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China Launches Yaogan 7 Remote-Sensing SatelliteJiuquan China (XNA) Dec 11, 2009 China launched Wednesday a remote-sensing satellite, "Yaogan VII," from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu Province. The satellite was successfully launched into the space on a Long March 2D carrier rocket at 4:42 p.m., the center reported. It will be mainly used for scientific experiment, land resources survey, crop yield estimates and disaster prevention and ... read more |
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Ithica NY (SPX) Dec 11, 2009Iapetus is often called Saturn's most bizarre moon, due to its starkly contrasting hemispheres - one black as coal, the other white as snow. Images taken by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, orbiting Saturn since 2004, offer the most compelling evidence to date of why and how the moon got its yin-yang appearance, as well as clues to how other such satellites might have formed in the early universe ... more  
Luxembourg (SPX) Dec 11, 2009SES Astra reports that it will further expand its satellite-based broadband service Astra2Connect, and will offer the service in the Middle East as of next year. As a result, the company has signed a second service distribution agreement with Intersat Africa, a leading provider of satellite-based internet services based in Kenya, Africa, for broadband services on SES Astra's new satellite Astra ... more  
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Dec 11, 2009Alliant Techsystems successfully tested its newly developed Castor 30 upper stage solid rocket motor today at the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) in Tennessee. The test was a significant milestone for ATK, which developed the motor using internal research and development funding. The Castor 30 fills a key position in the company's "Family of Motors" product li ... more |
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  Cryostat To Fly On WISE Mission   Robot completes first underwater crossing of Atlantic Ocean   Galaxy Collision Switches On Black Hole |
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 10, 2009Scientists are looking for life in space. So far, they haven't found any life beyond Earth itself. We seem to be getting closer to discovering life somewhere else in our own solar system, with Mars, and some moons of Jupiter and Saturn being considered likely hiding spots for microbes. Could there be life closer to our home planet? Probably not, but it's worth considering what could be ... more  
London, UK (SPX) Dec 09, 2009Scientists have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered to Mars by meteorites, raising fresh hopes that the gas might be generated by life on the red planet, in research published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Methane has a short lifetime of just a few hundred years on Mars because it is constantly being depleted by a chemical reaction in the planet's atmosphere ... more  
Palmdale CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2009The first Block 40 configuration of the RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) successfully completed its first flight on Nov. 16. Designated AF-18, the advanced capability aircraft flew for approximately two hours from Northrop Grumman's manufacturing facility in Palmdale, Calif., to Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. "AF-18, the eleventh of the ... more |
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  Oslo braces to welcome 'war president' Nobel laureate   Iran Says No Issue With IAEA; Warns Will Hit Israel If Attacked  Outside View: Playing the India card |
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