Qatar, once a weakling in the Gulf, has grown hugely in wealth and clout, partly thanks to the soft power of its satellite arm.
As chief designer for the China National Space Administration's (CNSA's) Chang'e lunar exploration program, Wu Weiren oversaw the Chang'e-3 mission that in late 2013 landed and released a rover on the moon's surface the first soft touchdown on Earth's satellite since a Soviet mission in 1976.
Although it is unclear what the Chinese intended, the test left no doubt that space hardware — everything from crucial navigation and communication assets to secret spy satellites — is a very soft target.
A porn producer will sell the U.S. cable TV rights to a 90-minute X-rated film to a porn channel for from $1,000 (a hard-core version for a satellite station) to $25,000 (soft-core version for Playboy).
We investigate quasi-periodic coronal pulsations during the decay phase of an X 3.2 class flare on 14 May 2013, using soft X-ray data from the RHESSI satellite.
The microwave images from the Nobeyama Radioheliograph at 17 GHz were compared with Kitt Peak magnetograms and soft X-ray images from the Yohkoh satellite.
a The solar corona observed by soft X-ray from on board the Yohkoh satellite.
Improvements include a bathroom addition, landscaping, a sprinkler system, a soft water system, central air, new flooring, a satellite dish, an alarm system and attic insulation.
At the international level, Space Law (both hard law and soft law) is expanding in certain areas, especially in satellite broadcast and telecommunications.
The initiation of CMEs was documented using the SPIRIT instrument (SPectrohelIographic Soft X-Ray Imaging Telescope) onboard the CORONAS-F satellite.
