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China Hopes To Join International Space Station Project
Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 17, 2007China hopes to become the 17th nation joining the International Space Station (ISS) project, Vice Minister of Science and Technology Li Xueyong said on Tuesday. "China sincerely wants to cooperate with the United States in space exploration and join the International Space Station project that has already involved 16 nations," said Li, a delegate to the 17th National Congress of the Communist Pa ... more TAITRA Announces 2007 Taiwan International PHOTOVOLTAIC Forum and Exhibition Grand Opening 
Taipei, Taiwan (SPX) Oct 16, 2007Due to increasingly high crude oil prices and increasing environmental awareness around the globe, the solar energy industry has become a source for alternative energy in this new century. Currently, Taiwan's photovoltaic industry is in the initial development stage, but the production volume of the domestic photovoltaic industry has been accounting for an increasing amount of the worldwide supp ... more 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 |
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Xinyu City, China (SPX) Oct 08, 2007LDK Solar Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers has signed a five-year contract to supply multicrystalline solar wafers to Taiwan-based Solartech Energy Corp. Under the terms of the agreement, pricing is fixed for the first three years. During this period, LDK Solar will deliver multicrystalline solar wafers to Solartech valued at approximately US$224 million with in ... more Suntech Targets 100MW Of Sales To The US In 2008 Due To Robust Demand 
Long Beach CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2007Suntech Power Holdings welcomed over 200 customers, partners and industry colleagues to a celebration of Moon Festival Night on Tuesday, September 25 at the Solar Power 2007 Conference and Expo in Long Beach, California which is North America's largest solar energy event. The Moon Festival, also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, is a popular Chinese celebration of abundance and togetherness, fir ... more China's Lunar Satellite Launch Open To Tourists 
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 |
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Jiangsu, China (SPX) Sep 26, 2007Canadian Solar has announced that it has signed an agreement with the government of Suzhou New District to build the ''Suzhou Solar Demonstration Park,'' a project that converts a deserted area into a municipality recreation site featuring a 300KW grid-connected solar power system. The park will also serve as a long-term outdoor reliability testing and demonstration ground for CSI modules using ... more China To Build New Space Launch Center In Southernmost Province 
Beijing (XNA) Sep 24, 2007China plans to construct a new space launch center in Wenchang, China's southernmost Hainan Province, according to official sources. The new launch center aims to serve the next-generation rocket carriers that do emit poisonous and pollutive gas and new-type spacecraft. The new launch site will be mainly used for launching synchronous satellites, heavy satellites, large space stations, and deep ... more China Launches Third Sino-Brazilian Earth Resources Satellite 
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
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