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 Palo Alto CA (SPX) Oct 16, 2009 
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that Patrick DeWitt will be appointed to the SS/L Board of Directors as its Chairman and will relinquish his duties as Chief Executive Officer at the end of the year. John Celli, the current President and Chief Operating Officer, will lead the company's day-to-day operations. "It has been an honor and a privilege to work with Pat DeWitt for so many ... read more 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 16, 2009Ministers from the 29 European Space Agency and European Union Member States will meet in Prague on 23 October for the 1st EU-ESA International Conference on Human Space Exploration, to prepare a roadmap leading to the definition of a common vision and strategic planning for space exploration. This first step in a process that will lead to the definition of a European vision in this field ... 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 (UPI) Oct 14, 2009 NASA and the U.S. Air Force say they are developing a "technology roadmap" for a commercial reusable launch vehicle, or RLV, industry. "NASA is committed to stimulating the emerging commercial reusable launch vehicle industry," said Lori Garver, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's deputy administrator. "There is a natural evolutionary path from today's emerging commercia ... more  
El Segundo CA (SPX) Oct 16, 2009Boeing has announced that the third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite built for the U.S. Air Force was shipped on Sept. 28 to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., where it will be tested and prepared for a November launch. WGS-3 completes the initial constellation of three WGS satellites, which will provide high-capacity X-band and Ka-band communications to U.S. forces and allies ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 16, 2009Using satellite radar data and GPS measurements, Chinese researchers have explained the exceptional geological events leading to the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake that killed nearly 90 000 people in China's Sichuan Province. "One of the very fundamental issues for understanding an earthquake is to know how the rupture is distributed on the fault plane, which is directly related to the amount of ... more |
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Warsaw, Poland (UPI) Oct 15, 2009 Experts are optimistic that U.S. President Barack Obama's new missile defense plan for Eastern Europe is better than the old one. Obama's new plan, the so-called "phased, adaptive approach" for a European missile defense system features a combination of fixed (ground-based) and relocatable (on U.S. warships) Standard Missile 3 interceptors and radars that focuses mainly on the threat fr ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 14, 2009As India readies for a major offensive against Maoist rebels, security agencies are trawling the international arms market to upgrade the country's counter-insurgency capabilities. "We want to acquire what can be moulded into our own security system," said top police intelligence officer Shashidhar Reddy of Andhra Pradesh, one of the states most affected by Maoist activity. Reddy was one ... more  
Kathmandu (AFP) Oct 14, 2009The United Nations said Wednesday it would help to protect Nepal's schools and hospitals against earthquakes as it launched a scheme to reduce the impact of natural disasters in the country. The UN said the risk of natural disasters in Nepal was growing as the population grew and climate change increased flooding and landslides. Last week, dozens of people died in landslides and flash fl ... more |
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