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China to spend five billion dollars on quake reconstructionBeijing (AFP) June 14, 2010 China plans to spend five billion dollars on reconstruction work in areas devastated by a deadly earthquake in April, the government said Sunday. A 6.9-magnitude quake struck Yushu county, a largely ethnically Tibetan area in Qinghai province in a remote part of the country's northwest on April 14, killing nearly 2,700 people and flattening thousands of homes. The 32 billion yuan will come from the central budget, with further funding from the Qinghai authorities as well as donations from busine ... read more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Jun 07, 2010The completion of important tests on the Hylas telecommunications satellite has brought it a step closer to launch late this year. Once the final tests are completed, Hylas will be ready to be shipped to Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana in August. In mid-May, thermal-vacuum testing was completed in Bangalore, India. The thermal-vacuum test is the most demanding phase of satellite testin ... more  
Madrid (UPI) Jun 4, 2010 Spain announced plans to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles to target pirates off the coast of Somalia. The plan to use unmanned helicopters is featured in military operations that have so far been using submarine-hunting aircraft, shipboard radar and helicopters to spot pirates acting with impunity in the Indian Ocean. "It's the first time that Spain will use a remote-controlled pa ... more  
Southampton, UK (SPX) Jun 07, 2010Geological investigations in the Himalayas have revealed evidence that when India and Asia collided some 90 million years ago, the continental crust of the Indian tectonic plate was forced down under the Asian plate, sinking down into the Earth's mantle to a depth of at least 200 km kilometres1. "The subduction of continental crust to this depth has never been reported in the Himalayas and ... more |
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Rocket Scientist Heads ISRO Liquid Propulsion Systems CentreBangalore, India (SPX) Jun 03, 2010 Noted rocket scientist S. Ramakrishnan is the new director of the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) liquid propulsion systems centre at Thiruvananthapuram. The space agency Wednesday said Ramakrishnan, as director of projects at its Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre at Thiruvananthapuram earlier, had played a key role in the development of polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) and its liquid propulsion stages. 'Under Ramakrishnan's leadership as project director, the PSLV continuation p ... read more |
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