1. Hamas is developing longer-range rockets, and Israeli experts speculate that even Jerusalem neighborhoods will come under fire. 2. It also includes smaller projects to develop rockets that could help ferry supplies to the International Space Station, and to test concepts for new technology. 3. It is called the Space Launch Initiative, aimed at developing new rockets that could eventually replace the aging space shuttle. 4. It also has provisions for testing innovative technology and developing smaller rockets to ferry commercial payloads into space as well as supplies to the International Space Station. 5. The government plans to develop a rocket capable of ferrying satellites into orbit within the next five years. 6. The industry is then supposed to raise the capital to develop the rockets. 7. He said he would be willing to stop developing rockets if the United States agreed to launch North Korean satellites into orbit. 8. Hirschler was a member of the team headed by the late Wernher von Braun, whose engineers developed the rockets that sent Americans to the moon. 9. The solid-fuel mobile rocket is being developed to replace aging silo-based nuclear missiles. 10. The rockets have been developed by the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the radical Islamic group Hamas. |