KAZAKHSTAN PLANS TO BUILD AND LAUNCH ITS OWN COMMUNICATION SATELLITE
Published:
14 January 2001 y., Sunday
The fourth meeting of the intergovernmental committee for co-operation between Kazakhstan and Russia related to the Baikonur launching site has been recently held in Karagandy along with an international scientific and practical conference focusing on environmental issues of the Baikonur site, Kazakhstan Aerodynamic Committee Chairman Moldabekov informed.
The conference participants were especially interested in the joint space exploration program up to the year 2005. Moldabekov gave special attention to the five-year programme for estimation of environmental after-effects of space exploration activities. He informed that Proton-M upgraded rocket carriers, re-designed to produce less impact on the environment, will be launched from Baikonur in 2001. Moldabekov has also announced that Kazakhstan is carrying out a feasibility study of a project for the building and launching of its own communication satellite jointly with Russia and several foreign states.
Šaltinis:
transcaspian.ru
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.
The most popular articles
Software company announced new structure_ of it_s business.
more »
The growth rate of e-commerce sales has begun to slow from its torrid pace of recent years, but online consumers continue to use the Web for shopping, if not buying.
more »
The company ``Lattelekom`` opened the Internet store ``www.collectoria.lv``
more »
9 million homes ready for broadband now. By end 2002, 11.6 million homes will be broadband-capable
more »
A study of more than 4,000 Web users by Brigham Young University (BYU) found that Internet retailers need to re-target their marketing, address customer fears over credit card security and make the experience less technologically challenging.
more »
search.lt presents newest links
more »
The World Intellectual Property Rights Organization has ordered India-based cybersquatter D. P.Singh Bhatia to transfer the domain names Sapmaster.com and Sapwizard.com to the German multinational e-business concern, SAP AG.
more »
The Korean government aims to have 84 percent of the nation's households accessing the Internet at a super-fast 20 megabits per second (Mbps) by 2005.
more »
Mobile commerce to remain a niche
more »
Alcatel gave the world its first tantalizing preview of the new One Touch 511 mobile phone, set to be on the market in early July.
more »
English-Latvian-English base dictionary contains 41 802 English words, 29 947 English expressions and 86 442 Latvian words.
more »