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 Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Aug 13, 2009 
International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing mission and launch services to the commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the AsiaSat 5 satellite into orbit on an ILS Proton for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) of Hong Kong. This was the fourth commercial mission of the year for ILS and the sixth successful Proton launch of 2009. From cont ... read more 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 13, 2009NASA and Alliant Techsystems Inc. will conduct the first full-scale, full-duration test of the new first-stage solid rocket motor for the Ares I rocket at 1 p.m. MDT, on Tuesday, Aug. 25. The test will take place at the ATK test facility in Promontory, Utah. The static firing of the five-segment solid motor, designated Development Motor -1, will last two minutes. The goal is to obtain valu ... more
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Moscow (AFP) Aug 12, 2009Russia successfully launched a Chinese communications satellite from its Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan overnight, Russian news agencies reported Wednesday. The AsiaSat-5 satellite is due to detach from the Proton-M rocket at 0502 GMT Wednesday, space officials quoted by RIA Novosti said. The satellite is due to provide communications service to East and South Asian states, officials ... more  
Kiev, Ukraine (RIA Novosti) Aug 13, 2009Ukraine will launch its own communications satellite in 2011 despite the current political crisis in the country, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Wednesday. The satellite, dubbed Lybid, is being developed by the Yuzhnoye design bureau to be launched on the Zenit-3 LV carrier rocket. The development has been slow due to the shortage of funding. "I think everything will turn ou ... more  
London, UK (SPX) Feb 12, 2009Times are difficult, especially for SMEs with vehicle fleets. Fleet costs continue to rise while business slows. In some cases, drivers don't do all that they can to be most productive and mitigate costs. And time is always an issue. SME owners work an average of 15 hours more than the general population according to a survey by 02. Fleet owners also deal with a host of other daily ... more |
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Chishan, Taiwan (AFP) Aug 13, 2009Taiwan began airlifting nearly 1,000 people found alive in a cluster of villages flattened by muddy landslides, as survivors recounted the horror of watching their homes vanish. The island-wide death toll from Typhoon Morakot rose to 107 early Thursday following Taiwan's worst flooding in half a century over the weekend, with entire villages submerged in water and mud. The latest toll in ... more 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 12, 2009Disaster-hit Japan pushed on with recovery efforts Wednesday, a day after a strong earthquake struck and three days after a typhoon brought flashfloods and landslides that killed at least 15 people. In the flood-hit western town of Sayo, 400 rescue workers and troops searched debris-strewn river banks for survivors or victims of inundations brought by Typhoon Etau that have left 17 people mi ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 12, 2009A Chinese activist who was investigating whether shoddy construction caused school collapses in last year's massive Sichuan earthquake went on trial Wednesday for subversion, his lawyer said. Environmental activist and writer Tan Zuoren was charged with "inciting subversion of state power" for allegedly defaming the ruling Communist Party and the government over their handling of the Tiananm ... more |
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