BEIJING asics gel kayano 21 baratas , Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- All the key components of China's BeiDou navigation satellites are made in China, ending reliance on imports, Xie Jun, chief designer of the Beidou system, said on Tuesday.


Key components such as traveling-wave tube amplifiers, microwave switches asics gel kayano 20 baratas mujer , and high-power current source controllers are now all made in China instead of being imported, Xie said.


Xie also said his team has mastered all the core technologies for the global BeiDou network of satellites, aiming to make it as good as the Global Positioning System (GPS).


China plans to make BeiDou a global positioning and navigation system by around 2020, making it the third country after the United States and Russia with its own navigation system.


In 2018, China plans to launch 18 BeiDou-3 satellites to expand navigation services to countries along the Belt and Road routes.




One person is reported to have been killed and at least two injured in Belgium in an accidental explosion at a sports center near the French border.


A Belgian Crisis Center staffer said early Friday that "the information that I have is that it due to an accident, probably gas. There is no link to terrorism or anything like that." The staffer could not be named under the center's rules.


Belgian state radio RTBF said the blast happened in the town of Chimay asics gel kayano 20 hombre baratas , 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of the capital Brussels just after midnight. It quoted local rescue services as saying a number of people had been in the building at the time.


The rescue services said part of the building collapsed and that people were trapped in the rubble.


Many parts of the globe may catch a glimpse on Wednesday (Jan 31) of a giant crimson moon, thanks to a rare lunar trifecta that combines a blue moon, a super moon and a total eclipse.


"The last 'blue moon' total lunar eclipse visible from the US and North America happened on March 31, 1866."


The "blue moon" aspect simply means it is the second full moon in a month, not that the moon will appear blue. A blue moon happens on average just under every three years.


It's called a super moon because the moon, in its elliptical orbit asics gel kayano 20 baratas , is near its closest point to Earth.


This proximity, or perigee, makes it appear 14 per cent bigger than normal and 30 per cent brighter.


The reddish tint - or blood moon - happens due to "the effect of all the sunrises and sunsets all around the planet reflecting off the moon, which I think is really lovely," said NASA astrophysicist Michelle Thaller.


Sunrises and sunsets appear pink, red and orange because of the long distance light must travel asics gel nimbus 17 baratas , causing light waves to bounce in different ways, explained Thaller.


"The reason a sunrise or a sunset is red is the sunlight has to pass through a large amount of air on the side of the Earth and that actually scatters away any blue light and just lets the red light come on through," she said.


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The blood moon will not be visible in much of Europe, Africa and South America.


Viewing will also be a challenge for those on the US East Coast, since the eclipse begins just as the moon is setting in the west and the sun is rising in the east.


But those who are not in the path of totality, or who are experiencing cloudy weather asics gel lyte v negras baratas , may catch it anyway, via a live stream broadcast on NASA.gov.


Moon-watching parties for the one-hour-16-minute eclipse were advertised up and down the US West Coast, including at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, where the gathering kicks off at 3.45am.


If you miss this one, the next blue moon total lunar eclipse will happen on Dec 31, 2028 asics gel lyte v granate baratas , though it won't be quite as large since the moon will not be at its closest point to Earth.


Another will happen on Jan 31, 2037, a total of 17 hours before perigee.


"The red colour during a lunar eclipse is very distinctive and it's a rare treat to be able to see a blood red moon," said Brian Rachford, associate professor of physics at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.


"One of the great things about a lunar eclipse is you also don't need any special equipment to see it. Anyone can go outside and look at the moon."



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ZAGREB, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Croatian Hydrocarbon Agency (CHA) confirmed on Monday the exploration for oil and gas in Adriatic seabed would be postponed due to the need for consultations with neighboring countries.


The contracts asics gel lyte v blancas baratas , initially scheduled to be signed in April with five companies which have been awarded licences, were expected to be signed in June, CHA said.


Under the UN Espoo convention (EIA), Croatia should carry out a trans-border consultations with its neighboring countries, including Italy, Montenegro and Slovenia asics gel lyte v españa , to form the strategic ecologic feasibility study for starting exploration and exploitation activities in the Adriatic.


Neighboring countries should send their comments and suggestions on the feasibility study within a reasonable time, initially scheduled for late March.


Croatia issued an international tender for exploration and exploitation of gas and oil in the Adriatic seabed in April 2014 and received offers for 15 exploration areas, out of 29, ranging between 1,000 and 1,600 square kilometres each.


Croatia awarded 10 licenses to Consortium of U.S. Marathon Oil asics gel lyte v baratas , 7 to Austrian OMV and 2 to Croatian-Hungarian INA. Italian ENI and British Medoilgas got one licence respectively in January 2015.


Croatia would collect around 55 percent of all earnings, while investors would collect the remaining 45 percent, according to CHA.


Croatian Minister of Economy Ivan Vrdoljak said that there is a potential of 3 billion barrels of oil in the Adriatic Sea. Some experts supported this assessment, while others warned that it was hard to tell before .