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Gates Urges China To Explain Military Intentions
Honolulu HI (AFP) Jun 01, 2007US Defense Secretary Robert Gates called on China Thursday to explain its intentions in undertaking a major military buildup that the Pentagon warns is altering the military balance in the region. "There is no question that the Chinese are building significant capacity," Gates said. "Our concern is over their intent." Gates spoke to reporters during a stopover here on his way to Singapore ... more Russia Missile Tests Aimed At US ABM Plans In Europe 
Berlin (UPI) May 30, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin has again lashed out at the West for provoking a new arms race on the day his country tested a massive new rocket that he said can overcome any missile defense system the United States may place in Eastern Europe. Putin has long bashed Washington for its plans to place 10 bunker-protected rockets in Eastern Europe, arguing it was a threat against Russian territor ... more Russian Space Forces Set To Receive New Missiles 
Moscow (AFP) Jun 01, 2007Russian will soon put into service the new missiles that were test-fired earlier this week, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov pledged Thursday. "The tests were successful and that means that Russia's army will very shortly get the Iskander complex already equipped with a high-precision missile which can be used for surgical long-range strikes," Ivanov said as quoted by the Interfax news agency. ... more Czech PM Says US Missile Base Is Question Of National Courage 
Prague (AFP) May 31, 2007Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek Thursday described his country's participation in a US anti-missile shield as "a question of national courage". "It is a question of national courage and of responsability towards our allies' defence," he said during a conference organised by the Czech foreign ministry. Regarding Moscow's repeated warnings over the deployment of a tracking radar in the ... more Misunderstanding Iran 
Paris (UPI) May 31, 2007Euphoria over the outcome of the talks between Washington and Tehran has given the die-hard proponents of conciliation with the Iranian mullahs a glimmer of hope. As illusory as they are, these expectations reveal a blurred understanding of the state of affairs in Iran and the essence of the Iranian mullahs' foreign and domestic policy. A fundamental question needs to be answered in order ... more |
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Miami (AFP) May 31, 2007New estimates released Thursday on the eve of the start of hurricane season here predicted nine hurricanes could form in the Atlantic Ocean during the coming months. "We estimate that 2007 will have about nine hurricanes (average is 5.9)," said the study from Colorado University weather experts Philip Klotzbach and William Gray. They added they expected to see some 17 named storms during t ... more Space Systems/Loral Awarded NASA Contract For Landsat Data Continuity Mission Accommodation Study 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jun 01, 2007Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Rapid Spacecraft Development Office (RSDO) recently awarded SS/L a delivery order for a Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Spacecraft Accommodation Study. The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The satellites prov ... more Bush Pushes New Climate Change Plan 
Washington (AFP) May 31, 2007US President George W. Bush said Thursday he would urge major industrialized nations at a summit next week to join a new global framework for fighting climate change after the Kyoto Protocol lapses. Environmental groups immediately criticized the plan as vague and based on non-binding limits on the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, but Britain and Germany hailed the move as an importan ... more EON To Halve Carbon Emissions By 2030 
Duesseldorf (AFP) Germany, May 31, 2007E.ON, the biggest power supplier in Germany, plans to reduce its carbon emissions to half of their 1990 levels by 2030, chief executive Wulf Bernotat said on Thursday. "Our ambitious target is to reduce our CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions to roughly 0.36 tonnes per megawatt-hour by 2030, 50 percent less than in 1990," Bernotat said. "Along with a massive expansion of our renewables capacity ... more Single Spinning Nuclei In Diamond Offer A Stable Quantum Computing Building Block 
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 01, 2007Surmounting several distinct hurdles to quantum computing, physicists at Harvard University have found that individual carbon-13 atoms in a diamond lattice can be manipulated with extraordinary precision to create stable quantum mechanical memory and a small quantum processor, also known as a quantum register, operating at room temperature. The finding brings the futuristic technology of quantum ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) May 30, 2007Michael Griffin NASA Administrator has told America's National Public Radio that while he has no doubt a trend of global warming exists "I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with." In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep that will air in Thursday's edition of NPR News' Morning Edition, Administrator Griffin explains: "I guess I would ask which human beings - where and when - are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that's a rather arrogant position for people to take." ... more Russia Launches Four Satellites Into Orbit For Globalstar 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 30, 2007Russia has successfully launched four U.S. Globalstar satellites into orbit on board a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket from a space center in Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency said Wednesday. The rocket lifted off from the Baikonur space center at 00.31 a.m. Moscow time (8.31 p.m. GMT Tuesday) and put the satellites into transitional orbit. "The separation of satellites from the Fregat booster ... more AGS Selected For SATCOM-II By GSA 
Princeton NJ (SPX) May 31, 2007Americom Government Services announced that it has been selected by the General Services Administration (GSA) to offer satellite-based connections, networks, and applications to all federal agencies under the SATCOM-II program. AGS qualified to deliver domestic, regional and global bandwidth and mission-critical solutions under the umbrella of the five-year $750 million indefinite delivery, inde ... more Globalstar Gets Another Four Satellites Into Space 
Milpitas CA (SPX) May 31, 2007Globalstar and Starsem have reported the successful launch of four Globalstar satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, using the Soyuz launch vehicle. These satellites, together with the additional four ground spare satellites due to be launched shortly, will augment the current operating constellation and improve the Globalstar quality of two-way voice and data service through the ... more Russian Plans For Future Wars As Other Doubt Capabilities 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 30, 2007Military dictionaries say that what distinguishes war from peace is the massive use of weapons. But today this interpretation is desperately obsolete. The goal of a war of the future will not be to seize enemy territory but to deal surgical strikes against sensitive targets. International borders are not violated, large-scale use of ground troops and armor is becoming a thing of the past ... more
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