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Russia to spend $3.8B on space programMoscow (UPI) Jan 11, 2011 The Russian government will spend $3.8 billion on its national space program in 2011, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. Putin said Russia plans to launch about 50 spacecraft in 2011 and adopt a federal program to develop the Glonass satellite navigation system until 2020, RIA Novosti reported. Russia had wanted to complete the forming of its Glonass system, similar to GPS in the United States, last year, but a Proton-M carrier rocket carrying three Glonass satellites veered of ... read more |
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  Ex-NASA worker charged military tech sale to SKorea An American who worked for NASA was charged with illegally shipping infrared military technology to South Korea, the Department of Justice announced Monday. ... more | .. |
  Multi-Mission Satellite Operations Center Goes Live Lockheed Martin has announced that the satellite command and control system - the Multi-Mission Satellite Operations Center Ground System Architecture- recently went operational with the successful ... more | .. |
  "Me-Too-Ism" Is Alive, But Not Well What is "me-too-ism?" It is a malady that afflicts much of the space industry. It is a cultural phenomenon that keeps people and organizations doing what they have done over-and-over again. It ... more | .. |
  China schools issue GPS phones to boost safety Schools in Beijing are giving GPS-equipped mobile phones to students, as China seeks to tackle the twin problems of missing children and campus violence, state press said Monday. ... more |
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 Hong Kong researchers store data in bacteria The US' national archives occupy more than 500 miles (800 kilometres) of shelving; France's archives stretch for more than 100 miles of shelves, as do Britain's. ... more | .. |
  Russian Firm Builds Another Aerostat System For China Russia's Augur-RosAeroSystems will finish in 2011 the construction of a third large-size tethered aerostat under a contract with a Chinese firm, the company's president said. The Puma aerostat ... more | .. |
 Another GPS Software Upgrade Completed As part of a larger ongoing effort by Air Force officials to improve and maintain the current GPS ground system, Air Force Space Command officials completed another sustainment software release for ... more | .. |
  From 'Star In A Jar' To Spaceflight, One Experimenter Has High Hopes For Fusion Dr. Robert Goddard, the inventor of the liquid-fuel rocket engine, conducted most of his pioneering work alone and with a close-knit group of technicians. Working alone, he was derided by scientists ... more |
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 An Escalator To Space - Not Very Far Away The day may not be far away when an elevator attendant asks your preferred destination - low earth orbit (LEO) or geostationary orbit (GSO). Research is fast progressing in advanced countries on des ... more | .. |
 Home appliances get 'smart' at CES Mobile phones aren't the only things getting smart. Home appliances are too. ... more | .. |
  NASA Image Shows La Nina-Caused Woes Down Under The current La Nina in the Pacific Ocean, one of the strongest in the past 50 years, continues to exert a powerful influence on weather around the world, affecting rainfall and temperatures in varyi ... more | .. |
 Goodrich delivers 331st sonar window The Goodrich Corp. has delivered the 331st Sonar Dome Rubber Window for U.S. Navy's DDG-51 class destroyers. ... more |
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Balls, blocks, cars among high-tech toys at CES Balls, blocks and miniature cars with a high-tech twist were among the toys at the Consumer Electronics Show here - although at prices only adults who are still children at heart may be able to afford. ... more | .. |
 Hi tech pays tribute to Eiffel Tower's 19th-century origins Arguably the most widely recognised structure in the world, the Eiffel Tower was designed to stand for only 20 years - and some predicted it would collapse long before then. ... more | .. |
 First lightweight jet cleared in India India has joined the select club of countries making a fighter jet from scratch, receiving operational clearance for its first lightweight indigenous multi-role Light Combat Aircraft. ... more | .. |
  Accelerating Haiti rebuild 'absolute priority': UN Accelerating the recovery of Haiti will be the "absolute priority" of UN aid agencies in 2011, the United Nations said Tuesday, a year after an earthquake that left 225,550 people dead and 2.3 million displaced. ... more |
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Floods cost to Australia 'higher than Katrina' Australia's devastating floods could slice more than Aus$10 billion ($10 billion) off GDP and hammer the economy worse than Hurricane Katrina affected the United States, economists said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Time for aid groups to 'step aside' in Haiti: MSF A French-based medical charity said Monday it was time for aid agencies to "step aside" in Haiti to allow the government to take a lead in rebuilding the impoverished nation rocked by a deadly earthquake a year ago. ... more | .. |
Obama calls on world to honor Haiti pledges US President Barack Obama urged the world on Tuesday to honor its pledges to help Haiti emerge from the nightmare of a devastating earthquake one year ago that killed a quarter of a million people. ... more | .. |
  Automakers covet more of China's huge market Huge opportunities remain to be mined in China's auto market which has yet to reach its full potential and is a coveted El Dorado for global automakers eager to elbow out Chinese brands. ... more |
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  Chinese vice premier backs UK austerity drive as tour ends Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang has backed Britain's austerity drive to tackle its huge deficit, in another vote of confidence in a European recovery as his three-nation tour neared an end. ... more | .. |
  ConnectU faces skeptical judges in Facebook appeal A skeptical panel of judges is mulling whether Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg duped former Harvard classmates in a $65 million settlement of a lawsuit charging that he stole the idea for the website recently valued at $50 billion. ... more | .. |
Beijing to build second major airport Beijing plans to build a second major airport in the next five years to keep up with an explosion in air travel in the fast-growing economy, according to a statement received by AFP Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  China defends rare earths policy ahead of Hu's US visit China on Wednesday defended its controls over lucrative rare earth metals ahead of a visit to the United States next week by President Hu Jintao, amid concern Beijing is abusing its market dominance. ... more |
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