Hamas militants in Gaza have successfully test-fired an Iranian rocket able to reach Israel's largest urban center, the country's military intelligence chief said on Tuesday. Major General Amos Yadlin told parliament's foreign affairs and defense committee that the rocket could fly 37 miles (60 kilometers), and strike metropolitan Tel Aviv, Israeli media reported.Until now, rockets fired from Gaza...
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Jerusalem: Israel's military intelligencechief said today Gaza militants have successfully tested anIranian rocket able to reach metropolitan Tel Aviv.Israeli radio stations say Maj Gen Amos Yadlin toldlawmakers that the rocket could fly 60 kilometres. Thatwould put Israel's largest urban centre at risk.Until now, rockets fired from Gaza have reached up to 40kilometres, putting one-eighth of Israel's...
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Hamas militants in Gaza have successfully test-fired in recent days an Iranian rocket able to reach metropolitan Tel Aviv, the country's military intelligence chief said today.Maj Gen Amos Yadlin told parliament's foreign affairs and defence committee that the rocket could fly 60 kilometres, which would put Israel's largest urban centre at risk, Israeli media reported.Until now, rockets fired from...
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Kabul's five-star Serena Hotel came under rocket attack on Wednesday, with two rockets fired into its grounds, a senior Afghan police official...
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NASA tries 2nd time to launch experimental rocket < ');" class="arial11blue1"> RateBad weather was interfering with NASA's attempt to launch a new, experimental rocket for the second day in a row early Wednesday.An estimated 154 lightning strikes were reported within a five-mile radius of the launch pad overnight. Launch controllers were retesting the Ares I-X rocket systems to make sure nothing was...
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video player is loading. If it does not appear shortly, you may need to enable JavaScript in your Web browser and/or getNASA this morning launched a prototype of its first new rocket in nearly 30 years. The Ares I-X is a precursor of the rocket that could launch humans back to the moon and carry the space shuttle's replacement spacecraft, Orion.After weather issues scrubbed Tuesdays scheduled launch,...
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Palestinian militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Wednesday fired a rocket against southern Israel that caused no casualties or damage, the army said.The rocket landed outside the town of Sderot, which has been hard hit by thousands of rockets from Gaza in recent years, a spokeswoman said.According to an Israeli army count, some 270 rockets and mortar shells have been fired at Israel since the...
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NASA's newest rocket blasted off on a brief test flight on Wednesday, taking the first step in a back-to-the-moon program that could be shelved by the White House.The 327-foot (100-meter) Ares I-X rocket resembled a giant white pencil as it shot into the sky, delayed a day by poor weather.Nearly twice the height of the spaceship it's supposed to replace -- the shuttle -- the experimental rocket carried...
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Palestinian militant group Hamas has test-fired a rocket capable of reaching Tel Aviv from Gaza, Israel's head of military intelligence has said.Maj-Gen Amos Yadlin told a committee in parliament that the rocket was believed to be of Iranian origin and had been successfully fired out to sea.There was no immediate comment by Hamas and it is not clear what evidence there is that the rocket came from...
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The next generation space rocket that would carry astronauts into orbit after the space shuttle is retired is ready for its first flight test on Tuesday - if the weather cooperates, NASA said.The US space agency plans to launch the Ares I-X rocket between 8 am and noon on Tuesday. But NASA forecaster Kathy Winters said Monday there was a 60 per cent chance that clouds above the Kennedy Space Centre...
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