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Northrop Grumman Showcases Key Capabilities At India's DefExpo 2008 London, UK (SPX) Feb 11, 2008 
Northrop Grumman will highlight its range of key capabilities including airborne early warning and control systems, fire control radars, unmanned aerial vehicles, ships and naval systems at the DefExpo India 2008 exhibition and conference. The exhibition and conference will take place at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi from 16-19 February. Northrop Grumman will be exhibiting at stand number 837-N3. ... read more
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Israel Set To Use Indian Rockets To Launch Spy Satellites
New Delhi (RIA Novosti) Feb 08, 2008Israel will continue using Indian carrier rockets to launch its military satellites into space despite objections from Iran, The Indian Express quoted an Israeli source as saying on Thursday. "Since we have limited capacity to launch rockets, we are looking for partners in this regard, and India is a natural partner since we have such good relations," a senior Israeli diplomat said. Israel ... more Fairchild Semiconductor Selects Pune, India For Research And Development Center 
San Jose CA (SPX) Feb 07, 2008Fairchild Semiconductor has opened a design center in Pune, India. This research and design (R and D) center will be responsible for designing and developing the company's new generation of power MOSFETs and IGBT technology to support popular applications such as solar inverters, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), automotive, lighting and ballast applications. The Indian R and D design ... more Duke Energy's Advanced Clean Coal-Fueled Power Plants Approved 
Alexandria VA (SPX) Feb 07, 2008Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) released a statement supporting the permitting of two Duke Energy coal-fueled power plants, the Cliffside Steam Station in North Carolina and the Edwardsport Station in Indiana. Both plants will incorporate advanced technologies to help reduce air emissions while providing critical electricity generation for both regions. The approval of both th ... more Geotimes Explores For Oil Around The World 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2008With oil hovering around $90 a barrel, Geotimes magazine examines emerging trends and issues in several obvious, and some not-so-obvious locations, in this month's cover story "Oil Around the World." Land disputes, foreign sanctions, terrorism, war and economics play into the exploration and recovery of the world's oil and natural gas reserves. Be it Libya, Iraq or Norway, the South China ... more Russia May Build New Shuttle Spacecraft By 2015 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 30, 2008Russia's rocket and space corporation Energia may build a new-generation piloted spacecraft by 2015, the company president said on Tuesday. Energia has been developing a reusable manned spacecraft since 2000. It is designed to replace the Soyuz and Progress launch vehicles in making regular flights to the International Space Station and even the Moon and Mars. "Countries, such as the US ... more |
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Bangalore, India (SPX) Jan 22, 2008The Indian Space Research Organization's Antrix Corporation has successfully launched an Israeli spy satellite using its second full-scale commercial mission of the PSLV launcher. The PSLV-C10 blasted off from the First Launch Pad (FLP) at the SDSC SHAR spaceport at 09:15 Hrs with the ignition of the first stage. This was the 25th Satellite Launch Mission from SDSC, SHAR. The launch ... more NASA Tsunami Research Makes Waves In Science Community 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2008A wave of new NASA research on tsunamis has yielded an innovative method to improve existing tsunami warning systems, and a potentially groundbreaking new theory on the source of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. In one study, published last fall in Geophysical Research Letters, researcher Y. Tony Song of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., demonstrated that real-time ... more Indian T-90 Deal Offers Lessons For America And Europe 
Washington (UPI) Jan 18, 2007 India's decision to purchase 347 T-90 Main Battle Tanks from Russia flies in the face of the strategic assumptions confidently -- and complacently -- held by both the European Union and the United States. The EU, lulled by the six decades of peace, security and unprecedented prosperity the continent has enjoyed since the end of World War II, despises the concept of "hard" or military po ... more ISRO Planning To Launch Satellite To Study The Sun 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Jan 18, 2008In the midst of the buzz about Chandrayaan, the moon mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to launch a satellite to study the sun. 'Aditya' should be up in space by 2012 to study the dynamic solar corona, the outermost region of the sun. This fiery region has temperatures of over one million degrees, with raging solar winds that reach a velocity of up to 1000 km a se ... more |
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New Delhi, India (PTI) Jan 03, 2008In the year gone by, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) achieved self-reliance in launch vehicle technology with the successful ground testing of the Cryogenic Upper Stage, a key component in putting heavier payloads in orbit. Capping a string of successes in 2007 in space research, India is poised to take a giant leap forward in the new year with the launch of its maiden moon mission Ch ... more ISRO To Launch Carto-2A Satellite In January 2008 
Hyderabad, India (PTI) Dec 28, 2007ISRO will launch Carto-2A satellite which has Cartography applications including remote sensing, ground water development etc and a resolution of one meter, by end of January 2008 or first week of February, according to RK Rajangam, deputy director, ISRO. Talking to PTI on the sidelines of the launch of India's first students chapter of Astronautical Society of India, he said any object wanting ... more India And Russia Begin Talks On Chandrayaan-II 
New Delhi (PTI) Dec 19, 2007India has begun technical discussions with Russia on the joint moon mission Chandrayaan-II which is expected to be launched in 2011-12. Scientists are planning to land a rover on the moon for carrying out chemical analysis of the lunar surface and explore other resources on the earth's natural satellite. "In situ chemical analysis and resource exploration is the main objective of Chandrayaan-II, ... more Unique Porous Copper Structure Enables New Generation Of Military Micro-Detonators 
Athens GA (SPX) Dec 19, 2007Tiny copper structures with pores at both the nanometer and micron size scales could play a key role in the next generation of detonators used to improve the reliability, reduce the size and lower the cost of certain military munitions. Developed by a team of scientists from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and the Indian Head Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, the hig ... more
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