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Russia to shift space launches to Plesetsk, VostochnyMoscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 09, 2012 The number of space launches from Russia-based space ports Plesetsk and Vostochny must rise from 25% to 90% by 2020. This ambitious goal was laid down in the state space development project presented at the meeting of the Skolkovo club for space technologies and telecom and published in its official Twitter blog. Today, most of Russia's launches are carried out from the Baikonur space base, leased by the Kazakh government to Russia for $115 million a year. An additional $50 million is furthe ... read more |
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  Russia Plans First Tourist Spaceport The Uniparx Development company said on Thursday it was planning to build a spaceport in central Russia near the birthplace of Yury Gagarin, the first man to conquer space. The Russian spacepo ... more | .. |
  Skygate And SES Sign Agreement For Distribution Of SES' Satellite Broadband Service In The Middle East SES and SkyGate has announced that they have signed a five year contract for the distribution of SES' successful satellite broadband service SES Broadband, formerly known as ASTRA2Connect, in the Mi ... more | .. |
 KVH mini-VSAT Broadband Network has the largest market share Launched in late 2007, the mini-VSAT Broadband service from KVH Industries, Inc. has quickly grown to become the world's leading maritime VSAT network, according to a new industry research report fr ... more | .. |
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  Colombia's tinted gold passes for precious stones All that glitters is gold under a new thermochemical process developed by Colombian engineers for color-tinting the precious metal to make it look like sapphires, rubies or emeralds. ... more | .. |
  Murdoch's Sky News admits hacking 'canoe' man's emails Sky News, the British broadcaster partly owned by Rupert Murdoch, admitted on Thursday that it had illegally hacked into the emails of a man who notoriously faked his own death in a life insurance scam. ... more | .. |
  Plutonium to Pluto: Russian nuclear space travel breakthrough A ground-breaking Russian nuclear space-travel propulsion system will be ready by 2017 and will power a ship capable of long-haul interplanetary missions by 2025, giving Russia a head start in the o ... more | .. |
James Murdoch quits as BSkyB chairman James Murdoch resigned as chairman of British pay-TV giant BSkyB Tuesday, saying he did not want to become a "lightning rod" for the hacking scandal at his father Rupert's media empire. ... more |
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Trump deploys nuclear submarines in row with Russia
Navy F-35 jet crashes in California
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 Handover of Japan-built Radar to NASA On March 30, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) officially handed off a new satellite instrument to NASA at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The Dual-frequency Precipitation Ra ... more | .. |
  Spy satellite-carrying rocket blasts off A Delta 4 rocket was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on a mission to deliver a spy satellite to orbit, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Pentagon considers nuclear-powered drones American scientists are working on new-generation nuclear-powered unmanned aircraft capable of staying in the air for up to several months. While being able to tackle a wider range of more complicat ... more | .. |
  Israel seeks $700M from U.S. for defense Israel is seeking $700 million from the United States to fund additional batteries of the Iron Dome counter-rocket system and other air-defense weapons. ... more |
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 Yemen air force, US drone kill 24 Qaeda suspects Air strikes have killed 24 Al-Qaeda suspects in their strongholds in the country's south and east, the defence ministry and a tribal chief said on Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Japan deploys missile defences for N.Korea rocket Japan has deployed missile batteries in Tokyo and dispatched destroyers as North Korea makes final preparations for a rocket launch that could take place this week despite fierce condemnation from across the globe. ... more | .. |
  BAE, Embraer collaborate on transport jet Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer and the Brazilian air force have selected BAE Systems to provide part of the overall cockpit controls for the KC-390 military transport aircraft, the European defense manufacturer said. ... more | .. |
 Outside View: Obama's message to Medvedev Judging from the avalanche of negative comments about U.S. President Barack Obama's open microphone missile gaffe his Republican opponents got an unexpected windfall that can turn around or at least reduce the advantage in ratings that Obama presently enjoys. ... more |
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Airbus CO3D satellites begin mission to generate high precision global 3D map
NASA teams with India to launch Earth-tracking satellite
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  Titanic disaster 'unlikely to happen again' World-leading ship science expert, Professor Ajit Shenoi, says that a seafaring tragedy on the scale of the Titanic disaster is unlikely to happen again. Professor Shenoi, who is the Director ... more | .. |
 Radioactive fluid leaks at French nuclear reactor Radioactive cooling fluid leaked at a French nuclear reactor Thursday following two small fires, but the spillage was safely collected in special tanks, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Japan passes $1.1 trillion budget Japan passed a 90.3 trillion yen ($1.1 trillion) budget on Thursday, with about half the spending expected to be financed by new bonds that will add to Japan's massive debt mountain. ... more | .. |
 Fukushima leak may have flowed into Pacific: TEPCO About 12 tonnes of radioactive water has leaked at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, with the facility's operator saying Thursday that some may have flowed into the Pacific Ocean. ... more |
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  Best marketing for renewable energies Transmission system operators must assess precisely the supply of electricity from renewable energies for the next day in order to market this electricity on the European Power Exchange (EPEX) as ef ... more | .. |
  Listening to the radio even with an electric drive To enable radio reception in electric vehicles, manufacturers must install filters and insulate cables, since electrical signals will otherwise interfere with music and speech transmissions. Now, us ... more | .. |
  Quantum computer built inside a diamond Diamonds are forever - or, at least, the effects of this diamond on quantum computing may be. A team that includes scientists from USC has built a quantum computer in a diamond, the first of its kin ... more | .. |
  Easy Robotic Design and Production An ambitious new project to reinvent how robots are designed and produced is being funded by a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). A team of researchers from MIT, Harvard U ... more |
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Light driven visual microphone offers new tool for silent sound detection
Ancient Roman concrete longevity offers mixed sustainability benefits
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 AllCell and University of Illinois Sign Agreement for Geothermal Thermal Storage Technology AllCell Technologies LLC signed a License Option Agreement with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to license technology developed by the University for thermal storage for air conditioning ... more | .. |
  Tycoon arrests blacken Hong Kong's clean image A corruption case against Hong Kong's two richest property tycoons is a black mark on the city's clean image and could fuel public anger over links between government and business, analysts said. ... more | .. |
 One row too many? Argentina upsets Brazil Did Argentina take a step too far by targeting Brazilian oil giant Petrobras in its campaign to pressure companies to invest more into producing more oil? ... more | .. |
 Outside View: Lebanon on the cusp What does one say about Beirut - a colorful, booming, blossoming city, with traffic like nowhere else, warm hospitality, burgeoning political tensions that keeps the government on a tight wire act; lingering animosities amid incredible cultural diversity, but ultimately, a city and country ready to put a fractured past behind it, if only events allow. ... more |
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 Auto makers upbeat, fuel efficiency up Leading U.S. automobile manufacturers are forecasting higher car sales amid research that shows fuel efficiency gains in new vehicles over five years. ... more | .. |
  Outside View: More leave U.S. workforce The U.S. economy added only 120,000 jobs in March - not even enough to keep up with normal population growth. Unemployment rate fell to 8.2 percent, simply because many unemployed adults became discouraged and quit looking for work. ... more | .. |
 Court setback for controversial Canadian mine in Romania A Romanian court invalidated a key permit for an opencast gold mine planned by Canadian company Gabriel Resources in Rosia Montana, a setback for the controversial project. ... more | .. |
 Japan, China agree to cooperate over IMF resources Japanese and Chinese finance ministers on Saturday agreed to cooperate over contributions to the International Monetary Fund amid efforts to help subdue Europe's sovereign debt crisis. ... more |
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