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| November 19, 2008 |  |
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 Paris, France (ESA) Nov 19, 2008 
Ministers in charge of space activities within the now 18 ESA Member States and Canada will meet in The Hague (the Netherlands) on 25 and 26 November to implement the European Space Policy, setting out the start of future programmes and taking decisions on the next phases of on-going programmes. This Council meeting at ministerial level will take place in an unprecedentedly favourable ... read more 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 18, 2008Russia's Energia space corporation has received a long-awaited loan worth 2.9 billion rubles ($106 million) from state-run savings bank Sberbank for spacecraft construction, the company said on Monday. The two-year loan will enable the company to continue producing the Progress cargo ships and Soyuz manned spacecraft used for missions to the International Space Station (ISS). ... more
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Cambridge MA (SPX) Nov 19, 2008Silicon chips developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory are at the heart of a new survey telescope that will soon provide a more than fivefold improvement in scientists' ability to detect asteroids and comets that could someday pose a threat to the planet. The prototype telescope installed on Haleakala mountain, Maui, will begin operation this December. It will feature the world's largest and ... more  
Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 19, 2008International Communications Group (ICG) has launched NxtMail Over Iridium, a new global e-mail service. The NxtMail service permits users with WiFi-enabled BlackBerry smart phones, iPhone mobile devices and selected personal digital assistants (PDAs) to access e-mail and mobile Web browsing services anywhere in the world by simply activating the WiFi feature of their devices. ... more  
Washington (AFP) Nov 18, 2008Two astronauts from NASA's space shuttle Endeavour stepped outside the International Space Station Tuesday on the first of four planned spacewalks of the 15-day mission. Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper and Steve Bowen emerged from station's decompression chamber, where they had spent the night to purge nitrogen from their bodies, at 1809 GMT, to begin a planned 6.5 hour spacewalk, NASA television ... more  
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Nov 19, 2008The powerful black holes at the center of massive galaxies and galaxy clusters act as hearts to the systems, pumping energy out at regular intervals to regulate the growth of the black holes themselves, as well as star formation, according to new data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Scientists from the University of Michigan, the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in ... more |
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Paris, France (SPX) Nov 19, 2008SES ASTRA has announced that the French digital terrestrial free-TV offer via the ASTRA Satellite System, TNTSAT, has extended its nationwide reach. At the end of October, 750,000 TNTSAT receivers had been distributed to French households. TNTSAT is a service targeted to regions where TV households cannot receive signals from terrestrial transmitters. It offers French TV viewers the full ... more 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 19, 2008SITA has announced a new Iridium-based service offering aimed at short-haul aircraft, which are increasingly operating on routes not covered by ground-based VHF radio. The Iridium systems provide data capacity for ACARS transmission and higher-quality voice service than the legacy HF radio systems that these short-haul aircraft need to use when outside VHF radio coverage. Philip ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 19, 2008NASA's newest supercomputer at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered the number three spot on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers. The announcement was made Nov. 17, 2008 at the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC08) in Austin, Texas. The Pleiades supercomputer is an SGI Altix ICE system with ... more |
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