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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 14, 2009 
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain signed a memorandum of understanding Friday for cooperation in the field of space transportation. The agreement was signed at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "From shuttle Spacelab missions to the International Space Station, ESA has a long history of participating with NASA in human ... read more 
Houston, Texas (AFP) Sept 12, 2009The Discovery astronauts found sunny skies in California on Friday as they descended to a weather-delayed landing at Edwards Air Force Base to end a demanding two-week mission to the International Space Station. Earlier in the day, thunderstorms twice prevented the seven astronauts from landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, a replay of the foul conditions on Thursday that kept the shuttle ... more |
G20 billionaires could end world poverty in one year's earnings: Oxfam
Australia set to cede COP31 hosting rights to Turkey COP30 dragged into clash over gender language Brazil's Lula hunts for deal at Amazon climate summit EU states back new delay to anti-deforestation rules Lula lands in Amazon to press for climate deal To combat climate anxiety, COP negotiator recommends meditation Nations 'still far' from deal at UN climate talks: France Nearly a third of women face partner or sexual violence: WHO Belgian climate case pits farmer against TotalEnergies 
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Redlands CA (SPX) Sep 14, 2009The French Service de l'Information Aeronautique (SIA), headquartered in the Bordeaux-Merignac Airport in the town of Merignac, France, has awarded a contract for an aeronautical information management (AIM) system based on ESRI's geographic information system (GIS) software. The contract was awarded to ESRI France, and French aeronautical technology companies Thales and CGx AERO in SYS ... more  
Beijing, China (XNA) Sep 14, 2009Indonesian communication satellite Palapa D entered its geosynchronous orbit on September 9, despite an ignition failure on the rocket that carried the satellite more than a week ago, the satellite's manufacturer said Saturday. The satellite had conducted a number of orbit maneuvers in order to get into the geosynchronous orbit, and was in normal state, the company said. Reynald ... more 
Hanoi, Vietnam (UPI) Sep 11, 2009 Vietnam has confirmed it will launch its second telecommunications satellite at a cost of $350 million in 2012, the newspaper Vietnam Investment Review has reported. The state-owned Vietnam Post and Telecommunications agency is to invest the money in Vinasat-2. VPNT said it remains undecided on whether to embark on a domestic launch or outsource the process as it did for the country's ... more |
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Guwahati, India (PTI) Sep 14, 2009NASA astronaut Edward Michael Fincke has said the Indian moon mission 'Chandrayan' was not a failure, but an "amazing success". "There is a lot of speculation about the mission being failed. On the contrary, it was a success with 95 per cent of its objectives achieved," Fincke, a veteran of two missions in the International Space Station ISS), told reporters here. "This not the ... more  
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (UPI) Sep 11, 2009 Malaysia's second submarine will be at her home base in late March 2010 after leaving Spain on its maiden voyage, the Ministry of Defense said. The KD Tun Razak, a diesel-powered Scorpene-class vessel, will take two months on its way to Malaysia's submarine base at Kota Kinabalu, Sepanggar Bay in the southern state of Sabah on the island of Borneo, the national news agency Bernama ... more  
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 14, 2009The U.S. Air Force awarded Raytheon a $77.4 million Foreign Military Sales contract to produce AGM-65D and AGM-65G2 infrared-guided Maverick air-to-surface missiles for Korea and Taiwan. The AGM-65 Maverick family of precision-attack missiles is used by the air, naval and marine forces of 33 countries. More than 69,000 missiles have been produced to date, and more than 6,000 have been used ... more |
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