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China Almost Done With Map Of Moon Surface
Beijing (XNA) Jul 08, 2008China had collected all the data needed to draw its first full map of the moon surface and was almost done with the mapping work, Sun Jiadong, the chief designer of the country's Chang'e -1 lunar probe has said. The lunar probe, launched on October 24 last year, was running sound and well, Sun was quoted as saying by Sunday's Beijing News. China published its first picture of the moo ... more ELA-3 Launch Zone Receives Its Fourth Ariane 5 Of 2008 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jul 08, 2008The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's fourth mission of 2008 has moved to the ELA-3 launch zone at Europe's Spaceport, clearing the way for its July 7 liftoff with a dual payload of commercial telecommunications satellites. This heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA rolled out of the Final Assembly Building at Europe's Spaceport today (July 6), covering a 2.8-km. section of the dual-rail track that links the S ... more Globecast Renews SES New Skies Satellite Capacity For The Americas And Europe 
The Hague, Holland (SPX) Jul 08, 2008SES New Skies, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) and GlobeCast, a subsidiary of France Telecom, have signed 5-year contracts for the continued use of two 36MHz transponders on the NSS-806 satellite at the orbital location of 319.5 East. Terms of the contract remain confidential. GlobeCast is a leading global provider of content management and worldwide tra ... more China Makes Breakthrough In Developing Next-Generation Long March Rocket 
Beijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2008China has made a breakthrough in developing its next generation of space-launch vehicle Long March V, which is scheduled for operation by 2014, said sources with thenation's launch vehicle academy. Significant progress has been made on the rocket engine and the building of a production plant. The rocket's 120-tonne liquid oxygen-kerosene engine had passed initial tests and would be p ... more Will We Ever Reach Mars 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 07, 2008The title of this article could be continued: Will we be able to come back? It may take years to find an answer, but the search has already been launched. During the next month, the Institute of Bio-Medical Problems will conduct a medical experiment to develop non-surgical methods of treatment for diseases that cosmonauts may develop during a long journey to Mars. Hardly anything can ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jul 07, 2008Taking advantage of a unique cosmic configuration, astronomers have measured an effect predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity in the extremely strong gravity of a pair of superdense neutron stars. Essentially, the famed physicist's 93-year-old theory passed yet another test. Scientists at McGill University used the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Ban ... more Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence 
Cincinnati OH (SPX) Jul 07, 2008Geological evidence found in Ohio and Indiana in recent weeks is strengthening the case to attribute what happened 12,900 years ago in North America - when the end of the last Ice Age unexpectedly turned into a phase of extinction for animals and humans - to a cataclysmic comet or asteroid explosion over top of Canada. A comet/asteroid theory advanced by Arizona-based geophysicist Allen We ... more Canadian Asteroid-Hunting Satellite A World First 
Calgary, Canada (SPX) Jul 07, 2008Canada is building the world's first space telescope designed to detect and track asteroids as well as satellites. Called NEOSSat (Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite), this spacecraft will provide a significant improvement in surveillance of asteroids that pose a collision hazard with Earth and innovative technologies for tracking satellites in orbit high above our planet. Weighing i ... more NASA Reveals New Discoveries From Mercury 
Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 07, 2008Scientists have argued about the origins of Mercury's smooth plains and the source of its magnetic field for more than 30 years. Now, analyses of data from the January 2008 flyby of the planet by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft have shown that volcanoes were involved in plains formation and suggest that its magnetic field is actively produc ... more NASA Plans To Test Space Shuttle Replacement In Spring 2009 
Washington (RIA Novosti) Jul 07, 2008NASA is planning to conduct in spring 2009 the first test flight of a new carrier rocket with an advanced launch vehicle to replace the outdated space shuttle, the U.S. space agency said in a statement. "NASA is developing new spacecraft, the Ares rockets and Orion crew capsule, to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) and send them on their way to the Moon," the stat ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Jul 07, 2008Spacecraft controllers have just awoken Rosetta from hibernation to prepare for its encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September. ESA's comet chaser will study the relatively rare asteroid as it flies by on its way to comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Launched in March 2004, Rosetta will reach its final destination only in 2014, after travelling a total of about 6500 million km. Th ... more GPSi Asia Signs Exclusive Distribution Deal For China 
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Jul 07, 2008GPS Industries has announced that its Asian distributor, GPSi Asia Pte has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement for China with the Shanghai Hangying Culture Media Ltd. dba GPS Media. GPS Media, based in Shanghai and with offices in Beijing and Shanghai, is a GPS provider to golf courses in China with a unique business model that includes advertising on the GPS units. ... more Intelligent Devices Provides South Dakota DoT With Mobile Data Collection Systems 
St. Paul MN (SPX) Jul 07, 2008Nagasaki IPC announced that they have provided Intelligent Devices with over 100 touch screen units for Intelligent Devices' Mobile Data Collection System (MDC) for the State of South Dakota's MDC snow plow pilot project. The MDC interface will provide the snow plow driver with current road condition information and the best salt/sand/chemical mixture given the current road conditions. ... more Location Based Services On the Move In Asia And Europe 
London, UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2008In 2007, North America generated 81% of the world's Location Based Services (LBS) revenue. In 2013, that percentage will be just 32%. In the same period, Western and Eastern Europe's combined LBS revenues will jump from just 5% to 31%. The Asia-Pacific region, meanwhile, will see a rise from a 2007 share of 11%, to 27%. "Location based services are not a zero-sum game," says ABI Research ... more Analysis: Will terrorists go nuclear? 
Washington (UPI) Jul 7, 2008 One recurring question that has been at the forefront of most intelligence agencies since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by al-Qaida on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon just 1 mile outside Washington concerns the ongoing efforts by terrorist groups to acquire weapons of mass destruction: chemical, biological and mostly nuclear. Each of the NBC (nuclear, biological, chemi ... more
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