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European Agency Offers To Take Indians For A Space Ride New Delhi, India (DPA) Oct 03, 2007 
Any Indian who can cough up about 283,881 dollars can button up for a sub-orbital ride around the Earth 2012 onwards, the European space company, EADS Astrium, said Friday at the International Astronautical Congress in India's southern city Hyderabad. EADS Astrium is the space subsidiary of the French-Spanish-German consortium EADS.
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India And Russia Discuss Space Cooperation
Hyderabad India (PTI) Sep 28, 2007India and Russia held discussions here on possibility of cooperation in space exploration, including missions to the moon and Mars. General Anatoly Perminov, Head of the Federal Space Agency, Russia met Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G Madhavan Nair on the sidelines of the 58th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) here. "Discussions are on for possible cooperation with ... more Arctic Heat Wave Stuns Climate Change Researchers 
Kingston, Canada (SPX) Sep 27, 2007Unprecedented warm temperatures in the High Arctic this past summer were so extreme that researchers with a Queen's University-led climate change project have begun revising their forecasts. "Everything has changed dramatically in the watershed we observed," reports Geography professor Scott Lamoureux, the leader of an International Polar Year project announced yesterday in Nunavut by Indian and ... more ESA And India Tighten Relations At IAC 2007 
Hyderabad, India (ESA) Sep 26, 2007The 58th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2007) is taking place this week from 24 to 29 September in Hyderabad, India, with the theme 'Touching humanity: Space for improving quality of life'. One of the major space events of the year, this congress brings together some 2000 international space specialists providing a crossroad uniting the world's space agencies, astronautics institutes, ... more Malaysia's Smart Satellite Teleport Plays Role In Tsunami Warning 
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (XNA) Sep 20, 2007Malaysia's Smart Satellite teleport has played a role in the tsunami warning recently by providing vital information to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Malaysian Smart Digital Communications Bhd president and chief executive officer Khairuddin Abdul Rahman said Monday. The information was later shared with their Indonesian counterpart as well as the Malaysian Meteorological Department, he ... more Landfill Mining 
Chennai, India (SPX) Sep 19, 2007Retrieving material for composting from open dumps across the developing world could reduce the environmental impact of growing mountains of waste, according to researchers in India, writing today in the Inderscience publication, International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management. These days we in the developing world are encouraged to compost our garden and kitchen waste. ... more |
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Hyderabad, India (SPX) Sep 05, 2007The 58th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2007) takes place in Hyderabad, India from 24 -29 September 2007. This annual congress, one of the major space events of the year, brings together some 2000 international specialists, industry representatives and world leaders in the field. It provides a crossroad uniting the world's space agencies, astronautics institutes, aerospace ... more RRSat Extends Its Global Reach Across Three Continents With Intelsat 
Pembroke, Bermuda (SPX) Sep 06, 2007Intelsat announced that RRSat Global Communications Network will use the Intelsat global network to expand RRSat's programming transmissions services seamlessly across three continents. RRSat contracted for capacity on Intelsat's Galaxy 23 and Intelsat 10 satellites for content broadcasting throughout Africa, Asia and North America. The Intelsat 10 satellite, located at 68.5E offers ... more INSAT-4CR Raised To A Perigee Of 15994 Kilometers 
Bangalore (PTI) Sep 06, 2007INSAT-4CR, India's communication satellite successfully launched on Sunday, was today raised to a perigree of 15,994 kms as planned in the third of its orbit raising manoeuvres. The operation was conducted at 4.35 am with the firing of the 440 Newton Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) on board for 3140 seconds by commanding the satellite from the Master Control Facility at Hassan in Karnataka, a release ... more India To Build Constellation Of Seven Navigation Satellites 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Sep 05, 2007India plans to build a constellation of seven geo-stationary satellites at a cost of Rs 1,600 crore to meet the navigational system requirements in cars, trains and aircraft. "Design (of the satellites) is more or less complete. We are in the process of building the first proto model," Secretary in the Department of Space G Madhavan Nair said. "First launch will take place around 2010. We ... more |
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New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2007India's government is committed to the development of both nuclear and solar power, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday. The premier has come under pressure from communist allies in parliament over a nuclear energy deal with the United States, which is set to give India access to U.S. nuclear fuel and equipment for the first time since the 1970s. The communists, who believe the deal ... more Male Elephants Get Photo IDs From Scientists 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 20, 2007Asian elephants don't carry photo identification, so scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and India's Nature Conservation Foundation are providing the service free of charge by creating a photographic archive of individual elephants, which can help save them as well. The researchers have developed a unique "photographic capture-recapture" survey method that identifies individu ... more Rush Demand For Shanghai Cooperation Organization 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 20, 2007The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has held its seventh summit in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. It clearly demonstrated the SCO's awareness that the time of closed blocs is over, and the 21st century is an era of cooperation. It also showed that the SCO is working hard to find its way in an avalanche of ideas about its development path and format. The SCO is a regional group ... more India Has Changed The World 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 16, 2007On August 15, India will celebrate 60 years of independence. Today, we are looking at this event with different eyes. In retrospect, we can see that it has first changed Britain and then the rest of the world. This process is still going on. On August 15, 1947 when Lord Mountbatten was hauling down the British flag in Delhi, many understood the significance of what was happening with a country, ... more
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