2017 S3 Unmanned Suborbital Shuttle

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Toronto Hydro: 32,000 customers without power

Because of Superstorm Sandy, Toronto Hydro says 32,000 customers are still without power Tuesday afternoon, and some may not have power back until as late as Thursday afternoon as the utility focuses on the largest outages first.
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From: thestar.com

Air Force Secretary Calls DMSP Satellites 'Out of Date'

1. Titus Ledbetter III
 
2. 04/5/12 02:15 PM ET
 
3. in Military

The U.S. Air Force’s top civilian admitted that the technology in the two aging Defense Meteorological Support Program (DMSP) military weather satellites that the service plans to launch is “out-of-date.” ...