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  • IRS-1D performing flawlessly

    A year after Cassandras predicted its fiery demise, India's remote sensing satelllite IRS-1D is performing flowlessly and the Indian Space Research organisation (ISRO) is confident that it will meet

  • UNCTAD Trade and Development Report 1998 Launched

    Africa, which has much more growth potential than is commonly believed, has been enjoying positive per capita income growth fueled by higher commodity export prices, more favorable weather conditions

  • Rubber roads reduce noise

    In England, trials will begin soon on rubber roads in an attempt to cut traffic noise. Four busy roads in Surrey are to be resurfaced with a new mixture that is claimed to reduce noise by 70 per

  • Man-Machine II

    The double barrelled word has three quite distinct connotations. the first is a human being fitted with artificial replacements of vital parts and/or limbs, as medical repair at present envisage how

  • Method gets lead out of high-sulphur steel

    The Tohoku National Industrial Research Institute in Japan said it has developed a technology toward producing steel with a relatively large percentage of sulfur that does not contain toxic lead yet

  • Fly from London to New York in an hour

    The prospect of flying from London to New York in an hour is looking like a possibility. Researchers at Nasa's Langley Research Centre in Virginia are poised to test a revolutionary "scramjet" engine

  • Space shuttle of the future

    This is that the space shuttle may look like after 2003. Nasa plans to upgrade it by using strap-on-liquid-propellant boosters to replace the solid-fuel rocket boosters. After providing the extra

  • ISRO leases transponders on Thai satellite

    The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has leased transponders on a Thai satellite for one year during which time it will launch two of its own satellites. An ISRO press release issued at

  • Space age telephony come on line

    But who will use it ? : A new state of the art telephone system, linking telephone sets directly to a network of 66 satellites, is being launched on Septermber 23 by a US company. The technology will

  • Monitor ensures aircraft have accurate head for heights

    Engineers at Siemens Roke Manor Research laboratories in Hampshire have devised a system that it hopes will allow the UK's National Air Traffic Services Organisation (Nats) to increase the accuracy

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