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British media join forces against Murdoch BSkyB takeoverLondon (AFP) Oct 12, 2010 British media groups urged Business Secretary Vince Cable on Tuesday to block a bid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for full control of satellite broadcaster BSkyB. The appeal was in a letter signed by the heads of the companies behind the right-leaning Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail and left-leaning Guardian and Daily Mirror, as well as the heads of the BBC, Channel 4 television and the BT Group. "We believe that the proposed takeover could have serious and far-reaching consequences for media pl ... read more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 12, 2010International consortium Sea Launch plans to resume Zenit-3SL carrier rocket launches from its floating platform in the Pacific Ocean in 2011, the head of the Russian Rocket and Space Corporation Energia said Monday. "All political conditions for resuming launches on the Sea Launch program have been met. All commissions in the United States have been passed. A license for 70 launches has b ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Oct 9, 2010China's second lunar probe entered the moon's orbit on Saturday, eight days after the Long March 3C rocket carrying the Chang'e-2 blasted off from the launch centre, state media reported. The unmanned probe will start "scientific exploration activities soon," said the official Xinhua news agency, citing the Beijing Aerospace Control Center. The Chang'e-2 will first circle the moon at a d ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 11, 2010NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., collaborated with NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M., and Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne in Canoga Park, Calif., to successfully complete a series of thruster tests at the White Sands test facility. The test will aid in maneuvering and landing the next generation of robotic lunar landers that could be used to explore ... more |
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Ground-Based Images Of Asteroid Lutetia Complement FlybyBoulder CO (SPX) Oct 11, 2010 On July 10, 2010, the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft beamed back to Earth a dramatic set of close-up images as it flew past the 100-kilometer-sized asteroid (21) Lutetia, on its way to a comet rendezvous in 2014. But even before Rosetta made its close encounter with Lutetia, astronomers, using three of the world's largest telescopes, were busy making their own assessment of the asteroid's shape and size, as well as searching for satellites. Their pre-flyby images are being co ... read more |
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