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Iran to unveil three new home-built satellites: reportTehran (AFP) Jan 20, 2010 Iran will unveil three new satellites in February, a report said Wednesday, amid Western concerns that Tehran is using its nuclear and space industries to develop atomic and ballistic weapons. ISNA news agency quoted Communications Minister Reza Taghipour as saying that one of the three home-built communications satellites is still under construction. Taghipour named the three satellites as Toloo (Dawn), Ya Mahdi and Mesbah-2, but did not elaborate on exactly when they would be launched. ... read more |
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Russian Cosmonauts Make Up To 150000 Dollars For Space MissionsMoscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 22, 2010 Russian cosmonauts receive up to $150,000 for a mission on board the International Space Station (ISS), a senior space official said Thursday. "For six months of work on the ISS, a Russian cosmonaut gets an equivalent of $130,000-150,000 in Russian currency," Vladimir Solovyev said, head of the Russian segment of the ISS. Solovyev admitted that the cosmonauts' work in orbit is diffic ... read more |
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London (AFP) Jan 21, 2010British pay-TV giant BSkyB on Thursday lost an appeal over a government order that it reduce its 17.9-percent stake in commercial television network ITV. Britain's Court of Appeal said that a 2008 ruling that BSkyB cut its shareholding in British broadcaster ITV to 7.5 percent on grounds of competition must stand. BSkyB, in which the biggest shareholder is Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, sai ... more  
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2010Lockheed Martin has successfully mated the first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite's high-performance communications system module with the propulsion core at its facilities in Sunnyvale, Calif. Supporting ultra-high frequency (UHF) satellite communications (SATCOM), MUOS will provide assured communications, including simultaneous voice, video and data, for mobile warfighters. ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2010The most powerful camera aboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars will soon be taking photo suggestions from the public. Since arriving at Mars in 2006, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has recorded nearly 13,000 observations of the Red Planet's terrain. Each image covers dozens of square miles and reveal details as small as a ... more |
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