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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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Nuclear Fusion On A Tabletop
Rensselaer, NY (SPX) Feb 13, 2006U.S. researchers said they have developed what is essentially a tabletop particle accelerator that can produce low levels of nuclear fusion at close to room temperature. Filter Problems Hamper Venus Observations 
Sunspot, NM (SPX) Feb 13, 2006Instrument problems have kept the team at the Dunn Solar Telescope from observing the planet Venus as they had hoped."The filter on our infrared camera is leaking thermal radiation and keeping us from observing the planet," said Nancy Chanover, principal investigator from New Mexico State University. Integral Looks At Earth To Seek Source Of Cosmic Radiation 
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 13, 2006Cosmic space is filled with continuous, diffuse high-energy radiation. To find out how this energy is produced, the scientists behind ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory have tried an unusual method: observing Earth from space. |
King Controls Sues KVH for Patent Infringement
Minneapolis, (SPX) Feb 14, 2006For the second time in eight months, King Controls, a leading manufacturer of mobile satellite antenna systems for land and marine markets, has filed a patent suit against KVH Industries, Inc. Malaysia Unveils Candidates For Astronaut Race 
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (SPX) Feb 14, 2006Malaysia unveiled last week eight candidates for the country's first astronaut program. Malaysian Science, Technology and Innovations Minister Jamaludin Jarjis announced the names of the eight candidates here, including a 35-year-old woman engineer. NASA'S Newest Explorers Become Astronauts 
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 13, 2006After 18 months of intense training, NASA's latest astronaut candidates now are officially astronauts. The class of 11, including three educator astronauts selected from teachers across the nation, received NASA Astronaut pins in a graduation ceremony Friday. |
RF's Flight Control Center Conducts Manoeuvre To Adjust ISS Orbit
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 14, 2006The Russian Flight Control Center has conducted a successful manoeuvre to adjust the ISS orbit overnight to Sunday, a source in the ballistics group of the Russian Flight Control Center told Itar-Tass on Sunday. SkyEdge VSAT Network Will Serve Post Offices in Siberia and Far-Eastern Russia 
Petah Tikva Israel (SPX) Feb 14, 2006Gilat Satellite Networks has been selected to provide a broadband satellite communications network to Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Post. Russian Post is one of Russia's largest companies, operating more than 40,000 post offices and annual revenue of US$1.5 billion. China Unicom Selects Gilat Broadband Satellite Equipment 
Petah Tikva, Israel (SPX) Feb 14, 2006Gilat Satellite Networks has been selected by China Unicom to provide a 1,500-site, high-speed satellite communication network. China Unicom, with 2004 revenues of more than US$9.5 billion, is one of the world's largest telecommunications operators. |
Spain To Join European Southern Observatory
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Feb 13, 2006Spain has taken the first step toward becoming a member of the European Southern Observatory. Maria Jesus San Segundo, the Spanish Minister of Education and Science, and Catherine Cesarsky, the ESO's director general, signed an agreement to make Spain the 12th national partner in the observatory. Astronomers Find Planetary Disk With Opposing Rotations 
Socorro, NM (SPX) Feb 13, 2006Astronomers studying a disk of material circling a still-forming star in the Milky Way have discovered the inner part of the disk is rotating in the opposite direction of the outer part of the disk. Theft Of A Million Stars 
Cerro Paranal, Chile (SPX) Feb 13, 2006Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, a team of Italian astronomers reveal the troubled past of the stellar cluster Messier 12 - our Milky Way galaxy 'stole' close to one million low-mass stars from it. Globular clusters move in extended elliptical orbits that periodically take them through the densely populated regions of our galaxy, and then high above and below the plane. |
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