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India, U.S. sign space agreement
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Feb 3, 2008U.S. and Indian officials have signed an agreement for cooperation in space exploration. The signing ceremony took place Friday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and Indian Space Research Organization Chairman G. Madhavan Nair signed the framework agreement, which replaces a 1997 agreement ... more Herschel Telescope Flight Model At ESTEC 
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 04, 2008The Herschel telescope's primary mirror is the largest mirror ever built for space. It is made out of 12 silicon carbide (SiC) petals brazed together and coated with a thin aluminium reflective layer. The SiC provides a rigid but lightweight structure with the telescope mass totalling at about 320 kg. In the morning on Friday 18 January, the flight model of the 3.5-metre diameter telescope ... more International Team Establishes Unique Observatory In Antarctica 
Dome Argus, Antarctica (SPX) Feb 04, 2008A team of scientists representing six international institutions, including Texas A and M University, has succeeded in reaching the summit of Antarctica - also a monumental achievement for ground-based astronomy - to establish a new astronomical observatory at Dome Argus on the highest point of the Antarctic Plateau. Two weeks after arriving Jan. 11 at "Dome A" for only the second time in ... more Mars In Their Sights 
Phoenix AZ (SPX) Feb 04, 2008U.S. and Chinese students are taking aim at the Red Planet using an ASU-designed camera on a Mars-orbiting spacecraft. The target lies millions of miles away, but for the 22 high school students in the first-ever China Youth Space Academy, Mars is square in their sights. Fifteen high school students from China are at ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility, collaborating with seven students from ... more Indonesia To Develop New EO Satellite 
Jakarta (XNA) Feb 04, 2008After successfully launching its LAPAN-TUBSAT satellite last year, the Indonesian National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Lapan) is preparing to construct a second generation version of the earth surveillance satellite for orbit in 2010. While the construction of the first satellite took place in Germany, the construction of the next, named LAPAN-A2, will take place in Indonesia entirely under In ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Feb 04, 2008A successful business 'incubatee' of ESA's Technology Transfer Programme has been given 4.1 million euro venture capital for start-up operations. The German/Dutch company iOpener has developed a technology to map real-world competitions such as Formula 1 to an artificial world, allowing gamers to participate in the race both virtually and in real time. Their first product is based on satel ... more Wayfinder Reaches New Consumers By Adding Clickapps As New Affiliate Partner 
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Feb 04, 2008Wayfinder Systems recently added a new affiliate to our list of partners, ClickApps, a UK-based site and a part of Chillingo. ClickApps have 75,000 unique visitors every day, and serve 1.5 million true pages per day with over 100 white labelled stores. As a part of Wayfinder's total communication towards end-users, Wayfinder today works with 20 on-line affiliates, including such leading si ... more INRIX To Deliver Real-Time Traffic Information For I-95 Corridor 
Kirkland WA (SPX) Jan 31, 2008INRIX has been awarded a multi-million dollar, multi-year contract by the I-95 Corridor Coalition to provide travel time and speed data on a network of U.S. highways and arterials -- across borders and beyond state boundaries -- that contribute to interstate movement along the I-95 Corridor. The initial system will span from New Jersey to North Carolina covering approximately 1500 center l ... more Mio And Qualcomm Announce Collaboration To Develop Connected Personal Navigation Devices 
Taipei, Taiwan (SPX) Jan 31, 2008Mio Technology and Qualcomm have announced a collaboration to develop connected personal navigation devices (PNDs). These new connected PNDs will leverage Qualcomm's technology with the QST1100 chipset to deliver industry-leading GPS performance and cellular connectivity for real-time traffic updates, voice call capabilities and more. "Qualcomm's legacy of wireless communications brings ne ... more Columbus Supplies GIS Application To Zion Oil 
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Jan 31, 2008Columbus Geographic Systems has announced that Zion Oil and Gas (Zion) has purchased Columbus' SmartView to meet their needs for an advanced geographic information system (GIS) application for oil and gas exploration. Zion is a U.S. oil and gas exploration company, based in Dallas, Texas. The company's shares are traded on AMEX. Zion uses SmartView to improve their capabilities to identify and m ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Feb 1, 2008Wireless phone headsets of the kind beloved by Wall Street executives and high-end law firms can be bugged by simple off-the-shelf radio scanners unless they are encrypted. "These guys are bugging their own office, essentially," security consultant Doug Shields told United Press International. He said that, for a recent client, he had used an inexpensive commercial scanner capab ... more US missile shield to 'keep an eye' on Russian weapons: Moscow 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 2, 2008Russia's deputy foreign minister accused the United States on Saturday of seeking to deploy an anti-missile shield in Europe in order to "keep an eye" on Moscow's nuclear weapons. "There is no good reason today to explain the need to deploy this system, if it is not to keep an eye on the Russian deterrent system," said Sergei Kislyak, cited by Interfax news agency. Kislyak said the Unite ... more Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Compatibility Of AEHF Satellite Interface With Terminals Using Extended-Data-Rate Waveform 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2008Northrop Grumman has demonstrated the interface compatibility of the next-generation Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite with user ground terminals using the new Extended Data Rate (XDR) waveform and protocols. Tests were conducted using a U.S. Army user terminal as well as a terminal configuration to be used by international partners participating in Advanc ... more Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Looks To Future With Leadership Changes 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Feb 04, 2008Boeing announced a series of new leadership assignments within its Integrated Defense Systems unit designed to build on continued strong performance of the company's defense, intelligence and space businesses, which earlier this week posted record financial results. The leadership changes will place 14 senior executives in new roles, allowing each to bring a new perspective and in-depth ex ... more The Yellow River, "China's sorrow," in troubled times 
Zhengzhou, China (AFP) Feb 1, 2008The Yellow River has traditionally been called "China's sorrow" and for Li Xiaoqiang, the grief strikes particularly close to home. As a senior official with the Yellow River Conservancy Commission, Li observes -- up close and on a daily basis -- the gradual deterioration of China's second-largest waterway. "The Yellow River is still in a pretty bad state," he told AFP, sitting in his sp ... more
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