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Defense Focus: Spy sat lessons -- Part 3
Washington (UPI) Nov 20, 2007 Why is the U.S. defense industry sector having such difficulty with producing so many ambitious programs like the Littoral Combat Ship, the Space-Based Infrared System, and the Future Image Architecture program on budget and within reasonable time, compared with its triumphs of a generation ago? One major reason is that early triumphant programs were created by an earlier generation. F ... more Analysis: No more oranges for Iran 
Berlin (UPI) Nov 21, 2007 Europe is increasingly willing to agree to harsher economic sanctions against Iran, which seems to be the price to pay to prevent a U.S. military strike against the Islamic republic. During one of her early meetings with the U.S. president, German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried to convince George W. Bush that too harsh sanctions against Iran may be counterproductive. Merkel grew up in C ... more India, China to break ice with first-ever wargames 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 21, 2007India and China will hold their first wargames in December as part of a series of joint exercises between the two Asian neighbours who fought a war in 1962, an official announced Wednesday. The announcement came immediately after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of an ASEAN summit in Singapore to discuss a possible bilateral leadership meeting ... more India tests SAM missile near Pakistan border: officials 
Jodhpur, India (AFP) Nov 21, 2007India has tested an air defence missile at a site close to its tense border with Pakistan where it conducted a string of nuclear detonations in 1998, officials said Wednesday. Military scientists tested the medium-range surface-to-air missile Akash, or Sky, from Pokhran, some 200 kilometres (120 miles) from Pakistan's borders last week but gave details of the flight only on Wednesday. Th ... more Outside View: Iran nuclear divisions 
Moscow (UPI) Nov 21, 2007 For the first time, divisions within the Iranian political elite over its nuclear program are starting to emerge into the open. Former presidents Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami have warned the nation, albeit in low-key tones, that the escalation of tension around the nuclear program is dangerous and is threatening a confrontation between Iran and the world community. ... more |
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Tehran (AFP) Nov 21, 2007Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ruled out on Wednesday giving "the slightest concession" in the country's nuclear standoff with the West. He spoke as confusion emerged over a meeting between Tehran and the European Union, with an Iranian official saying it was set for next week and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana's spokeswoman saying no date had yet been decided. Ahmadinejad' ... more Analysis: EU deals with Russia weaken bloc 
Brussels (UPI) Nov 21, 2007 Russia is taking advantage of its energy exports and the European Union's lack of unity to influence the bloc's member states in their foreign policies, a recent report says. "While EU leaders believe that peace and stability are built through interdependence, Russia's leaders are working to create a situation where the EU needs Russia more than Russia needs the EU," the report release ... more China wins right to explore Afghan copper mine: ministry 
Kabul (AFP) Nov 21, 2007Afghanistan has chosen a Chinese bidder to lease a copper mine which is possibly the world's largest, in a contract that is set to bring in hundreds of millions of dollars, the mines ministry said Tuesday. The 30-year lease has been offered to China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC) to develop the Aynak mine 30 kilometres (20 miles) east of Kabul, a Afghan mines ministry spokesman said. ... more LSU Helps Bangladesh Save Lives By Providing Storm Surge Models 24 Hours In Advance Of Cyclone Sidr 
Baton Rouge LO (SPX) Nov 22, 2007Early on the morning of Nov. 16, Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh and showed no mercy. The death toll continues to rise even today. Hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless. But, nearly 24 hours in advance of the storm, Hassan Mashriqui, assistant extension professor of coastal engineering with LSU, the LSU AgCenter and the Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, gave Bangladesh emergency offi ... more DOE JGI Plumbs Termite Guts To Yield Novel Enzymes For Better Biofuel Production 
Walnut Creek CA (SPX) Nov 22, 2007Termites -- notorious for their voracious appetite for wood, rendering houses to dust and causing billions of dollars in damage per year -- may provide the biochemical means to a greener biofuel future. The bellies of these tiny beasts actually harbor a gold mine of microbes that have now been tapped as a rich source of enzymes for improving the conversion of wood or waste biomass to valuable bi ... more |
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Bronnoysund Airport, Norway (SPX) Nov 22, 2007Northrop Grumman, through its Europe-based subsidiary, Park Air Systems, has developed and installed the ground-based elements of the world's only certified global navigation satellite system for precision approach and landing installed at Broennoeysund Airport, Norway. The inaugural flight using the new landing system was an Avinor charter service from Trondheim to Broennoeysund in a Wideroee D ... more Britain to build world's biggest biomass plant 
London (AFP) Nov 21, 2007Britain is to build the biggest biomass plant in the world, Business Secretary John Hutton said after giving the green light to the renewable energy project. The 350-megawatt wood chip-fuelled electricity generating plant will be sited in the industrial town of Port Talbot on the south Wales coast. It will cost 400 million pounds (830 million dollars, 560 million euros) to construct. "Th ... more TRMM Turns Ten - Studying Precipitation From Space 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 21, 2007Earth: water planet. Oceans, rivers, aquifers, rain: these and many other features describe the hydrologic anatomy of Earth's thin, life-supporting layers of upper crust and lower atmosphere. How it works-that is, how water circulates, behaves, and interacts is much harder to determine. That's why there's TRMM, and this year NASA celebrates the tenth anniversary of this one-of-a-kind space ... more Chinese plan manned space launch 
Beijing (UPI) Nov 20, 2007 Chinese space officials announced Tuesday a manned spacecraft is scheduled to be launched in October 2008, shortly after the Beijing Olympic Games. Three astronauts are scheduled to make the trip aboard Shenzhou VII, which includes a planned live broadcast of a spacewalk, the Oriental Morning Post in Shanghai reported. "This is the first time for us to do this and it will be very ... more Raytheon Completes Test To Begin Improving Accuracy Of GPS Signals Over India 
Fullerton CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2007Raytheon successfully completed the final system acceptance test to augment standard Global Positioning System signals over India. The latest test of the GPS Aided GEO Augmented Navigation-Technology Demonstration System, or GAGAN-TDS, is an important milestone in the worldwide transition to satellite-based navigation for civil aviation. When completed, GAGAN will join other space-based au ... more
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