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Mars Rovers Survive Severe Dust Storms Ready For Next Objectives
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 08, 2007Two months after sky-darkening dust from severe storms nearly killed NASA's Mars exploration rovers, the solar-powered robots are awake and ready to continue their mission. Opportunity's planned descent into the giant Victoria Crater was delayed, but now the rover is preparing to drive into the half-mile diameter crater as early as Sept. 11. Spirit, Opportunity's rover twin, also ... more Networks Create Instant World Telescope 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Sep 10, 2007For the first time, a CSIRO radio telescope has been linked to others in China and Europe in real-time, demonstrating the power of high-speed global networks and effectively creating a telescope almost as big as the Earth. Last week a CSIRO telescope near Coonabarabran NSW was used simultaneously with one near Shanghai, China, and five in Europe to observe a distant galaxy called 3C273. ... more Kazakhstan Wants Right To Ban Rocket Launches Over Its Territory 
Astana, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) Sep 10, 2007Kazakhstan wants the right to ban rocket launches from its Baikonur space center, which Russia rents, in situations where the Kazakh president is located near the launch, the prime minister said. The Kazakh premier's announcement follows Thursday's crash of a Russian Proton-M rocket with a Japanese communications satellite on board shortly after launch. "If the president is on a visit ... more ISRO To Launch New Genre Of Micro-Satellites 
Ahmedabad, India (PTI) Sep 10, 2007Having successfully launched several indigenous satellites in the past, the Indian Space Research Organisation is now in the process of launching the first of its new genre of micro-satellites weighing less than 100 kgs. "Our main aim now is to make the satellite systems as compact as possible," said Dr S K Sharma, the Group Director, Project Planning Group (PPG) at the Space Applications ... more First Solar Dynamic Observatory Instrument Arrives At Goddard 
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 10, 2007The University of Colorado at Boulder delivered the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE), first of three Solar Dynamic Observatory instruments, to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. EVE will measure how much the sun's ultraviolet brightness changes. Rapid changes in the ultraviolet radiation of the sun can cause outages in radio communications and affect satellites ... more |
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Hong Kong (UPI) Sep 7, 2007 China has been upgrading its H-6 bombers and producing H-6K bombers in an effort to improve its aerial nuclear strategic deterrence. The subsonic speed of the H-6 and non-stealthy sorties prevented it from breaking through the air-defense networks of Russia, the United States and Japan. Fitted with D-30-P2 engines of greater thrust power, the H-6K has a greatly increased range and combat ... more Russia Calls On UN To Keep Space Weapon Free 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 06, 2007Russia is to put forward a draft resolution to the United Nations banning the deployment of weapons in outer space, a Russian UN mission official statement said Thursday. The resolution entitled, Transparency and Confidence Building Measures in Outer Space Activities, was submitted to the UN five years ago and proposed a ban on the deployment of all types of weapons in space. Russia said ... more French government falls prey to cyber-attacks "involving China" 
Paris (AFP) Sept 8, 2007French information systems fell prey to cyber attacks "involving China", similar to those reported by the US, British and German governments, a top French security offical told AFP on Saturday. "We have indications that our information systems were the object of attacks, like in the other countries," the Secretary-General of National Defence (SGDN) Francis Delon said, confirming a report ... more Putin, Bush fail to break missile defence tension 
Sydney (AFP) Sept 7, 2007US President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin failed to make clear progress in talks Friday to defuse tensions over US missile defence plans that have angered Moscow. The presidents met at a hotel in Sydney as 21 nations attending an Asia Pacific summit here agreed a common statement on climate change after intense wrangling between rich and emerging nations, a ... more 15 dead in Nepal floods, landslides 
Kathmandu (AFP) Sept 9, 2007Landslides and floods triggered by torrential rains in Nepal have killed at least 15 people in the last three days, officials said Sunday. "Five bodies were recovered Sunday morning after they were swept away by a flooding river in Rautahat late Saturday," local official Durga Prasad Bhandari told AFP from Rautahat district, 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Kathmandu. Bhandari said the ... more |
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Majuro (AFP) Sept 9, 2007Cash-strapped electricity companies in the Pacific islands plan to join forces to cut the high fuel costs which are making it difficult for them to stay afloat, officials said. The Fiji-based Pacific Power Association is tackling the problem through a plan for joint fuel-buying to lower costs and by reducing electrical distribution losses which cost power companies huge amounts of money. ... more UN atomic agency to meet with ElBaradei urging patience 
Vienna (AFP) Sept 9, 2007The UN atomic agency meets on Iran this week with its chief Mohamed ElBaradei calling for worried nations to give him a few months to see if new inspections shed light on whether Tehran seeks the bomb. The International Atomic Energy Agency will be hearing an ElBaradei report backing a timetable agreed last month for Iran to answer outstanding questions over its nuclear programme. ... more Nigeria restructuring oil works 
Miami (UPI) Sep 6, 2007 Nigeria has decided to break down its state-run oil company into five different entities in an effort to become more efficient and profitable, while curtailing corruption. The new entity comprising five divisions will replace the Nigerian National Petroleum Co. and replace it with the Nigerian Petroleum Co., or NPC, which according to analysts will function more like a state-owned oil ... more Central Asia's electricity sector 
Washington (UPI) Sep 7, 2007 "Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the entire country." -- Vladimir Lenin (1920), "Collected Works," Vol. 31, page 516. Despite the Soviet Union's baleful 74-year experience under communism, one of the few positive aspects of Soviet rule was Moscow's insistence from the very beginning on industrialization and its corollary, electrification. The collapse of communism ... more Chinese power chief gets life for graft 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 9, 2007The former chief of a Chinese state power company has been sentenced to life imprisonment for taking bribes valued at nearly 10 million yuan (1.3 million dollars), state press reported Sunday. Zhang Shaocang, a Communist Party official and general manager of Anhui Province Energy Group based in eastern China, was convicted of accepting seven million yuan from a local company in 1992, Xinhua ... more
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