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Soot From Space Tourism Rockets Could Spur Climate ChangeWashington DC (SPX) Oct 25, 2010 Rocket exhaust could become a significant contributor to global climate change in coming decades, according to a new study. The research finds that soot emitted by rockets - not their carbon dioxide emissions - has the greater potential to contribute to global climate change in coming decades. The researchers - funded by the Aerospace Corporation and NASA - assumed that a fast-growing suborbital space tourism market will develop over the next decade and examine the climate impact of soot and carbo ... read more |
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  Boeing Ships LightSquared's SkyTerra One Mobile ComSat To Launch Site Boeing has shipped the LightSquared SkyTerra 1, a high-capacity mobile communications satellite, from the company's integration and test complex in El Segundo to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhsta ... more | .. |
  ARTEMIS Spacecraft Believed Stuck By Object Flight Dynamics data from THEMIS-B (one of the two ARTEMIS spacecraft) indicated that one of the EFI (electric field instrument)spherical tip masses may have been struck by a meteoroid at 0605 UT on ... more | .. |
  Russia wants equal role in NATO missile shield: minister Russia is open to talks on NATO's planned European missile shield but wants to play an equal role in its development, Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Anatoly Serdyukov told the German weekly Der Spiegel. ... more | .. |
  Musharraf approved US reconnaissance drones: Pakistan PM Pakistan's prime minister revealed Friday for the first time that former military ruler Pervez Musharraf gave approval for US drones to make surveillance flights over the country. ... more | .. |
  S.Korea sends promised flood relief aid to N.Korea South Korea is sending the first dispatch of relief supplies including 5,000 tons of rice to North Korea on Monday, after it was battered by torrential rain this summer, officials said. ... more |
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London (AFP) Oct 24, 2010China, the world's second largest economy and its number one energy consumer, is shaking up global commodities markets where its potent growth momentum is also powering a rise in metals prices. "China is now the largest energy consumer by our definition," Nobuo Tanaka, head of the International Energy Agency, said recently. "Probably half of the oil demand increase comes from China. Chin ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Oct 22, 2010German automaker Daimler said Friday it plans to invest three billion euros (4.2 billion dollars) in China by 2015 to boost production of Mercedes-Benz cars in the world's biggest auto market. Daimler also aims to increase sales in the Asian country to 300,000 units a year in the next five years, compared with an estimated 120,000 units in 2010, global chief executive Dieter Zetsche told rep ... more  
Washington (AFP) Oct 22, 2010Google pledged Friday to strengthen its privacy and security practices after its "Street View" mapping service gathered private wireless data, including emails and passwords, in dozens of countries. "We work hard at Google to earn your trust, and we're acutely aware that we failed badly here," Alan Eustace, Google's senior vice president of engineering and research, said in a blog post. ... more |
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Rio targets Australia iron ore after BHP bid lapseSydney (AFP) Oct 24, 2010 Mining giant Rio Tinto said it was focused on a massive ramp-up of its Australian iron ore operations Sunday, following the "disappointing" collapse of a lucrative tie-up with rival BHP Billiton Rio chief Tom Albanese said both companies had done "everything we could" to get the regulatory approval necessary to merge their iron ore projects in the mineral-rich Pilbara region - a deal they ultimately abandoned on Monday. "Once we heard from the regulators we both recognised this is just getting ... read more |
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