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 Chennai, India (PTI) Jul 29, 2009 
A technology safeguards agreement (TSA) signed with the US last week will open up fresh opportunities for India in the field of space launches, say officials. The agreement, signed July 20 in New Delhi, will facilitate the launch of non-commercial US satellites and satellites with US components on Indian launch vehicles. "It will open up more satellite launch opportunities for India," said ... read more 
Rosslyn VA (SPX) Jul 29, 2009As last week's 40th anniversary of the moon landing focused attention on the future of manned space flight, observers said early providers of space tourism would face expensive pricing for property and liability cover and possibly scarce capacity. The advent of private companies routinely taking paying passengers into orbit to visit space stations, or even to experience weightlessness on ... 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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Oshkosh WI (SPX) Jul 29, 2009Abu Dhabi's Aabar InvestmentsAabar Investments and Virgin Group have announced that they have agreed to enter a strategic partnership, which will see Aabar take an equity stake in the world's first commercial spaceline - Virgin Galactic. To date, Virgin Galactic has been wholly owned and funded by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group. The deal, signed at the EAA AirVenture air show in ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 29, 2009The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-14, provided its first visible full disk image of Earth on July 27, at 2:00 p.m. EDT. The prime instrument on GOES, called the Imager, is taking images of Earth with a 1 kilometer (km) or 0.62 mile resolution from an altitude of 36,000 km (22,240 miles) above Earth's surface, equivalent to taking a picture of a dime from a ... more 
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 29, 2009Euroconsult has announced that growth in the fixed satellite market has remained strong despite the adverse economic environment. According to Euroconsult's soon-to-be-released report "Satellite Communications and Broadcasting Markets Survey, Forecasts to 2018" the fixed satellite sector grew in terms of both transponder demand (+9%) and overall revenues (+10.7%) representing a peak in the ... more |
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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  
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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