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Canada Delays Sale Of Space Robotics Firm MDA To ATK Ottawa (AFP) March 20, 2008 
Canada on Thursday delayed approval of the sale of its leading space firm MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates to a US defense contractor as opponents of the deal feared a major setback in Canada's space capabilities. Industry Minister Jim Prentice decided to take 30 more days to review the purchase of MDA, builder of the robot Dextre attached to the Space Station, by US firm Alliant Techsystems. ... read more |
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Boomerang works in space: Japanese astronaut
Tokyo (AFP) March 21, 2008In an unprecedented experiment, a Japanese astronaut has thrown a boomerang in space and confirmed it flies back much like on Earth. Astronaut Takao Doi "threw a boomerang and saw it come back" during his free time on March 18 at the International Space Station, a spokeswoman at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said on Friday. Doi threw the boomerang after a request from compatriot ... more Iridium Satellite Selects Three Finalists To Design And Develop Iridium NEXT 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Mar 20, 2008Iridium Satellite is pleased to announce it has reached agreement with three companies to enter into the concept development phase in its design and development procurement process for "NEXT," the company's next-generation satellite constellation. Over the next five months, Lockheed Martin, Space Systems Loral and Thales Alenia Space will develop design concepts, review critical engineering ... more Starsem Readies Launch Of Second European Navigation Satellite 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Mar 22. 2008Preparations for Starsem's upcoming mission are in full swing at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with the European-built GIOVE-B navigation satellite payload now undergoing checkout, and the Soyuz launch vehicle advancing through the integration process. GIOVE-B was delivered to the launch site on March 13 along with its ground support equipment, arriving aboard an Antonov An-124 cargo ... more ESA Prepares ATV For ISS Docking 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 22, 2008Jules Verne ATV is lining up for Europe's first-ever automated docking in space. Following two demonstrations, the final 'putt' must be more accurate and gentle than on any rolling golf green. Now that the vessel is 'on the green' - in a parking orbit 2000 m ahead of the ISS - ATV mission controllers must pace the spacecraft through two pending and crucial demonstration dockings, moving ... more A Billion GPS Chips Expected To Ship In 2013 
London, UK (SPX) Mar 20, 2008Satellite-based navigation is a very popular technology with consumers, and the upsurge in purchases of GPS (Global Positioning System) devices is fuelling a similar growth in the market for GPS receiver chipsets. A new study from ABI Research forecasts GPS IC shipments to reach one billion annually in 2013. Average Selling Prices (ASPs) will continue to fall, but the effect on vendors' revenue ... more |
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Chandler AZ (SPX) Mar 20, 2008ProLink Solutions has announced that Ravenwood Golf Club (Victor, N.Y.) now features the ProLink Solutions ProStar GPS system used at many of the world's most famous golf courses and plans to participate in ProLink's exclusive national advertising opportunity. Ravenwood consistently ranks among New York's top daily-fee facilities and has earned rave reviews from Golf Digest course critic ... more India Test Fires Nuclear-Capable Missile 
New Delhi (AFP) March 23, 2008India on Sunday test fired a medium-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile capable of hitting most targets in neighbouring Pakistan, a defence official said. The Agni-1 missile, which has a range of more than 700 kilometres (430 miles), was fired at 10:15 am (0445 GMT) from an island off the coast of the eastern state of Orissa, the official said. "The user trial of the missile passed ... more Russia obtained US guarantees on missile shield: Lavrov 
Moscow (AFP) March 20, 2008The United States gave Moscow guarantees that its proposed anti-missile shield "will be not directed" against Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday in a first sign of progress in very hard negotiations between the two countries. "The Americans are ready to provide us with a series of measures to give us confidence and reassure us that this system is not directed agains ... more Pakistan test-flies pilotless plane: military 
Islamabad (AFP) March 20, 2008Pakistan on Thursday conducted a successful test flight of a pilotless plane, the military announced. Flight data from the UAV named "Uqaab," showed the exercise had been successful, it said in a statement. "The performance of UAV can be compared to any modern state-of-the-art UAV in its category," the statement said, adding that the flight test was preceded by ... more |
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Bangkok (AFP) March 23, 2008Incentives from the Thai government to encourage automakers to produce fuel-efficient "eco-cars" have yielded a raft of major investments and started to change how Thais drive, experts say. Tax breaks for automakers and car buyers were unveiled last year, as the government worried that Thailand's position as the world's biggest maker of light pickups might not be enough to guarantee the futu ... more Analysis: Foreigners ply Volga-Don Canal 
While most discussions of Caspian oil exports revolve around pipelines, since 1991 there has been a mini tanker boom on the inland sea, which services not only domestic markets but also transships oil for transport from Baku's Sangachal terminal via the $3.6 billion, 1,092-mile Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline to Turkey's Mediterranean terminus. The Caspian tanker trade is entirely local. ... more Study: Electronics revolution now in sight 
Gaithersburg, Md. (UPI) Mar 20, 2008 U.S. scientists say they've set the stage for the "evolutionary link" between today's microelectronics and future devices made from organic molecules. National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers said they have demonstrated a single layer of organic molecules can be assembled on the same kind of substrate that is used in conventional microchips. The scientists said ... more Electrical fields change gold nanoclusters 
Atlanta (UPI) Mar 20, 2008 U.S. physicists have found applying an electrical field to a surface-supported gold nanocluster changes it from three-dimensional to a 2-D flat structure. And in another study concerning gold on the nanoscale, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers relate their discovery that nanosized gold can be made magnetic through oxygenation of gold nanowires to the finding that up to a certa ... more
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