GEO-1, a Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Satellite

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Press release: U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin Deliver First-Of-Its-Kind Missile Warning Spacecraft; SBIRS GEO-1 to Be Processed for May 2011 Launch. Lockheed Martin, Mar 7, 2011.
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/news/press_releases/2011/0302_ss_sbirs.html
("the first geosynchronous (GEO-1) Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) spacecraft")

My comment: Chinese in PRC--but not Taiwanese--have a phrase 傳說中的, whose English counterpart is proverbial (or fabled).  Is this satellite IT?



----------------------------------Separately
(1) The Indian Cure For Ballistic Missiles. Strategy Page, Mar 9, 2011.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htada/articles/20110309.aspx

(2) Praveen Swami, Why oil is so important to China; The presence of a Chinese frigate off the coast of Libya last week was deeply significant as the world’s major powers position themselves to protect future supplies of fuel. Telegraph, Mar 8, 2011.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/8369641/Why-oil-is-so-important-to-China.html

Quote:

"Key African producers such as Nigeria, whose output today helps stabilise prices and meet significant parts of global demand, will also run dry by 2025 or so. That means that the Middle East will, in the not too distant future, be the world’s principal source of oil

"The International Energy Agency estimates that China’s consumption will grow to 13.1 mbd in 2030, up from 3.5 mbd in 2006. The country is investing heavily in alternative sources, but even the 25 nuclear plants it is in the process of constructing will meet less than 1 per cent of its needs.

"That means China continues to remain reliant on Middle Eastern oil, with half its imports coming from Saudi Arabia and Iran alone.

My comment: The analysis says, "Back in 1941, a Japanese carrier fleet tore across the oceans to what is now Indonesia, seeking control of what was then the fourth-largest oil-producing state in the world, behind the United States, Iran and Romania.

Where was Russia?

(3) Simon Hall, Robb M Stewart and Michael Haddon, Hunts for Uranium; State-Owned Nuclear-Power Company Pursues Stake in Large Namibian Deposit. Wall Street Journal, Mar 9, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704623404576187330250265872.html
("A Chinese nuclear-power company is moving to acquire a stake in a big Namibian uranium deposit, and Beijing said Tuesday that China is poised to overtake the U.S. as the world's top user of the nuclear-power fuel")

My comment: Check out the graphic at least.


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