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Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missionsWashington (AFP) Dec 30, 2009 NASA has named low-cost missions to Venus, the moon and an asteroid on a shortlist to become its latest space adventure, as the US agency faces astronomical political pressure to cut costs. The proposed probes -- to the surface of Venus, the moon and to bring back a piece of a primitive asteroid -- must all come with a price tag of less than 650 million dollars, a fraction of the cost of man ... read more |
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Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Dec 30, 2009The final Ariane 5 launch for 2009 lifted off Dec 18s from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on a journey to place the French military reconnaissance satellite Helios-2B into Sun-synchronous polar orbit. Flight V193 was the seventh Ariane 5 launch of 2009 and used the last of the GS version of the launcher. Liftoff of the 49th Ariane 5 mission took place at 17:26 CET/Paris (16:26 UTC; 13 ... more  
Cannes, France (SPX) Dec 30, 2009Thales Alenia Space has signed a new geosynchronous (GEO) communications satellite contract with OverHorizon with offices in the USA, Sweden and Cyprus. The spacecraft will carry an on-board processing payload provided by Thales Alenia Space, mounted on Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital)'s STAR 2.3 satellite platform. Both Thales Alenia Space and Orbital will share in the contract resp ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 30, 2009The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA's Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery. "Using data from Voyager, we have discovered a strong magnetic field just outside the solar system," explains lead author Merav Opher, a NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator from Ge ... more |
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Frankfurt (AFP) Dec 29, 2009We've made it through a year of relatively few natural disasters, German re-insurer Munich Re said Tuesday, but climate change is still a threat and the failed Copenhagen summit ensures costs will rise in the future. Munich Re said natural catastrophes took many fewer lives and caused much less damage on average in 2009 than in the previous decade. In an annual look at the cost of natura ... more  
Boulder, Colo. (UPI) Dec 28, 2009 The days of the conventional electricity power grid are numbered and business opportunity, pragmatism and the need to better monitor both use and users of electricity have combined to raise the prospect of a multi-billion dollar industry growing worldwide. A report by Pike Research, based in Boulder, Colo., said global investment in replacing antiquated systems with Smart Grid technolog ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Dec 28, 2009Chinese author Mian Mian, who shot to fame with lurid tales of sex, drugs and alcohol in the underworld, will sue Internet giant Google this week for copyright infringement, her lawyer said Monday. Sun Jingwei told AFP that the case -- the first civil lawsuit against Google in China over the scanning of books into its controversial web library -- would open at a Beijing court on Tuesday. ... more |
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  China likely to become top global exporter in 2009: govt   Chinese airline to buy 16 Airbus A330s: company   Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ to issue yuan bonds in China |
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