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Russia to launch 7 new navigation satellites in 2010: PutinMoscow (AFP) April 6, 2010 Russia is to launch seven new satellites this year for Moscow's GLONASS navigation system, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. "By the end of the year, we plan on launching seven new satellites" which will bring the number operational to 27 or 28, Putin was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying. "GLONASS will cover the whole planet," he added. Russia is to spend 1.7 billion rubles (42.5 million euros, 58 million dollars) developing the system next year compared to 2.0 bil ... read more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Mar 22, 2010Long lines at store checkouts could be history if a new technology created in part at Rice University comes to pass. Rice researchers, in collaboration with a team led by Gyou-jin Cho at Sunchon National University in Korea, have come up with an inexpensive, printable transmitter that can be invisibly embedded in packaging. It would allow a customer to walk a cart full of groceries or othe ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 19, 2010The U.S. Army is poised to deliver precision mortar rounds to soldiers in Afghanistan by the end of this year as part of an accelerated effort to give commanders there an improved ability to destroy targets in the mountainous terrain, service officials said. "You can drop one on a target to execute the mission and stay on target," said Brig. Gen. John Maddux, Program Executive Officer, Amm ... more  
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 18, 2010GMV was selected by Putrajaya Corporation to supply a new fleet control system for the city of Putrajaya, Malaysia. In a consortium with Raisevest Sdn Bhd, GMV's fleet management experience for urban passenger transportation will make Putrajaya the first city in Malaysia to operate one of today's most advanced urban-transportation systems for giving real-time passenger information. "Repres ... more |
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Solar 'Conveyor Belt' Runs At Record-High SpeedsHuntsville AL (SPX) Mar 16, 2010 Solar physicist David Hathaway of NASA's Marshall Space flight Center in Huntsville, AL and graduate student Lisa Rightmire of the University of Memphis in Tennessee have been monitoring the sun using the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). They observe a massive circulating current of fire (hot plasma) within the sun operating at a faster pace as reported in the March 12th issue of Science. The current of fire is a conveyor belt-like system called the Meridional Flow which rises to t ... read more |
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