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Published on April 27, 2012
BRITISH TECHNOLOGY FIRM TO BUILD SUN ORBITER
- The European Space Agency said on Friday, April 27 it had awarded a 300-million-euro ($400 million) contract to a British technology firm to build a satellite to examine the Sun from closer up than any before it, AFP reported.
The Solar Orbiter, to be built by Astrium UK, is due to launch in January 2017 - coming to within 45 million kilometres (28 million miles) of the Sun - closer than its nearest planet, Mercury.
Project scientist Daniel Mueller said the satellite, roughly eight cubic metres in size, would have to withstand ten times the solar heat than that on earth.
"The satellite will have to be equipped with a massive heat shield which is about 500 degrees Centigrade (932 degrees Fahrenheit) on the sun-facing side and about room temperature on the back side to protect the sensitive electronics," he said.
The shield would be about 30 centimetres (12 inches) thick, and could be composed either of titanium wrapped in an insulating foil or a carbon-fiber composite.
The spacecraft will examine solar wind, a phenomenon that disrupts satellite communications. It will also study the poles to understand how the Sun generates its magnetic field.
The contract with Astrium, a subsidiary of defence giant EADS, is one of the largest ever between the ESA and a UK company, a statement said.
Several European companies will supply parts, while the United States and ESA member states will fund some of the scientific instruments.
"Solar Orbiter is a fantastic mission," said Alvaro Gimenez Canete, ESA director of science and robotic exploration. "It will help us understand how the Sun, essential to almost all life on Earth, forms the heliosphere (a magnetic 'bubble' surrounding our solar system) and the origin of space wheather, which can have an enormous influence on our modern civilisation."
Headlines for April 27, 2012
YEREVAN MAYOR OWNS 5 BUILDINGS IN AVAN DISTRICT, PAPER SAYS
Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan has five buildings and facilities in Yerevan's Avan district, their total area amounting to over 6000 sq.m.Referring to the mayor's income and property declaration submitted ...ORINATS YERKIR'S EX-SPEAKER QUITS ELECTION CAMPAIGN - PAPER
Susanna Abrahamyan, ex-speaker of Orinats Yerkir party nominated by proportional system for the upcoming parliamentary elections quits the campaign.
Armenia's Central Electoral Commission accepted Abrahamyan's ...RPA, PROSPEROUS ARMENIA CAMPAIGN PEACEFULLY, PAPER SAYS
According to Hraparak paper, despite the seeming opposition between the ruling Republican Party of Armenia and Prosperous Armenia, representatives of these forces strictly adhere to the agreement reached ...PAPER: GYUMRI MURDER DEFENDANT TO REVEAL HIS ACCESSORIES
According to the data of Aravot paper, Harutyun Sargsyan, accused of killing Karen Yesayan, fiancé of Gyumri mayor Vardan Ghukasyan's daughter, faces life sentence, being charged with premeditated ...EAMON GILMORE: IF YOU WANT TO MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR ENEMY, YOU HAVE TO WORK WITH YOUR ENEMY
"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner". These words were spoken, with characteristic eloquence, by former South African President Nelson ...ARMENIAN FREESTYLE WRESTERS TO PERFORM AT CHINA TOURNAMENT APRIL 27
Second European qualifying tournament for the Summer Olympic Games in Chinese city of Taiyuan kicks off on April 27.
Armenian freestyle wrestler Artur Baghdasaryan (60 kg) will face China's Gao Feng ...PAPER: PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE'S BROTHER ASSAULTED IN HRAZDAN TOWN
Brother of David Kocharyan, nominated by Prosperous Armenia party for the forthcoming parliamentary elections, was beaten in Armenian town of Hrazdan on April 26, Hraparak paper says.
The paper claims ...SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS RECORDS 5.05 TRILLION WON NET PROFIT
A surge in Galaxy smartphone sales fueled earnings at Samsung Electronics to a record high in the first quarter, usually a tough season for the global consumer electronics industry, outshining handset ...OSCE TO BOOST NATIONAL MINORITY AWARENESS IN ARMENIA
Awareness about legislative provisions and international standards is important to ensure protection of national minorities' rights, Vladimir Chundulov, human rights coordinator of OSCE Yerevan office ...26% GROWTH RECORDED IN AREXIMBANK OUTLETS FUND TURNOVER
In first quarter of 2012 the fund turnover in the outlets of Areximbank-Gazprombank Group totaled AMD 545 302 thous., increasing by 26% compared with the same period of 2011. Fund turnover in outlets ...ARTYOM BAGHDASARYAN TO PERFORM AT EUROPEAN JUDO CHAMPIONSHIP
On April 27, Armenia's Artyom Baghdasaryan (81 kg) will face off against Ukraine's Artem Vasylenko at European Judo Championship in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Another Armenian representative Hakob Arakelyan ...MUSA MURTAZALIEV REACHES CHINA WRESTLING TOURNAMENT 1/8 FINAL
Freestyle wrestler Musa Murtazaliev (74 kg) who represents Armenia beat Lucian Marius Atofani (Romania) 4:0 in the 1/16 final of European qualifying tournament for the Summer Olympic Games in China. He ...CALDERA TO FILE MOTION TO OVERTURN RULING ON MARJAN PROPERTY
Caldera Resources Inc. reports during a scheduled arbitration hearing on Wednesday April 25, 2012, the Arbitrator issued an order to suspend the implementation of his arbitral award to May 22, 2012; therefore ...ARTYOM BAGHDASARYAN DROPS OUT OF EUROPEAN JUDO CHAMPIONSHIPS
Armenian judoka Artyom Baghdasaryan (81 kg) lost to Ukraine's Artem Vasylenko to drop out of European judo championships ongoing in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk.
Only Hovhannes Davtyan (60 kg) from ...FIRE IN BAKER MAKER CAFE IN YEREVAN
Fire broke out in Baker Maker cafe in Mashtots 20, Yerevan on April 26.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations got the alarm call at 21:55; two fire brigades and rescue teams were sent to the scene.
20 ...RUSSIAN DELEGATES VISIT GENOCIDE MEMORIAL IN TSITSERNAKABERD
Delegation from Russian city of Saint Petersburg is currently in Yerevan within the "Days of Saint Petersburg" framework.
Delegates headed by St.Petersburg deputy governor Olga Kazanksaya and Yerevan ...MUSA MURTAZALIEV DROPS OUT OF CHINA WRESTLING TOURNAMENT
In 1/8 final of European qualifying tournament for the Summer Olympic Games in China freestyle wrestler Musa Murtazaliev (74 kg) suffered a 0:3 defeat by Hungary's Gábor Hato.
Artur Baghdasaryan ...ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY GIVES NO COMMENT ON DEATH OF 3 SOLDIERS
Three Armenian soldiers were allegedly killed in frontier Berd town in Armenia's Tavush province on April 26 night.
Armenia's Defense Ministry neither confirms nor refutes this, abstaining from ...POLL NAMES RPA, PROSPEROUS ARMENIA AS ELECTION FAVORITES
Gallup International Association and Armenia television company presented the outcomes of the poll conducted in Yerevan and in all of the provinces of Armenia on April 13-23, with 1080 respondents participating ...ARMENIA'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY JOINS CIVILIZED CAMPAIGN REGULATIONS
The republican council of Armenia's Democratic Party approved the "Rules ensuring civilized competition during the elections".
The decision is based on discussions of joint draft on "Rules ensuring civilized ...AMERIABANK LAUNCHES ITS 9TH BRANCH IN SHENGAVIT DISTRICT
Ameriabank CSJC officially launched its new Shengavit branch on April 27.
The new office in Bagratunyats street in Yerevan is in full compliance with modern technologies and services the Bank employs.
...AMERIABANK CONTINUES AGGRESSIVE GROWTH STRATEGY
Ameriabank CJSC ensured average 30% growth in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the same period of 2011, Ameriabank's Development Director said.
"We have pursued aggressive growth strategy ...TER-PETROSSIAN - KOCHARIAN FORCES WILLING TO CONDUCT REVOLUTION - POLITICIAN
"Ter-Petrossian - Kocharian" union (first and second presidents of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrossian and Robert Kocharian) has been formed in Armenia, which aims to conduct "Orange Revolution" and make shifts ...BIN LADEN FAMILY DEPORTED TO SAUDI ARABIA
The family of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, killed almost a year ago by American special forces in a military town in northwest Pakistan, left Pakistan for Saudi Arabia early on Friday, April 27 morning, ...THREE KILLED IN TAVUSH PROVINCE CAR SHELLING
On April 27, 4:15 am local time VAZ 2107 car belonging to an Armenian serviceman was shelled on the road to the village of Aygepar in Tavush Province of Armenia. As a result the driver and two other servicemen ...HERITAGE CANDIDATE SLAMS "DIRTY PROPAGANDA"
The election campaign records no serious incidents, except for some attempts by governmental bodies to spread fear among the people, Heritage party's candidate Stepan Safaryan told a press conference ...ROMANIA, CZECH GOVTS FACE NO CONFIDENCE VOTE AMID PUBLIC ANGER
Governments in Romania and the Czech Republic on Friday, April 27 face no confidence votes with opposition parties tapping into widespread public anger over biting austerity measures, cronyism and corruption, ...ARMENIAN EX-FM IS U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENT - POLITICIAN
Former Foreign Minister of Armenia and second number of Prosperous Armenia party's candidates list Vartan Oskanian is an American intelligence agent, leader of "Constitutional Right Union" party ...EXPLOSIONS IN UKRAINE LEAVE 14 INJURED
Between nine and 14 people were injured in four successive bomb attacks that took place on Friday, April 27 in the city of Dnepropetrovsk, eastern Ukraine, RIA Novosti reported.
According to some sources, ...PRESIDENT: ARMENIA WILL RETALIATE FOR MURDER OF THREE SOLDIERS
During election campaign in Armenian city of Stepanavan, President Serzh Sargsyan commented on murder of three conscripts in Tavush Province
"Let no one think it can benefit from the political process ...UN MONITORS MOVE TO HOT SPOT IN SOUTHERN SYRIA
The UN says international monitors have moved into another hot spot in Syria to try to stop violence, AP reported.
The monitoring team's spokesman, Neeraj Singh, said Friday, April 27 two observers ...STEVEN SPIELBERG, ROMAN POLANSKI AMONG "CANNES CLASSICS" HEADLINERS
Steven Spielberg, Roman Polanski, Agnes Varda and Sergio Leone are just a few of the directors whose films Cannes has chosen to show as part of its "Cannes Classics" program for this year's ...HONDA NET PROFIT PLUNGES 60.4%
Honda Motor said on Friday, April 27 its net profit for the fiscal year to March plunged 60.4 percent from the previous year due to Japan's quake-tsunami disaster, flooding in Thailand and the strong ...ARMENIAN FM TO VISIT IRAN
On April 29, Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian will arrive in Tehran on a two day official visit.
Meetings with top officials of the Islamic republic are on visit agenda, RA MFA press service ...COURTHOUSE BLAST IN LIBYA'S BENGHAZI LEAVES 4 WOUNDED
A bomb exploded at a courthouse in the Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday April 27, wounding four people and damaging nearby buildings in a new challenge to the government's struggle to restore order, ...BRITISH TECHNOLOGY FIRM TO BUILD SUN ORBITER
The European Space Agency said on Friday, April 27 it had awarded a 300-million-euro ($400 million) contract to a British technology firm to build a satellite to examine the Sun from closer up than any ...U.S. REMOVES 900 MARINES FROM JAPAN'S OKINAWA
About 9,000 U.S. Marines stationed on the Japanese island of Okinawa will be moved to the U.S. territory of Guam and other locations in the Asia-Pacific, including Hawaii, under a U.S.-Japan agreement, ...ANDY GARCIA, VERA FARMIGA TO STAR IN "ADMISSIONS" ROMCOM
Andy Garcia and Vera Farmiga are set to star in indie romantic comedy "Admissions," which Garcia will also produce through his CineSon Productions, Deadline reported.
"Admissions" centers on a once-in-a-lifetime ...PAKISTAN SEEKS TO BUILD GAS PIPELINE FROM IRAN DESPITE U.S. PRESSURE
Pakistan is pushing ahead with plans to build a gas pipeline from Iran despite strong opposition from Islamabad's strategic ally Washington, according to tender documents, Reuters reported.
State ...PARTIES TO APPEAL TO CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OVER VOTER LISTS RELEASE
A single inter-party headquarters to counter election frauds intends to address the Constitutional court with a request to rule the point of the Armenian electoral code banning publication of voter lists ...JAPAN'S SHARP EXPECTS TO STAY IN RED AFTER $4.7 BN LOSS
Japanese electronics giant Sharp said on Friday, April 26 it will remain in the red over the next year after a record $4.7 billion net loss up to March 2012 as global sales of its LCD televisions slumped, ...LEGISLATION ON DISABLED IS GOOD BUT LAME IN PRACTICE
There are 170000 disabled people in Armenia who have no representative in the parliament, and their rights are being ignored and violated, NGO chairman told the journalists. Arman Musheghyan, head of ...INJURY TOLL IN UKRAINE BLAST REACHES 27 AMID MOUNTING PANIC
Twenty seven people, including nine children, were injured in four successive bomb attacks that took place on Friday in the city of Dnepropetrovsk, eastern Ukraine, the emergencies ministry said, according ...ANC LEADER QUITS ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN MEGHRI OVER HEALTH PROBLEMS
Armenian National Congress (ANC) opposition bloc member Levon Ter-Petrossian was unable to continue ANC election campaign in Armenian city of Meghri due to health problems.
"Doctors advised Ter-Petrossian ...PEP GUARDIOLA STEPS DOWN AS BARCELONA COACH
Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola will not continue as coach of the Spanish club after this season and assistant Tito Vilanova will take over, AP reported.
Guardiola's contract ends at the close of the ..."BOOK OF MORMON" STAR POISED TO PLAY STEVE WOZNIAK IN STEVE JOBS BIO
Josh Gad, best known for his starring role in the Tony-winning musical The Book of Mormon, is in talks to portray Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in Jobs, the indie biopic starring Ashton Kutcher as Steve ...SPANISH JOBLESS RATE HITS RECORD 24.4%
Unemployment in Spain has risen to 24.4% in the first quarter of this year - up from 22.9% in the fourth quarter of 2011, Belfast Telegraph reported.
The Spanish National Statistics Institute said that ...OSCE CHAIR PLEDGES TO FOSTER CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN OSCE AREA
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore, is hosting a high-level conference in Dublin today, April 27 on the Northern Ireland peace process. The conference, being ...NETANYAHU'S LIKUD PARTY TO WIN ELECTIONS - ISRAELI POLL
An Israeli poll published on Friday, April 26 amid fresh talk of possible early elections, showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party winning twice as much support as any rival, AFP reported.
...FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN: EU SUPPORTS OSCE MG POLICIES ON KARABAKH
Foreign Ministry spokesman commented on recent European Parliament resolutions adopted in the context of Association Agreement talks with Armenia and Azerbaijan.
As Tigran Balayan told PanARMENIAN.Net, ...QAEDA-LINKED MILITANTS BLOW UP YEMENI GAS PIPELINE
Islamist militants linked to al-Qaeda blew up a gas pipeline April 26 in the eastern Yemeni province of Shabwa, a local official and residents said, according to Reuters.
The attack is the third against ...TURKISH MP PUBLICLY RECOGNIZES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Istanbul deputy slammed Armenian Genocide denial policy at Turkish parliament.
"A major massacre, which in every language of the world is called genocide, occurred in ...NO ARMENIANS INJURED IN UKRAINE BLASTS
No Armenians were reported among those injured in Ukraine's Dnepropetrovsk blasts, Foreign Ministry said citing Armenian Embassy in Ukraine.
Twenty seven people, including nine children, were injured ...OSCE CHAIR REP INFORMED OF AZERI TRACE IN DEATHS OF 3 ARMENIAN SOLDIERS
Armenian Defense Ministry informed Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk on the deaths of 3 servicemen in Armenia's border region.
As Foreign Ministry spokesman ...OSCE MG SLAMS CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS AT ARMENIAN-AZERI BORDER
The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Robert Bradtke of the United States, Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, and Jacques Faure of France, released a statement condemning ceasefire violations ...SACHA BARON COHEN'S "THE DICTATOR" OPENING SCENE RELEASED
With Sacha Baron Cohen's latest movie "The Dictator" set to brutally oppress movie theaters May 16, the opening scene from the film has been released like a grateful hostage onto the internet, ...SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS 9 IN DAMASCUS
A suicide bomber killed nine people, some of them security men, outside a Damascus mosque on Friday, April 27 Syrian state media said, in another blow to a fraying UN-brokered truce between President ...ROMANIAN GOVT UNSEATED IN NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE
Romania's government has been unseated in a no-confidence vote, just two months after taking office, BBC News reported.
The opposition seized on public anger over austerity measures to oust prime ...AMAZON'S KINDLE FIRE TAKES OVER 50% OF ANDROID TABLET MARKET
Amazon's Kindle Fire makes up more than half of the Android tablet market, less than six months after its release, a study has found, according to The Telegraph.
Fifty-four per cent of all Android ...PROCTER & GAMBLE Q3 INCOME DOWN 16%
Procter & Gamble Co. said Friday, April 27 its third-quarter net income slipped 16 percent as price increases and an uptick in revenue did not offset high costs for raw material and others related ...DOWNLOADS FROM APPLE'S APP STORE DIVE 30% IN MARCH
Downloads from the Apple's App Store dove by 30 percent in March, according to Fiksu, maker of a mobile marketing platform for apps.
As PCWorld reports, based on an analysis of more than 21 billion ...MICHAEL SHEEN JOINS TINA FEY'S "ADMISSION" COMEDY
Michael Sheen is joining the cast of Admission, Focus Features' comedy starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, The Hollywood Reporter said.
Paul Weitz (About a Boy) is directing the project from Karen Croner's ...3 ARRESTED OVER TERROR ATTACK PLOT IN DENMARK
Three people were arrested in Copenhagen Friday, April 27, on suspicion of planning a terror attack, Denmark's Security and Intelligence Service said.
The three are a 22-year-old Jordanian citizen, ...HOLLANDE VOICES TOUGH IMMIGRATION STANCE BEFORE FRENCH VOTE
French Socialist presidential frontrunner Francois Hollande toughened his stance on immigration Friday April 27 in a campaign increasingly fought on themes dear to the far right, AFP reported.
Hollande ...KODAK POSTS $366 MILLION LOSS FOR Q1
Kodak has posted yet another disappointing quarter despite its efforts to cut costs, sell patents, and jettison its unprofitable businesses, SlashGear reports.
For the first quarter of 2012, ending March ...ROLLING STONES MUSEUM OPENS IN GERMAN TOWN
A German couple opened a museum devoted to legendary British rock band, the Rolling Stones, complete with urinals in the shape of the group's famous 'tongue' logo, The Telegraph reported.
...RUSSIAN SPACEMEN, NASA ASTRONAUT SAFELY BROUGHT BACK TO EARTH
Two Russian spacemen and a NASA astronaut touched down safely on Friday April 27 in the Kazakh steppe aboard a Soyuz capsule after a stay of almost six months aboard the International Space Station, AFP ...BAKU ASKING FOR TROUBLE AMID MEDIATORS' DIPLOMACIES AS ARMENIA'S PATIENCE RUNS OUT
Azerbaijan, having gained full confidence of its impunity has long stopped pretending to work towards peaceful settlement of Karabakh issue, openly ignoring the urges of international mediators.
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- 1827 Russian forces lay seige to Fort Yerevan (currently the Armenian Winery building).
- 1849 Students create the "Ararat Union" in Paris.
- 1868 Death of Grigor Aghatonyan in Paris. He was born in 1823.
- 1915 Birth of Hovhannes Shiraz (poet). He died in 1984.
- 1919 In Constantinople, start of the trials of the leaders of the Young Turk government and the central committee members of the "Union and Progress" party.
- 1925 The Science and Art Institute of the Armenian SSR opens in Yerevan.
- 1930 Death of Archbishop Eghisheh Doorian, historian, literary figure, author, and Patriarch of Jerusalem.
- 1931 An earthquake (Richter Scale: 6.3) occurs in Zangezoor and affects a 100 000 sq.km. area. The Monastery of Tatev and other structures on the Tatev highlands and in the valley of the Vorotan River are destroyed.
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