Solar Orbiter (SolO)

British industry will lead the production of Solar Orbiter (SolO), a spacecraft that will travel closer to the Sun than any satellite to date.

SolO will take pictures and measurements from inside the orbit of Mercury, to gain new insights on what drives the star's dynamic behaviour.

The European Space Agency has signed a contract with Astrium UK to build the satellite, for a launch in 2017.

The deal is worth 300m euros (£245m), and the work will be done in Stevenage.

After launch, Solar Orbiter will take itself deep into the inner Solar System, flying as close as 42 million km from the Sun. This close proximity will require the spacecraft to carry a robust shield.

SolO's remote sensing instruments - its imagers and telescopes - will look though slots which have shutters that can be closed when no observations are being made.

The mission is designed to enhance our understanding of how the Sun influences its environment, and in particular how it generates and accelerates the flow of charged particles in which the planets are bathed.

Here's how much data we generate every minute

Email users send more than 204 million messages;

Mobile Web receives 217 new users;

Google receives over 2 million search queries;

YouTube users upload 48 hours of new video;

Facebook users share 684,000 bits of content;

Twitter users send more than 100,000 tweets;

Consumers spend $272,000 on Web shopping;

Apple receives around 47,000 application downloads;

Brands receive more than 34,000 Facebook 'likes';

Tumblr blog owners publish 27,000 new posts;

Instagram users share 3,600 new photos;

Flickr users, on the other hand, add 3,125 new photos;

Foursquare users perform 2,000 check-ins;

WordPress users publish close to 350 new blog posts.

International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI)

The International Mobile Equipment Identity or IMEI ( /aɪˈmiː/) is a number, usually unique, to identify GSM, WCDMA, and iDEN mobile phones, as well as some satellite phones. It is usually found printed inside the battery compartment of the phone. It can also be displayed on the screen of the phone by entering *#06# into the keypad on most phones.

The IMEI number is used by a GSM network to identify valid devices and therefore can be used for stopping a stolen phone from accessing that network. For example, if a mobile phone is stolen, the owner can call his or her network provider and instruct them to "blacklist" the phone using its IMEI number. This renders the phone useless on that network and sometimes other networks too, whether or not the phone's SIM is changed.

BlackBerry Porsche P'9981

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It also features HD video recording, 24-bit high resolution graphics, advanced sensors enabling new augmented reality applications, and built-in support for Near Field Communications

The Porsche P'9981 comes with 8 GB of on-board memory, expandable to up to 40 GB with a microSD card.

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