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Google Earth Worries ISRO Chief
Bangalore, India (SPX) Oct 08, 2007The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief has expressed concern at high-resolution satellite images offered by Google and said authorities should hold a dialogue with it over the display of imagery of some of the country's sensitive locations. "...Some of the places, they have collected images from foreign satellites and that comes to one metre (resolution) and better. For exampl ... more Russia readies rocket for Malaysian's space launch 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 7, 2007Russian engineers put the final touches on Sunday to a Soyuz spacecraft in which Malaysia's soon-to-be first astronaut Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor will fly to the International Space Station. "I'm absolutely confident about this launch. We've got a good team here, no novices," said Nikolai Zaglada, head of the assembly team putting together the Soyuz's sections at Baikonur cosmodrome. Muszap ... more Ariane 5 rocket puts US, Australian satellites into orbit 
Kourou, French Guiana (AFP) Oct 5, 2007An Ariane 5 rocket blasted off here on Friday and put into orbit an Australian and US television satellites, Arianespace said. The rocket, the 34rd launch of an Ariane 5 and the fourth this year, lifted off at 2202 GMT and successfully placed both satellites into geostationary transfer orbit, the company said. Intelsat 11, built by Orbital Sciences Corp., will provide television and data ... more 21st-century space flight salutes the father of sci-fi, Jules Verne 
Turin, Italy (AFP) Oct 7, 2007He lit the imagination of countless youngsters with tales of derring-do -- of submarines that explored the depths of the oceans, of adventurers who crept to the centre of the Earth, of doughty pioneers who travelled to the Moon. More than a century after his death, Jules Verne is about to get a double recognition from the space community that he indirectly helped create through the inspirati ... more Japan's lunar probe enters orbit as space race heats up 
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 5, 2007Japan said Friday it had successfully put its first lunar probe into the moon's orbit, stealing a march over China and India as an Asian space race heats up. The Kaguya probe, named after a fairytale princess, is on the most extensive mission to investigate the moon since the US Apollo human spaceflight programme in the 1960s and 1970s, according to Japan's space agency. After it blasted ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Oct 5, 2007The United States on Friday proposed a common network of missile defense systems with Russia and NATO to allay Moscow's concerns over a planned US missile defence system in central Europe. "The answer is we and the Russians and NATO or the NATO-Russia Council work together to produce a common system or common network of systems which would benefit everyone's security and also address Russian ... more China's Hu: Cautious, efficient, and still a mystery 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 7, 2007Cautious and efficient are words often used to describe Hu Jintao, the 64-year-old leader of China's Communist Party, but beyond generic adjectives like these, surprisingly little is known about him. As the October 15 start of the 17th Party Congress approaches, observers wonder what makes one of the world's most powerful men get up in the morning. Five years into what is almost certain ... more Global approach needed on cybercrime: experts 
Geneva (AFP) Oct 5, 2007Telecoms and computer executives, legal officials and UN agencies on Friday warned that the world needs to take a global approach to tackling cybercrime and security issues on the Internet. International Telecommunications Union chief Hamadoun Toure said individual national or regional approaches to tackle spam, hackers, remote attacks on computer systems and use of the Internet for crime wo ... more UNC Faculty And Students To Develop Plan To Get Clean Water In Poorer Homes 
Chapel Hill IN (SPX) Oct 08, 2007Faculty and students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are setting out to discover whether applying business principles to public health problems can result in solutions that will save lives in developing countries with limited access to safe drinking water. The Carolina Global Water Partnership has been established to bring together experts from UNC's School of Public Health, ... more Canada takes measures to assert sovereignty in Arctic 
Ottawa (AFP) Oct 5, 2007Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday a series of scientific projects designed to assert Canada's claim of sovereignty over the Arctic. "Scientific inquiry and development are absolutely essential to Canada's defense of its North, as they enhance our knowledge of, and presence in, the region," said Harper, speaking in the town of Churchill, Manitoba. "Like I've said so ... more |
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Vilnius (AFP) Oct 5, 2007Poland said Friday that it wants the lion's share of the output of a new nuclear power plant that it plans to build in a joint project with the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Polish Economy minister Piotr Wozniak, who was visiting Vilnius, hinted that Warsaw could go slow on other power projects if it did not get its way on the planned Lithuanian-based facility. "All pro ... more Canadian Solar And Luoyang Polysilicon Complete First BIPV Solar Glass Roof System 
Jiangsu, China (SPX) Oct 08, 2007Canadian Solar has completed the first BIPV solar glass roof system, with glass-on-glass solar modules, in Henan Province in collaboration with China's Luoyang Polysilicon Company. CSI was the sole supplier of the solar glass technology, the specialty BIPV modules, and acted as the integrator of the complete solar power system. The BIPV solar glass system, covering approximately 293 square ... more Romania wants to build second nuclear power plant: PM 
Bucharest (AFP) Oct 5, 2007Romania wants to build a second nuclear power station after the Cernavoda plant in the southeast of the country, to ensure its future independence in energy supply, Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu said on Friday. "It's evident that we need to (construct a new power station) so as not to be dependent on resources like gas and oil which are running out," Tariceanu said at the official inaugurat ... more XsunX Solar Module Reservation Program Off to a Strong Start 
Aliso Viejo CA (SPX) Oct 08, 2007XsunX reports that its Solar Module Reservation Program was well received at the Solar Power 2007 Conference and Trade Show in Long Beach, California by solar system integrators, installers, green field operators, and utilities working to grow their businesses within a capacity constrained industry. At the trade show, XsunX met with interested solar system integrators, installers, green fi ... more LDK Solar Signs Wafers Supply Agreement With Solartech Energy Corp 
Xinyu City, China (SPX) Oct 08, 2007LDK Solar Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers has signed a five-year contract to supply multicrystalline solar wafers to Taiwan-based Solartech Energy Corp. Under the terms of the agreement, pricing is fixed for the first three years. During this period, LDK Solar will deliver multicrystalline solar wafers to Solartech valued at approximately US$224 million with in ... more
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