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China's space station plan delayed for 'technical reasons'Beijing (AFP) March 3, 2010 China has postponed the next step in its ambitious space station programme until 2011 for technical reasons, state media said Wednesday. China had originally planned to place the Tiangong-1 space module in orbit late this year and undertake experimental docking manoeuvres in subsequent missions, Xinhua news agency cited rocket designer Qi Faren as saying. But the initial launch has now been delayed by a year due to "technical reasons", Qi said, without elaborating. Qi was speaking to the med ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2010One of the pleasures of perusing ancient maps is locating regions so poorly explored that mapmakers warned of dragons and sea monsters. Now, astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope find themselves in the same situation as cartographers of old. A new study of the ever-present fog of gamma rays from sources outside our galaxy shows that less than a third of the emission aris ... more  
Hanover, Germany (AFP) March 2, 2010The world's biggest high-tech fair opened to the public Tuesday as the IT sector sought to rebound from a terrible 2009 by wooing consumers with trendy gadgets to make life easier and more fun. "Connected Worlds" is the theme of this year's CeBIT fair, with companies aiming to showcase energy and labour-saving devices that use wireless technology to communicate with each other and with users ... more 
Davis CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2010A new device invented by engineers at UC Davis could make it much faster to convert pulses of light into electronic signals and back again. The technology could be applied to ultrafast, high-capacity communications, imaging of the Earth's surface and for encrypting secure messages. "We have found a way to measure a very high capacity waveform with a combination of standard electronics and ... more |
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Third WGS Satellite Passes On-Orbit TestsEl Segundo CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2010 Boeing has announced that the U.S. Air Force accepted control of the third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) military communications satellite on March 1, after the spacecraft passed several weeks of rigorous on-orbit tests. WGS is the U.S. Department of Defense's highest-capacity satellite communications system. WGS-3 completes the initial constellation of three spacecraft, which will provide broadband communications to every theater of operation around the world. "Knowledge is power, especially ... read more |
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