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space applications today |
 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jul 23, 2009 
Andrews Space has delivered a 48 inch diameter composite liquid oxygen (LOX) tank to the United States Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to demonstrate technologies for reusable launch vehicle airframe structures. The Pathfinder experiment is being conducted under AFRL's Future-Responsive Access to Space Technologies (FAST) Program. Andrews delivered the tank under contract FA8650-06-C-7615 an ... read more 
Evry, France (SPX) Jul 23, 2009Avanti Communications Group plc, has chosen Arianespace to launch the HYLAS telecommunications satellite. This new contract is the 11th signed by Arianespace with the major satellite operators. The launch of the HYLAS satellite is planned for the first semester of 2010, using an Ariane 5 or Soyuz launcher from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. HYLAS is the ... more
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Tokyo (AFP) July 22, 2009Japan's Fujifilm unveiled Wednesday a compact digital camera that can be used to shoot three-dimensional (3D) photos and movies that can be viewed without special glasses. The FinePix REAL 3D W1 uses a "groundbreaking" system comprising two lenses whose images are merged in a single 3D picture or movie, the company said. Users can view the images on the camera's rear display screen or ... more 
Moscow (AFP) July 22, 2009The head of the institute developing a sea-based version of Russia's newest strategic missile has quit following repeated failures of the weapon in testing, officials said Wednesday. Yury Solomonov, head of the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology, was the most senior official to date to take responsibility for the string of failures of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile, curren ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 23, 2009NASA's desire to provide outstanding communications support for the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope, and other unmanned spacecraft moved closer to this goal in July when agency officials approved critical elements for the next generation of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, TDRS K and TDRS L. Christopher Scolese, NASA's Associate Administrator, Washington, chaired ... more  
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jul 23, 2009The second of two satellite payloads for Arianespace's mid-August Ariane 5 mission has arrived in French Guiana, moving this heavy-lift launch campaign into full swing. Optus D3 was delivered today (July 21) to Rochambeau International Airport near the capital city of Cayenne by a chartered cargo jetliner, which carried this Orbital Sciences Corporation-built spacecraft from its manufactur ... more |
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Manassas VA (SPX) Jul 23, 2009Aurora Flight Sciences has announced that it has successfully completed the first flight of the Excalibur Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). The vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) turbine hybrid electric unmanned air vehicle is the first of a new class of tactical unmanned combat air vehicles. The first flight took place at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland on June 24, 2009. "It was ... more 
Peterborough, UK (SPX) Jul 23, 2009A new family of Unmanned Airborne Systems is making its appearance at the UV Europe Conference being held at the Celtic Manor Hotel on 22 and 23 July 2009. AESIR, named after a family of Norse gods, has developed a family of Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAVs) designed to operate in both urban and rural environments providing a platform suitable for tasks ... more 
London (UPI) Jul 22, 2009 British military officials said they are looking to adjust strategies and equipment to address the rising number of causalities in the fighting in Afghanistan. Eighteen U.K. troops have been killed in Afghanistan in July, raising the overall toll in the conflict to 187 British deaths. Officials met last week at the Defense Ministry's Defense Academy for an update on measures being taken ... more  
Seoul (AFP) July 22, 2009US defence group Lockheed Martin and South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries will team up to build and export mid-size warships equipped with advanced Aegis weapons systems, an official said Wednesday. They signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in May 2006 to jointly produce Aegis-equipped guided missile ships, Hyundai Heavy spokesman Cho Woo-Tae told AFP. Cho said it is thought to b ... more |
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