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 Paris, France (ESA) Jul 27, 2009 
On 11 July the qualification model of the Gaia Deployable Sunshield Assembly (DSA) was installed inside the Large Space Simulator (LSS) at the ESTEC test facilities in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Over the coming days the DSA will undergo a thermal vacuum and thermal balance test in simulated space conditions. The LSS is the only facility in Europe large enough to perform this test. ... read more
Bangalore, India (IANS) Jul 27, 2009India will soon design and develop its heaviest communications satellite GSAT-11 to provide advanced telecom services from 2011-12, a senior official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said here Friday. At 4.5 tonnes, it will weigh more than twice as much as the biggest Indian satellite in orbit now. "Activities to design and develop GSAT-11 will start immediately, as the ... 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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Dayton OH (SPX) Jul 27, 2009XCOR Aerospace has announced that it has finished a series of wind tunnel tests of the aerodynamic design of its Lynx suborbital launch vehicle. The tests took place at the U.S. Air Force test facility located at Wright-Patterson Air Base near Dayton, OH, using an all-metal 1/16th scale model of the Lynx. "Ever since the Wright Brothers pioneered wind tunnel testing here in ... more  
Swindon, UK (SPX) Jul 27, 2009Leading industrialists and academics from across the world have witnessed the launch of the European Space Agency (ESA)'s first ever UK base at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus (HSIC). As part of a two day event, ESA saw for themselves the world-leading research and technology facilities already at the campus and at its sister Science and Innovation Campus in Daresbury. ... more  
London, UK (SPX) Jul 27, 2009SSTL's UK-DMC2 satellite has successfully completed pre-launch tests and is integrated with a Dnepr launch vehicle at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in readiness for launch on Wednesday, 29th July 2009 at 18:46 UTC, 19:46 BST. The new satellite will be operated by subsidiary company DMCii to provide an enhanced imaging capability and operational service to the Disaster Monitoring Constellation ... more |
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Schwyz, Switzerland (AFP) July 26, 2009A century and a quarter after a master cutler set out to supply Swiss soldiers with a survival tool, the iconic Swiss Army knife still adjusts gun sights, cuts cheese and opens cans. But deep in Switzerland's rural Alpine heartland, Karl Elsener's descendants at Victorinox, the last firm in the country that still makes the pocket knives, have been forced to adapt to the urban jungle. ... more  
Paris (AFP) July 26, 2009Fast growing China and India may be important players but the emerging economic giants alone do not have the clout to drag the global economy out of its worst slump since the 1930s, analysts say. China, ranked the world's third largest economy after the United States and Japan, grew 7.9 percent in the second quarter this year while India expanded 5.8 percent in the three months to March. ... more  
State College PA (SPX) Jul 27, 2009Hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles (FCVs) can be an important part of the solution to America's energy crisis, says Dr. Andrew Goudy of Delaware State University. He is leading a research team striving to solve a key technical FCV puzzle. The Chairperson of Delaware State's Chemistry Department explains that hydrogen FCVs are powered by electric motors that derive energy from on-board fuel cells. ... more |
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