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 Washington DC (SPX) May 21, 2009 
The Committee on Science and Technology has held a hearing on the President's Fiscal Year 2010 (FY10) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Budget Request. At the hearing, Republican Members expressed concerns to acting NASA Administrator Christopher Scolese over insufficient funding to develop the next generation manned launch vehicle in a timely manner after retirement of the Sp ... read more 
Paris, France (SPX) May 21, 2009Astrium CEO Fran�ois Auque and Gavyllatyp T. Murzakulov, CEO of JSC National Company "Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary", a company reporting to the National Space Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan, have signed a technological and strategic partnership agreement that will allow Astrium to play an active role in the development of the Republic of Kazakhstan's space industry. ... more
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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
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Paris, France (SPX) May 21, 2009Inmarsat has chosen Arianespace to launch its new Alphasat I-XL communications satellite. This contract follows a partnership agreement between Inmarsat and the European Space Agency (ESA) concerning the commercialization of the first mission to use the new European platform, Alphabus. Planned for launch in 2012, Alphasat I-XL will be carried by an Ariane 5 ECA in from the Guiana Space Cen ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) May 21, 2009The House Committee on Science and Technology has held the first congressional hearing on NASA's Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Request since the release of the president's detailed budget plan on May 7th. NASA's proposed budget for FY10 is $18.7 billion, an increase of 5.1% over the enacted FY 09 appropriation for NASA. The proposed budget plan for NASA beyond FY 10 is essentially flat funding ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) May 21, 2009ESA has presented the six individuals who will become Europe's new astronauts. The new recruits will join the European Astronaut Corps and start their training to prepare for future missions to the International Space Station, and beyond. The new astronauts are:1. Samantha Cristoforetti, Italian 2. Alexander Gerst, German 3. Andreas Mogensen, Danish 4. Luca Parmitano, Italian ... more  
Wallops Island VA (SPX) May 21, 2009NASA's PharmaSat nanosatellite successfully launched at 7:55 p.m. EDT Tuesday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport located at Wallops Island, Va. PharmaSat rode to orbit aboard a four-stage Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket. Also aboard were the Air Force Research Laboratory's TacSat-3 satellite and other NASA CubeSat Technology Demonstration experiments ... more |
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Global green energy push likely to continue despite Trump climate retreat: UNDavos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 22, 2025 Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement should not slow the global momentum towards renewable energy investments that the deal created, the UN said Wednesday. ... more  
Solar power surpasses coal in EU for first timeParis (AFP) Jan 23, 2025 Solar overtook coal in the European Union's electricity production in 2024, with the share of renewables rising to almost half the bloc's power sector, according to a report released Thursday. ... more 
Lesotho's king pitches green energy to Davos elitesDavos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 22, 2025 Lesotho's King Letsie III has embarked on an ambitious mission in snowy Davos, where global powerbrokers have converged, to make a royal pitch: invest in his small African nation's green transition. ... more
  
Fresh, direct evidence for tiny drops of quark-gluon plasmaUpton NY (SPX) Jan 16, 2025 A new analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals fresh evidence that collisions of even very small nuclei with large ones might create tiny spe ... more 
Chinese artificial sun achieves record-setting milestone towards fusion power generationSydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 22, 2025 The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), often referred to as China's "artificial sun," has achieved a significant scientific achievement by maintaining high-confinement plasma oper ... more 
How to recycle CO2 from flue gasesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 22, 2025 Extracting and reusing CO2 from flue gases is a challenging task, particularly because carbon dioxide typically constitutes only a small percentage of these gas mixtures. Achieving this under realis ... more |
Haifa, Israel (SPX) May 21, 2009Elbit Systems has announced that its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, Elbit Systems of America was awarded a contract from the U.S. Army for the Mortar Fire Control (MFC) Systems Integration program. The contract is a hybrid Indefinite Delivery /Indefinite Quantity-Time and Materials (ID/IQ-T and M) type contract, which provides for orders up to $197.5 million amount over a five-year period. ... more 
Semnan, Iran (AFP) May 20, 2009President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Iran has test-fired a new medium-range surface to surface missile and again insisted there will be no climbdown over Iran's nuclear programme. "The defence minister (Mohammad Mostafa Najjar) told me today that we launched a Sejil-2 missile, which is a two-stage missile and it has reached the intended target," Ahmadinejad said in a speech ... more  
Moscow (AFP) May 20, 2009Any new US-Russian nuclear disarmament treaty must take missile defence into account, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday, as talks on the expiring START treaty were underway in Moscow. Lavrov's comments appeared aimed at US plans to install elements of a global missile shield in eastern Europe which have angered Moscow and threaten to undermine talks on the landmark 1991 ... more |
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