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SKorea's first astronaut in hospital with back pain
Seoul (AFP) April 29, 2008South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-Yeon has been admitted to hospital with severe back pains caused by her rough return voyage to Earth, officials said Tuesday. The state-run Korea Aerospace Research Institute said Yi is undergoing MRI and other scans at an air force hospital to determine the exact cause of her discomfort. "She has complained of considerable back pains and will have to ... more SSC Contracted To Control SES ASTRA's Telecom Satellite ASTRA 5 
Esrange, Sweden (SPX) Apr 30, 2008SES ASTRA has chosen the Swedish Space Corporation to control their telecommunication satellite ASTRA 5A, formerly known as SIRIUS 2 and operated by SES SIRIUS at the 5 degrees east orbital position. The satellite has recently been handed over to SES ASTRA and moved to 31.5 degrees east where it serves audiences in Eastern Europe and Middle East with DTH services. Since 1986, SSC has ... more NASA Spacecraft Tracks Raging Saturn Storm 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 30, 2008As a powerful electrical storm rages on Saturn with lightning bolts 10,000 times more powerful than those found on Earth, the Cassini spacecraft continues its five-month watch over the dramatic events. Scientists with NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission have been tracking the visibly bright, lightning-generating storm--the longest continually observed electrical storm ever monitored by Cassini. ... more Florida National Guard Selects SkyPort and AGT For Satellite Communications Solutions 
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 30, 2008SkyPort Global Communications and Applied Global Technologies (AGT) have been selected by the Florida National Guard to provide satellite communications services and solutions in emergencies. AGT and SkyPort will be providing the Florida National Guard with teleport services, bandwidth, hardware, MPLS backhaul to the Florida National Guard's network and iDirect Hub services for the provision of ... more High-Accuracy Location-Based Services Key To Offsetting Federally Mandated E911 Costs For Carriers 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Apr 30, 2008The U.S. Federal Government has mandated automatic location identification for cell phones as a means for emergency responders to quickly locate 911 dialers. Fortunately, the billions of dollars required to implement this mandate can be leveraged by U.S. carriers to produce commercial Location-Based Services (LBS). LBS promises a lucrative revenue stream and presents carriers with a way to diffe ... more |
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Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Apr 28, 2008The University of Queensland has signed a memorandum of understanding with NASA to continue close collaboration on hypersonic propulsion projects. Hypersonics is the study of velocities of Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound) or more. The University of Queensland's Centre for Hypersonics, one of the largest space engineering University groups in the world, conducts research into all aspects of ... more Discovery Ready For Final Assembly And Checkout 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Space shuttle Discovery rolled into the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, where the shuttle's external tank and two solid rocket boosters awaited. Discovery was then lifted to vertical inside the building's 50-story-tall transfer aisle, lowered into a high bay and joined with the tank and boosters atop the mobile launcher platform. The fully ... more Vettro Unveils Mobile SaaS Application For Utilities And Excavation 
New York NY (SPX) Apr 30, 2008Vettro has announced a new mobile workforce application for underground utility operators, excavators, and locators. The Vettro 360 for Damage Prevention application suite will allows the utility industry to adopt mobile dispatch and ticket management processes as well as advanced GPS capabilities to dramatically accelerate communication of accurate jobsite information between various organizati ... more Israeli communications satellite launched 
Moscow (AFP) April 28, 2008A rocket carrying an Israeli communications satellite was successfully launched Monday from a Russian base in Kazakhstan, television footage showed. State Russian television showed a Zenit rocket carrying the Israeli AMOS-3 satellite blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome four days after technical problems delayed the original launch. "The decoupling of the rocket's second stage... wa ... more Indian rocket puts a record 10 satellites into orbit 
Bangalore, India (AFP) April 28, 2008An Indian rocket launched a record 10 satellites into orbit in a single mission Monday, underlining the nation's emergence as a major competitor in the multi-billion-dollar space market. The PSLV rocket ejected all the satellites within minutes of each other after liftoff at 9:20 a.m. (0350 GMT) in clear weather from the Sriharikota space station in southern India, the Indian Space Research ... more |
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Washington, April 29, 2008 U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey's new strategy for combating international organized crime will see prosecutors working more closely with U.S. intelligence agencies to identify, track and disrupt the operations of major global crime figures. The strategy, Mukasey's first major law enforcement initiative since taking office last year, will also expand the use against its leaders of ... more DRS Awarded Contract For US Army Heavy Ammunition Trailers 
Parsippany NJ (SPX) Apr 30, 2008DRS Technologies has announced that it received a $10.1 million order to build more than 140 additional M989A1 Heavy Expanded Mobility Ammunition Trailers (HEMATs). The order was part of a previously awarded fixed-price, five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Army's Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command in Warren, Michigan. Work for this contract is ... more Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Become More Sophisticated 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 30, 2008An Israeli-made Hermes-450 unmanned aerial vehicle owned by Georgia was shot down over Abkhazia on April 21, aggravating regional tensions. While politicians try to sort the issue out, it is easy to forget the technical aspects of the problem, but they deserve some attention. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have long been an exotic weapons system that only rich nations could afford. But the ... more Iran president says peace proposal to Russia is 'comprehensive' 
New Delhi (AFP) April 30, 2008Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday said that a "comprehensive" package offered to Russia was aimed at "eradicating" the threats of war. The comments follow statements by Tehran's top national security official that he had held talks with his Russian counterpart on a new Iranian proposals to solve world problems, including the nuclear standoff with the West. Ahmadinejad ... more Defense Focus: C21 sub threat -- Part 2 
Washington, April 28, 2008 Anyone who has watched any World War II movies or History Channel documentaries knows what a wolf pack was: It was the massed attack carried out by Nazi submarines against British and American convoys of merchant ships in the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II. China is looking at a modern, 21st century of wolf pack tactics for any future war it might have to fight against the United ... more
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