Toy Fair is always magical, but technology is adding even more magic to the mix, especially when it's implemented to make toys smarter and more fun. This year we saw some excellent examples of tech-toy coolness to come, from giants like ...
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The Landsat Data Continuity Mission, the newest addition to NASA's 40-year mission monitoring Earth from space, blasted into orbit atop this Atlas V rocket yesterday. The successful launch ensures observations will continue uninterrupted ...
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The Pathway School, an educational facility for students with complex learning disabilities, recently received a gift of electrical equipment donated by Orbit Industries, a manufacturer of electrical installation products. The donation ...
A new company is looking to launch spacecraft to mine asteroids and one day act as an outer space gas station and an oasis for human colonies in space. Deep Space Industries Inc. announced Tuesday that it hopes to launch a fleet of small ...
Tags: Space Prospectors, human colonies, near-Earth asteroids
The insurance industry is looking at the possible effects of space weather on the world’s electronic systems. The issue arises, say the insurers, because space weather goes in 11 year cycles and severe events are expected in early ...
CISA new president Xu Lejiang makes presentations at 2013 director (enlarged) meeting - transformation and upgrading in the pursuit of quality and efficiency On January 5, China Iron and Steel Association 2013 director (enlarged) meeting ...
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According to P. Sunderarajan writing in The Hindu, work on the world’s largest solar telescope is likely to commence in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir in India by the end of 2013. The telescope, with an aperture of 2 metres ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S. Department of State has described the timing of a proposed visit by Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt and others to North Korea as not "particularly helpful" in view of the Asian country's recent launch of ...
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Seeing from the market cycle, we analysis the Eastern China’s glass price. And we find that, before 2006, the glass price has a apparent rigid future which is insensitive to the market demand. After 2006, the market futures appeared ...
Tags: Glass Price, Upward Orbit, China, Construction
Computerworld - The problem: You want to send images into space and you want them to last 5 billion years. The solution: A gold-plated disc. That's the idea behind The Last Pictures project, which is scheduled to blast off in the next few ...
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Judges have compiled their shortlist of the most innovative and exciting lighting products and projects for Lighting Design Awards 2013. Entrants in the Product Innovation section of the Lighting Design Awards gathered at Lighting’s ...
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SES TechCom is to supply four antenna systems to HITEC Luxembourg for European space data highway. HITEC Luxembourg S.A., the Luxembourg based engineering and technology company has announced it has been selected for provisioning four ...
Tags: HITEC Luxembourg, Computer Products, SES TechCom, Procurement Contract
NASA engineers rarely clap and cheer when their spacecraft crash. That wasn't the case today. Nearly one year after beginning to orbit the moon and helping scientists learn more about the internal structure andcomposition of the moon, ...
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Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
Tags: Spacecraft Kepler, Essex, NASA, Astrium
Business Standard reported that Chhattisgarh government is mooting to go Odisha way and ask the mining companies to reserve half of its production for the local units. In Odisha, it was the private iron ore miners who had come under ...