Britain's Queen Elizabeth II meets Chinese premier
London (AFP) June 17, 2014 -
Queen Elizabeth II welcomed Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to Windsor Castle on Tuesday on a visit to Britain which aims to repair strained relations between London and Beijing.
Dozens of Chinese were waiting outside the mediaeval castle, west of London, to greet Li on the first full day of his three-day visit to Britain.
Queen Elizabeth, 88, welcomed the 48-year-old premier with a smile and ...
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Capabilities of unmanned ground vehicles on display
Oshkosh, Wis. (UPI) Jun 16, 2013 -
Unmanned ground vehicles by Oshkosh Defense are being put through their paces in Paris this week at Eurosatory 2014 in Paris.
The vehicles, which are navigating a course that simulates military route clearance, as equipped with Terremax, the company' s modular, multi-sensor appliqué kit that can be integrated into new vehicles or retrofitted onto earlier ones.
Vehicles equipped ...
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Final Pre-Pluto Annual Checkout Begins
Laurel MD (SPX) Jun 18, 2014 -
Horizons' annual checkout - its eighth since launch in 2006 and last before next year's rendezvous with Pluto - kicks off this week with some onboard subsystem housekeeping and navigation-tracking tasks. But the pace picks up soon enough with a slate of operations that carries through most of the summer.
Early on June 15, flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory i ...
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Proton Accident Investigation Complete - Roscosmos
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 13, 2014 -
The investigation into the crash of the Proton-M carrier rocket with communications satellite Express ??4R is complete, and all of the documents have been transferred to the Russian Government, a representative of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) told RIA Novosti.
"The Interdepartmental Commission has completed its work. In accordance with procedure, the results have been trans ...
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China put FY-3C into operation to improve earth observation
Beijing (XNA) Jun 16, 2014 -
On June 10, the meteorological satellite Fengyun-3C has been put into operation officially which replaced FY-3A to observe in a morning orbit with FY-2B in an afternoon orbit.
The operation of FY-3C will realize all-weather, multispectral, quantitative and 3D observation of global atmosphere and Geophysical factors to insure stable operation of polar-orbit meteorological satellites, provid ...
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Cosmic Collision In The Bullet Group
Paris (ESA) Jun 16, 2014 -
Galaxies are not as isolated as they at first glance may seem; on a cosmic scale they congregate in clumps along with dark matter and hot gas. The colourful blob in this new composite image, based on data from several telescopes including ESA's XMM-Newton, is the group of galaxies known as the Bullet Group.
Its components appear to be clearly separated, with the hot gas partitioned from th ...
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NASA Aeronautics Makes Strides to Bring Back Supersonic Passenger Travel
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 18, 2014 -
The return of supersonic passenger travel may be coming closer to reality thanks to NASA's efforts to define a new standard for low sonic booms. Several NASA aeronautics researchers will present their work in Atlanta this week at Aviation 2014, an annual event of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
They will share with the global aviation community the progress they are ...
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