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Virgin spaceship to pass new milestoneLas Cruces, New Mexico (AFP) Oct 22, 2010 The world's first private passenger spaceship will pass another milestone toward its commercial lift-off Friday, at a remote spaceport in the New Mexico desert. Flamboyant British multi-millionaire Richard Branson will commemorate the completion of the main runway at Spaceport America, near the town of Las Cruces where the Virgin Galactic project is based. SpaceShipTwo, which could carry paying customers into suborbital space by early 2012, had its maiden flight in the California desert in March ... read more |
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  Union Pacific Railroad Celebrates Opening Of Joliet Intermodal Terminal Officials and customers have gathered to celebrate the opening of Union Pacific Railroad's nearly $370 million, 785-acre Joliet Intermodal Terminal. Located approximately five miles south of I ... more | .. |
 Better Location Accuracy Equals Increased Revenues Location awareness is becoming an increasingly vital contributor to the North American mobile user experience. While US wireless carriers reported consumer Location Based Service (LBS) subscribers o ... more | .. |
 Locating Caregivers Quickly Workplace Options has unveiled iFindCare, the world's first mobile application to help individuals locate, reference and evaluate accredited child care and elder care providers. Developed to a ... more | .. |
 CellGuide Introduces HiMap High-Performance Urban Positioning CellGuide has announced the availability of its patent-pending HiMap technology for precision urban positioning. HiMap is now commercially available for CellGuide's ACLYS chip, ACLYS IP Core, and GP ... more | .. |
 Palm Springs Unified School District Selects Networkfleet GPS Fleet Tracking Networkfleet has announced that it has been selected by the Palm Springs Unified School District (USD) of Palm Springs, California, to improve vehicle utilization, reduce fuel costs, and increase sa ... more |
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Johannesburg (AFP) Oct 21, 2010South African rangers on Thursday announced a plan to implant GPS devices in the horns of rhinos in a new effort to combat rampant poaching. The GPS chips link up to a computer monitoring station where park rangers track the rhinos. "The animal's movements are then tracked 24/7 and if they are attacked, game rangers will be alerted via the alarms," park enforcement officer Rusty Hustler ... more  
College Park MD (SPX) Oct 21, 2010Scientists at the University of Maryland and Tulane University have developed a computational model of a swimming fish that is the first to address the interaction of both internal and external forces on locomotion. The interdisciplinary research team simulated how the fish's flexible body bends, depending on both the forces from the fluid moving around it as well as the muscles inside. Un ... more  
London (AFP) Oct 21, 2010The US programme of drone strikes targeting Islamist militants in Pakistan, Yemen and other countries violates international law and should be halted, a legal expert warned Thursday. Mary Ellen O'Connell, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, told a debate at a leading London think-tank that the pursuit of Al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists should be a law enforcement issue, not a mi ... more |
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Remotec Awarded USAF Contract For HD-1 Fleet Counter-IED UpgradesClinton TN (SPX) Oct 22, 2010 Northrop Grumman subsidiary Remotec will upgrade the U.S. Air Force fleet of Andros HD-1 unmanned ground vehicles to help counter evolving threats from improvised explosive devices (IED). The Air Force Air Combat Command awarded Remotec a sole-source, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to upgrade as many as 173 systems over the next two years. The company received funding of $11.2 million for the first year of its explosive ordnance counter-IED mission support. The HD-1 was de ... read more |
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