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China Orbits New Remote-Sensing SatelliteBeijing, China (RIA Novosti) Aug 12, 2010 China put into orbit on Tuesday another remote sensing satellite, China's Xinhua news agency reported. The Yaogan X was launched aboard a Long March 4C carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province. According to Xinhua, the satellite will be used primarily for scientific experiments, land survey, crop yield assessment, and disaster monitoring. Western experts believe, though, that this class of satellites could be used for reconnaissance and other milita ... read more |
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Paris (UPI) Aug 11, 2010 A European space probe has captured stunning images of a space rock that raise more questions about asteroids than they answer, scientists say. Unique angles and strange surface features of the asteroid Lutetia were photographed by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft in a flyby recently, SPACE.com reported Tuesday. Lutetia, at about 62 miles wide, is the largest astero ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 12, 2010NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is warming up. Team members say the spacecraft is running out of the frozen coolant needed to keep its heat-sensitive instrument chilled. The telescope has two coolant tanks that keep the spacecraft's normal operating temperature at 12 Kelvin (minus 438 degrees Fahrenheit). The outer, secondary tank is now depleted, causing the temperat ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 12, 2010NASA's first microsatellite designed to create a capability that increases opportunities for secondary, scientific and technology payloads, or rideshares, to be flown at lower cost than before has arrived at Kodiak Island, Alaska, to begin final launch preparations. The Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, arrived at the Kodiak Launch Complex on Aug. 10 from NASA ... more |
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Putin wants Russian satnav system in new cars from 2012Moscow (AFP) Aug 10, 2010 All new Russian cars could come equipped with Moscow's GLONASS satellite navigation system, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday, with a tax to be levied on the rival GPS system. "I think that from 2012 all new cars could be sold with the system built in so as to raise the level of road security," Russian news agencies quoted Putin as saying. Putin said that GLONASS, which was invented by the military in the 1980s to compete with the US Global Positioning System (GPS) and will in the fu ... read more |
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