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Intelsat 22 Satellite To Provide Incremental Capacity In High-demand Regions Pembroke, Bermuda (SPX) Apr 28, 2009 
Intelsat has announced its plan to add a new satellite to its global fleet. The Intelsat 22 satellite is expected to be launched in Q1 2012, and will serve at the 72 degrees East longitude orbital location over the Indian Ocean region. The design of the Intelsat 22 payload is optimized to address high growth service areas, to provide continuity of services and to support Intelsat's strateg ... read more
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Outside View: If Pakistan Fails Part Two
Lusaka, Zambia, April 27, 2009 The terror attacks last November in Mumbai, the economic and cultural capital of India, helped focus the international community on the sources of terrorism in South Asia. The Indian government and security services believe the attackers, who came by sea, were trained and equipped in mujahedin camps in northern Pakistan. For those who had ignored the progressive radicalization of Pakist ... more Defense Focus: Age Of Wars Part Five 
Washington, April 27, 2009 India has poor special forces, but its enormous manpower gives it a powerful advantage in maintaining security and fighting guerrilla conflicts. This model flies in the face of the fashionable and currently widely accepted theories of military force deployment and weapons procurement spearheaded by the United States and followed by almost of all of the major industrialized democracies. ... more Japan to host global meet for nuke-free world: govt 
Tokyo (AFP) April 27, 2009Japan, the only country ever hit by atomic bombs, Monday threw its weight behind US President Barack Obama's call for a nuclear-free world and pledged to host a global disarmament meeting next year. Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone said the main nuclear powers, the United States and Russia, should lead the disarmament drive and "China and other nuclear powers" including India, Pakistan and ... more ASTROSAT To Be Launched In Mid-2010 
Mumbai, India (PTI) Apr 24, 2009India's Astronomy satellite, ASTROSAT, which would facilitates study of a range of astrophysical objects, is likely to be launched in mid-2010, scientists from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) said here. The scientists have completed the developmental phase of complex science payloads and have just begun integrating them before delivery for the 1650 kg satellite. "The bi ... more Dozens of rebels cross into Indian Kashmir: captured militant 
Srinagar (AFP) April 25, 2009More than 30 Islamic militants have crossed into Indian Kashmir from the Pakistan side of the divided region in recent weeks, a captured militant said Saturday. The infiltration by such a large number of militants is likely to fuel security concerns in Kashmir which is in the middle of a five-stage general election that has been boycotted by Muslim separatists. The first two rounds of vo ... more |
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Tokyo (AFP) April 19, 2009Japanese high-tech items were found among missile-manufacturing equipment confiscated on a North Korean freighter a decade ago, a report said late Saturday. The North Korean cargo, detained at an Indian port in June 1999, contained a three-dimensional measuring device, special steel and other Japanese high-tech products, Kyodo News reported citing a former senior Indian official. Tokyo ... more India launches spy satellite 
Bangalore (AFP) April 20, 2009India put an Israeli-built spy satellite into orbit Monday, aimed at boosting its defence surveillance capabilities in the aftermath of the Mumbai militant attacks. The satellite, which can see through clouds and carry out day-and-night all-weather imaging, has been a long-standing demand of the Indian military. Its acquisition was fast-tracked after the November 26-29 Mumbai siege in wh ... more ISRO Going Full Blast With Chandrayaan-2 
Sriharikota, India (PTI) Apr 21, 2009Indian space scientists are going ahead full steam with the planning of next moon odyssey Chandrayaan-2, a mission which will see a soft landing of small rovers on the surface of earth's natural satellite. "We are finalising the instruments to be carried in the rovers. The work is on.... it will be launched by 2011 end or during the beginning of 2012", said director of ISRO Satellite Centr ... more India Launches Spy Satellite
Sriharikota, India (PTI) Apr 21, 2009Giving a big boost to its defence surveillance capabilities, India on Monday successfully launched an all-weather Israeli-built spy satellite that will help security agencies keep a vigil on the country's borders. Indian space agency ISRO's workhorse, PSLV-C12 rocket soared majestically into a clear sky at 6.45 am from the spaecport here and placed its first Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT2 ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 20, 2009Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 20, 2009 NASA satellite data and a new modeling approach could improve weather forecasting and save more lives when future cyclones develop. About 15 percent of the world's tropical cyclones occur in the northern Indian Ocean, but because of high population densities along low-lying coastlines, the storms have caused nearly 80 percent of cyclone-related deaths aroun ... more New Discovery Poses Challenge To Galaxy Formation Theories 
Bloomington IN (SPX) Apr 17, 2009A team led by an Indiana University astronomer has found a sample of massive galaxies with properties that suggest they may have formed relatively recently. This would run counter to the widely-held belief that massive, luminous galaxies (like our own Milky Way Galaxy) began their formation and evolution shortly after the Big Bang, some 13 billion years ago. Further research into the ... more ISRO Set For SpySat Launch Monday 
Chennai, India (SPX) Apr 17, 2009India's defence surveillance capabilities will get a quantum boost Monday with the launch of a sophisticated spy satellite that can see through fog and clouds, a facility that has been hitherto unavailable. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) workhorse polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) that will soar aloft from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, 80 km from here, w ... more India Using Using Satellite To Study Rice 
New Delhi (PTI) Apr 17, 2009The Biophysics section of the Department of Physics of the University of Pune (UoP) has tied up with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to send a satellite named Space Recovery Experiment II (SRE-II) into space to study the effects of micro gravity on the production of rice. The experiment is the brainchild of Pandit Vidyasagar, head of the biophysics section, and will be sent ... more
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