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Japan appoints first space development minister: officials
Tokyo (AFP) June 17, 2008Japan on Tuesday appointed its first ever minister of space development after the pacifist nation scrapped a decades-old ban on the use of space programmes for defence. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda picked Fumio Kishida, the science policy minister, to take on the additional role, government officials said. The appointment was in line with last month's passing of a new law allowing the use ... more Disaster plan in place for Hubble mission 
Houston (UPI) Jun 17, 2008 U.S. space officials said a second shuttle will rescue the crew of the shuttle Atlantis if an emergency arises on Hubble repair mission STS-125. Astronauts on the Hubble space telescope repair mission, scheduled for later this year, won't be close enough to reach the International Space Station if there are problems during the mission, ABC News said Monday. NASA said the shuttle ... more ProtoStar One Is Fueled For Its Launch From Kourou 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jun 18, 2008Satellite preparations have taken center stage at the Spaceport in French Guiana as Arianespace readies its fourth Ariane 5 flight of 2008. As part of this activity, the mission's ProtoStar I payload has been fueled in the S5A hall of the Spaceport's state-of-the-art S5 satellite preparation facility. This large satellite platform is based on Space Systems/Loral's 1300 spacecraft bus, and ... more Lower costs drawing users to mobile Internet: industry 
Singapore (AFP) June 17, 2008Lower costs are drawing more and more users to access the Internet via their mobiles, and opening up opportunities for advertisers, industry players said Tuesday. Flat rates for data are becoming increasingly common, and mobile devices for accessing Internet content are more widely available, said Andre Levisse, of management consulting firm McKinsey and Company. "It becomes cheaper and ... more NASA competition winners announced 
Washington (UPI) Jun 17, 2008 The U.S. space agency says students from Massachusetts, Michigan and Pennsylvania have won its "Cassini Scientist for a Day" competition. Participants had to choose one of three target areas for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Cassini spacecraft's camera: Saturn's moons Enceladus or Rhea, or a section of Saturn's rings that includes the tiny moon Pan. The students ... more |
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Leiden, Netherlands (SPX) Jun 18, 2008ASTRON is researching the potential role of the LOFAR telescope in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). This initiative has been taken by Professor Michael Garrett, General Director of ASTRON and professor of radio techniques in astronomy at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Researchers from all over the world will contribute to this effort to find ways in which LOFAR ... more GPS footwear And FindU Enter The CIS 
Miami FL (SPX) Jun 18, 2008Isaac Daniel, who's Global Positioning (GPS) sneakers gained worldwide attention in 2007, has announced the signing of a breakthrough distribution agreement that will see his GPS footwear and the FindU, personal locator device (PLD), sold in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The deal is valued at least $75 million over the next five years according to Isaac Daniel, chairman and ... more Honeywell To Provide Electronic Navigation For Future Soldier Program 
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 18, 2008Honeywell has been selected by EADS to provide a miniature electronic navigation aid - a Dead-Reckoning Module - that ensures accurate personnel location data in environments where GPS signals are unavailable. "Honeywell's personnel navigator module provides position data even when the user is inside a building or under tree foliage, and this enables better tracking of teammates in dangero ... more National Instruments Introduces New LabVIEW Toolkit For GPS Receiver Testing 
Austin TX (SPX) Jun 18, 2008National Instruments has announced the NI GPS Toolkit for LabVIEW, an extension of the graphical system design environment that expands the NI RF PXI platform to include multi-satellite GPS signal simulation. Using NI LabVIEW software to create waveforms that simulate up to 12 satellites (C/A codes in the L1 band), engineers can test receiver characteristics such as sensitivity, time to fi ... more Arieso Geo-Locates Mobile Users In Real-Time To Help Operators Reduce Causes Of Churn 
Newbury, UK (SPX) Jun 18, 2008Wireless network optimisation provider, Arieso, has launched its geo-location event observer, ariesoGEO, for network performance monitoring and optimisation. Using the new software operators will be able to pinpoint technical issues, as and when they occur, mirroring the subscribers' experience. Current techniques generate data that is incomplete and imprecise, leading to unnecessary and i ... more |
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St. Petersburg, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 18, 2008Russia's Zvezdochka shipyard in the town of Severodvinsk on the Barents Sea could scrap Britain's decommissioned nuclear submarines, a company official said on Monday. At present, the U.K. does not have the facilities to reprocess nuclear components left on board at least 11 decommissioned vessels and is forced to store the submarines afloat indefinitely. The Russian company, which ... more Launch Of British Military Satellite Makes It A Skynet Hat-Trick 
London UK (SPX) Jun 18, 2008The British Military's latest high-tech communications satellite was successfully launched from Kourou in French Guiana, South America. The Skynet 5C satellite will be capable of beaming communication signals between headquarters in the UK and British forces deployed around the world once initial testing is complete. Work is now beginning to correctly position the satellite in order to ... more Harris To Supply More Multiband Terminal For For US Navy Satellite Program 
Melbourne, FL (SPX) Jun 18, 2008Harris has received a potential five-year, $77 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Navy for development and production of multiband satellite communications terminals that will provide high-speed communications for military personnel serving onboard cruisers and destroyers. Under the IDIQ contract, the company received an initial award valued at ... more Indian govt struggles with US nuclear pact 
New Delhi (AFP) June 17, 2008The future of a key nuclear energy pact between New Delhi and Washington appeared bleak Tuesday with the Indian government apparently failing to win over sceptical left-wing allies. A communist leader warned that the dominant Congress party would fail in its latest effort to push through the deal, aimed at giving India access to the worldwide nuclear energy trade without signing global ... more SKorea arrests five Internet firm chiefs 
Seoul (AFP) June 17, 2008South Korean prosecutors said Tuesday they had arrested five local Internet company chiefs for violating copyright laws, as one of the firms claimed the move was politically motivated. The presidents of Nowcom and four other online service providers were arrested Monday for illegally spreading movie files online, according to the office of the Seoul central district prosecutor. ... more
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