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space applications today |
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With the help of ESA technology used in the monitoring and control of satellites, a start-up company at ESA's Business Incubation Centre has developed a system to remotely monitor offshore oil and gas installations. "Our Remote Intuitive Visual Operations system (RIVOPS) is based upon years of ESA experience in the monitoring of satellites and the handling of emergency situations. It is ... read more 
Moscow (SPX) Jun 05, 2009Space Adventures has announced that Guy Laliberte, founder of Cirque du Soleil and the ONE DROP Foundation, has begun training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City in preparation for his poetic social mission to the International Space Station (ISS). "I have been described as many things throughout my 25 years with Cirque du Soleil. Fire-breather, entrepreneur, street ... more
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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 05, 2009The number of operational satellites in Russia's Glonass grouping has been increased to 17 while three more remain inactive, Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Thursday. Glonass - the Global Navigation Satellite System - is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, and is designed for both military and civilian use. Both systems allow users to ... more  
Middletown RI (SPX) Jun 05, 2009As part of its global network expansion plan, KVH Industries has announced that it has taken operational responsibility of the mini-VSAT Broadbandsm service network supporting North America and the Caribbean. These regions were previously managed under a revenue sharing agreement with SES AMERICOM. This arrangement has been terminated in favor of a leasing agreement with SES AMERICOM for ... more  
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 05, 2009The 48th International Paris Air Show will open its doors on Monday 15 June, until Sunday 21 June. Almost 2,000 exhibitors will be present and over 200,000 visitors are expected to attend this traditional event which this year has special significance as it celebrates its 100th anniversary (the first Paris Air Show was held in 1909 in the city's Grand Palais). Space provides indispensable ... more 
Wallops Island VA (SPX) Jun 05, 2009NASA's Max Launch Abort System, or MLAS, is scheduled to be tested June 15 at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. The launch window extends from approximately 5:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. EDT. The unpiloted test is part of an effort to design a system for safely propelling future spacecraft and crews away from hazards on the launch pad or during the climb to orbit. ... 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 |
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Paris, France (ESA) Jun 04, 2009As part of the sixth European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC), the ESA Technology Transfer Programme is awarding a special prize of 10,000 euros to the applicant with the best innovative business plan. Satellite navigation is a good example of how Europe's space research can be used for commercial purposes, from more traditional applications in the automotive industry, to uses in ... more 
Moscow (AFP) June 4, 2009Guy Laliberte, the larger-than-life Canadian entrepeneur behind the Cirque du Soleil phenomenon, announced Thursday he would fulfil a childhood dream by becoming the seventh space tourist. Laliberte, 49, whose dramatic reinvention of the circus has netted him a 2.5-billion-dollar (1,76 billion-euro) fortune, described his journey into space, planned for September 30, as a "poetic, social ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 04, 2009Dedicated to the delivery of global business connectivity, SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES has announced at the ITW conference in Washington, D.C. that BT in Latin America has signed a three-year agreement for nearly three full transponders of satellite capacity to extend its IP network deep into the remotest regions of Brazil. Expanding from 92 to 104 megahertz of highly reliable C-band capacity a ... more 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 03, 2009Every entrepreneur pursuing the space debris opportunity seems to have the single answer to removing space debris. It is cost-effective, simple, quick, safe, reliable, user-friendly, non-polluting, non-interfering and almost ready to go. There is simply nothing like it and it is wonderful. Why doesn't the government grab it up and make the entrepreneur rich? In fact, why doesn't the ... more |
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