French Guiana News

“At one time or another there was probably a Navteq employee who drove past (Olde Towne Bar and Grille) and put it in their database.”

GPS units may help Guyanese authorities fight an increase in pirate attacks off the country's southeastern coast, reports the Jamaica Gleaner. via GPS World

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Star One, the satellite subsidiary of Brazilian long-distance operator Embratel, has launched a new generation satellite Star One C2 from the Kourou base in French Guiana, reports BNamericas citing a statement ... via TeleGeography CommsUpdate

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JXB Advance Access originally published online on March 28, 2008 Journal of Experimental Botany 2008 59 :1353-1362; doi:10.1093/jxb/ern042 Respiration of thermogenic inflorescences of Philodendron melinonii : ... via Journal of Experimental Botany

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“Other countries, like Thailand and Singapore, have already contacted us.”

Vietnam has taken a major step into the space age with the launch of its first telecommunications satellite. via BBC News

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On 9th March 2008, e2v image sensors were launched into space on board the European Space Agency's Jules Verne spacecraft, the first Automated Transfer Vehicle to be sent to the International Space Station . via RF Globalnet

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“Successfully launching the first satellite is an event of great political, technical and socioeconomic significance and will help raise the image of Vietnam in the international arena”

News Leave a comment By Martyn Williams April 20, 2008 - IDG News Service - Vietnam launched its first satellite over the weekend to provide telecommunications, broadcasting and Internet links across the ... via CIO

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“C2's orbital slot has more than 20 million TV dishes”

A heavy-lift Ariane-5 rocket blasted off from French Guiana on Friday putting into orbit telecommunications satellites for Brazil and Vietnam, space officials said. via Reuters

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Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung applauds in front of a model of the Ariane-5 rocket, with Vietnam's VINASAT-1 and Brazil's Star One C2 satellites attached, while speaking at a ceremony in Hanoi April ... via Xinhuanet

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KOUROU, French Guiana (Reuters) - An Ariane-5 rocket blasted off from French Guiana on Friday putting into orbit telecommunications satellites for Brazil and Vietnam, a space official said.

The rocket was launched from Europe's space base in Kourou, on the northeast coast of South America, at 7:17 p.m. (2217 GMT). Twenty-six minutes after launch, the rocket released into a preliminary orbit Star One C2, a telecommunications satellite for Brazil's telecoms operator Embratel.

Five minutes later, the rocket released into space VINASAT-1, Vietnam's first telecommunications satellite. Read more

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A satellite to provide telephone and television service to Vietnam's rural communities has been loaded aboard a rocket and is prepared for liftoff from French Guiana, an Associated Press report said. via America's Network

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