PhotoBlog - rocket

30
Jan
2013
10:55am, EST
South Korea launches first civilian rocket amid tensions with North
Korea Aerospace Research Institute - YNA via EPA
The Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1, carrying a science satellite, blasts off at the Naro Space Center in Goheung on South Korea's south coast on Jan. 30, 2013.
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South Korean elementary schoolchildren celebrate as they watch TV news reporting the country's first rocket launch, at the National Science Museum in Gwacheon on Jan. 30, 2013.
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South Korea launched a rocket on Jan. 30, 2013 in its third bid to put a satellite in orbit -- a high-stakes challenge to national pride after rival North Korea succeeded in the same mission last month.
South Korea says it has successfully launched a satellite into space from its own soil for the first time, weeks after archrival North Korea accomplished a similar feat. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
Reuters reports — South Korea launched its first space rocket carrying a science satellite on Wednesday amid heightened regional tensions, caused in part by North Korea's successful launch of its own rocket last month.
It was South Korea's third attempt to launch a civilian rocket to send a satellite in orbit in the past four years and came after two previous launches were aborted at the eleventh hour last year due to technical glitches.
South Korea's rocket program has angered neighbor North Korea, which says it is unjust for it to be singled out for U.N. sanctions for launching long-range rockets as part of its space program to put a satellite into orbit. Read the full story.
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What is good for the goose is good for the gander. NK has been singled out for UN sanctions for launching satellite rockets, similar sanction should be imposed on SK.
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14
Dec
2012
6:42am, EST
Thousands rally to celebrate North Korea rocket launch
Kyodo via Reuters
North Koreans attend a rally to celebrate the successful launch of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket, which carried the second version of the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite, in Pyongyang on December 14, 2012.
South Korean navy ships have found what appeared to be debris from the rocket launched by North Korea this week. NBCNews.com's Alex Witt reports.
Reuters reports — When North Korea's Kim Jong Un commemorates a year of his rule next week, he will be able to declare he has fulfilled the country's long-held dream of becoming a "space powerhouse".
In a mass parade in Pyongyang on Friday, tens of thousands of soldiers dressed in olive green and standing in serried ranks, as well as bareheaded civilians, celebrated this week's successful rocket launch, hailing Kim's "victory".
"Under the great leadership of Kim Jong Un, we are carrying out a sacred task towards our last victory so as to build strong and prosperous nation," Kim Ki Nam, a politburo member from the Workers Party of Korea, told the applauding and cheering crowds that turned out in freezing temperatures. Read the full story.
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Kim Jong-Un smokes a cigarette at the General Satellite Control and Command Center after the launch of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket in Cholsan county, North Pyongan province on December 12, 2012.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Photo released by the state-run North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 14.
KCNA via EPA
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un celebrating with staff members at the Pyongyang General Satellite Control Command Center after the successful launch of the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite on December 12, 2012.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Photo released by the state-run North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 14.
Kyodo via Reuters
North Korean soldiers attend a rally to celebrate the successful launch of the rocket, in Pyongyang on December 14, 2012.
Jon Chol Jin / AP
North Korean military band members perform during a mass rally organized to celebrate the success of a rocket launch at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Dec. 14, 2012.
Kyodo via Reuters
North Koreans applaud in front of portraits of North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung (L) and late leader Kim Jong-il as they gather at a rally in Pyongyang on December 14, 2012.
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They all look so HAPPY in the pictures. I guess when it's "Celebrate or Die," then that's the face you get.
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16
Jun
2012
2:03pm, EDT
Ng Han Guan / AP
The Shenzhou 9 spacecraft rocket lifts off from the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, China, June 16. China sent its first woman and two other astronauts into space Saturday to work on a temporary space station for about a week in a key step toward becoming only the third nation to set up a permanent base in orbit.
China sends its first woman into outer space
The launch, which was broadcast on Chinese state central television, was a popular topic on China’s twitter-like service, Weibo. There were over 372,000 posts on the microblog service with the hash tag, “Shenzhou 9 is launching today.”
"My whole family sat in front of TV and watched the whole launch. I almost had a heart attack. It's successfully launched! We're so excited and happy!" wrote one happy poster.
“I happened to watch the launch, everyone just held breath when they did countdown,” wrote another poster. “To be honest, many things have made me less confident lately, but at this moment nothing can stop this exciting patriotism."
-- Reported by NBC news and news services
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Man-o-man would I ever be scared to go up in a spacecraft made in China!
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22
May
2012
6:19am, EDT
SpaceX rocket begins milestone mission to space station
Michael R. Brown / Reuters
The SpaceX Falcon 9 test rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on May 22, 2012.
Space.com reports from CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private space capsule called Dragon soared into the predawn sky Tuesday, riding a pillar of flame like its beastly namesake on a history-making trip to the International Space Station.
The unmanned capsule, built by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX venture, is the first non-governmental spacecraft to launch to the space station, ushering in a new era of partnership between the public and private spaceflight programs. Read the full story.
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Pierre Ducharme / Reuters
The rocket blasted off on Tuesday for a mission designed to be the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. The mock shuttle Explorer, in the foreground, had been on display at the Kennedy Space Center Complex, and will be moved to the Johnson Space Center in Houston this week in order to make room for the arrival of Space Shuttle Atlantis.
John Raoux / AP
The lift-off is seen in a long-exposure photo.
An unmanned rocket owned by privately held Space Exploration Technologies blasted off from Cape Canaveral on a mission designed to be the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. Msbnc.com's Dara Brown reports.
Slideshow: Month in Space: A blaze of glory
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Click through a solar eruption, the final odyssey of the shuttle Discovery and other outer-space highlights from April 2012.
Launch slideshow

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Yep, we'll be riding to the space station in a private vehicle piloted by a foreigner. And if you're from out of town and don't know the shortest route, the fare goes up.
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14
May
2012
8:22am, EDT
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Hive of activity as Russia's Proton-M rocket is readied for launch
A Proton-M rocket carrying a Nimiq 6 communication satellite is transported to the launch pad at Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome on May 14, 2012. The launch of the Proton-M has been scheduled for May 17, according to Russian media reports.
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24
Apr
2012
6:46am, EDT
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A Proton-M carrier rocket with the YahSat 1B telecommunications satellite aboard, blasts off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome early on April 24, 2012. The Russian carrier rocket successfully launched the satellite built by Astrium/Thales Alenia Space consortium for the Al Yah Satellite Communications Company of United Arab Emirates, the RIA Novosti news agency reported
Russian rocket blasts Emirati satellite into orbit
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11
Apr
2012
1:11am, EDT
North Korea fuels rocket for launch
Bobby Yip / Reuters
North Korean scientists work as a screen shows the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, at the satellite control center of the Korean Committee of Space Technology on the outskirts of Pyongyang April 11, 2012.
Reuters reports: PYONGYANG — Isolated North Korea said on Wednesday it was injecting fuel into a long-range rocket "as we speak" ahead of a launch condemned by its neighbors and the West as a disguised long-range ballistic missile test.
The launch is set to take place between Thursday and next Monday and has prompted neighbors such as the Philippines to re-route their air traffic just in case.

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lol, totally. Prob. where they get their inspiration..
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8
Apr
2012
8:16pm, EDT
North Korea shows off its launch pad and satellite
David Guttenfelder / AP
The satellite that North Korean officials say will be launched with the country's Unha-3 rocket, slated for liftoff between April 12-16, is shown to the media at Sohae Satellite Station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea on April 8. North Korean space officials have moved a long-range rocket into position for this week's controversial satellite launch, vowing Sunday to push ahead with their plans in defiance of international warnings against violating a ban on missile activity.
David Guttenfelder / AP
A North Korean soldier tries to keep order as journalists gather around the North Korean satellite.

North Korea maintains that the launch is a scientific achievement intended to improve the nation's faltering economy by providing detailed surveys of the countryside.

"Our country has the right and also the obligation to develop satellites and launching vehicles," Jang Myong Jin, general manager of the launch facility, said during a tour, citing the U.N. space treaty. "No matter what others say, we are doing this for peaceful purposes."

-- Reported by the Associated Press
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North Korean technicians work in the control room of the Tongchang-ri space center on April 8.
Ng Han Guan / AP
A North Korean waitress serves packaged meals for lunch on a train heading to North Phyongan Province, 35 miles south of the border town of Sinuiju along North Korea's west coast, April 8. North Korean officials escorted a group of international media by train from Pyongyang to see the country's Unha-3 rocket, slated for liftoff between April 12-16, at Sohae Satellite Station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea.
David Guttenfelder / AP
A North Korean soldier stands at a check point seen from a train heading to North Phyongan Province.
Bobby Yip / Reuters
A conductor displays flag signals to a passing-by train outside a station featuring a portrait of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung northwest of Pyongyang, April 8.
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The North Korean Unha-3 rocket is pictured at Tangachai -ri space center on April 8.

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We live in such a double standard country. It is ok for Israel to launch and test rockets, have nuclear weapons, occupy lands and break international law by building settlements in those lands and defy UNSC resolutions without any consequences. Another country tries to build a nuclear power plant o …
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29
Nov
2011
4:58am, EST
Yaron Kaminsky / AP
Israeli soldiers examine the damage after a rocket fired from Lebanon hit a chicken coop in a village in northern Israel, early on Nov. 29, 2011. Rockets fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel early Tuesday for the first time in more than two years, drawing a burst of Israeli artillery fire across the tense border, the Israeli military said.
Rocket fired from Lebanon hits northern Israel
The Associated Press reports from JERUSALEM:

Rockets fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel early Tuesday for the first time in more than two years, drawing a burst of Israeli artillery fire across the tense border, the Israeli military said.

No casualties or major damage were reported on the Israeli side and no one claimed responsibility for the attack. The military said at least two of the rockets landed on Israeli soil, and that Israeli guns shelled the area where the fire had originated.

A Lebanese security official told The Associated Press that one rocket was fired from Lebanon and that Israel hit back with six rockets, which landed in an empty area. Read the full story.

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Lebanon must now be accepted as a terrorist state as hezbollah is part of the government which does nothing to control this pyscho mass murdering gang that is under indictment for the murder of the ex PM As of now.. and until hezbollah is driven out of Lebanon . all of Lebanon must be considered the …
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24
Feb
2011
7:23pm, EST
JUSTIN DERNIER / EPA
Space Shuttle Discovery viewed from the rocket garden at the Kennedy Space Center visitor complex, lifts off on its last mission from Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 24 February 2011. The six astronauts will fly on the last flight of Shuttle Discovery in the space program to the International Space Station.
Space Shuttle Discovery launches above rocket garden at Kennedy Space Center
By John Brecher
Space Shuttle Discovery is on its way to the International Space Station (which, by the way, tops this Wikipedia list of the world's most expensive single objects). If your skies are clear over the next day or so, you might be able to look up and see the shuttle approach the ISS. To figure out when and where to look, try this site.
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Very creative framing of this picture. This guy is going to go far!
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25
Dec
2010
11:23am, EST
Indian space rocket explodes after lift-off
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The Indian GSLV-F06 rocket is seen before its ill-fated launch in Sriharikota, India on Saturday, Dec. 25. The unmanned rocket, which was carrying a communications satellite, blew up in its first stage after launching from the Sriharikota space center.
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An Indian Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle blasts off carrying a satellite Saturday, Dec. 25.
AP
A rocket explodes in mid-air shortly after its launch in Sriharikota. This marks the second failure for the Indian Space Research Organization this year. A previous developmental flight of the geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle mission failed in April, causing the rocket to plunge into the Bay of Bengal.
By Jonathan Woods, msnbc.com
A rocket carrying an Indian communications satellite exploded seconds after lift-off from a launchpad in the country's south on Saturday, officials said, in a potential setback for its commercial space business.
The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) exploded in the first stage of the flight, leaving a trail of smoke and fire. The initial launch of the GSAT-5P satellite had been pushed back because of an engine defect.
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At least the next time around when India launches their rocket into space the design will be better and most likely cost less to put into space which is a plus for India. Everytime a mishap occurs money is put into desiging better systems that will accomplish the mission next time around.
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