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The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) applauds President Bush for enacting today a key communications modernization bill, the “New and Emerging Technologies 911 Improvement Act of 2008.” The legislation, sponsored in Congress by Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), is a significant step toward making America's IP-based services first-responder friendly.
Read MoreU.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) recently hosted NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and Secretary of Agriculture Edward T. Schafer during the signing of a memorandum of understanding to enable the USDA's Agricultural Research Service to conduct plant related research on the International Space Station.
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Read MoreThey met in Paris, they talked, and they agreed. The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies got together to discuss and review ISS cooperation.
Read Morehe Heads of the International Space Station (ISS) Agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States met at European Space Agency (ESA) Headquarters in Paris, France, on July 17, 2008, to review ISS cooperation.
Read MoreThe Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG) filed a position paper with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opposing a recent petition for allowing terrestrial services in the Ku-band.
Read MoreMr. Nicos Nicolaides, the Minister of Communications and Works in Cyprus, addressed a press conference held to publicize the licensing of OverHorizon PLC to operate a satellite.
Read MoreOver the last 6 months, representatives from NASA and the European Space Agency, or ESA, have been engaged in a detailed assessment of potential programs and technologies that when conducted cooperatively could one day support a human outpost on the moon.
Read MoreDuring a meeting between of The Joint Working Group of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the French Space Agency Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) in Goa, an agreement between ISRO and CNES on the data policy for distribution of data received from Megha Tropiques was signed.
Read MoreThe European Commission, with the support of European Space Agency (ESA), is launching the procurement of Galileo.
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