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 St. Petersburg, Germany (SPX) Nov 09, 2009 
The first two Soyuz launchers have left Russia for the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana (northern part of South America). The legendary Russian launcher will lift off from its new launch pad, now being completed at Kourou, for the first time in 2010. The two Soyuz launchers left St. Petersburg aboard the MN Colibri, which is one of two ships used by Arianespace to transport ... read more 
Seoul, South Korea (XNA) Nov 09, 2009South Korea plans to launch its first weather-communications satellite into space in March, 2010, the country's Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said on Friday. According to the ministry, the satellite was developed jointly by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and France's Astrium. It will be placed in geostationary orbit 36,000 km from Earth and be equipped ... 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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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Nov 09, 2009Satlynx, a GE company and leading provider of satellite telecommunications, has teamed up with Arabsat the largest Middle-East satellite operator, to deliver a fully redundant satellite network that will provide the foundations of a new extensive communications platform for the Central Bank of Iraq. The main contractor for this World Bank funded $2.7 million project is Luxembourg-based ... more 
Remagen, Germany (SPX) Nov 09, 2009German service provider atrexx is offering a solution to two increasingly prevalent problems within the satellite industry - that of long-term capacity leases and scarcity of capacity in certain regions. It has recently come to the attention of atrexx that some customers of satellite operators are dissatisfied with the fact that they are tied into long-term capacity leases, and there is ... more 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 09, 2009The U.S. human space program and the creation of new technologies for all humans are in peril if NASA deviates from its plan to explore the Moon and Mars. NASA should stay the course. A committee led by former Lockheed Martin CEO, Norm Augustine, has developed several options and recommendations for NASA that, if implemented, would have to be thoroughly evaluated before NASA could move for ... more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 09, 2009NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation under space-like conditions produces this essential ingredient of life. Pyrimidine is a ring-shaped molecule made up of carbon and nitrogen and is the basic structure for ... more 
Beijing, China (XNA) Nov 09, 2009China will launch a French-made communications satellite for the Hong Kong-based APT Satellite Holding Limited in the first half of 2012. A contract for the launch service was signed here Sunday. The satellite, dubbed APTSTAR-7 and made by the Thales Alenia Space, will be sent into space by China's Long March 3B/E carrier rocket at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern ... more 
Rome (UPI) Nov 6, 2009 Italian aerospace and defense company Finmeccanica has signed a memorandum of understanding with a Kazakhstan sovereign wealth fund for a raft of cooperation deals. The agreements cover helicopters, railways and electro-optics, including tank upgrades. Kairat Kelimbetov, the chairman of the Sovereign Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna, and Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, chairman and CEO of ... more |
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