Friday, August 12th, 2011
Russia’s Space Forces have started ground tests of a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket, which will orbit a Glonass satellite at the end of August, spokesman Lt. Col. Vitaly Vyatkin said on Thursday. “The rocket has not been assembled yet but its systems and ground equipment are connected together by electric wires for preliminary testing,” Vyatkin said. “If
Friday, August 12th, 2011
The European Commission has extended the deadlines for the execution of 4 projects in Bulgaria under the ISPA pre-accession funds, for the water and sewerage systems in Varna and Kyustendil. 4 more ISPA water and sewerage projects – in capital Sofia, Shumen, Kardzhali and Smolian – are expected to be extended. Bulgaria requested the extension end 2010, when the duration of ISPA for the country expired, after managing to absorb only
Friday, August 12th, 2011
A wind farm mega-project is slated for the island of Chiloé. Plans include the installation of 56 turbines, each capable of generating 112 megawatts (MW) of energy. The Environmental Evaluation Service (SEA) of the Los Lagos Region approved the Chiloé win. Read More
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Russia will allocate about 250 billion rubles ($8.4 billion) to build the Vostochny space center in Far East, the head of the country’s space agency Roscosmos said on Thursday. Russia currently uses two launch sites: Baikonurin Kazakhstan, which it has leased since the end of the Soviet Union, and Plesetsk in northwest Russia. Read More
Friday, August 12th, 2011
A three-month consultation period is about to start on which parts of the Scottish Borders should be designated “special landscape areas” and given extra protection when it comes to development. The proposed map includes eight areas – the Tweedsmuir uplands, the Tweed valley, the Tweed, Ettrick and Yarrow confluences, the Teviot valleys, the Lammermuirs, the Berwickshire
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
NVIDIA today announced it plans to appoint Steve Scott, a longtime Cray Inc. executive, to help spearhead the company’s high performance computing initiative. As chief technology officer (CTO) for NVIDIA’s Tesla™ business unit, Scott will be responsible for the Tesla roadmap and architecture. Tesla is rapidly becoming a fundamental technology in accelerated high performance computing and is
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Until now both Google and Yandex seemed unchallengeable in their aggressive push to provide millions of curious Russians with satellite snapshots of places and neighborhoods. But that may be about to change, though the challenge, this time, appears to be coming from a most unexpected quarter: the Federal Agency for Registration, which is the Russian
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Interview with Sanjiv Ahuja, the former Orange head now CEO of LightSquared, which is building a wholesale LTE project in the face of opposition from the GPS industry. At the same time he is chairman of Augere Holdings, with spectrum covering 500m people in Asia and Africa. Interview by Alan Burkitt-Gray. Read More
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
I applaud efforts by Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) in educating the public on the advantages and wealth of knowledge one can derive from Google Earth (GE). I have long been a proponent of GE as a tool to measure the rapid and rampant plundering of our precious forests. I am sad to say that we probably
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Further steps on the path to a green economy that Government and businesses can take have been published today in order to make further progress towards strong sustainable growth. ‘Enabling the transition to a green economy: Government and Businesses working together’ looks ahead to 2020 and maps out planned Government action across areas including climate change, resource
