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Branson unveils Virgin Galactic spacelinerLos Angeles (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 Richard Branson unveiled Monday a commercial spaceliner offering tourists a cheaper chance to experience the thrill of weightlessness and view the splendor of the Earth from space. The British billionaire hopes to offer tickets aboard his spacecraft at a cost of 200,000 dollars each, giving adventurous, well-heeled travellers a chance to experience space for a fraction of the cost of a seat on a NASA shuttle or Russian spaceship. Announcing the roll-out of the Virgin Galactic spaceliner in California's Mojave desert, Branson said he planned to be on the craft's first passenger flight some 18 months from now, accompanied by his family and the American designer of the space ship, Burt Rutan. ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 7, 2009NASA has teamed up with the Dubai-based Arab Youth Venture Foundation to provide students from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) the chance to work on NASA missions, the US space agency said Monday. Under the program, up to 12 engineering students from the UAE will each year join US students to work on a research project at the US space agency's Ames Research Center in California. The ... more  
London, UK (SPX) Dec 08, 2009Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has delivered eighteen SGR-10 GPS receivers to Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) of the USA to provide on-board orbit determination for the ORBCOMM Generation 2 (OG2) satellites. SSTL's SGR-10 is a spacecraft orbit determination sub-system designed for small and large Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite applications. The SGR-10 provides GPS standard ... more 
Copenhagen, Denmark (UPI) Dec 7, 2009 The U.S. space agency says its Earth science research and educational programs are in Copenhagen, Denmark, for this week's U.N. climate change conference. The 12-day United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change began Monday and NASA is one of several U.S. government agencies supporting the first-ever U.S. Center -- an outreach initiative housed in Copenhagen's Bella Conference ... more |
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  Cobham Demos Reusable Cold Gas Cartridge-Equipped Bomb Rack   IMF gives 9.3-mln-dollar lifeline to tsunami-stricken Samoa   China auto sales and output go over 12 million units |
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Munich, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2009Just three months after the Euro 5 Norm for exhaust emissions went into force for all new car models, researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) have demonstrated an engine that is already close to meeting the more stringent Euro 6 emissions standard. A research team headed by Prof. Georg Wachtmeister from the Chair of Internal Combustion Engines has succeeded in reducing ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Dec 7, 2009China's top leaders pledged on Monday to maintain pro-growth economic policies put in place during the global slowdown and continue a push to make domestic demand a new pillar of the economy. The promise came at the end of a key annual economic meeting chaired by President Hu Jintao that sets the policy tone for the coming year, Xinhua news agency said. Typically, few ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 08, 2009Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the selection of three new advanced coal projects that will get $979 million from DOE as part of its Clean Coal Power Initiative. The funds are going to: + AEP's Mountaineer carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project in New Haven, WV; + Southern Company's CCS demo in Alabama, and + The Summit Texas Clean Energy project near ... more |
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