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 Star City, Russia (AFP) Oct 13, 2009 
Canadian billionaire space tourist Guy Laliberte spoke with wonder Tuesday about his two-week voyage in space, calling his experience an amazing ride while admitting he had on occasion felt queasy. "Everything was an amazing ride and I would go back up there right now to do it again," Laliberte, the 50-year-old founder of circus show Cirque du Soleil, told a press conference at Star City ... read more
Upham NM (SPX) Oct 14, 2009New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) officials announced a successful launch of a test flight vehicle for Lockheed Martin by UP Aerospace from Spaceport America on Saturday, October 10. The brief test flight was a non-public, unpublished event at the request of Lockheed Martin, who is testing proprietary advanced launch technologies. "Saturday's launch successfully lifted off at 9:45 a.m. ... 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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Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Oct 14, 2009Exoplanet scientists from around the world gathered in Barcelona from September 14 to 18 to debate and reach a consensus on defining guidelines for a new roadmap with the ultimate objective of finding habitable, and potentially inhabited, planets outside of our Solar System. In addition they reached an agreement on an appropriate framework for developing such an initiative. ... more  
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 14, 2009Ball Aerospace and Technologies has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review for STPSat-2, the first spacecraft for the Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) program. Launch of the vehicle is scheduled for the second quarter of 2010 on a Minotaur IV rocket from Alaska's Kodiak Launch Complex. The pre-shipment review was ... more  
Goleta CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2009Alliant Techsystems broke ground yesterday on a 25,000 square foot expansion of the company's facility in Goleta, California. The expanded operations will support NASA's human space flight program, as well as global weather satellites and possible future spacecraft missions. A number of local and state officials attended the ground breaking, including and Congresswoman Lois Capps ... more |
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Abu Dhabi, UAE (SPX) Oct 14, 2009For the first time, senior representatives from NASA and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) are heading to the UAE to address high-level delegates from the region's space industry at a forum dedicated to space technology. Michael O'Brien, Assistant Administrator for External Relations at NASA, will deliver the keynote address on the opening day of the Global Space Technology Forum ... more  
Bangalore, India (PTI) Oct 14, 2009India's latest remote sensing satellite Oceansat-2 has begun beaming "good quality" images of the earth and relaying data on sea surface wind speed and direction, the space agency said on Monday. The 960 kg spacecraft was launched on board the polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV-C14) from spaceport Sriharikota, about 90 km north-east of Chennai on September 23, with three scientific ... more 
Mumbai, India (SPX) Oct 14, 2009In the first ever project of its type, GE Oil and Gas is using satellite connections to customer sites for the remote tuning and testing of gas turbine combustion systems at eleven (11) pipeline stations owned by Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure Limited (RGTIL) of Mumbai, India. The unique approach is enabling the project to be implemented with significantly more speed, whilst ... more |
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