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Europe Launches Jules Verne Robot Space Freighter Kourou (AFP) Mar 09, 2008 
The European Space Agency on Sunday carried out the maiden launch of a massive robot freighter designed to rendezvous automatically with the orbital space station. The Automated Transfer Vehicle, a nearly 20-tonne payload the size of a London double-decker bus, blasted into the skies aboard a beefed-up Ariane 5 launcher, an AFP reporter saw. After being placed in orbit ... read more |
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China To Launch Second Olympic Satellite In May
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 09, 2008China will launch in May a second meteo satellite to ensure more precise weather forecasts during the Beijing Olympic Games set to open on August 8, the Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday. The new satellite, Fengyun-3, has a bigger payload than its predecessors and will provide medium-range weather forecasts for up to 10 to 15 days. It will replace the FY-1D weather satellite launched ... more Sea Launch Prepares For The Launch Of DirecTV 11 
Long Beach CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2008The Odyssey Launch Platform and the Sea Launch Commander have departed Sea Launch Home Port for the equatorial Pacific, in preparation for the launch of the DirecTV 11 broadcast satellite, planned for Monday, March 17. Liftoff is expected at the opening of a 58-minute launch window, at 3:49 pm Pacific Daylight Time (22:49 GMT). Upon arrival at the launch site at 154 degrees West Longitude, ... more First China Spacewalk On Course For October 
Beijing (XNA) Mar 09, 2008China is planning to conduct its first spacewalk in October from a Shenzhou VII spacecraft, senior space engineers said Wednesday. They also said a research team had been set up to conduct a feasibility study for a space station. Wang Yongzhi, former chief designer of China's Manned Space Program, said the launch date had originally been scheduled for after the Olympics (Aug 8 to 24) and ... more Multimedia And Entertainment Content For Portable GPS Navigation Devices In Development 
Burbank CA (SPX) Mar 10, 2008Media One Direct will produce a promotional video and user tutorials for the new V7 line of GPS portable navigation devices, the exclusive house brand for Ingram Micro. The promo and tutorials are for the V7 NAV 730 and the V7 NAV 740, a new line of GPS portable navigation devices. The promo will play on the V7 at major retail stores to allow consumers to watch the features of the device at the ... more News Service Utilises On Call Communications' QuickSPOT Automated SNG System 
Irvine CA (SPX) Mar 10, 20087NEWS is a fast-paced news organization in Boston that often travels around the country covering big news stories. At the Super Bowl, in Arizona, WHDH used an exciting new piece of technology that allowed them to be live not only from the stadium where they had positioned their satellite truck but also from celebrity parties and team practice facilities that were miles away. ... more |
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Melbourne FL (SPX) Mar 10, 2008Northrop Grumman has delivered a new airborne broadband capability to the U.S. Air Force E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) aircraft fleet. The first two aircraft have been equipped with the Internet Protocol-based Beyond-Line-of-Sight communications system, which provides chat, e-mail, web-browsing capabilities and access to the U.S. Department of ... more South Korea Buys Raytheon Patriot Air And Missile Defense Capability Upgrade 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Mar 10, 2008Raytheon has received an initial contract to provide engineering services related to a U.S. government Foreign Military Sale of the Patriot air and missile defense system to South Korea. Raytheon expects significant follow-on awards to complete the system integration and to provide command and control, communications and maintenance support equipment, as well as the training of Korean ... more BrahMos-2 Production Plans Lay Ground Work For Indian Cruise Missile 
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 07, 2007The rapid development of the BrahMos joint Indian-Russian supersonic cruise missile project documents important and usually overlooked truths about the triangular Russian-U.S.-Indian strategic relationship. First - despite all the optimism of the Bush administration and all its efforts over the past seven years - India remains fundamentally allied to Russia rather than the United States ... more Improvised Technology Drives Tanks Forward 
Washington (UPI) Feb 29, 2007 Improvised explosive devices are now being hailed as the wonder weapon that may end the tank's supremacy on the battlefield. In fact, like any weapon of war, the Main Battle Tank has never been invincible. A surprising number of weapons systems have proven effective against it -- usually in very favorable and exceptionally specific circumstances, but the tank's overall effectiveness and ... more |
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Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Mar 10, 2008Carnegie Mellon University's Michael Bockstaller and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski have created a version of Harry Potter's famed "invisibility cloak" for nanoparticles. Through a collaborative effort, researchers from the departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemistry have developed a new design paradigm that makes particles invisible. In a recent edition of Advanced Materials ... more Yellow Cabs go green in US 
Arlington, Virginia (AFP) March 6, 2008The Yellow Cab is an American classic but in this suburb of Washington they're turning green. Hans Hess, 35, is the owner of enviroCAB, a taxi company which is putting a fleet of all-hybrid taxis on the streets of Arlington. EnviroCAB bills itself as the first all-hybrid taxi company in the country. It began service last month and now operates nearly two dozen cabs -- Toyota Priuses, ... more Energia Hosts Second Convention For Students Of Space 
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 07, 2008S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia hosted the 2nd Convention of students from space-industry related institutions and departments of higher education in Moscow - Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow State Forest University, Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow Aviation Technology Institute, Moscow State Technical University STANK ... more Second Galileo Spacecraft Prepares For Launch 
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 07, 2008Yesterday, members of the media visited ESA-ESTEC, the agency's European Research and Technology Centre, to see and learn about GIOVE-B, the second Galileo in-orbit validation satellite, before it is packed for shipping to the launch site. GIOVE-B has successfully completed its test campaign and will depart from ESTEC on 11 March. The spacecraft will be flown to Baikonur, in Kazakhstan ... more
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