Thursday, October 20th, 2011
A ten-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment and Forests visited the Department of Space headquarters and its satellite assembly facilities on Tuesday, an ISRO release said. Dr T.Subbarami Reddy, Standing Committee Chairman, was accompanied by three members of the Rajya Sabha and six members of the Lok Sabha. Read More
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
The Japanese Advanced Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, is an instrument on board NASA’s Terra spacecraft. The map it produces is called a global digital elevation model, and gets its 3D effect by combining two slightly offset two-dimensional images. The update to the ASTER data adds 260,000 images to the already-expansive map and improves
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Russia is to spend $11 billion on its brand new GLONASS navigation system, hoping to make it as good as American rival GPS. The plan is to cover the whole planet with GLONASS, which requires more satellites to be launched. This year alone, seven of them are scheduled to reach the Earth’s orbit. The developers also hope
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
The Mining Cadastre Office has issued out a total of 12,000 mining titles leases, it was learnt yesterday. The Minister, Musa Sada disclosed this in Abuja during the Council of Nigerian Mining Engineers and Geologists (COMEG) stakeholders’ forum on Compliance and Enforcement in the Extractive industries . He said in the next 10 years, the plan of the government
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
The state government may be pitching for the ambitious metro rail project, but the biggest hurdle it is likely to face is escalating costs as now the metro will be extended beyond Ahmedabad to Dholera. The original plan was to connect Ahmedabad to Gandhinagar, but covering such a short distance did not seem financially viable. In
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Österreichische Bundesbahnen Infrastruktur AG, the Austrian railway infrastructure company, has awarded an order to Siemens Mobility and Logistics to equip the Nordbahn route between Vienna and Břeclav (Czech Republic) with the European Train Control System (ETCS). An ETCS Level 2 of the Trainguard 200 RBC type will be installed along the 87 km rail link and eleven stations
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
In the frame of the 15th anniversary of the VEGETATION programme, a contest is organized to employ a PhD student at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), to work on the extensive VEGETATION (VGT)-archive for a 4-year period. Also PROBA-VEGETATION (PROBA-V), the VGT follow-on mission can be part of the PhD research subject. The
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Between now and 2014 another 16 satellites will follow, thus making the system operational. The full constellation will consist of 30 satellites providing accurate navigation to travellers, ships, aeroplanes, search and rescue services and other users around the globe. The Galileo programme got off to a slow start, with many delays after 1999, when EU leaders gave the go-ahead to
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
The Australian Government’s Improving Water Information Program is a $450 million investment led by the Bureau of Meteorology and supported by water agencies in the States and Territories. Four years after the program started, a comprehensive, reliable and up-to-date picture of Australia’s water resources is emerging that will revolutionise our understanding of water availability, condition, use and trends.
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Sofia Airport Center (SAC), the largest business and logistics parks in Bulgaria has been presented at the Sixth Annual International Facility Management Conference in Sofia by its investors, Tishman International Companies and GE Real Estate. SAC Property Manager Nikola Ignatoff presented the SAC, home of Bulgaria’s first LEED-certified commercial office building, as a member of a distinguished panel focusing on the economic advantages of
