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Helios 2B Rides Into Sun-synchronous Polar Orbit Atop Ariane 5Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Dec 19, 2009 Arianespace wrapped up another successful year of operations with today's (December 18) orbiting of the French Helios 2B military observation satellite, which was lofted on the seventh Ariane 5 launch in 2009. This daytime mission underscored Ariane 5's capability to accommodate a full range of satellite payloads by placing Helios 2B into a Sun-synchronous polar orbit during a flight ... read more |
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) Dec 21, 2009Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will draft an agreement on space cooperation, the Roscosmos chief said Sunday. "Yesterday I met with the Japanese agency's head to draft an inter-agency agreement on a joint space program," Anatoly Perminov told journalists. Perminov said "scientific experiments could be enhanced" with the ... more  
Beijing (XNA) Dec 21, 2009China will put into space a civil high-definition survey satellite, the first of its kind in the country, in 2011, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) said here Friday. The satellite, ZY 3, would be launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on a Long March 4B carrier rocket, according to Xu Deming, director of the SBSM and Vice Minister of ... more  
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Dec 18, 2009 Israel's new long-range unmanned aerial vehicle, unveiled by Elbit Industries this week, adds a new dimension to the military's capabilities against Iran -- not just boosting its surveillance reach but perhaps even attacking air defenses with remote-controlled Hellfire missiles. Elbit announced on Tuesday that its Hermes 900 had successfully completed its maiden flight and would enter production following additional flight tests. The UAV is based on the Hermes 450, which is the main UAV used by the Israel, with 20 deployed during the 34-day war with Lebanon's Hezbollah in July-August 2006. ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 18, 2009The United States announced Friday that China agreed to end a series of "famous brand" subsidies for a range of goods that Washington challenged as illegal at the World Trade Organization. The office of the US Trade Representative said Washington and Beijing had signed an agreement to settle a complaint filed last December with the WTO challenging an array of programs viewed as improper ... more  
Paris (AFP) Dec 18, 2009A French court on Friday told Google that it cannot digitise French books without publishers' approval and ordered the online giant to pay 300,000 euros (430,000 dollars) in damages. The ruling capped a three-year-old case brought by one of France's biggest publishing houses, Les Editions du Seuil, which claimed that thousands of its works had been digitised by Google without consent. ... more 
San Francisco (AFP) Dec 19, 2009Google smartphones are either a daring foray into the telecom world or a misunderstood test of the next-generation of the Internet giant's Android mobile operating system. Analysts interviewed Friday were divided over what to make of the "Nexus One" smartphones that Google is having workers test internally. "We are having a big discussion whether this is going to kill Android or make it ... more |
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