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Japan delays high-speed Internet satellite: agency
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 13, 2008Japan's space agency said Wednesday it was delaying the launch of a satellite aimed at providing high-speed Internet access across Asia due to a technical problem with its rocket. Japan was slated Friday to launch the Kazuna, an experimental satellite looking at how to bring broadband-speed service across Asia even when terrestrial infrastructure goes down. The Japan Aerospace Exploration ... more Total Lunar Eclipse Next Wednesday 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 14, 2008On Wednesday evening, February 20th, the full Moon over the Americas will turn a delightful shade of red and possibly turquoise, too. It's a total lunar eclipse-the last one until Dec. 2010. The Sun goes down. The Moon comes up. You go out and look at the sky. Observing the eclipse is that easy. Maximum eclipse, and maximum beauty, occurs at 10:26 pm EST (7:26 pm PST). A lunar eclipse ... more All systems go for SKorea's space-ready kimchi 
Seoul (AFP) Feb 13, 2008A specially engineered version of kimchi, South Korea's beloved pickle dish, has been cleared for a historic space mission this year, officials said Wednesday. The bacteria-free kimchi, developed by top Korean scientists, will blast off along with the country's first astronaut after being approved by Russian space authorities, they said. Instant noodles, cinnamon tea and uncooked organic ... more GLAST's Delta II Rocket's First Stage Arrives In Cape Canaveral 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 14, 2008The first stage of the Delta II rocket that will be used to launch the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope into space in May has arrived at Hangar M on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It joins the second stage, which is already at CCAFS. "This first stage, along with the second stage and the solid rocket motors, will provide the ride that the GLAST ... more India to announce lunar mission date this month 
Bangalore, India (AFP) Feb 13, 2008India will announce the date of its first lunar mission by the end of this month, the head of the country's space agency said Wednesday. A report in the Times of India Wednesday said that the launch of Chandrayaan-1, originally planned for April, had been "tentatively postponed" until June or July because of technical reasons. But Indian Space Research Organisation chairman ... more |
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Overland Park KS (SPX) Feb 13, 2008This Valentine's Day, Sprint customers can play cupid to the loved and lovelorn while texting arrows aimed at the heart. Call it flirting at the speed of light or love connections at SprintSpeed; either way, Sprint customers have a variety of ways to land a Valentine or keep in touch with loved ones while on-the-go, including MySpace comments and updates. In fact, MySpace is now delivering ... more Game consoles can model black holes, drug molecules 
Paris (AFP) Feb 13, 2008Researchers are cannibalising the Sony PlayStation 3 console and other gaming hardware, turning them into low-cost supercomputers to model pharmaceutical molecules and black holes, the weekly New Scientist says. The PS3 console uses a Cell chip, made by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, that comprises a central processing unit and eight slave processors and can run on the open-access Linux operating ... more Future Of Social Networking Explored In UW's Computer Science Building 
Seattle WA (SPX) Feb 13, 2008If you need information, the Internet offers a wealth of resources. But if you're hunting down a person or a thing, a computer's not much help. That may soon change. Electronic tags promise to create what some call the "Internet of things," in which objects and people are connected through a virtual network. To see what this future world would be like, a pilot project involving dozens of ... more Lockheed Martin-Built A2100 Satellite Fleet Achieves 200 Years In Orbit 
Newtown PA (SPX) Feb 14, 2008Lockheed Martin's A2100 communications satellite fleet recently achieved a major milestone by accumulating 200 years of successful in-orbit operations. The A2100 satellite series, designed and manufactured at Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, currently consists of 34 satellites featuring 1254 transponders with an accumulated lifetime of over 7800 years of successful operations ... more Zenlet Platform Boosts Location-Based Content Delivery To Mobile Devices 
Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 13, 2008Jentro Technologies GmbH announced the launch of its new Zenlet platform to facilitate the rapid development and delivery of unique, relevant and rich location-based, social networking and vertical content mini-applications, called "Zenlets." These Zenlets can be accessed easily within a single client application on the mobile device - thus enhancing the personalized mobile Internet experience ... more |
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Islamabad (AFP) Feb 13, 2008Pakistani troops fired a short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile during exercises on Wednesday in the third such training launch in as many weeks, the army said. Soldiers from the country's strategic force command carried out a "successful" launch of the Hatf III (Ghaznavi) missile, which has a range of 290 kilometres (180 miles), an army statement said. The launch was witnessed by ... more Only NKorean missile can 'wake up' Japan, says Tokyo governor 
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 14, 2008Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara says the Japanese have lost their national pride, and only an outside provocation like a North Korean missile launch can shake them out of their complacency. Ishihara, an unrepentant nationalist who heads the world's largest metropolis, has warned that Japan could become a US or Chinese colony if its people do not act to protect themselves. ... more EADS DS Delivers Army Command And Control Information System To Franco-German Brigade 
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 13, 2008EADS Defence and Security (DS) handed over the system software for the state-of-the-art, digital Army Command and Control Information System (FuInfoSyS H) at the Franco-German Brigade site in Mullheim, Germany, to the Head of the Modernisation Department in the Federal Ministry of Defence. Under contract to the Federal Office for Information Management and Information Technology of the ... more Satellites At Risk Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Feb 13, 2008Earlier this month, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a new priority for his department - the protection of America's satellites. As if to underline the importance of the task, he demanded in early February that Congress allocate $10.7 billion for the purpose in 2009. Russia has voiced similar concerns. Air Force Commander Col.-Gen. Alexander Zelin told a conference at the ... more MEADS Passes PDR Milestone 
Washington (UPI) Feb 12, 2008Lockheed Martin said Monday that the Medium Extended Air Defense System had "recently completed its System Preliminary Design Review." Lockheed Martin said in a statement that the completion of the PDR marked "a major milestone in the program's development." "The MEADS team will now focus on detailed design work for the system, with the Critical Design Review ... more
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