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 Paris, France (ESA) Jul 28, 2009 
Latvia becomes the second Baltic country to sign a Cooperation Agreement with ESA. ESA's Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations, Peter Hulsroj, and Latvian Minister for Education and Science, Tatjana Koke, signed the Cooperation Agreement in Riga on 23 July 2009. Latvia follows Estonia, which signed a Cooperation Agreement in 2007, and discussions are currently ongoing with ... read more 
Middletown RI (SPX) Jul 28, 2009"The TracPhone V7 and mini-VSAT Broadband are changing the entire way we do business," explains Scott H. Bryant, captain of the fishing vessel American No.1, operated by Fishermen's Finest of Seattle, WA. He isn't the only one coming to that realization as commercial operators and leisure boat owners are making the change from oversized, overpriced, and underperforming traditional VSAT solutions ... 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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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 28, 2009This image - from the German TerraSAR-X radar satellite - shows the city of Kiel and the Kiel Fjord, an approximately 17-km long fjord or firth of the Baltic Sea on the northeastern shore of Schleswig-Holstein. The ships that were in this area at the time the image was captured are each marked with a circle. The high resolution of TerraSAR-X images makes them ideally suitable for the rapid ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 27, 2009On 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. ... more  
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 |
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Shanghai (AFP) July 27, 2009German auto maker Audi plans to open a new plant in China in September to meet fast-growing demand for premium cars in the Asian country, state media reported Monday. The one-billion-yuan (146.4-million-dollar) plant in the northeastern city of Changchun will double the brand's production capacity in the country to 200,000 units a year, the China Daily reported, citing a company official. ... more  
Beijing (AFP) July 27, 2009China scrapped the takeover of a steel plant, an official said Monday, after workers killed a manager in a possibly unique instance of industrial mob violence claiming the life of a senior executive. Workers at the Tonghua Iron and Steel Group beat to death newly appointed manager Chen Guojun on Friday after he threatened to lay off up to 30,000 people in a controversial restructuring, the ... 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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