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Welcome to Edition 3.34 of the Rocket Report! I apologize for the unplanned hiatus last week. The Rocket Report's Houston-based author lacked power until Wednesday night amidst a massive winter storm and had no reliable Internet until Friday afternoon. We still had no hot water at our house, but at least we're no longer freezing. We're back just in time to spew all manner of spicy launch news this week. As always, Ars welcomes reader submissions , and if you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar. KSLV-2 rocket on track for 2022 launch . As part of its budget for 2021 space activities, South Korea will spend $553 million for satellites, rockets, and other equipment. SpaceNews reports this funding will keep the country's development of … [Read more...] about Rocket Report: Cornwall says “LOL, no” to space tourism, Korean rocket on track

Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's nascent space tourism company , plans to make its latest run at orbit as soon as Saturday, Feb. 13 from New Mexico's Spaceport America. Virgin is working to complete a few more test flights before Branson takes his own long-awaited orbital joyride, followed by paying customers who are coughing up somewhere in the neighborhood of a quarter million dollars to become astronauts for a day. CNET Science From the lab to your inbox. Get the latest science stories from CNET every week. The company attempted a test flight in December, but a computer on board the spacecraft SpaceShipTwo Unity aborted ignition of the rocket motor. The Virgin Galactic team now says it's corrected the problem and tested it on the ground. The next step is to try again. Saturday is the earliest we could see Unity and the Virgin carrier aircraft VMS Eve take off from the high desert north of Las Cruces. There are other flight opportunities throughout February … [Read more...] about Virgin Galactic aims to rocket to space as soon as Saturday

Fly with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic to space and you can expect a custom-sized reclining seat, automated mood lighting and plenty of roam to float around once the spaceship VSS Unity reaches the microgravity environment of orbit. That's all part of the package revealed by the space tourism company on Tuesday via a live YouTube stream, which you can watch via the embed below: Virgin Galactic unveiled the cabin where customers who pay $200,000 or more for a ticket will become bona fide astronauts. The company teamed with Under Armour, which also makes its spacesuits , to develop the fabric for each seat, which the company says have been designed for safety, comfort and maximizing space once the life-long shackles of gravity are temporarily broken. CNET Science From the lab to your inbox. Get the latest science stories from CNET every week. "What we created was this really clever seat that has this special bending mechanism that clears out the cabin so … [Read more...] about Virgin Galactic unveils its sleek cabin for future space tourists

MANGALURU: Indian mobile services market is expected to reach $37 billion in 2017, growing at 10.3% year-on-year to cross US$ 103.9 billion by 2020, according to an ASSOCHAM-Resurgent India joint study. As on March 2017, the service sector grew 7.74% year-on-year to Rs 21.43 trillion (US$ 332.74 billion). The Indian digital classifieds industry is expected to grow three-fold to reach US$ 1.2 billion by 2020, driven by growth in horizontal classifieds like online services, real estate and automobiles. Out of overall services sector, the sub-sector comprising financial services, real estate and professional services contributed US$ 305.8 billion or 20.5% to the GDP, reveals the joint study on ‘Service Sector in India’ released today. Service sector employs nearly 40% of the population in the economy. It has the capacity to absorb the need of the growing population. The employment in the service sector has increased from 23.7% in 1999 to 29% in 2016-17. Telecom sector bats for … [Read more...] about Indian mobile services market to touch US$ 103.9 billion by 2020: Study

Now you can explore the awe-inspiring Incan estate of Machu Picchu — from your computer. This huge image of the Incan site in Peru took nearly two hours to photograph and is made up of 1,920 separate images that were stitched together using a program called GigaPan . Viewers can zoom in to see the smallest details of the site. The photographs were taken by Jeff Cremer, marketing director of Rainforest Expeditions , a company that runs eco-tourism trips to the Peruvian Amazon . Cremer said he made the image in part to raise awareness about the plight of the site, which is being degraded by the many tourists that come to see it, he told OurAmazingPlanet. He said he wants people to visit but that they need to stick to marked paths to avoid exacerbating Machu Picchu's worsening erosion and degradation.  The World Monuments Fund, a New York-based nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving historic sites, recently placed Machu Picchu on its watch list of 100 Most … [Read more...] about Visit Machu Picchu with Huge ‘Zoomable’ Image