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India Mulls New Satellite For Cheaper Mobile Phone Link New Delhi, India (XNA) Oct 04, 2007 
India is planning to launch a satellite capable of providing direct communication links to mobile handsets in three years, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Tuesday. The move aims at making satellite phone usage cheaper and accessible to the remotest parts of the country, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) declared Monday. "We plan to provide satellite connectivity using a speci ... read more
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China To Share Disaster Forecasting Information With Developing Countries
Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 04, 2007China is willing to share its capabilities in disaster forecasting with developing countries to improve their ability to handle natural disasters, a minister said on Monday. The recent tsunami that occurred in the Indian Sea has highlighted a need for cooperation in monitoring and forecasting earthquakes, floods, typhoons and other disasters that hit developing countries, Li Xueju, Minister of C ... more European Agency Offers To Take Indians For A Space Ride 
New Delhi, India (DPA) Oct 03, 2007Any 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. "For a sum of 200,000 euros one can take a space ride in ... more 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 |
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Blacksburg VA (SPX) Sep 17, 2007An international team of scientists has produced a new type of rice that grows better and uses water more efficiently than other rice crops. Professor Andy Pereira at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) has been working with colleagues in India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Mexico and The Netherlands to identify, characterize and make use of a gene known as HARDY that improves key features ... more ISRO To Launch New Genre Of Micro-Satellites 
Ahmedabad, India (PTI) Sep 10, 2007Having successfully launched several indigenous satellites in the past, the Indian Space Research Organisation is now in the process of launching the first of its new genre of micro-satellites weighing less than 100 kgs. "Our main aim now is to make the satellite systems as compact as possible," said Dr S K Sharma, the Group Director, Project Planning Group (PPG) at the Space Applications ... more Space World To Gather At IAC 2007 In Hyderabad, India 
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 |
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Bangalore, India (PTI) Aug 30, 2007The countdown for the launch of a rocket from Sriharikota, about 100 km from here, carrying India's communication satellite INSAT-4CR, will start today. "The countdown for the launch will start today afternoon," ISRO sources told PTI. The 49-metre tall rocket will be launched at 4.21 p.m. from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, they said. ... more India To Launch INSAT-4CR From Sriharikota On Sept 01 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Aug 21, 2007India is planning to launch its latest communication satellite, INSAT-4CR, from Sriharikota spaceport on September 1, ISRO sources said. "INSAT-4CR is expected to be launched at around 4.30 pm on September one," sources in the Indian Space Research Organisation, headquartered here, said. This spacecraft is identical to INSAT-4C, which was lost during the unsuccessful launch of Geo-synchron ... more Indian PM Says Government Committed To Both Solar And Nuclear Power 
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
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