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Sorting The Space TrashSydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 24, 2010 We all sort our rubbish by category, allowing recycling to take place. It's easy to understand why. Different items require different processes for disposal. For years, we have been growing increasingly aware of the trash problem in low Earth orbit. Debris from whole satellites to tiny flecks of paint poses a hazard to anything we launch. It can damage spacecraft or even claim lives. With more people expected to travel into space in the years ahead, and plans being drawn for even more infrastructu ... read more |
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Glasgow, UK (SPX) Sep 10, 2010Scarborough, the second of three Offshore Patrol Vessels built by BAE Systems for the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard, has successfully completed sea trials off the west coast of Scotland and is on track to be delivered in October. Named after Tobago's capital, Scarborough embarked on an extensive programme of trials in July, with a combined BAE Systems and Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard ... more  
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Sep 09, 2010What works on a small scale also works on a large scale. For the last several years, a helicopter-mounted measuring instrument developed by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has been hard at work detecting methane leaks from natural gas pipelines. From 2014, a similar instrument will be used on a German/French satellite orbiting Earth at an altitu ... more  
San Francisco (AFP) Sept 8, 2010Computer security firm Symantec on Wednesday reported that about two thirds of the world's Internet users have fallen victim to cybercrime and few think crooks will be caught. China was tops when it came to online victims, with 83 percent of Internet users there having been hit by computer viruses, identity theft, online credit card fraud or other crimes, according to a Norton Cybercrime Rep ... more |
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More Than 1,200 Satellites To Be Launched Over The Next 10 YearsParis, France (SPX) Sep 07, 2010 Euroconsult has forecast that an estimated 1,220 satellites will be built for launch over the next decade. The average of 122 satellites to be launched per year is up significantly from the annual average of 77 satellites launched in the previous decade, a sign that government and commercial operators require more satellite capabilities. In Euroconsult's just-released "Satellites to be Built and Launched by 2019, World Market Survey," the company projects that revenues from the manufacturing and l ... read more |
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