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Indonesian communications satellite Palapa D failed to enter a preset orbit after being launched at 5:28 pm Monday at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China. The satellite was launched atop a Chinese-made Long March 3B rocket. The first and second stages of the rocket entered space normally, but the third stage failed during a second-time ignition. Experts are ... read more 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Aug 31, 2009There is no doubt that the topic of "space debris" is hot! It is a hot subject at NASA, DARPA, Air Force Space Command, ESA and in the board rooms of all commercial satellite operators. High anxiety is running rampant among these groups. Every debris mitigation technique has been reviewed and pursued. New satellites must have the ability to either de-orbit or move out of the way ... more
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Beijing, China (RIA Novosti) Sep 01, 2009China will begin the construction of its own orbital space station in 2020, the Sina news service said on Monday, citing a top official with the country's manned spaceflight program. Gu Yidong said that China would sent two or three space labs into orbit in 2010-2015, while the basic module of the space station is to be orbited by 2020. The spacecrafts will "form the basic orbital ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2009Triple-digit temperatures, extremely low relative humidities, dense vegetation that has not burned in decades, and years of extended drought are all contributing to the explosive growth of wildfires throughout Southern California. The Station fire, which began Aug. 26, 2009, in La Canada/Flintridge, not far from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, had reportedly burned 105,000 acres ... more  
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2009In 1959, only two years after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik and ignited the space race, the University of California, Berkeley, created a laboratory devoted to space science that has grown to be one of the most active academic space research labs in the country. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) has provided instruments for 75 satellite ... more |
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Tokyo (AFP) Aug 31, 2009Japan's Sharp Corp. said Monday that it had agreed to tie-up with a newly created Chinese company to produce liquid crystal display panels in Nanjing. Sharp will provide its LCD production technology to Nanjing CEC-Panda LCD Technology Co. to help it set up the plant, which is scheduled to start operating by March 2011. Financial terms were not disclosed. The new company is a joint ... more  
Riga (AFP) Aug 31, 2009China and crisis-hit Latvia signed agreements Monday aimed at increasing bilateral trade during a visit to the Baltic state by Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Hui Liangyu. "Latvia has always highly valued its relationship with China," Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis told reporters following talks with Hui Liangyu. "We're interested in continuing the bilateral dialogue, especially ... more  
Xichang, China (XNA) Aug 31, 2009China will soon send an Indonesian communications satellite into space on the back of Chinese-made Long March 3B rocket, a spokesperson for the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province said Saturday. All preparatory work is well underway and both the satellite and the rocket were in good condition, the spokesperson said. The Palapa D satellite, owned by ... more |
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