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 Wenchang, China (XNA) Sep 15, 2009 
China on Monday began construction of its new space launch center in Wenchang City, on the northeast coast of the tropical island province of Hainan, which is scheduled to be completed by 2013. The Hainan Space Satellite Launch Center, the fourth and the lowest latitude one in China, only 19 degrees north of the equator, would allow China to take part in more international commercial space ... read more 
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Sep 14, 2009Space is not a fun place to get a stomach bug. To ensure drinking water is adequately disinfected, University of Utah chemists developed a two-minute water quality monitoring method that just started six months of tests aboard the International Space Station. "Now they bring water back on the space shuttle and analyze it on the ground. The problem is there is a big delay. You'd like to be ... 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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Washington DC (SPX) Sep 14, 2009Delivering connectivity where it's needed most, SES WORLD SKIES has announced it has signed a multi-transponder deal with Artel to help the leading integrator meet growing U.S. government demand for end-to-end communications networks throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Artel will use four full Ku-band transponders (144 megahertz) on the ASTRA 3B satellite, set to launch early next ... more 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Sep 15, 2009We often speak of 'astronomically high prices' - 'astronomic' is a common way of describing anything that is extremely large. As a matter of fact, units of measurement are used in the field of astronomy that are far greater than the scale we are used to in everyday life. The nearest star - Proxima Centauri - is around 40,000,000,000,000 kilometres away. This example already shows that the ... more 
Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 14, 2009Leveraging the strengths of its world class occasional use (OU) unit, SES WORLD SKIES has announced at the IBC Conference and Exhibition the completed integration of its Global Always On satellite capacity access and booking system. The single OU platform offers easy-to-use and intuitive satellite capacity scheduling tools and processes designed to help a broad range of customers ... more |
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Washington DC (AFNS) Sep 15, 2009Two seemingly different U.S. Army organizations gathered robotics experts, technologists, academecs, soldiers and companies from across the country in search of solutions to help save soldiers' lives. The 3rd Corps and U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, or TARDEC, based on Fort Hood, Texas, hosted the first Robotics Rodeo to showcase what's new in the ... more 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Sep 15, 2009Raytheon has received a $19.3 million U.S. Navy contract to provide MK54 lightweight torpedo hardware. With this award, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) is under contract to deliver 241 MK54 kits, of which 100 kits will be delivered to the Turkish Navy via a Foreign Military Sales agreement. "We are working with our Navy customer and advancing the reliability and effectiveness of ... more  
Denver CO (SPX) Sep 15, 2009The power of one multi-intelligence aircraft collecting, correlating then distributing diverse types of intelligence to those who needed it was demonstrated by Lockheed Martin during the U.S. Army's C4ISR On-The-Move exercise. Lockheed Martin's Airborne Multi-intelligence Laboratory (AML) demonstrated how its onboard sensors, interacting with the Army's intelligence and battle command ... more |
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