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China Launches Third Orbiter For Indigenous Global SatNav SystemXichang, China (XNA) Jan 18, 2010 China took one step forward in its ambition to build an independent global navigation network capable of rivaling foreign congeneric systems with the successful launch of a new orbiter into space early Sunday morning. Boosted by a Long-March-3III carrier rocket into a geostationary orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, it was the third orbiter China has launched for the network ... read more |
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Orlando FL (SPX) Jan 12, 2010"Sniper ATPs and LANTIRN ER navigation pods will provide a significant capability upgrade to the Turkish Air Force's F-16 fleet," said Rich Lovette, program director for Fixed-Wing Fire Control at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "LANTIRN ER's 3rd generation navigation FLIR and enhanced image processing will allow aircrews to go far beyond their current capability. The Sniper ... more  
Las Vegas, Nevada (AFP) Jan 8, 2010Stun gun maker Taser wants to help parents. Not with jolts of electricity but with a tool which allows parents to effectively take over a child's mobile phone and manage its use. "Basically we're taking old fashioned parenting and bringing it into the mobile world," Taser chairman and co-founder Tom Smith said at the Consumer Electronics Show here, where the Arizona company unveiled the ... more  
London, UK (SPX) Jan 08, 2010SSTL has been selected by ESA to supply 14 navigation payloads for the deployment phase of the Galileo satellite navigation system which was announced by the European Commission. SSTL is teamed with OHB-System of Bremen, Germany for the provision of these fully operational Galileo satellites. The two companies agreed to work together as a "core team" on Galileo at the end of 2007, with OHB taking the role of prime contractor and builder of the spacecraft "bus" and SSTL taking full ... more |
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 DeLorme And SPOT Unveil First Handheld GPS with Satellite Communicator  Germany's OHB to win EU Galileo satellite contract: source   Instant online solar energy quotes Solar Energy Solutions from ABC Solar |
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Las Vegas, Nevada (AFP) Jan 6, 2010A leash to prevent you from losing your mobile phone might not be too practical, but how about a wireless one? ZOMM, a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based company, is displaying what it describes as the first wireless tether for cellphones at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) here. The ZOMM is a Bluetooth device about the size of a poker chip that attaches to a keychain or can be clipped on to a ... more  
Las Vegas, Nevada (AFP) Jan 6, 2010Consumer electronics manufacturers, after suffering a rare dip in sales last year, are hoping to bounce back in 2010 with smartphones, e-readers and smaller laptops leading the way. But the Consumer Electronics Association, releasing its 2010 forecast ahead of its annual gadget show here, provided little cheer to an industry which saw revenue fall by two percent in 2009 to 681 billion dollar ... more  
Rohnert Park CA (SPX) Jan 06, 2010Radio astronomers have uncovered 17 millisecond pulsars in our galaxy by studying unknown high-energy sources detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The astronomers made the discovery in less than three months. Such a jump in the pace of locating these hard-to-find objects holds the promise of using them as a kind of "galactic GPS" to detect gravitational waves passing near Earth. A pulsar is the rapidly spinning and highly magnetized core left behind when a massive star explodes. ... more |
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