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Space Debris A Concern In Satellite LaunchZirakpur, India (SPX) Dec 23, 2009 Only 20% of the 12,000-odd artificial objects, including satellites, are operational in space, but unwanted "debris" are causing a lot of problem in launching new ones, former ISRO director Suresh Naik said. There are around 12,000 satellites and other artificial objects in the space, out of which only 20% are active. Satellites have a life of 15-20 years, and then they get lost in space ... read more |
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Sukhumi, Georgia (AFP) Dec 20, 2009The monkeys at this run-down research centre which was once the pride of Soviet science have seen it all -- a brutal civil war, freezing winters and starvation. Now, if the scientists at the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy have their way, one of these furry apes could someday be plucked from its cage and sent on a pioneering mission to Mars. "We have plans to return to ... more  
Paris (AFP) Dec 18, 2009A French court on Friday told Google that it cannot digitise French books without publishers' approval and ordered the online giant to pay 300,000 euros (430,000 dollars) in damages. The ruling capped a three-year-old case brought by one of France's biggest publishing houses, Les Editions du Seuil, which claimed that thousands of its works had been digitised by Google without consent. ... more  
Paris (UPI) Dec 16, 2009 The European Space Agency says it's signed a contract for its next-generation star-mapper spacecraft, Gaia, to be launched by an Arianespace rocket. The launch is to take place on an as yet unspecified date in 2011 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. David Southwood, ESA's director of science and robotic exploration, signed the contract for the launch Tuesday with Jean-Yves ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Dec 16, 2009At the Paris headquarters of the French space agency (CNES), Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight, and Thierry Duquesne, CNES Director for Strategy, Programmes and International Relations, signed an agreement that paves the way for the launch of a high-accuracy atomic clock to be attached to the outside of the European Columbus laboratory onboard the International Space Station ... more  
St. Louis (UPI) Dec 16, 2009 Most of the methods currently used in psychological warfare have been brought together in an unmanned system developed by Boeing and demonstrated for the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg, N.C. Psychological operations are crucial to wartime missions for combatant commands, but until recently such measures involved different approaches and comprised varying elements, from dropping conventional ... more  
Istanbul (AFP) Dec 15, 2009Natural gas that lies under Turkey's Marmara Sea close to Istanbul could provide advance warning of an earthquake experts believe will hit the country's largest city, scientists said on Tuesday. Researchers from France and Turkey scanned the Marmara's seabed over six weeks using a robotic sonar device, similar to the kind of equipment used to detect shoals of fish. Their mission was to ... more |
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