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Archive for May 29th, 2007

Voom HD Makes Exec Appointment

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Voom HD Networks has appointed David Alworth vice president of operations and program administration, the company…

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EuroNews Names Head Of Distribution For Africa

May 29th, 2007 by

EuroNews, the pan-European news channel, has appointed Jean-Luc Maertens head of distribution for Africa, the…

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MacDonald Dettwiler To Supply Imagery Ground Station

May 29th, 2007 by

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to supply an unnamed customer with…

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RCC Adds Intersputnik

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The Regional Commonwealth in Field of Communications (RCC) has admitted Intersputnik as an observer, the satellite operator announced May 28. The RCC, established in 1991…

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China Joins Space And Major Disasters Charter

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The China National Space Administration has joined the International Charter “Space and Major Disasters,” an international initiative that provides free satellite imagery of areas affected by disasters, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced. China will…

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Radio signals help forecast radiation storms

May 29th, 2007 by

Coronal Mass Ejection (CMEs) with powerful shocks capable of causing radiation storms “scream” in radio waves as they slam through the solar wind, according to Dr. Natchimuthuk Gopalswamy of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

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Electrons help forecast extreme solar events

May 29th, 2007 by

Research by Dr. Arik Posner, a research scientist at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), has led to a new method for forecasting the appearance and intensity of solar ion events by measuring relativistic, near light-speed electrons.

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