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Space Program Eyes Farther Frontiers
Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 15, 2007Major breakthroughs are expected by 2010 in the country's ambitious space programs - from manned flights to the lunar probe - a senior space administrator said Thursday. Scientists are working toward astronaut space walks, and spacecraft rendezvous and docking procedures by the end of the decade, said Sun Laiyan, chief of the China National Space Administration. The deep space exploration progra ... more Ferro To Break Ground In China For Solar Paste Production Facility 
Cleveland OH (SPX) Oct 11, 2007Ferro has announced that it will begin construction in fourth quarter 2007 on a 16,500-square-meter (177,604-square-foot) facility in Suzhou, China, where it will produce aluminum pastes for the Southeast Asia solar cell manufacturing market. The new site is expected to begin production in the third quarter of 2008 and will include expansion capacity to accommodate expected growth of Ferro Elect ... more China Nuvo Technology Addresses Current Silicon Shortage 
West Palm Beach FL (SPX) Oct 11, 2007China Nuvo Solar Energy says that its licensed technology based on an invention entitled "Photovoltaic Cell with Integral Light Transmitting Wave Guide in a Ceramic Sleeve" can address the current short supply and rising prices for silicon. The Company's licensed technology uses a ceramic sleeve as a receptacle for the various materials used for a solar cell. The ceramic sleeve replaces ty ... more Wind Power Cost Is Expected To Reduce By 30 Percent By 2010 
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Oct 09, 2007Research and Markets has announced the addition of "China Wind Power Equipment Manufacturing Report 2007" to their offering. Improved technologies and increased output results in wind power cost to continuously drop, to a nickel/kilowatt-hour. Wind power cost is expected to further reduce by 30% by 2010, which has been close to the regular energy cost. In 2006, newly-increased installed capacity ... more China Puts Second Oceanic Survey Satellite Into Operation With More To Come 
Beijing (XNA) Oct 04, 2007China's State Oceanic Administration has formally taken over the control of the "Haiyang-1B" (Ocean 1B) as of Sunday after the second self-designed oceanic survey satellite in China proved functioning well on its projected orbit for more than five months. Sources with the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry For National Defense said that the satellite could capture real-time inf ... more |
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Beijing, China (SPX) Oct 04, 2007Tourists are being invited to pay 800 yuan (105 U.S. dollars) to witness the launch of China's first lunar satellite in Xichang, southwest Sichuan province. A travel agency in Xichang, where one of China's major satellite launch sites is located, has designed special travel packages for tourists wishing to view the historic launch. "Tourists will have to pay 800 yuan to witness the launch from t ... more Lockheed Martin Paveway II Dual Mode Laser Guided Bomb Fully Qualified For US Navy 
Archbald PA (SPX) Oct 04, 2007Lockheed Martin successfully completed the paveway II Dual Mode Laser Guided Bomb (DMLGB) First Article Test program and is now the only qualified source for delivery of DMLGB kits to the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The Navy Qualification Test Program, conducted from December 2006 through March 2007 at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake Test Range, Calif., consisted of 25 ... more China To Share Disaster Forecasting Information With Developing Countries 
Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 04, 2007China is willing to share its capabilities in disaster forecasting with developing countries to improve their ability to handle natural disasters, a minister said on Monday. The recent tsunami that occurred in the Indian Sea has highlighted a need for cooperation in monitoring and forecasting earthquakes, floods, typhoons and other disasters that hit developing countries, Li Xueju, Minister of C ... more Boeing Projects 120 Billion Dollar Latin America Market For New Commercial Airplanes 
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (SPX) Sep 27, 2007Boeing forecasts that Latin American airlines will need 1,730 airplanes worth $120 billion over the next 20 years, according to an analysis presented Monday at the Latin America Airfinance Conference in Rio de Janeiro. Air travel within Latin America will grow 6.6 percent during this period, well above the world average growth of 5 percent -- second only to China's 8.8 percent forecasted growth ... more |
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Taiyuan, China (XNA) Sep 19, 2007China launched the third earth resources satellite co-developed with Brazil on Wednesday morning and the two nations will jointly develop two more satellites. The satellite, named 02B, was launched on a Chinese Long March-4B carrier rocket which blasted off at 11:26 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The satellite separated from the roc ... more The Promised Moon 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 19, 2007On September 17, international reports confirmed the seriousness of Beijing's intention to put its own spacecraft in a lunar orbit before the end of this year. While for the leading space players - Russia and the United States - planned expeditions are quite natural if not always justified, China's lunar ambition, and indeed the country's entire space effort, fills one with wonder at such an ... more Boeing Projects 340 Billion Dollar Market For New Airplanes In China 
Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 19, 2007China will require 3,400 new airplanes worth about $340 billion over the next 20 years, according to The Boeing Company's [NYSE: BA] updated annual forecast for the commercial airplane market. The complete forecast, known as the Boeing Current Market Outlook, is available on the Boeing Web site. Over the forecast period, China will have the fastest-growing market, making it the largest market ... more Partners Sought For Singapore Space Venture 
Singapore (AFP) Sep 11, 2007A proposed Singapore spaceport, announced last year, has yet to get off the ground because the company is still looking for local partners to finance it, a US space travel company said Tuesday. Eric Anderson, president and chief executive officer of Space Adventures, said his company has received interest from potential space travellers across the region -- including Japan, China and Malaysia ... more
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