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Second Galileo Test Satellite Launched And In Orbit Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 27, 2008 
A second experimental Giove-B satellite for the EU's Galileo satellite navigation project was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Sunday. The Soyuz rocket carrying the satellite was launched at 4:16 a.m. local time (2216 GMT Saturday) and placed the Giove-B into its projected orbit shortly after 0200 GMT, Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of Starstem, the Russo-European comp ... read more |
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Arianespace plans bid to launch Galileo satellites: CEO
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 26, 2008The European commercial space-launch consortium Arianespace said Saturday it would make a bid to launch 26 satellites from French Guyana to kickstart the European Union's Galileo satellite navigation programme. The European Parliament on Wednesday signalled its green light for the deployment of Galileo, seen by space experts as a challenge to the US-administered GPS global positioning system ... more EU Galileo satnav project gets final greenlight 
Strasbourg (AFP) April 23, 2008Europe's long-delayed Galileo satellite navigation system passed its final legal hurdle on Wednesday after the European Parliament gave the flag-ship project its green light. In an almost unanimous vote, members of the European Parliament set in stone the legal basis for the system, which has been plagued in the past by technical problems and infighting among EU nations, at a plenary session ... more SES Negotiating To Sell AMC-14 To US Government Agency 
Gerroa, Australia (SPX) Apr 23, 2008The fate of geo stationary satellite AMC-14 that failed to achieve its desired orbit in March continues to cause problems for the Luxembourg-based SES group and its underwriters. SpaceDaily has learned that SES has backtracked on their original plan to ditch the Lockheed Martin built A2100 satellite, and is trying to offload the spacecraft to a US government agency before an SES competitor or even one of its own customers buys it from the underwriters. ... more Mission To Space May Not Be A Manned One: ISRO 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Apr 28, 2008India's much awaited mission to space, planned to be launched in 2015, may not be a 'manned' one as ISRO is not sure whether it would be a man or a woman who will have the privilege of being an astronaut for this ambitious programme. Faced with the dilemma, ISRO has now renamed its mega venture, costing around Rs 10,000 crore, as 'Indian human space flight', which ISRO officials hope would satis ... more Microsoft takeover deadline for Yahoo expires without comment 
San Francisco (AFP) April 27, 2008A Microsoft deadline for Internet service company Yahoo to accept its 44.6 billion-dollar (28.5 billion-euro) acquisition offer expired at midnight Saturday, setting the stage for a hostile takeover bid by the software giant. The expiration of the Sunday 0700 GMT deadline -- without comment from either side -- was likely to pave the way for an ugly proxy battle -- a fight by Microsoft for a ... more |
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St. Paul MN (SPX) Apr 28, 2008Digital Angel has announced that it has received a significant order through its Signature Industries subsidiary from exclusive Swedish distributor Cordland Marine AB. Digital Angel will initially supply 600 of the new McMurdo FASTFIND MAX G Personal Locator Beacons to KSAB, part of the Swedish private pilots association, KSAK . As of July 1, 2008, it wi ... more Andrew Compatibility Testing For Handset Vendors Supports New Caller Location Apps 
Hickory NC (SPX) Apr 28, 2008As new mobile devices come to market that support location-based services, network operators increasingly favor solutions that are based on Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) protocols. Helping ensure compatibility, Andrew Wireless Solutions, the CommScope division that is a global leader in communications systems and products, is successfully supporting handset vendors' SUPL-capable device ... more Synthetic Demonstration Develops Unmanned Vehicle Command Capability 
New Malden, UK (SPX) Apr 28, 2008BAE Systems has shown, for the first time, how multiple unmanned air and land vehicles can work under the command of a number of battlefield commanders to deliver vital reconnaissance and surveillance information to front-line troops. The demonstration showed how two unmanned ground vehicles and two unmanned air vehicles can pass information between themselves and their comma ... more NGC Awarded Predator And Reaper UAS Development Contract 
San Jose CA (SPX) Apr 28, 2008Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center for the development and flight-testing of a signals intelligence sensor payload for the U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aircraft System and for the preliminary design of an expanded sensor package for the MQ-9 Reaper UAS. Under this 18-month, cost-plus-incentive fee contract valued at ... more |
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Tewksbury MA (SPX) Apr 28, 2008Raytheon has been awarded a $5 million U. S. Missile Defense Agency contract to begin initial planning and requirements definition for the European Mid-course Radar program proposed for the Czech Republic. Subject to successful completion of negotiations with the Czech Republic and ratification, this program includes the assembly and installation of an existing X-band radar located in the Republ ... more Outside View: UAV options 
Mosscow (UPI) Russia, April 25, 2008 An Israeli-made Hermes-450 unmanned aerial vehicle owned by the former Soviet republic of Georgia was shot down over Abkhazia on April 21, aggravating regional tensions. While politicians try to sort the issue out, it is easy to forget the technical aspects of the problem, but they deserve some attention. Unmanned aerial vehicles have long been an exotic weapons system that onl ... more SKorea says it will buy air-to-ground missiles from abroad 
Seoul (AFP) April 26, 2008South Korea has decided to buy hundreds of cruise missiles capable of striking targets such as North Korea's nuclear sites and command posts, reports said Saturday. The Korea Times and other newspapers said the air-to-surface missiles would be fitted on 21 new F-15 fighter jets Seoul has agreed to buy from Boeing between 2010 and 2012. A spokesman for the Defence Acquisition Programme A ... more Thompson Files: Rolling back Reagan 
Arlington, VA (UPI) April 24, 2008 Remember the Reagan Revolution? It's over. For 30 years the political system has been dismantling the burden of taxes and regulations imposed on the economy by the New Deal. When U.S. President Ronald Reagan won the White House in 1980, he inherited a tax system that claimed up to 70 percent of taxpayer income and a political culture in which even Republicans were willing to consider ... more
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