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 St. Petersburg, Germany (SPX) Nov 09, 2009 
The first two Soyuz launchers have left Russia for the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana (northern part of South America). The legendary Russian launcher will lift off from its new launch pad, now being completed at Kourou, for the first time in 2010. The two Soyuz launchers left St. Petersburg aboard the MN Colibri, which is one of two ships used by Arianespace to transport ... read more 
Seoul, South Korea (XNA) Nov 09, 2009South Korea plans to launch its first weather-communications satellite into space in March, 2010, the country's Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said on Friday. According to the ministry, the satellite was developed jointly by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and France's Astrium. It will be placed in geostationary orbit 36,000 km from Earth and be equipped ... 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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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Nov 09, 2009Satlynx, a GE company and leading provider of satellite telecommunications, has teamed up with Arabsat the largest Middle-East satellite operator, to deliver a fully redundant satellite network that will provide the foundations of a new extensive communications platform for the Central Bank of Iraq. The main contractor for this World Bank funded $2.7 million project is Luxembourg-based ... more 
Remagen, Germany (SPX) Nov 09, 2009German service provider atrexx is offering a solution to two increasingly prevalent problems within the satellite industry - that of long-term capacity leases and scarcity of capacity in certain regions. It has recently come to the attention of atrexx that some customers of satellite operators are dissatisfied with the fact that they are tied into long-term capacity leases, and there is ... more 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 09, 2009The U.S. human space program and the creation of new technologies for all humans are in peril if NASA deviates from its plan to explore the Moon and Mars. NASA should stay the course. A committee led by former Lockheed Martin CEO, Norm Augustine, has developed several options and recommendations for NASA that, if implemented, would have to be thoroughly evaluated before NASA could move for ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Nov 6, 2009US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday she will travel to the Philippines next week to "show solidarity" with the storm-battered nation, just after her visits to Singapore and Berlin. Clinton also announced she will join President Barack Obama during his visit to China from November 15-18, her second trip as chief diplomat to the country the Obama administration recognizes as a ke ... more  
Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt (AFP) Nov 8, 2009Chinese premier Wen Jiabao said on Sunday he was encouraged by signs of an economic recovery in the United States, but hoped it would keep its budget deficit to an "appropriate size" to stabilise the US dollar exchange rate. "We follow very closely China's holdings of US assets, because that is a very important part of our national wealth," Wen told a media conference at the Egyptian resort ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 7, 2009US auto giant General Motors is in advanced talks with its Chinese partners on a proposal to bring their vehicles to India, the Press Trust of India reported Saturday. GM began talks with its partners Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC) and Wuling eight months ago to explore possibilities of bringing their light commercial vehicles to India. "Now we know what can work in India and ... more |
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