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  The company is closed for Saint Nicholaus` Day celebration

  Next friday, may 9th, 2008
  our offices will stay closed for Saint Nicholaus` Day celebration, Patron Saint of Bari. If you wish to know more about the Saint, worldwide known as Santa Claus or Father Christmas, we suggest you to visit the town during the three days celebration on 7th, 8th and 9th of may.
  Otherwise you can know more by visiting the following links:

  http://www.basilicasannicola.org/

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_klaus

  or an international website rich of information:

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  Vanguard-1, 50 years in orbit

  On March 17th, 1958 the Vanguard-1 was launched and is the oldest still orbiting Earth, though there is no longer any communication with it. It was the first satellite to be solar powered and was used to obtain geodetic measurements. It revealed that the earth is slightly pear-shaped rather than round.

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  Space Sentinels for European environment and security

  Another step forward for the European Earth Observation programme GMES. ESA and EU signed an agreement which establishes the allocation of €624 mln budget for the development and delivery of the space infrastructure (the Sentinels) of the GMES programme. GMES will provide accurate, up-to-date and globally-available information on an operational basis to European, national, regional and local entities, enabling them to develop services and applications related to land, sea/ocean and atmospheric monitoring as well as to emergency response and security.

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  TerraSAR-X Supports UN Emergency Response

  Only 48 hours after UNOSAT, a United Nations operational programme, contacted Infoterra GmbH`s teams, the company`s experts were able to deliver a readily processed high-resolution radar image acquired by the new German radar satellite TerraSAR-X. Heavy rainfall had caused severe flooding in Bolivia, killing more than 60 and leaving over 40.000 people homeless by February 2008.

  UNOSAT experts made a preliminary flood water analysis publicly available through its website: a valuable source of information not only to UN institutions, but to any other organization preparing emergency relief actions in the area - whether national or international, governmental or non-governmental. To know more visit http://www.unosat.org and our pages at

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  Satellite GeoEye-1 scheduled to launch in August

  GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), a premier provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information, announced an August 22, 2008 (currently scheduled for launch Sept. 4, 2008), launch date for its next-generation, earth imaging satellite GeoEye-1 (resolution up to 0.41m panchromatic and 1.64m multispectral). GeoEye Inc. also operates two Earth-imaging satellites, IKONOS and OrbView-2.

  To receive timely, ongoing details about about GeoEye-1 please visit: http://launch.geoeye.com/

  For more information in Italian about GeoEye data:

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