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Algeria ‘on track’ to launch second satellite system

November 11, 2007 – 4:47 am

Hichem Bouledjout
2 November 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Algeria is on track to launch its second satellite system, Alsat-2, in late 2008, revealed a top space official this week (30 October).
The director-general of Algeria’s space agency ASAL, Azzedine Oussedik, was speaking at an international workshop, ‘Weather change and the role of space technologies’, held in Algiers.
Alsat-2 will collect high-quality […]

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China to share disaster expertise

October 1, 2007 – 4:17 am

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Jia Hepeng
28 September 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
[BEIJING] China will share its information, technology and expertise to forecast natural disasters and manage disaster response in other developing nations, a Chinese minister revealed.
Li Xueju, minister of civil affairs, made the remark this week (24 September) at a developing nations’ ministerial meeting on disaster response management, according to Xinhua news […]

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