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 Tokyo (AFP) Nov 28, 2009 
Japan on Saturday launched a next-generation spy satellite as part of efforts to beef up its surveillance system against the threat of North Korea's missiles, officials said. An H-2A rocket carrying the nation's No. 3 Information Gathering Satellite was launched Saturday morning from Tanegashima Space Centre on Tanegashima island, southwestern Japan, the officials said. "We successfully ... read more 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 30, 2009On 21 August 2009, the Montara offshore oil platform in the Timor Sea (a large sea bordering the Indian Ocean, to the northeast of Australia) started leaking oil. Over a period of ten weeks, more than two million litres of oil were lost into the sea, forming a 2000 square kilometre slick. The German radar satellite TerraSAR-X followed the growth of the slick as it occurred. The picture ... more
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Apple blocking Dalai Lama, Kadeer, iPhone apps: report
US telecom company fined for bribing Chinese officials Apple blocking Dalai Lama iPhone applications: report Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security firms AT&T wants out of landline business Apple wins iPod hearing loss lawsuit Nuance buys British voice-to-text company SpinVox Facebook, Twitter to face more sophisticated attacks: McAfee Google plans Android event in January Hacker pleads guilty in huge credit card theft case 
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Caracas (AFP) Nov 27, 2009Venezuela will take delivery in 2010 of the first six of 18 K-8 Karakorum trainer or light attack planes it bought from China, the Air Force's top commander said Friday. "A total of 18, K-8 18 aircraft will be delivered, in addition to radar equipment that will help ensure national security," General Jorge Arevalo told ABC news agency. He said China would make three deliveries of the war ... more  
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Nov 24, 2009 As Iran tests the capabilities of its air defense systems in nationwide exercises, the Israeli air force is reported to be planning special seminars to prepare its attack pilots to cope with heavy surface-to-air missile defenses. According to The Jerusalem Post, the sessions will encompass "future conflict with Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran" in which air force crews will "have to dea ... more  
Tehran (UPI) Nov 23, 2009 The large-scale exercises Iran is currently conducting to test its air-defense network and assess its ability to protect its nuclear facilities appear to be little more than a show of defiance against the United States, Israel and Russia, its longtime key arms supplier. Without the advanced S-300PMU missiles that a fickle Moscow refuses to deliver, presumably because the Kremlin finds ... more |
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Mumbai, India (PTI) Nov 16, 2009The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has stressed on the need to have a constellation of satellites with multispectral sensors to predict, mitigate and manage disasters. "Exactly how many satellites an effective constellation would need is still open for debate. No single satellite can hope to meet all these needs. Rather, what disaster managers need is a constellation of satellit ... more  
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Nov 12, 2009Lockheed Martin is in the final stages of preparation for Saturday's launch of a commercial telecommunications satellite for Intelsat, the world's leading provider of fixed satellite services, aboard an Atlas V booster provided by United Launch Alliance. The launch window opens at 12:48 a.m. EST and extends until 2:18 a.m. Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services is under contract to Int ... more  
Seattle WA (SPX) Nov 12, 2009Boeing has announced that it has successfully completed tests of the Counter Measures Dispenser System (CMDS) for Project Wedgetail, Australia's Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW and C) system. The tests were conducted in September and October off the Washington coast and over Puget Sound, Wash. Completion of CMDS testing is a key step toward verification of the Wedgetail AEW and C a ... more |
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