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Soyuz, with first Galileo satellites, launched from KourouKourou, French Guiana (AFP) Oct 21, 2011 A Soyuz rocket lifted off on Friday on its maiden flight from Europe's space base here, carrying the first two satellites in the Galileo geopositioning system, an AFP reporter saw. The launch -- the first by the veteran rocket beyond Russia's historic bases at Plesetsk and Baikonur -- is part of a commercial deal struck in 2003 to extend the range of Arianespace, which markets services from the European Space Agency (ESA) base in Kourou. ... read more |
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 SpaceX Completes Key Milestone to Fly Astronauts to International Space Station Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has announced it has successfully completed the preliminary design review of its revolutionary launch abort system, a system designed for manned missions usin ... more | .. |
  The Spark Of A New Era Was A Blast For Rocket Science Seventy-five years ago this Halloween, at 9 a.m., a truck from the California Institute of Technology turned on to a road owned by the Pasadena Water Department and after heading down a small hill c ... more | .. |
  Russia surprised as Apple uses Glonass in new iPhone The secret is out and making Russia proud: pop culture and geek tech icon Apple has picked Russia's Glonass navigation system to run alongside GPS in its iPhone 4S models that hit stores this month. ... more | .. |
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  Tokyo tech fair opens with robotic clapping of hands From robotic hand-clapping arms to a device that could show tsunami alerts in the sky, Japanese technology researchers showcased their latest inventions in Tokyo Thursday. ... more | .. |
 ILS Proton Launches ViaSat-1 for ViaSat International Launch Services (ILS), a leading launch services provider for the global commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the ViaSat-1 satellite into orbit today on an ILS Proton fo ... more | .. |
 GIS Technology Plays Critical Role to Aid Joplin Tornado Survivors In disasters, geographic information systems (GIS) technology aids survivors and facilitates city reconstruction. According to Gabriel Schmidbauer, GIS professor at American Sentinel University, GIS ... more | .. |
  Space tourism gaining momentum The space tourism industry, despite a slow start amid speculation and doubts, is gaining momentum, an industry conference in New Mexico heard. ... more |
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  BSkyB profits dip despite revenue rise British pay-TV giant BSkyB said Wednesday that net profits dipped in the first quarter of the group's financial year despite a solid jump in revenues and it winning a fee for News Corp.'s failed takeover. ... more | .. |
  German satellite to crash to Earth 'at the weekend' A German satellite the size of a car is expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere over the weekend, officials said on Wednesday, adding they had little idea where the fragments were likely to land. ... more | .. |
 Dead German satellite to fall on earth An abandoned German satellite was expected to fall on Earth this week, but the exactly time and location remained unknown, according to media reports. The German space agency has offered a landfall ... more | .. |
 NASA Veteran Alan Stern to Lead Florida Space Institute A former NASA leader whose career has touched nearly every aspect of manned and unmanned space flight has been named director of the Florida Space Institute. S. Alan Stern will help the instit ... more |
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  Lockheed Martin Receives Unanimous Decision That "Paveway" Is a Generic Term The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) unanimously ruled in favor of Lockheed Martin by determining that "paveway" is a generic term for a type of laser guide ... more | .. |
  U.S. aid to help find Libyan missiles U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Libya Tuesday with a $10 million aid pledge, much of which is to fund efforts to track down missing weapons from the Gadhafi regime. ... more | .. |
  Boeing Delivers 50,000th CSEL Search and Rescue Communications System The Boeing Company has delivered the 50,000th Combat Survivor Evader Locator (CSEL) combat search and rescue communications system to the U.S. joint services. The expanded use of this system w ... more | .. |
 El Salvador begins post-storm clean-up El Salvador has begun cleaning up the devastation left by more than a week of heavy rain as officials warned the tab could exceed the cost of Hurricane Mitch 13 years ago. ... more |
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Cane toad invasion threatens Pilbara biodiversity and culture
Amazonian forests altered by human actions show broad changes in diversity and evolutionary patterns
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 Japan cabinet approves $156 bn recovery budget Japan's cabinet on Friday approved an extra 12-trillion-yen ($156 billion) draft budget to finance measures to reconstruct tsunami-hit regions and help companies fight the strong yen. ... more | .. |
  China's Wen says reform key to solving EU crisis China's Premier Wen Jiabao told the European Union president Friday that financial reforms were key to solving the eurozone debt crisis threatening the world economy. ... more | .. |
 Study: No negative impact from e-readers A comparison of reading texts on paper with reading from an e-book found no disadvantages associated with the electronic version, European researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Google+ slow and sure in challenge to Facebook Google remains undaunted in its bid to create a flourishing online community that can go toe-to-toe with social networking powerhouse Facebook. ... more |
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  Carbon Cycle 2.0 Energy and Environmental Analysis Team Finds Effective Directions for Energy Research It's a grand challenge: develop clean, sustainable technologies that deliver a low-carbon energy future, and through innovation, create jobs, new markets, and exports, and increase America's energy ... more | .. |
  Colombia a leader in counter-narcotics As drug cartel fighting continues to bloody Mexican streets, the United States is increasingly concerned with new solutions to quell the narcotics surge further upstream. ... more | .. |
  Bankruptcy looms larger for Saab as restructuring threatened Beleaguered Swedish carmaker Saab said Thursday the administrator of its reorganisation plans to ask the court to halt the process, in a move that could force the company into bankruptcy. ... more |
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China emissions flat in third quarter as solar surges: study
Conference travel emissions exceed research energy use
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 China lets local governments issue bonds China said Thursday that it will allow four of its most developed cities and provinces to issue bonds on a trial basis, giving cash-strapped local governments a much-needed funding boost. ... more | .. |
 Alibaba tells Yahoo! to decide on takeover Alibaba Group Chairman Jack Ma said Thursday he expects an answer from Yahoo! within weeks to his long-standing offer to buy all or part of the US Internet giant, saying delays were hurting both firms. ... more | .. |
  Metro belatedly opens in India's IT hub Bangalore The first metro in India's IT hub of Bangalore rolls into service Thursday, a long-delayed and over-budget project to help the city's army of commuting software engineers and call centre staff. ... more | .. |
 Greenpeace criticises Japan radiation screening Greenpeace called on Tokyo to toughen radiation screening and food labelling rules on Thursday after it said low levels of radiation had been detected in seafood sold at Japanese stores. ... more |
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  China's aviation sector sees slower growth: report China has slashed official forecasts for its aviation industry this year, with both passenger and cargo volume hard hit by a downturn in global and domestic demand, state media said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Europe warms up to Mercosur, but has terms Europe is warming up to Latin American trade pact Mercosur in its bid to tie a free trade knot with EU partners but European negotiators want a deal that will reflect European interests in a time of pressing economic need. ... more | .. |
US demands answers on China Internet rules The United States Wednesday called on China to explain why it appeared to be blocking websites of US firms, as Washington took the first steps to bring the case to the World Trade Organization. ... more | .. |
 Bionics Reduces Battery Filling Time The latest development by engineers of KIT is inspired by nature. To fill the porous electrodes of lithium-ion batteries more rapidly with liquid electrolyte, they use a physicochemical effect that ... more |
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