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One Tiny Satellite In Space, Whiz Kids Plan Two MoreBangalore, India (PTI) Jul 19, 2010 Driven by their maiden success in placing a tiny satellite in polar orbit early this week, the young pioneers are raring to launch two more satellites. "The successful launch and placing of our first pico-satellite (StudSat) in the earth's lower orbit has inspired us to build two similar satellites for the next launch," the project's core member G Kartik said here. Riding piggy back on India's advanced remote sensing satellite Cartosat-2B and three other satellites, the 850gm cubical StudSat ... read more |
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Mountain View, CA (SPX) Jul 19, 2010Lockheed Martin's Savi Technology has received a U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) order for 50 Portable Deployment Kits (PDKs) to locate, track and manage RFID-tagged supplies anywhere, anytime in support of expeditionary force surges in Afghanistan. This most recent order from the USMC Automatic Identification Technology office brings the total number of kits procured to nearly 1,300 kits over th ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 19, 2010For 18 horrific hours on April 3, 1974, the largest and most cataclysmic tornado on record for a single 24-hour period took North America by storm. Actually, it was 148 tornadoes, which spun through and sacked 13 states and one Canadian province, ravaging some 900 square miles and killing 148 people. An iconic photo snapped in the tragedy's aftermath speaks the proverbial thousand words: a ... more 
Saut D'Eau, Haiti (AFP) July 18, 2010Thousands of Haitians have flocked to a hilltop voodoo festival, offering a special prayer to the spirits to find them new homes and ease their plight six months after a massive quake. Dressed in white, they clambered up the hill to bathe in a waterfall and take part in an annual ritual which has drawn the faithful for almost 200 years to the town of Saut d'Eau in the central Haitian plateau ... more |
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Chinese premier says foreign firms treated fairlyBeijing (AFP) July 17, 2010 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Saturday rejected suggestions that the Asian giant did not provide a level playing field to foreign investors. "Currently, there is an allegation that China's investment environment is worsening. It's not true," Wen said in response to a question from Juergen Hambrecht, chief executive of German chemical company BASF. The premier's comments, reported by the state-run Xinhua news agency, came during a meeting in Xian, northwest China, with the heads of leading German an ... read more |
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