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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 22, 2009 
A combination of small satellites can, with innovative methods, use the signals of the navigation satellite systems GPS and Galileo to significantly improve remote sensing of the System Earth. In September the results of a scientific feasibility study on the first MicroGEM satellites, jointly carried out by the Technical University Berlin and the GFZ - German Research Centre for ... read more 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2009Space Systems/Loral has announced that Nimiq 5, a direct-to-home television satellite built for Telesat, is performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The satellite's solar array deployed on schedule early Friday morning following its successful launch from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan aboard an ILS Proton Breeze M launch vehicle. Over the weekend, Nimiq 5's main thrust ... more
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Sriharikota, India (ANI) Sep 22, 2009The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has started the countdown for the launch of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on Monday. The PSLV - C -14 is scheduled to launch from the Satish Dhavan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, on Wednesday. The PSLV, the most trusted launch vehicle of the ISRO would carry the 960 kilograms indigenous Oceansat 2 and six other nano ... more 
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Sep 22, 2009GloPos has announced its software-only positioning technology that makes all mobile phones location aware - outdoors, indoors, and even underground. GloPos Technology requires only a cellular network to make all mobile phones location aware. No additional hardware like GPS or W-LAN is required on a mobile device for achieving accurate positioning. "By making all phones location ... more  
Beijing, China (RIA Novosti) Sep 22, 2009China will assist Pakistan in building a new communications satellite, Chinese media reported Saturday from Islamabad. An agreement under which China will grant a $200 million loan to Pakistan for satellite construction was signed in Islamabad on Friday. The new PAKSAT-1R is to replace PAKSAT-1, to last until 2011. PAKSAT-1R could be orbited in two or three years' time. It will ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Sept 21, 2009Russia is opposed to any form of missile defence proposed by the United States which excludes Russian involvement, the country's top general said on Monday. General Nikolai Makarov, the chief of the general staff of the Russian military, told reporters on a visit to Switzerland that only the creation of a joint missile defence system would be acceptable to Moscow. "We have a negative ... more  
New York (AFP) Sept 21, 2009The IMF's decision to unload more than 400 tonnes of gold is unlikely to have a major impact on the market at a time when prices of the metal are at a near-record high, analysts said Monday. The International Monetary Fund announced Friday that its executive board had endorsed the sale of 403.3 tonnes of gold, worth about 13 billion dollars at current prices, to boost its lending capacity to ... more  
Washington (AFP) Sept 21, 2009The head of the US Federal Communications Commission proposed new rules on Monday that would require Internet providers, including wireless carriers, to treat all Web traffic equally. "There are few goals more essential in the communications landscape than preserving and maintaining an open and robust Internet," FCC chairman Julius Genachowski said in a speech at the Brookings Institution. ... more |
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