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space applications today |
 Le Bourget, France (SPX) Jun 22, 2009 
Astrium and JSC National Company "Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary" has announced the signing of a first contract to build a major satellite integration centre that will be part of the future Kazakhstan national space centre in Astana. This contract is the first step of a major cooperation agreement between Kazakhstan space entities and Astrium that will lead to the construction of a satellite ... read more 
Abu Dhabi, UAE (SPX) Jun 22, 2009As part of rolling out its cutting edge services and products in the Asia Pacific region, Thuraya has appointed Teknikkom Electronic as a National Service Provider in Malaysia. According to the agreement, Teknikkom will be distributing Thuraya's world best satellite phones, allowing the Malaysian market to enjoy the availability of satellite mobile handhelds as a complementary solution to ... 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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Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 22, 2009This past week, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11's lunar landing, the Augustine Panel held its first public meeting on the future of the U.S. human space program. Here we are, five years and billions of dollars into President Bush's Vision for Space Exploration, and the new President expects a panel of a ten senior space experts to evaluate the established plan for returning ... more 
Orlando FL (SPX) Jun 22, 2009Zero Gravity hosted the world's first-ever weightless wedding on Saturday, June 20. Noah Fulmor and Erin Finnegan said their "I Dos" while flipping and floating mid-air among their closest family and friends. While flying high above the clouds in Florida, the New-York-City-based couple exchanged vows while making history - as they became the first bride and groom to be married in zero ... more 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jun 22, 2009Space Systems/Loral has announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide two new satellites to Intelsat, the leading provider of fixed satellite services (FSS) worldwide. The two satellites, Intelsat-19 and Intelsat-20, will be among the most powerful FSS satellites ever built with unprecedented capacity to provide services for broadband, video and voice applications. ... more 
Le Bourget, France (SPX) Jun 22, 2009Astrium and Eutelsat Communications have announced at the Paris Airshow the signature of a five-year contract for 36MHz of capacity on the new W2A satellite. Astrium Services will provide coverage for their existing and future customers across Africa. Eutelsat's new W2A satellite entered commercial service in May 2009 and provides Ku-band capacity across Europe, North Africa, the Middle ... more |
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Floating solar panels could advance US energy goalsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2025 Federal reservoirs have the potential to significantly contribute to meeting the country's solar energy needs, according to a recent study published in Solar Energy. Geospatial scientists Evan ... more  
Biophotovoltaics: a step forward in sustainable energy technologyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2025 In an important study published in Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, researchers have unveiled new insights into biophotovoltaic (BPV) systems. These advanced systems integrate photosynthetic ... more 
Light flexible and radiation resistant organic solar cells for spaceLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2025 Radiation tests suggest that carbon-based organic solar cells could surpass traditional silicon and gallium arsenide cells in efficiency and durability for space applications, according to a Univers ... 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 
Researchers make wearable materials that generate power and improve comfortLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 16, 2025 Researchers have developed innovative wearable materials that not only generate electricity through human movement but also enhance user comfort. This advancement stems from an in-depth study of mat ... more 
US Department of Energy invests $107 million in fusion energy innovationLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 17, 2025 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has allocated $107 million to support six projects under its Fusion Innovative Research Engine (FIRE) Collaboratives. This initiative, alongside progress in the M ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) June 21, 2009At least 16 people died and 43 were injured Sunday in a factory explosion in eastern China's Anhui province, a police source and state media said. The explosion occurred at 03:17 am (1917 GMT) in the workshops of a private factory that produces and processes quartz sand in the district of Fengyang, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing local authorities. "At the moment we have ... more  
Tokyo (AFP) June 19, 2009With China likely to soon overtake Japan as the world's number two economy, Tokyo should follow a new growth path as a "trouble shooter" on climate and other global issues, a government report said Friday. "The Japanese economy's share in the world has been declining... Japan's status as 'the world's second largest economy' is drawing to an end," the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry ... more  
Beijing (AFP) June 19, 2009China expects more than 40 million people to be unemployed in 2009 and wants to tackle the problem by training more to become housekeepers, state media reported Friday. The government's jobless forecast, reported by the Beijing News, comes after several warnings that the global financial crisis has had a serious impact on the nation's trade-dependent economy. Earlier this year, state ... more  
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Jun 22, 2009Electronic devices of the future could be smaller, faster, more powerful and consume less energy because of a discovery by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The key to the finding, published in Science, involves a method to measure intrinsic conducting properties of ferroelectric materials, which for decades have held tremendous promise but have ... more |
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