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Garmin Named Global Leader In Portable Satellite Navigation
Cayman Islands (SPX) Mar 19, 2008Garmin has announced that it is the global leader in portable satellite navigation sales, having sold more personal navigation devices in 2007 than any other manufacturer. The research was provided by Canalys, a leading independent technology market analyst firm. "These figures validate our associates' hard work and commitment to innovation, value, and satisfying our customers," said ... more SES ASTRA Satellite Leads European Digitalisation 
Betzdorf, Luxembourg (SPX) Mar 19, 2008SES ASTRA has announced that according to its most recent annual reach study 83 per cent of the satellite TV households in Europe and North Africa are digitalized. This is more than four times more than in cable where in average 20 per cent of all households are digital. With a share of 58 per cent of all1 digital households satellite represents the most popular digital reception mode. The ... more SPACEHAB Debuts New SPACETECH Product At Aviation Industry Expo 
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 19, 2008SPACEHAB has announced the successful completion of development and testing activities for its new AirWard Container Systems. Planned for unveiling at the Dallas Aviation Industry Expo in Dallas, Texas, March 18-20, 2008, AirWard Containers are the first product to go to market from the Company's new SPACETECH, Inc. subsidiary. SPACETECH is a technology transfer, product development, and ... more Two college students find asteroid 
Fort Worth, Texas (UPI) Mar 17, 2008 Two Texas college students discovered an asteroid while examining images of space on a computer, a report said. Tarrant County College students Ryan Gallagher and Robbyn Kindle, 40, were recommended by their former physics professor, Raymond Benge, to be part of an international program to examine images of space for asteroids, the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram reported. "It ... more UA Mirror Lab To Cast Two Mirrors in One For The LSST 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 19, 2008The University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory is about to cast a new kind of giant optic for a unique wide-field survey telescope, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. The telescope will be the widest, fastest, deepest eye of the new digital age. Mirror Lab workers will begin loading 51,900 pounds of glass into the mirror mold early today. The Mirror Lab will cast two ... more |
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Seattle WA (SPX) Mar 19, 2008Seattle-based Zonar Systems said it is providing RFID technology to the school bus industry to answer the iconic 1969-television question, "It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?" The company's patented ZPass system identifies when and where a student enters or exits the school bus to enhance their safety and security. According to Zonar's SVP of Marketing, Bill Brinton, "Safety ... more First Korean astronaut 'honoured' about space mission 
Star City, Russia (AFP) March 18, 2008The 29-year-old woman set to become South Korea's first astronaut said on Tuesday she was "honoured" to have been chosen, as she took final tests at Russia's astronaut training centre. "I am honoured. I will try to do my best. Not just for (myself) but as the first Korean astronaut," said Yi So-Yeon, a biosystems engineering student, before climbing into a model Soyuz capsule for tests. ... more GPS Partnership Council To Meet In Los Angeles 
Los Angeles AFB (SPX) Mar 19, 2008The Global Positioning Systems Wing, Air Force Space Command, Department of Transportation, and the Los Angeles Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) have re-established the GPS Partnership Council as the premier annual event for GPS stakeholders to exchange the latest GPS information and status, view the latest industry exhibits and capabilities, network ... more Cape Canaveral Airmen Launch Delta II Rocket 
Cape Canaveral FL (AFNS) Mar 19, 2008Air Force officials here successfully launched a United Launch Alliance Delta II booster carrying the sixth modernized NAVSTAR Global Positioning System satellite into space at 2:10 a.m. EDT March 15 from Space Launch Complex 17A here. The satellite will join the constellation of on-orbit satellites providing global coverage and increased performance of the GPS services to users worldwide. ... more Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems Wins Air Traffic Control Industry Award For Satellite-Based Landing System 
London, UK (SPX) Mar 19, 2008Northrop Grumman's European subsidiary, Park Air Systems, has received an air space management industry award in the eighth annual Jane's ATC Global Awards 2008, announced at the ATC Global exhibition and conference in Amsterdam. The Industry category, for the most significant contribution by an equipment supplier, was awarded to Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems in recognition of its achievement ... more |
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Vilankulo, Mozambique (AFP) March 18, 2008Little more than a year after Cyclone Favio ripped through Mozambique's premier tourist resort of Vilankulo, the town still resembles a refugee camp as it struggles to recover. With faded tents and roofless, unused buildings a stark reminder of the damage inflicted by Favio, residents breathed a sigh of relief when another cyclone headed their way was downgraded Friday to a tropical depression ... more Louisiana System Built Homes Completes First Fortified For Safer Living Home 
Arnaudville LO (SPX) Mar 18, 2008Louisiana System Built Homes marked the completion of the first Fortifiedfor safer living home built in the state of Louisiana with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The home, at the Ponderosa Estates in Arnaudville, meets the Fortified requirements set by the Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS), a nonprofit research organization supported by the insurance industry to reduce property losses. ... more Envisat Makes First Ever Observation Of Regionally Elevated CO2 From Manmade Emissions 
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 19, 2008Using data from the SCIAMACHY instrument aboard ESA's Envisat environmental satellite, scientists have for the first time detected regionally elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide - the most important greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming - originating from manmade emissions. More than 30 billion tonnes of extra carbon dioxide (CO2) is released into the atmosphere annually by ... more Key To Using Local Resources For Biomass May Include Waste 
Richland WA (SPX) Mar 19, 2008The Northwest of the USA can have a sizeable biofuels industry based primarily on local resources - if non-traditional feedstocks, such as municipal waste, and new conversion technologies are used, according to a report issued by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. It will be difficult for the Northwest to create a significant biofuels industry based on current ... more International Team Discovers New Family Of Superconductors 
Saskatoon, Canada (SPX) Mar 19, 2008University of Saskatchewan Canada Research Chair John Tse and colleagues in Germany have identified a new family of superconductors-research that could eventually lead to the design of better superconducting materials for a wide variety of industrial uses. In an article published in the prestigious journal Science, the team has produced the first experimental proof that superconductivity ... more
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