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 Surrey UK (SPX) Nov 05, 2012 Optical Surfaces Ltd. has established a worldwide reputation of being able to deal with the extremely tight tolerances and accuracy that hyperbolic optics demand. Hyperboloids are generally used in optical telescope systems where good off-axis performance is an important requirement. Optical Surfaces supplied hyperboloids have been at the heart of many deep space and earth observation satellites including BNSC's Top Sat, the NASA swift explorer as well as ESA's XMM and NigeriaSAT-2. Benefiti ... read more |
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  Smallholder farmers need improved stake in Nile's development A new book finds that the Nile river, together with its associated tributaries and rainfall, could provide 11 countries - including a new country, South Sudan, and the drought-plagued countries of t ... more | |
  Outside View: Mounting tension in Mali The beating drums of war seem to be growing louder in Mali especially after the realization that al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and its allies in the Sahel region have probably played a key role in the lethal attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, in September. ... more | |
 Uganda threat to quit Somalia poses danger Uganda's threat to pull its troops out of Somalia in retaliation for allegations it backs rebel forces in war-ravaged Congo could dangerously weaken Somalia's fragile, Western-backed transitional federal government only weeks after it was installed. ... more | |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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 Somalia charcoal exports fuelling conflict flout UN ban Somalia's charcoal exports, which have fuelled Islamist insurgents, continue in defiance of a UN ban, including out of regions controlled by African Union forces, residents and officials said Tuesday. ... more | |
 Mali Islamist rebels urge dialogue, halt to hostilities Ansar Dine, an Islamist group occupying northern Mali, called Tuesday for other fighters to join them in political dialogue, as military chiefs plot strategies to expel the extremists by force. ... more | |
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DAMPE space telescope finds universal spectral feature that narrows field on cosmic ray origins
ThinKom Develops Self-Funded Mobile HPM Weapon to Counter Drone Swarms
Planet and Carbon Mapper Plan SWIR-Only Tanager Satellite for Wider Methane Detection | |
  Fugitive Iraq VP handed second death term Iraq's vice president Tareq al-Hashemi, a critic of premier Nuri al-Maliki and one of the country's top Sunni officials, was handed a second death sentence in absentia on Thursday. ... more | |
 Scientists Find Aphid Resistance in Black Raspberry There's good news for fans of black raspberries: A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist and his commercial colleague have found black raspberries that have resistance to a disease-spreadi ... more | |
  Commentary: Pakistan's heavyweights Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's national hero who peddled nuclear weapons secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya (under Moammar Gadhafi), now has his own political party to promote his presidential ambitions. He is also a media columnist and his anti-U.S. lucubrations are read in both English and Urdu. ... more | |
 Lesotho fears cash shortfall as food crisis deepens The Lesotho government fears it may not raise enough cash to avert a pending food crisis caused by two successive crop failures, the head of the country's disaster management authority said Thursday. ... more |
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  China grants 95% tariff discount for Angolan exports China has granted a 95 percent tariff discount to exports coming from oil-rich Angola, officials said Thursday, after the signing of a new round of trade deals. ... more | |
 Iraq opens biggest trade fair in 20 years Iraq opened on Thursday its biggest trade fair in more than 20 years, the latest step in Baghdad's efforts to rebuild an economy battered by decades of conflict and sanctions and combat unemployment. ... more | |
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Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program
Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm
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  Maurel Prom reveals approach for Gabon oil assets, report names suitor Sinopec French oil company Maurel et Prom, which operates mainly in Gabon, said on Thursday that it had received approaches for some of its activities but that no agreement was in sight. ... more | |
  Graphene Mini-Lab A team of physicists from Europe and South Africa showed that electrons moving randomly in graphene can mimic the dynamics of particles such as cosmic rays, despite travelling at a fraction of their ... more | |
  US monitoring Iranian warships' Sudan visit The United States said Wednesday it was monitoring a visit by two Iranian warships to a Sudanese port this week, but had no details about it. ... more | |
  Storm damage forces UN Security Council to move Superstorm Sandy caused serious water damage to the UN Security Council chamber, forcing it to move to a temporary base for a special meeting on Wednesday, diplomats said. ... more |
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