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Rocket Plane RouletteHonolulu HI (SPX) Mar 07, 2007 SpaceDaily supports private spaceflight projects for the basic reason that Government space agencies have reached a state of total intellectual stasis with NASA�s plan to redo Apollo 50 years later, China's plan to redo Soyuz/Salyut at about 1/8 the pace managed by the USSR, and Russia's plan to redo Zond with billionares in place of turtles. ... read more |
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Erlangen, Germany (UPI) Dec 8, 2009 German researchers say they've developed intelligent radio nodes that can perform many tasks that radio frequency identification systems cannot. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, the Fraunhofer Working Group and colleagues at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and other facilities developed the radio nodes mainly for hospital uses. For example ... more  
Washington (AFP) Dec 8, 2009The US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the "Beast of Kandahar," a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy. The RQ-170 Sentinel is being developed by Lockheed Martin and is designed "to provide reconnaissance and surveillance support to forward deployed combat forces," the air force said in a brief statement. ... more 
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Dec 8, 2009 Russia is seeking to acquire more Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles under a $100 million deal that has more to do with bribing Moscow not to supply Iran with state-of-the-art air-defense missiles that could skewer any Israeli air assault than it has with dollars and cents. Russia has not been able to produce an effective UAV, a weakness exposed during its brief 2008 conflict with Georgia ... more |
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 US drone attack kills three in Pakistan: officials   Eight dead in China school stampede: state media   Cisco going from Internet plumber to platform |
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Cairo (AFP) Dec 8, 2009In an attempt to help curb the city's stifling pollution and meet their energy needs too, a few Cairo families have begun to recycle waste -- now that the nation's pigs are gone -- by generating biogas from rubbish. It is an ambitious project that is still in its infancy but may just catch on in this teeming city of 18 million people, often obscured in a dirty grey veil of haze produced ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Dec 8, 2009China's central bank Tuesday said it wanted to maintain credit expansion at a "reasonable pace" in 2010 to support recovery but curb potential risk after record lending this year, state media reported. Lending should be focused on supporting employment and industries of "strategic importance," Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China, was quoted as saying by official news ... more  
Frankfurt (AFP) Dec 8, 2009Stronger Chinese auto sales have lifted the prospects of German luxury car makers which were left behind in an earlier rush to buy cheaper models with 'cash-for-clunkers' subsidies, analysts say. Audi, BMW and Daimler, which owns Mercedes-Benz, all reported better sales in November on a 12-month basis, with China clearly the fastest growing market for all three. "China is standing out ... more |
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