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Spaceops 2008 Looks To Build The Next Generation Of Space Infrastructure Paris, France (ESA) May 15, 2008 
SpaceOps 2008 launched on schedule Monday, with senior managers emphasising increased standardisation and the ongoing growth in global cooperation in space. This year's event, themed on "Protecting the Earth, Exploring the Universe," got underway in Heidelberg, Germany, on 12 May with over 400 experts from the world's space agencies, industry, government and academia in attendance. Opening ... read more |
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Mongolia Uses Gilat Network For Nationwide Telephony And Data Connectivity
Petah Tikva, Israel (SPX) May 14, 2008Gilat Satellite Networks has announced it will provide Incomnet with a Gilat SkyEdge broadband satellite communications network to serve end users throughout Mongolia. Incomnet is one of Mongolia's largest telecommunications service providers. Incomnet will use the new VSAT network to provide toll-quality telephony to rural citizens, meeting its Universal Service Obligations. The network ... more TerraSAR-X And NFIRE Fire Up The Pipe With Laser Data Transfer 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) May 14, 2008Satellites currently use radio waves to exchange data. Now the data rate has been increased a hundredfold by using lasers instead of radio signals. Two test satellites each carried a diode laser pump module developed with the help of Fraunhofer researchers. The data whizzed back and forth at the speed of light between German satellite TerraSAR-X and US satellite NFIRE, covering more than ... more mojoRTK Steers CCD Tractors With the John Deere GreenStar System 
Englewood CO (SPX) May 15, 2008Leica Geosystems continues to add steering platforms to the new No Drift mojoRTK. Now, they've extended their plug-and play-system to steer older CCD steering systems in addition to the newer CAN-based tractors via the John Deere GreenStar system. The mojoRTK, which installs in the radio or DIN slot of the tractor cab, can now provide RTK-guidance to CCD (Chrysler Collision Detection) ... more Spirent Communications and CTTL Partner Up On Assisted GPS Testing For China 
Washington DC (SPX) May 15, 2008Spirent Communications has announced that it signed a cooperation agreement with Beijing based, China Telecommunications Technology Labs (CTTL). As a part of this agreement, CTTL, China's leading wireless test laboratory and Spirent, the worldwide leader in Assisted GPS (A-GPS) testing will provide the China market with access to the best test tools, support and expertise to enable success ... more Networks In Motion Issued Patent For Social Networking GPS Apps 
Aliso Viejo CA (SPX) May 15, 2008Networks In Motion (NIM) has announced that it was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,333,820, titled "Position Determination System," which protects its intellectual property involving social networking applications such as requesting and/or pushing a user's location via a GPS-enabled mobile device through a wireless network. NIM's patent features a method of providing real-time position information ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) May 14, 2008Russian cargo ship Progress M-64 set off from Kazakhstan overnight on Wednesday for the International Space Station, the centre for control of space flights (Tsoup) told national news agencies. The spacecraft was launched "as planned" at a little after midnight local time (2023 GMT) and is due to arrive at the ISS on Saturday, said a spokesman. Progress is delivering a three-tonne cargo ... more Russia, Europe ink deal on new manned spacecraft 
Moscow (AFP) May 14, 2008The Russian and European space agencies have signed a deal to build a six-seat manned spacecraft to travel to the Moon, a Russian space official said Wednesday. Russian space agency Roskosmos and the European Space Agency "on Tuesday signed an accord on the creation of a manned vessel to transport up to six people around the Earth and to the Moon," Roskosmos spokesman Alexander Vorobyev told ... more EU gives green light to TomTom takeover of Tele Atlas 
Brussels (AFP) May 14, 2008EU regulators on Wednesday approved Dutch technology group TomTom's takeover of Tele Atlas after an in-depth probe found the deal would not significantly reduce competition in the SatNav sector. The European Commission concluded that the 2.9-billion-euro (4.3-billion-dollar) takeover of Tele Atlas, a leading Dutch maker of digital maps, by TomTom, which makes portable navigation devices, "wo ... more Hughes Communications Announces Proposed Public Offering 
Germantown MD (SPX) May 14, 2008Hughes Communicationshas announced that it and certain members of senior management are offering shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering. The offering will consist of an aggregate of 2,239,600 shares, of which approximately 2,000,000 shares are being offered by Hughes and approximately 239,600 shares are expected to be offered by certain selling stockholders, including ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) May 14, 2008China rebuffed international offers of sniffer dogs and search-and-rescue experts to help in its huge earthquake relief operation, but countries still sent cash and prayers on Wednesday. Despite whole towns being flattened in Sichuan province, burying thousands, Australian expertise was Wednesday politely declined and frustrated Japanese teams were forced to turn around at the airport. ... more PLA rides to the rescue again in China quake 
Beijing (AFP) May 14, 2008The People's Liberation Army dropped food and paratroopers into quake-shattered areas of China on Wednesday, the latest in a long history of disaster-relief missions by the world's largest armed force. The 7.9-magnitude earthquake which struck on Monday, devastating a wide area of southwestern China, has given rise to familiar scenes: Chinese people at nature's mercy and the PLA marching to ... more Rains Spell Nightmare Scenario In Myanmar While New Cyclone Forms 
Geneva (AFP) May 14, 2008Heavy rains forecast to hit Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta over the coming days represent a nightmare scenario for the cyclone-stricken country, the United Nations and Red Cross warned on Wednesday. "The arrival of the rains will only exacerbate an already dramatic situation in the flooded areas, both for survivors and for aid personnel," said Elisabeth Byrs of the UN's humanitarian affairs office ... more Britain tightlipped on reports that tourists safe in China quake 
London (AFP) May 14, 2008Britain's foreign ministry said it was unable to confirm reports Wednesday that 19 Britons missing in the region of China devastated by an earthquake were safe and sound. China's official Xinhua agency reported that 19 British tourists were unharmed and had arranged to stay in the Wolong giant panda nature reserve. The Foreign Office and a travel company have said the group was travelling ... more
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