Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
RIA NOVOSTI – Satellite manufacturer Thales Alenia Space signed a three-party agreement with two Russian space enterprises to supply electronic components for three communications satellites, the company said Wednesday. The space enterprises are the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) and Information Satellite Systems – Reshetnev Company (ISS – Reshetnev). Read More
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
HONG kONG gOV – “The Government has invested heavily in water infrastructure to ensure their effective operation to provide a stable water supply for Hong Kong people. To cater for uncertainties such as drastic climatic changes and low rainfall, we have formulated a Total Water Management (TWM) Strategy for the period up to 2030, with
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
JAPAN TIMES – The subway system now known as Tokyo Metro began as a private entity in 1927, when it was just one line between Ueno and Asakusa. It eventually morphed into the Eidan subway system, which was a public company. Then it went back to being private in 2004, though 53.4 percent of its stock
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
VIET NAM NEWS – DOFICO , an industry and agriculture complex, would play an important role in helping agricultural products of Dong Nai Province and other provinces in the region penetrate the international market, said Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai at the ground-breaking ceremony for the complex yesterday. The complex will be one of
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
ECONOMIST – The city of Nanjing, capital of China’s Jiangsu province, was not the obvious place to host this year’s international forum on urban competitiveness. Home to some 40 universities and colleges, the city’s culture is conservative and contemplative, not competitive. At Nanjing University, for example, students amble past, their noses buried in books as
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON – Anne Miglarese is a Principal at Booz Allen Hamilton. She leads a team that is focused on growing Booz Allen’s geospatial solutions and services in the Defense, Security and Federal Civil markets. Active in national policy governing spatial data, she is chairman of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee. Read More
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
IEEE SPECTRUM – The van is an autonomous vehicle developed at the University of Parma’s Artificial Vision and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, known as VisLab. Crammed with computers, cameras, and sensors, the vehicle is capable of detecting cars, lanes, and obstacles — and drive itself. The VisLab researchers, after getting tired of testing their vehicles in laboratory
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
GFZ POTSDAM – After 58277 orbits it was finally all over: in the afternoon of 19. September the georesearch satellite CHAMP burned up in space . Exactly 10 years, two months and 4 days after going into orbit, the satellite ended its mission over the Sea of Okhotsk. Professor Hermann Lühr, GFZ German Research Centre
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
BBC – A Snowdonia peak has leapt into the ranks of “super-mountain” after amateur surveyors found it is a crucial 1.8m (about 5ft 11in) higher than thought. It takes Glyder Fawr in the Snowdonia National Park up from 999m (3,278ft) above sea level to 1000.8m (3,283ft). Read More
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – It gets dark early in the Andes. Here, close to the Equator, the sun sets for most of the year at around 6 in the evening and only rises 12 hours later. In South American capitals like Lima and Quito, the population switches the lights on as soon as twilight kicks in. But
