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February 11, 2007

SPACE WAR – News Watch! World Interception.

satelliteSPACE WAR – Newsphiles.org intercept this specific news feed since it implies an on-going development concerning all of us in one way or another.

Now when Europe and specifically China openly contend the previous American and Russian space ‘monopoly’. Here we intercept news as published worldwide, chronologically, covering this specific subject.

satellite2.jpgSpace and China – headlines daily

  • Enough space for India, China to develop simultaneously: President Patil - Sify -

    Enough space for India, China to develop simultaneously: President Patil
    Sify
    ... East Asian countries, President Pratibha Devisngh Patil today said there is enough space in the world for India and China to develop simultaneously. ...

    and more »
  • The ever growing flock of space 'birds' - BBC News (blog) -

    BBC News (blog)

    The ever growing flock of space 'birds'
    BBC News (blog)
    In China, the scale of space activity right now is most impressive. The China Great Wall Industry Corporation which has the sole rights to provide ...

    and more »
  • China `Sweet Spot' Is Returning for Investors: Stephen Green - Bloomberg -

    China `Sweet Spot' Is Returning for Investors: Stephen Green
    Bloomberg
    ... and we even saw some hedge funds take aggressive short yuan positions in the non-deliverable forward space. The China bears were roaming. ...

    and more »
  • Germany, China to track greenhouse gases from space - Spaceflight Now -

    Spaceflight Now

    Germany, China to track greenhouse gases from space
    Spaceflight Now
    The partnership comes after other Chinese cooperative space projects with the European Space Agency, Russia and Brazil. "This MoU is to build up the joint ...

  • China's Great (Quantum) Leap Forward - TIME -

    China's Great (Quantum) Leap Forward
    TIME
    After watching US-led forces obliterate a Soviet-style Iraqi military in the first Gulf War, China realized it needed to improve its own outdated army. ...

    and more »
  • SF finds room for APEC 2011 pre-summit - San Francisco Chronicle -

    SF finds room for APEC 2011 pre-summit
    San Francisco Chronicle
    ... nose and throat) profession already booked the space for mid-September 2011, our guests from China, South Korea, Vietnam, Russia, Canada, Chile and the ...

    and more »
  • China's power play - Times of India -

    Moneycontrol.com

    China's power play
    Times of India
    China engages us, but has created room for itself to openly contain us because of our appeasing attitude. While we engage China, we too should create space ...
    Beijing, Delhi downplay Manmohan's China remarkHindustan Times
    PM stresses on dialogue with PakHindustan Times
    BNF chief endorses Harrison's comment on aggressive Chinese intent in Gilgit ...Oneindia
    Foreign Policy Journal -Eurasia Review
    all 217 news articles »
  • Global mining companies are forceful about exporting coal through Northwest ... - OregonLive.com -

    OregonLive.com

    Global mining companies are forceful about exporting coal through Northwest ...
    OregonLive.com
    China and India also want to boost domestic coal mining. But Australian port space is tight and its prices relatively high. Indonesia wants to keep more of ...
    Mining companies aim to export coal to China through Northwest portsistockAnalyst.com (press release)

    all 8 news articles »
  • China remains silent on satellite rendezvous - Spaceflight Now -

    China remains silent on satellite rendezvous
    Spaceflight Now
    Other than a Xinhua news story quoting Lissov, China has been silent on the matter. "As reflected in the United States' new National Space Policy, ...

  • Kirk campaign going after Giannoulias again on Bright Start college loan program - Chicago Sun-Times (blog) -

    Kirk campaign going after Giannoulias again on Bright Start college loan program
    Chicago Sun-Times (blog)
    ... Vice Lord "Nation" and moving down the list from there. ... ...just as nations like China, India and Brazil ramp up their own space programs, ...

    and more »
  • space-station.jpgSpace and E.S.A.- headlines daily

  • Arianespace + ESA... Significant Signing (Launch) - SatNews Publishers -

    SatNews Publishers

    Arianespace + ESA... Significant Signing (Launch)
    SatNews Publishers
    Antonio Fabrizi, ESA Director of Launchers, Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chief Executive Officer of Arianespace and Francesco De Pasquale, Chairman and Chief ...
    Vega launcher production contracts signed by ESA, Arianespace and ELVNewDesignWorld (press release)

    all 3 news articles »
  • ESA overcomes glitch on gravity-mapping satellite - Spaceflight Now -

    Space Fellowship

    ESA overcomes glitch on gravity-mapping satellite
    Spaceflight Now
    ESA says the problems are apparently not related. The July anomaly prevented GOCE science data from reaching the ground, and engineers were devising ...
    ESA's GOCE Recovers From Computer GlitchSatellite Today (subscription)
    European gravity probe back in action after hitchAFP
    European satellite fixed, back at workUPI.com
    Softpedia -SatNews Publishers
    all 25 news articles »
  • Boeing cuts costs as defense outlook dims - Reuters -

    Moneycontrol.com

    Boeing cuts costs as defense outlook dims
    Reuters
    By Andrea Shalal-Esa and Soyoung Kim WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co's (BA.N) defense unit is working to cut overhead and improve productivity, ...
    Reuters Summit - Boeing cuts costs as defence outlook soursIBNLive.com
    Reuters Summit-EADS CEO says 1 bln euro M&A possible-UPDATE 2Forexyard

    all 79 news articles »
  • Global Space Event In The Golden City - RedOrbit -

    Global Space Event In The Golden City
    RedOrbit
    The global event highlights the growing activities in space industry, science and education in the Czech Republic — ESA's newest Member State. ...
    International Astronautical Congress 2010 in PragueSoftpedia

    all 4 news articles »
  • Astro Bob blog: This can't be real, but it is - Duluth News Tribune -

    Daily Mail

    Astro Bob blog: This can't be real, but it is
    Duluth News Tribune
    Photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA I saw this photo on another online post and wanted to share it with you. ...
    Awesome death spiral of a bizarre starDiscover Magazine (blog)
    Picture of the Day - An Extraordinary Celestial SpiralSpace Fellowship

    all 15 news articles »
  • Wanted for long space missions: Flexible astronaut, works well with others - Mother Nature Network -

    Mother Nature Network

    Wanted for long space missions: Flexible astronaut, works well with others
    Mother Nature Network
    (Photo: ESA) When it comes to flying in space, the makeup of an astronaut crew can be just as important as the mission itself, and the same goes for a team ...

  • New system predicts solar storms - but ESA says satellites are safe - TG Daily -

    TG Daily

    New system predicts solar storms - but ESA says satellites are safe
    TG Daily
    It's already being put into use by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).The Automated Solar Activity Prediction system (ASAP) identifies and classifies ...
    Can Navigation Satellites Stand Up to a Stormy Sun?CBS News
    The Sun Will Not Fry SatellitesSoftpedia
    New System Predicts Solar StormsSoftpedia
    Science Daily (press release) -Science Daily (press release)
    all 10 news articles »
  • ESA Creates Global View of Glaciers - Softpedia -

    ESA Creates Global View of Glaciers
    Softpedia
    Officials at the European Space Agency announce that their intentions of using satellites to create the most detailed global picture of glaciers and ice ...

  • Scientists Baffled by 'Bootprint' on Mars - FOXNews -

    Daily Mail

    Scientists Baffled by 'Bootprint' on Mars
    FOXNews
    The picture was taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter and released by the ESA late last week. It sits between two volcanoes, ...
    Scientists puzzled by mysterious 200 mile long crater on the surface of MarsDaily Mail
    Satellite image shows strange elongated crater on MarsXinhua
    Orcus Patera - Mars's Mysterious Elongated CraterSpace Daily

    all 19 news articles »
  • Call for Media: press conference with ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli - Media Newswire (press release) -

    Call for Media: press conference with ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli
    Media Newswire (press release)
    ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli will travel to the International Space Station in December on a six-month mission, serving as flight engineer for Expeditions 26 ...

    and more »
  • SPACE WAR – headlines daily

  • Kuwait to buy Patriot missiles - Kuwait City (UPI) Sep 8, 2010
    Kuwait looks poised to purchase Patriot missiles from the United States but won't allow its territory to become a springboard for any military assault, a senior defense official said. In a published statement, Kuwaiti Defense Minister Sheik Jaber Mubarak al-Sabah spelled out the intended use of the Patriot missile, clarifying that the $900 million system would boost the military's capab
  • Castro regrets moves in 1962 missile crisis - Washington (AFP) Sept 8, 2010
    Former Cuban president Fidel Castro now regrets the actions leading up to the 1962 missile crisis with the United States, according to an interview with a US magazine. Asked about his recommendation at the time that the Soviet Union consider an attack on the United States, Castro told journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic: "After I've seen what I've seen, and knowing what I know now, i
  • Grey Eagle Weaponized UAS Slated For Afghanistan - Washington DC (SPX) Sep 09, 2010
    Army unmanned aircraft systems officials said success was so great with the integration and testing of the Hellfire missile aboard the Grey Eagle UAS that the Army would begin deployment of four weaponized systems to Afghanistan in the fall. In a Pentagon bloggers roundtable Aug. 25, Col. Greg Gonzalez, program manager for Army UAS said in recent user tests at the National Training Center,
  • SELEX Galileo Awarded Contract To Supply Praetorian DASS - Luton, UK (SPX) Sep 09, 2010
    SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, has been awarded a contract by BAE Systems worth circa GBP400M to supply the Praetorian Defensive Aids Sub System (DASS) in support of the Tranche 3A Eurofighter Typhoons. Designed specifically for the Typhoon, the Praetorian DASS comprises Electronic Counter Measures (ECM), Electronic Support Measures (ESM) and Missile Approach Warning (MAW) elements
  • Commentary: Playing with fire - Washington (UPI) Sep 8, 2010
    A southern U.S. preacher with a flock of 50 in Gainesville, Fla., decided to mark the ninth anniversary of 9/11 by lighting a fire that quickly circled the globe - with a public burning of the Koran, much the way Hitler ordered public bonfires fueled with books written by Jews. The Rev. Terry Jones dubbed it "International Burn a Koran Day." The sign outside his Dove World Outreach Cen
  • Iron Fist Brigade In Huge Canada Army Exercise - London, UK (SPX) Sep 09, 2010
    20th Armoured Brigade (The Iron Fist) is currently taking part in a huge army exercise in Canada, to help prepare them for their deployment to Afghanistan next year. The three-month-long Exercise Prairie Thunder is held at the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS), located in the heart of the vast plains of Alberta in the west of Canada. The brigade is due to deploy to Afghanis
  • Boeing Vigilare Enters Service With RAAF - Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Sep 09, 2010
    Vigilare, the Boeing Network Centric Command and Control System (NC3S) developed for the Commonwealth of Australia, has entered service with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) after excelling in a major multinational air combat exercise. On Sept. 2, the RAAF began using the Vigilare Northern Regional Operations Centre (NROC) at RAAF Base Tindal, Northern Territory, for surveillance and
  • US watches 'leadership process' in North Korea - Washington (AFP) Sept 8, 2010
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday the United States is watching the "leadership process" in North Korea but hoped whoever is in power in Pyongyang will scrap nuclear weapons. Speaking before US envoys tour Asia to discuss North Korea, Clinton said Washington is making clear to the North Koreans what they must do and what they would gain if they "seriously discuss denuclear
  • Lockheed Martin lays off quarter of top executives - New York (AFP) Sept 8, 2010
    Lockheed Martin on Wednesday announced that more than 600 company executives have taken up early retirement offers as the defense contractor undergoes a massive cost-cutting restructuring. The layoffs, representing one quarter of Lockheed Martin's senior management, are part of the company's plan to cut back about 10,000 employees across the United States since the start of the year, it said
  • South Korea announces sanctions against Iran - Seoul (AFP) Sept 9, 2010
    South Korea said it would penalise a key Iranian bank and put all financial transactions with Tehran under strict government supervision as part of sanctions over its nuclear programme. Foreign ministry spokesman Kim Young-Sun said Wednesday the government would impose a "heavy penalty" on the Seoul branch of Bank Mellat, which allegedly facilitated hundreds of millions of dollars in transac
  • Iraq police arrest brother of US soldiers' killer - Kirkuk, Iraq (AFP) Sept 8, 2010
    Police on Wednesday detained the brother of an Iraqi soldier killed after gunning down two American troops and wounding nine others, the first US deaths since combat operations were declared over. Tuesday's violence, which also saw two US soldiers wounded in a grenade attack, and a firefight in Baghdad two days earlier involving American soldiers, were a stark reminder that despite Washingto
  • No carrier sharing between UK and France - Paris (UPI) Sep 8, 2010
    Britain's defense secretary has said it's "unrealistic" that Britain and France share a naval carrier. "I think it is unrealistic to share an aircraft carrier but, in other areas like tactical lift we can see what we can do," British Defense Secretary Liam Fox said after talks with his French counterpart Herve Morin last week, the Daily Telegraph reports. "I can't deny that there is an
  • Three US drone strikes kill 18 militants in Pakistan - Miranshah, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 8, 2010
    Three separate US drone strikes in Pakistan's northwestern tribal district killed at least 18 militants on Wednesday, security officials said. Washington has branded the rugged area on the Afghan border - part of which has been hit by Pakistan's catastrophic flooding - a global headquarters of Al-Qaeda and the most dangerous place on Earth. Officials in Washington say the drone strikes
  • Handover to Afghans will start in 2011: NATO chief - Washington (AFP) Sept 7, 2010
    NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said ahead of talks with President Barack Obama Tuesday that he hoped US-led troops would begin handing over responsibility to Afghan security forces sometime next year. The secretary-general said he expected the transatlantic alliance would unveil plans at a November summit in Lisbon for a gradual transition to Afghan forces in 2011, in line with Obama's pla
  • Outside View: Snakes on a plane - Washington (UPI) Sep 8, 2010
    In Pakistan, following the catastrophic flooding that literally is drowning an entire nation, could things get much worse? Unfortunately, last week, things did. While trivial by comparison with the human suffering, several snapshots portray the level of poisons within the U.S.-Pakistani relationships as well as with other friends and would-be Pakistani benefactors that could be toxic. /
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