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Astronauts to test Chinese space suit on Shenzhou VII flight
Beijing (AFP) Sept 24, 2008Chinese astronauts will give a Chinese-made spacesuit its first real test when they attempt the country's first-ever spacewalk during the Shenzhou VII mission set to blast off late Thursday. Mastering spacewalk technology is crucial for China's eventual plans to develop a space station as astronauts will need to be able to work outside their spacecraft to make repairs or carry out inspection ... more After Olympics, China eyes space conquest 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 24, 2008Flushed with success after a widely applauded Beijing Olympics, China will seek this week to further burnish its image with a new chapter in its quest to conquer space. Long-time Communist Party member Zhai Zhigang is slated to become the nation's first "taikonaut" to walk in space during the Shenzhou VII mission, China's third manned space flight, which is slated to blast off Thursday night ... more North Korea to restart key reprocessing plant: watchdog 
Vienna (AFP) Sept 24, 2008North Korea is preparing to restart a nuclear reprocessing plant used to make weapons-grade material as a crucial six-party disarmament-for-aid deal founders, the UN atomic watchdog said Wednesday. Amid growing differences over its denuclearisation pact with South Korea, the United States, Japan, China and Russia, the reclusive Stalinist state told the International Atomic Energy Agency it ... more France still wants six powers to meet on Iran 
Paris (AFP) Sept 24, 2008France still hopes the six world powers leading an international response to Iran's nuclear programme will meet this week, despite Russian reluctance, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. Paris had earlier called for foreign ministers from Britain, China, Germany, Russia and the United States to meet along with France on the sidelines of this week's United Nations General Assembly in New ... more Walker's World: The crisis deepens 
Zurich, Switzerland (UPI) Sep 24, 2008 Other countries that have been raking in cash like China and the oil-exporting states have sovereign wealth funds. The United States instead has been forced to resort to the opposite, a sovereign debt fund. That, at least, was how it looked when U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke launched their $700 billion plan over the weekend. Around the ... more |
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Dalian, China (SPX) Sep 24, 2008Alternatives to fossil fuels and natural gas as carbon sources and fuel are in demand. Biomass could play a more significant part in the future. Researchers in the USA and China have now developed a new catalyst that directly converts cellulose, the most common form of biomass, into ethylene glycol, an important intermediate product for chemical industry. As reported in the journal Angewan ... more A-Power Energy Signs Its First Wind Turbine Sales Contract 
Shenyang, China (SPX) Sep 24, 2008A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. ("A-Power"), announced today that it has signed a sales contract with China National Automation Control System Corp. ("CACS") for the sale of five 2.7 MW wind turbines. Delivery of the five units is planned to occur in Q4 2008. These wind turbines will be the first to be produced at A-Power's new wind turbine production facility in Shenyang, China. ... more As China milk scandal grows, leadership escapes blame 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 24, 2008As China's tainted milk scandal spread on Wednesday, there were few signs people were willing to blame the nation's top leadership despite evidence the health risks were covered up for months. Whether because of traditional deference to Beijing or clever state media management, public anger was directed more at second- and third-tier officials at the local level. Premier Wen Jiabao, in ... more Study Spotlights Anti-satellite And Space Debris Threats 
Superior CO (SPX) Sep 24, 2008Anti-satellite weapons and space debris are increasing threats to the security of outer space. This is a key finding from the newly released Space Security 2008, a study by Project Ploughshares which coordinated and published the report. While space debris caused by routine space operations is an issue, the fragments spewed out into space from China's January 2007 anti-satellite test has ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 23, 2008China's ambitious space programme is set to take a giant leap forward this week when three astronauts blast off on a mission to undertake the country's first space walk. The Long March rocket, taller than the Statue of Liberty, is already in position at the northwestern Jiuquan launch centre to lift the Shenzhou VII capsule into orbit for China's third manned space flight late on Thursday. ... more A chronology of China's space programme 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 23, 2008After nearly half a century, China's space programme will this week attempt its first space walk during the mission of the Shenzhou VII, the nation's third manned space flight. Below are the main stages of China's long march into space: 1956: China, still an overwhelmingly rural society mired in poverty, opens its first Missile and Rocket Research Institute. 1957: The Chinese governm ... more Thailand and China to launch monsoon study 
Bangkok (AFP) Sept 23, 2008Thailand and China will sign an agreement this week to launch a three-year study of climatic changes in the Andaman Sea so they can better predict monsoon patterns, an official said Tuesday. Some experts have blamed global warming for increasingly unpredictable and severe weather in Southeast Asia. "The aim is to understand the changing of monsoons," said Somkiat Khokiattiwong ... more Hong Kong braces for Typhoon Hagupit 
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 23, 2008Hong Kong braced itself for severe storms on Tuesday as Typhoon Hagupit hurtled towards the southern Chinese city. Heavy rain and strong winds lashed the city in the early afternoon as Hong Kong Observatory issued a number three tropical cyclone warning, as winds of up to 70 kilometres (43 miles) an hour hit the territory. A total of 47 flights in and out of Hong Kong had been cancelled ... more
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