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GOCE To Look At The Earth Surface And Core
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 25, 2008The European Space Agency is about to launch the most sophisticated mission ever to investigate the Earth's gravitational field and to map the reference shape of our planet - the geoid - with unprecedented resolution and accuracy. The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) will be placed onto a low altitude near sun-synchronous orbit by a Russian Rockot vehicle ... more Elegant Resorts And Virgin Galactic Make Space Travel A Reality 
Lanarkshire, UK (SPX) Aug 25, 2008Space travel will become reality for people from all walks of life when Virgin Galactic launches its public flights into space. Elegant Resorts are the only company appointed by Virgin Galactic to sell this unique experience in the UK, Russia and CIS. Justine Pitt, Product Manager at Elegant Resorts, commented: "We have already experienced some amazing firsts with Virgin Galactic since ... more Russia Says NATO Using Aid As Cover As NATO Demands Pre-Conflict Positions 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 23, 2008A top Russian general accused NATO on Saturday of using humanitarian aid deliveries to Georgia as "cover" for a build-up of naval forces in the Black Sea. "Under the cover of needing to deliver humanitarian goods, NATO countries continue to boost their naval grouping," Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of general staff, told a news conference in Moscow. "In addition to the Spanish and ... more Outside View: Georgia's cyberwar 
Moscow (UPI) Aug 22, 2008 The Georgian-Ossetian war, which began overnight Aug. 8, is being conducted not only with tanks, cannons and aircraft, and not only with diplomacy and information attacks, but in cyberspace as well. Reflecting today's technology, the war instantly spread into cyberspace. Since the war's first day, the leading information and state agency Web sites in Russia and Georgia became the target ... more India Set To Ramp Up Air Force Part One 
Hong Kong (UPI) Aug 22, 2008 Within the next four months, a first batch of eight Russian-built Sukhoi Su-30MKI multirole fighters will be positioned at India's Tezpur Air Base in the state of Assam, near the border with China, an Indian navy source has revealed. This is almost six months ahead of the timeline reported some time ago in the Indian media. This will be the first time for Su-30MKI fighters to be ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Aug 21, 2008 The repercussions of Russia's reassertion of power within what it deems its "sphere of influence" in "the near abroad" continue to ripple throughout Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Caucasus. Washington's increasingly strident rhetoric over the Russian-Georgian conflict over South Ossetia is having repercussions from Prague through Warsaw to Kiev, as governments scramble to assess the fallout ... more Russia says Europe in new arms race 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 20, 2008Russia warned Wednesday that the signing of a US-Poland missile defence deal will fuel a new new arms race in Europe and beyond and that it could impact beyond the diplomatic sphere. An angry statement was released by the Russian foreign ministry soon after the deal was signed in Warsaw for a US missile defence shield to be set up in Poland and the Czech Republic. US Secretary of State ... more Putin vows 24 billion dollars for Russian hi-tech: report 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 20, 2008Russia is to invest 600 billion rubles (24.6 billion dollars, 16.7 billion euros) in hi-tech industries over two years, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday. "We have never put this kind of money into this area," Putin was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. "Between 2008 and 2010 we expect to assign 600 billion rubles to various state hi-tech programs," he told the ... more NATO Dithering On Many Battlefields 
Berlin (UPI) Aug 20, 2008 NATO has decided to suspend formal talks with Russia -- a necessary step, observers say, but one that opens yet another front in addition to the many conflicts already weighing down the alliance. On Tuesday, after meeting for hours in Brussels, NATO ministers, in a two-page statement, said they were "considering seriously the implications of Russia's actions for the NATO-Russia relation ... more |
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Aug 20, 2008Inmarsat (has confirmed the successful launch and acquisition of the third Inmarsat-4 satellite. The satellite was launched on a Proton Breeze M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:43pm BST on 18 August (4:43am 19th August, local time). Inmarsat's tracking station in Fucino, Italy was able to track the satellite while it was still coupled to the Breeze M launch vehicle. ... more Poland won't be intimidated over US missiles: president 
Warsaw (AFP) Aug 19, 2008In a clear swipe at Russia, Poland's President Lech Kaczynski on Tuesday said his country would not give in to threats over its deal with Washington to deploy US missile silos on Polish soil. "No-one can dictate to Poland what it should do. That's in the past," Kaczynski said in a live prime-time television address ahead of Wednesday's signing of the accord with the United States. ... more NATO raps Russia over troops in Georgia 
Brussels (AFP) Aug 19, 2008NATO said Tuesday it was impossible to continue "business as usual" with Russia until it honoured its promise to withdraw its troops from Georgia. The 26 NATO foreign ministers, meeting in an emergency session in Brussels, accused Russia of carrying out the "deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure" in the former Soviet republic. "We call on Russia to take immediate action to ... more Interview: Georgia, the way forward 
Berlin (UPI) Aug 19, 2008 The war in the Caucasus, which began with a Georgian offensive into South Ossetia on Aug. 7 that prompted a major Russian military counter-operation, has ended with an overwhelming Russian victory. Uwe Halbach, a Caucasus expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, a Berlin-based think tank, talked to United Press International about Russia's motives, its delayed ... more
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