WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — James Harden scored 25 points and passed off 12 assists to spark the Houston Rockets over visiting Orlando 128-104 in one of only three NBA games played Tuesday. Harden, who ranks third in NBA scoring with 28.9 points a game and first in assists with 11.4 per contest, achieved his 43rd double double of the season as the Rockets cracked 100 points for the 41st consecutive game, third-longest run in […]
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NBA: Harden hot streak continues in Rockets win
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — James Harden bagged his 11th triple double of the season to lead the Houston Rockets to a 121-114 victory over the Charlotte Hornets on Tuesday. Harden, one of several players excelling in a high-scoring season across the league, finished with 40 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists as Houston improved to 31-9. The Rockets talisman also came to Houston’s rescue after Charlotte staged a dramatic fourth quarter fightback to […]
Japan launches satellite to study geomagnetic storms
KAGOSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) — Japan launched an Epsilon-2 rocket on Tuesday (December 20) carrying the Exploration of Energization and Radiation in Geospace (ERG) mission satellite. The satellite will study the creation and disappearance of highly charged electrons in the region of outer space near the Earth along with space storms and the effects of solar winds. The rocket was successfully launched from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima prefecture, south-western Japan, at 8 p.m. local […]
Galileo satellites rocket into space
PARIS, France (AFP) — Four Galileo satellites lifted off on board the Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana on Thursday and will soon be detectable by European smartphones. The Galileo satellites will boost Europe’s sat-nav capabilities, reducing their reliance on America’s Global Positioning System (GPS). Liftoff was at 10:06 am (1306 GMT) from Kourou in the French oversees territory in South America. It was the first time the Ariane 5 rocket, which is made under […]
NASA tests deep space rocket booster ahead of 2018 mission
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — NASA on Tuesday performed its second and last test-fire of a rocket booster for the Space Launch System (SLS), a powerful engine that may one day launch astronauts to Mars, the US space agency said. Fire and gray smoke billowed from the booster, which lay on the ground during the two-minute test fire in the remote hills of Utah at 11:05 am (1605 GMT). NASA has described the SLS as […]





