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Russian GLONASS Satellite Navigation System Facing More Problems
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 30, 2007The Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) is a radio-based satellite navigation system developed by the Soviet Union and now operated for the Russian government by the national Space Force. It is the Russian counterpart of the United States' Global Positioning System (GPS). GLONASS has both military and civilian applications and is a graphic example of how space technology can be put to ... more ILS And Telesat Canada Sign Contract To Launch Nimiq 5 On Proton In 2009 
McLean VA (SPX) Apr 27, 2007International Launch Services (ILS) will launch its sixth satellite for Telesat Canada on a Proton Breeze M vehicle, under a contract the companies announced today. Financial terms were not disclosed. Telesat's Nimiq 5 is scheduled for a Proton launch in 2009 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Proton vehicle is built by ILS' Russian partner, Khrunichev State Research and Production ... more Student Engineering Team Headed For Near-Weightless Nasa Flight To Test Gyroscopic Robotic Arm 
Ithica NY (SPX) Apr 30, 2007A robotic arm designed for spacecraft repair and maintenance will be put to the test next week in a near-weightless environment -- along with some of its Cornell student designers. Cornell's Control Moment Gyroscope (CMG) Research Team, comprising graduate and undergraduate, mostly mechanical engineering students, is one of 34 schools selected by NASA for this year's Reduced Gravity Student ... more Instruments To Dig Deep In Space 
Fayetteville AR (SPX) Apr 30, 2007University of Arkansas researchers, in partnership with a local company will develop a probe for future planetary rovers that will help scientists study the history of the solar system by examining the properties of layers of material beneath the surface of the moon, Mars, comets and other planetary bodies. Scientists at the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences and officials of ... more Patriot Antenna Systems To Commercialise CSIRO MultiBeam Satellite Communications Technology 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 30, 2007The MultiBeam Antenna is a revolutionary design which is able to access a large number of geostationary satellites with a single reflector antenna instead of requiring one dish per satellite. Chief Scientist of the CSIRO ICT Centre and leader of the team that developed the MultiBeam Antenna, Dr Trevor Bird, says that the technology has been proven at two earth station sites in Europe ... more |
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US Said To Block US-China Deal On Asian Satellite Operator
Hong Kong (AFP) Apr 27, 2007The United States has rejected a bid by a US-China venture to take private a Hong Kong-based satellite operator, invoking export approval powers dating back to the Cold War, a report said Thursday. GE Capital Equity Investments of the United States and Beijing-controlled Citic Group had offered to take AsiaSat off the market in a 295 million US dollar ... read more Equator Space Launch Plan 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) April 26, 2007Russia and Brazil have always seen eye-to-eye on such issues as the importance of a multipolar world and the United Nations' role in modern society, and this mutual understanding is a key factor in relations between the two countries in other areas, too. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that "we can cooperate in many fields, and one of them is high technologies, above all the peac ... more AIM Soars To The Edge Of Space For Unique Earth Observation Mission 
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Apr 27, 2007NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) spacecraft, the first mission dedicated to the exploration of mysterious ice clouds that dot the edge of space in Earth's polar regions, successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., at 1:26 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, April 25. The mission will study clouds that are noctilucent, meaning they can be seen from the ground only at nigh ... more EU Parliament Deeply Concerned About Troubled Galileo Project 
Strasbourg (AFP) April 26, 2007The European Parliament voiced deep concerns on Thursday about the EU's delayed Galileo satellite navigation system while a top EU official ruled out pulling the plug on the troubled programme. In a resolution adopted Thursday, the parliament said it was "deeply concerned by the fact that the concession negotiations have been at a standstill for several months." EU lawmakers expresse ... more Satellite Operator Shuts Down Tiger Broadcasts In Sri Lanka 
Colombo (AFP) April 26, 2007The US-based Intelsat has shut down the radio and television broadcasts of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels, the Sri Lankan government said in a statement here Thursday. Intelsat, the world's largest commercial satellite communications provider, has told Colombo's mission in Washington that the service of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was shut down over the weekend. "Inte ... more A Step Closer To A European Space Policy 
Paris, France (ESA) Apr 27, 2007Space is a strategic asset which Europe must exploit more effectively. Europe cannot afford to lose out when it comes to securing the economic and societal benefits of space for its citizens. The European Space Policy will soon give Europe a comprehensive tool with which to widen its dimension vis-�-vis space activities. Today, the College of European Commissioners in Brussels adopted a do ... more |
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