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 Tokyo (AFP) Nov 17, 2009 
NASA is ready to cooperate with China in space exploration, the head of the US agency said Tuesday, as Beijing aims to send a manned mission to the moon by around 2020. "I am perfectly willing, if that's the direction that comes to me, to engage the Chinese in trying to make them a partner in any space endeavour. I think they're a very capable nation," NASA chief Charles Bolden said. ... read more 
London, UK (SPX) Nov 18, 2009The Director General of the Sri Lankan Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, Priyantha Kariyapperuma and Professor Sir Martin Sweeting of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), have signed a landmark agreement. This agreement starts a Sri Lankan national space capability by providing an SSTL Earth Observation satellite and commencing the definition and design of Sri Lanka's first ... 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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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 18, 2009NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite rocketed into Earth orbit on Nov. 18, 1989, and quickly revolutionized our understanding of the early cosmos. Developed and built at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., COBE precisely measured and mapped the oldest light in the universe - the cosmic microwave background. COBE showed that the radiation's spectrum agrees ... more  
Luxembourg (SPX) Nov 18, 2009Global satellite operator SES S.A. and Jersey, Channel Islands-based O3B Networks Limited (O3b), have announced that SES has made a minority investment in O3b to support the development of O3b's satellite-based, global internet backbone designed to reach the "other three billion" people in the developing world who today do not have access to the internet. SES joins Google, Liberty Global ... more  
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Nov 17, 2009The second man to set foot on the moon, former US astronaut Buzz Aldrin, urged Brazil to start investing in manned space flights if it doesn't want to miss out on their huge economic potential. It would be an "unforgivable mistake" if a country in full development like Brazil failed to plan for its future in space, Aldrin, 69 told Globo.com in a telephone interview Tuesday shortly after ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Nov 17, 2009The death toll in a massive landslide in north China rose to 23 Tuesday, as rescuers battled through the night to clear debris in an apparently fruitless search for survivors, state media reported. The landslide occurred early Monday in Shanxi province's Zhongyang county, engulfing six makeshift homes where the families of migrant coal miners were living, state news agency Xinhua said. ... more 
Majuro (AFP) Nov 17, 2009Seven Papua New Guineans adrift in the Pacific Ocean for more than two months have been rescued but two have since died, the captain of the vessel which picked them up said Tuesday. A helicopter from the US-based fishing vessel "Ocean Encounter" spotted a 22-foot boat drifting near Nauru in the central Pacific on Sunday. Seven men were onboard and told "Ocean Encounter" captain Ben ... more  
San Francisco (AFP) Nov 17, 2009Google Labs on Tuesday brought more focus to finding pictures online, adding a "Swirl" tool that automatically groups similar images into categories presented on results pages. "What Image Swirl does is it really organizes automatically image search results into groups and sub-groups," Google product manager Aparna Chennapragada told AFP. "It's not just the face, the color, the visual ... more |
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