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Mark Cuban charged with insider trading - Baltimore Sun
WASHINGTON - Federal regulators today charged Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban with insider trading for allegedly using confidential information on a stock sale to avoid more than $750,000 in losses. Cuban disputed the Securities and Exchange ...

Nigerian satellite launched by China loses power - Forbes
A Nigerian communications satellite built and launched by China has been knocked out of service due to a power failure, a spokeswoman for China's launch services provider said Thursday. The Nigerian Communication Satellite, or NIGCOMSAT-1, ceased ...

Nigeria's Chinese-built satellite goes dark - Asia Times
In May 2007, the Nigerian government rejoiced as the Chinese-built Nigeria Communications Satellite - 1 (NIGCOMSAT-1), was sent into orbit by a Chinese rocket at the Xichang launch facility. Nigeria was upbeat and looking forward to 15 years of ...

Firefly satellite will study thunderstorms - ZDNet Blogs
Tags: National Science Foundation , Satellite , Firefly Mission , Network Technology , Networking , Roland Piquepaille , Atmosphere , Earth , NASA , News Release The Firefly mission is the second project under the new U.S. National Science Foundation ...

To Widen Path To Outer Space, UF Engineers Build Small Satellite - Space Daily
It's not much bigger than a softball and weighs just 2 pounds. But the "pico satellite" being designed and built in a University of Florida aerospace engineering laboratory may hold a key to a future of easy access to outer space - one where sending ...

Design Miami Announces Satellite Exhibits - Miami New Times Blogs
In addition to it's 45,000-square foot tent, Design Miami will also feature seven satellite instillations spread through out the area. Kaikai Kiki, the studio founded by famed pop-artists Takashi Murakami, will be featured for the first time at the ...

DataPath(R) to Deploy Satellite Communications on-the-Move Solution ... - Earthtimes
Author : DataPath, Inc. DULUTH, Ga. , Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- DataPath, Inc., a leading provider of satellite and wireless communications networks around the world, has been awarded a delivery order to manufacture and deploy a satellite ...

Satellite Successfully Observes Polar Mesospheric Clouds - Redorbit.com
The Naval Research Laboratory's Spatial Heterodyne Imager for Mesospheric Radicals (SHIMMER) has successfully observed a second northern season of Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMCs), which are the Earth's highest clouds. This successful observation ...

Nigerian satellite fails in space - BBC News
But on Wednesday Minister of State for Science and Technology Alhassan Zaku told journalists it had lost power and had to be "parked, like you would park a car". "If it wasn't parked and it lost all its power there would be no energy to even move it ...

Satellite tech keeps tabs on Cornwall's rubbish - Silicon.com
Local authorities in south-west England are using satellite technology to keep track of their rubbish collection fleets. Caradon and North Cornwall District Councils have been using Masternaut Three X to monitor their fleet online since June this ...