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 Paris, France (ESA) Jun 08, 2009 
ESA Member States have unanimously voted to extend the Envisat mission through to 2013. Envisat - the world's largest and most sophisticated satellite ever built - has been providing scientists and operational users with invaluable data for global monitoring and forecasting since its launch in 2002. "The decision to extend the Envisat mission operations, taken during the last ESA Earth ... read more 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 08, 2009The spacefaring nations of the world are coming to the conclusion that the space debris issue has evolved from a minor nuisance to a full-blown imperative. Hundreds, if not thousands, of decision makers, engineers, managers, politicians and policy makers have focused their attention on how to deal with the fast-growing threat to operational satellites and future access to space. All that ... more
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Washington DC (SPX) Jun 08, 2009Delivering on the regional and global ambitions of its business, SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES has announced at the ITW conference in Washington, D.C. that Telefonica del Peru has signed a three-year deal for nearly a full transponder of satellite capacity to extend its reach to corporate, cellular and residential customers in remote areas of Peru. Telefonica del Peru is using 33 megahertz of ... more  
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009Many people consider the Apollo lunar landings one of the crowning achievements of human ingenuity. But not so many people realize that the epochal first steps by human beings on another world - which took place 40 years ago next month - likely would not have been possible without the technological experience and capabilities of MIT. In celebration of that singular accomplishment and MIT's ... more  
Paris (AFP) June 7, 2009Agnes Guillot dreams of one day seeing a giant 50-centimetre (20-inch) -long white rat called Psikharpax scuttling fearlessly around her lab. If so, it will be time to scream... but out of joy, rather than fear, for it could be a turning point in the history of robotics. Psikharpax - named after a cunning king of the rats, according to a tale attributed to Homer - is the brainchild of ... more 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009Raytheon has received confirmation from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory that its hyperspectral imaging sensor known as ARTEMIS has been activated aboard the TacSat-3 spacecraft and is fully functional. The milestone continues Raytheon's 40-year history of on-orbit success. Activation also marks the beginning of the year-long TacSat-3 mission to test the payload's ability to deliver ... more |
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Shanghai, China (SPX) Jun 08, 2009Actel has announced the winners of its 2009 Actel Cup China Students FPGA design competition. Chosen from more than 300 submissions by students from 190 universities, designs from Xian University of Electronic Science and Technology and South China Agricultural University were tied for first place, meeting the contest's very high standards for creativity, including three key qualifications: high ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 08, 2009ESA's Planck satellite has caried out a critical mid-course manoeuvre that placed the satellite on its final trajectory for arrival at L2, the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, early in July. The manoeuvre began at 19:28 CEST on 5 June 2009, and lasted 30 hours. Planck's main thrusters conducted repeated 'pulse burns' during this time, switching on then off for 6 seconds ... more 
Moscow (UPI) Jun 6, 2009 Two astronauts on the International Space Station tested new Russian-made suits during five hours of work on the docking system, station officials said. Russian commander Gennady Padalka and U.S. flight engineer Michael Barratt Friday wore Orlan-MK computerized space suits to install three antennas on the Kurs auto-docking system, RIA Novosti reported Saturday. The Orlan-MK suits ... more 
Washington (AFP) June 5, 2009A shoe-maker and a technology company are teaming up to develop footwear with a built-in GPS device that could help track down "wandering" seniors suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. "The technology will provide the location of the individual wearing the shoes within 30 feet, anywhere on the planet," said Andrew Carle, an assistant professor at George Mason University who served as an ... more |
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