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Establishing a national ballistic missile shield has always been a case study in futility. The technology required to fire decoys—multiple warheads on one rocket that can hopelessly confuse interceptor missiles—is all too easy for a rogue state or terrorist group to employ but difficult for the United States to defend against, even after spending the $100 billion that the Congressional Budget Office predicts the shield will cost. (Of course, estimates such as these also usually fall woefully short of the final cost.) And now, with Russia’s new missile technology?...
Instead of launching a patented rocket, Ruggiero continued skating towards the crease, keeping the puck in front of her. She deked left once, then switched over to her right, and fired a wrister that hit the inside of the right post before it ringed around the inside posts...
Corriero’s third goal did not come on as emphatic a play as she might have liked. Co-Captain Angela Ruggiero launched a rocket from the point that actually deflected off Corriero’s side into the inside left post of the goal...
...goes according to plan, Flight 158 will take off this week from Kourou in French Guiana, soaring up and away over the tiny South American country's lush equatorial forests and sandy Atlantic beaches. Flight 158 is no ordinary tourist shuttle, though. It's an Ariane-5G rocket that will launch the Rosetta spacecraft on an ambitious journey halfway across the solar system to intercept and land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is currently streaking across space at more than 100,000 km/h inside the orbit of Jupiter. "What's totally obsessing me is that we're launching into a comet...
BUDGET: $53.6 MILLION One of its satellite rockets exploded on the launchpad last August, killing 21. Still, Brazil's President vowed that the country would launch its first rocket before...