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China's second lunar probe enters moon's orbit: state mediaBeijing (AFP) Oct 9, 2010 China's second lunar probe entered the moon's orbit on Saturday, eight days after the Long March 3C rocket carrying the Chang'e-2 blasted off from the launch centre, state media reported. The unmanned probe will start "scientific exploration activities soon," said the official Xinhua news agency, citing the Beijing Aerospace Control Center. The Chang'e-2 will first circle the moon at a distance of 100 kilometres (62 miles). The plan is for it to drop into orbit 15 kilometres from the moon's surf ... read more |
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Tewksbury MA (SPX) Oct 11, 2010Raytheon received a $112.3 million contract to design and develop an S-band radar and radar suite controller technology demonstrator for the U.S. Navy's new Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR). This highly advanced system will provide unprecedented capabilities for the Navy's Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. AMDR is being developed to fill capability gaps identified by the Joint Requiremen ... more  
Miranshah, Pakistan (AFP) Oct 10, 2010A US drone strike killed seven militants at a compound in Pakistan's tribal North Waziristan region Sunday, security officials said. The compound was located by a road in Shewa district about 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of the region's main town of Miranshah. The drone fired four missiles at the compound and two vehicles parked outside were also destroyed, an intelligence official ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 08, 2010Using data from several research satellites, scientists will spend the next three years trying to understand the climate impacts of about 770 million tons of dust carried into the atmosphere every year from the Sahara Desert. Some Saharan dust falls back to Earth before it leaves Africa. Some of it streams out over the Atlantic Ocean or Mediterranean Sea, carried on the wind as far away as ... more |
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LG Chem Awarded Home Battery Pilot Program By Southern California EdisonTroy MI (SPX) Oct 11, 2010 LG Chemhas announced that it has been selected by Southern California Edison (SCE) to provide lithium-ion battery packs for a pilot program involving energy storage systems for residential and small commercial applications. An LG Chem consortium, working jointly with LG Electronics and LS Industrial Systems, is providing a complete system solution to meet the stringent requirements of the home energy storage program. LG Chem will provide the lithium-ion battery packs; LG Electronics will pro ... read more |
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