor of a 1-U CubeSat. I ... read more


TECH SPACE
Tent cities loom for Philippine flood victims

Japan atomic regulators, TEPCO 'unprepared': panel

Room at the inn for Fukushima believers

Sad Christmas for Philippine flood victims

TECH SPACE
GMV tracks the first Galileo IOV Satellite

GIS Degree A Safe Bet for Professionals in the Ever-Growing Oil Industry

Lockheed Martin Delivers GPS 3 Pathfinder Satellite to Denver on Schedule

Galileo in tune as first navigation signal transmitted to Earth

TECH SPACE
How to break Murphy's Law And Live To Tell The Tale

Human skull study causes evolutionary headache

Malaysian 'lords of the jungle' cling to ancient ways

Mind reading machines on their way: IBM

TECH SPACE
Capture of rare Sumatran rhino gives hope for species

Purdue scientists reveal how bacteria build homes inside healthy cells

Hellbender salamander study seeks answers for global amphibian decline

Close Family Ties Keep Microbial Cheaters in Check

TECH SPACE
Indonesia probes Bali tattoo HIV infection report

Nepal's AIDS orphans forced into parental role

Australia says Bali tattoo likely gave patient HIV

Controversial 'bird flu' edits move ahead

TECH SPACE
Land grabs in China's Guangdong 'down 21% in 2010'

Chinese activist jailed for 10 years: rights group

South China town unrest cools after dialogue

Police fire tear gas at crowd in south China

TECH SPACE
China starts Mekong patrols

China deploys patrol boats on Mekong: state media

Seychelles invites China to set up anti-piracy base

Britain detains seven suspected pirates in Seychelles

TECH SPACE
Japan approves $1.16-trillion draft budget

Japan cuts growth outlook as yen, disasters weigh

Japan recovery paused, warns BoJ, as deficit grows

Outside View: A second Great Recession?


.

The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2012 - Space Media Network. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement,agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement