Новости за 11.09.2022

Geneva (AFP) Sept 7, 2022
Switzerland summoned China's ambassador following the publication last week of a long-awaited UN report listing a litany of serious abuses in China's Xinjiang region, the government said Wednesday. Switzerland had "summoned China's ambassador to Bern to convey to him Switzerland's concerns following the publication of the... report on the situation in Xinjiang," the foreign ministry told AFP

Beijing (AFP) Sept 8, 2022
Sales of passenger cars in China rose 28.9 percent on-year in August - the most in a decade - driven by a surge in demand for electric vehicles, a trade body said Thursday. A total of 1.87 million vehicles were sold last month, China's Passenger Car Association said, with sales of hybrid and electric units doubling on-year in the world's largest car market. Sales had contracted sharply

Stockholm (AFP) Sept 8, 2022
Activists from environmental group Greenpeace blocked a shipment of Russian gas from unloading at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Sweden on Thursday, the terminal owner and Greenpeace said. "Activists climbed up on the loading arms at the terminal and they have boats in the water", a spokeswoman for terminal owner Gasum, Olga Vaisanen, told AFP. She said the protest at the Nyna

Los Angeles (AFP) Sept 8, 2022
The United States began a series of meetings with ministers from the Asia-Pacific in Los Angeles on Thursday at an economic summit aimed at countering China's growing influence in the region. The two-day event is the first face-to-face meeting between members of the new Indo-Pacific Economic Prosperity Framework (IPEF), an initiative launched in May by US President Joe Biden. With this

Tangerang, Indonesia (AFP) Sept 9, 2022
As Indonesia's capital Jakarta grapples with overflowing plastic waste and pollution pours into the sea, one burgeoning business is trying to turn rubbish into revenue. Tridi Oasis Group, which employs 120 people, has recycled more than 250 million bottles since it was founded six years ago. "I don't see discarded plastic as trash. For me, it is a valuable material in the wrong place," 3

Abidjan (AFP) Sept 9, 2022
Voice-operated smartphones are aiming at a vast yet widely overlooked market in sub-Saharan Africa - the tens of millions of people who face huge challenges in life because they cannot read or write. In Ivory Coast, a so-called "Superphone" using a vocal assistant that responds to commands in a local language is being pitched to the large segment of the population - as many as 40 percent -

Washington (AFP) Sept 9, 2022
The United States on Friday demanded the "immediate and unconditional" release of a former US serviceman detained for two years in Venezuela. "Today marks two years since US citizen and Marine veteran Matthew Heath was wrongfully detained in Venezuela," State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement. Heath was labeled a spy by authorities in Caracas who accused him of trying t

Geneva (AFP) Sept 10, 2022
Swiss authorities have selected a site in northern Switzerland, not far from the German border, to host a deep geological storage repository for radioactive waste, they said Saturday. After nearly 50 years of searching for the best way to store its radioactive waste, Switzerland is gearing up for its "project of the century", entailing burying spent nuclear fuel deep underground in clay.

Columbus (AFP) Sept 9, 2022
President Joe Biden said Friday at a ceremony to break ground on a semi-conductor plant that making sophisticated computer chips is an issue of US national security in the face of an assertive China. "All of this is in our economic interest, and it's in our national security interest as well," Biden said at the site where Intel plans to build a $20 billion factory. Biden made the trip to

Cairo (AFP) Sept 9, 2022
The leaders of two dozen African countries Friday urged wealthier nations to uphold their aid pledges so the continent can tackle climate change impacts for which it shares little blame. They made the call after African leaders on Monday lashed out at industrialised nations for failing to show up to a summit in the Netherlands on helping African nations adapt to these changes. We urge "d

Washington (AFP) Sept 10, 2022
Iran's recent seizure of unmanned US Navy boats shined a light on a pioneering Pentagon program to develop networks of air, surface and underwater drones for patrolling large regions, meshing their surveillance with artificial intelligence. The year-old program operates numerous unmanned surface vessels, or USVs, in the waters around the Arabian peninsula, gathering data and images to be bea

Usta Muhammad, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 10, 2022
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday that developing nations were paying a "horrific price" for the world's reliance on fossil fuels, as he toured parts of Pakistan hit by floods blamed on climate change. Nearly 1,400 people have died in flooding that covers a third of the country - an area the size of the United Kingdom - and has wiped out crops and destroyed

New York (AFP) Sept 11, 2022
Less glitz, better weather. The Detroit Auto Show, long a dead of winter mainstay that drew car industry brass and international media to America's "Motor City" ahead of a big public expo, will convene next week for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic. The event, reconceptualized as a partly outdoor gathering, will spotlight the growing class of electric vehicles (EV) that are be

Vienna, Austria (SPX) Sep 12, 2022
How animals are able to interpret natural light sources to adjust their physiology and behaviour is poorly understood. The labs of Kristin Tessmar-Raible (Max Perutz Labs Vienna, Alfred Wegener Institut, University of Oldenburg) and Eva Wolf (Johannes Gutenberg University and Institute of Molecular Biology Mainz) have now revealed that a molecule called L-cryptochrome (L-Cry) has the biochemical

Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 12, 2022
A new foundation model dubbed RingMo has been developed to improve accuracy for remote sensing image interpretation, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Remote sensing images has been successfully applied in many fields, such as classification and change detection, and deep learning approaches have contributed to the rapid dev

Beijing (XNA) Sep 07, 2022
China has applied its Gaofen series satellites to help with relief work following a 6.8-magnitude earthquake in southwest China's Sichuan Province, according to the website of state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV). More than 10 satellites were deployed to capture images of the quake-hit areas 10 minutes after the earthquake jolted Sichuan's Luding County at 12:52 p.m. Monday, i

Washington DC (UPI) Sep 9, 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to astronauts serving on the International Space Station on Friday as she convened the meeting of the National Space Council at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. In the call, Harris talked about the importance of protecting Earth and joining forces to meet other space initiatives. She is the chair of the council. "Tell us what you are learnin

Paris (ESA) Sep 12, 2022
Before Europe's first Meteosat Third Generation Imager leaves the south of France at the end of the month aboard a ship bound for French Guiana, this remarkable new weather satellite has been taking centre stage at Thales Alenia Space's facilities in Cannes. The satellite is in its very last stages of being checked and readied for shipment to Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Sep 12, 2022
OneWeb, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, and HD Hyundai Avikus, a world leader in advanced autonomous ship, has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). This agreement, signed during a dedicated ceremony at SMM Hamburg 2022, signifies a new partnership to explore opportunities for advanced LEO satellite technology to support the next generati

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 12, 2022
A new simulation conducted on the world's most powerful supercomputer dedicated to astronomy has produced a testable scenario to explain the appearance of the bar of the Milky Way. Comparing this scenario to data from current and future space telescopes will help clarify the evolution of our home Galaxy. Astronomy is revealing the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy in which we live in incre

McLean VA (SPX) Sep 12, 2022
Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) reports it has reached an agreement with SpaceX to launch up to five of the company's remaining ground spare satellites from the Iridium NEXT program, on its Falcon 9 rocket. Known as Iridium-9, the launch is planned to take place at Vandenberg Space Force Base in mid-2023. Earlier this year, Iridium celebrated the 25th anniversary of the first la

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (SPX) Sep 12, 2022
MEASAT Global Berhad ("MEASAT") - Malaysia's premier satellite operator, has signed a multiyear contract with Reach Ten Communication Sdn Bhd ("Reach Ten") for Managed Bandwidth Services, supported by the high throughput satellite ("HTS") payload on MEASAT-3d ("M3d"). With this contract, Reach Ten will become the largest enterprise satellite service provider in Malaysia in terms of capacity prov

Beijing (XNA) Sep 12, 2022
Chinese scientists have achieved a remarkable new feat in their research of the moon as they have discovered and identified the sixth new lunar mineral. The China National Space Administration and the China Atomic Energy Authority jointly announced in Beijing on Friday that the new mineral-Changesite-(Y)-was found by scientists at the Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology from surf

Washington (AFP) Sept 10, 2022
On September 12, 1962, then US president John F Kennedy informed the public of his plan to put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade. It was the height of the Cold War and America needed a big victory to demonstrate its space superiority after the Soviet Union had launched the first satellite and put the first man in orbit. "We choose to go to the Moon," Kennedy told 40,000 people a

Menlo Park CA (SPX) Sep 12, 2022
LeoLabs, Inc., the world's leading commercial provider of low Earth orbit (LEO) mapping and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services, has announced an award to provide data and services to the US Department of Commerce to support the development of a US civil- led Space Traffic Management (STM) system. The announcement was made at the 9th session of the National Space Council in Houston, Texas