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Europe defends 'stupid' Galileo satelliteStrasbourg (AFP) Jan 18, 2011 Europe stood by its much-delayed and over-budget Galileo satellite navigation system on Tuesday despite a rising price tag and a contractor's description of the project as "stupid." Previously estimated to cost 3.4 billion euros, the European Commission said an extra 1.9 billion euros was needed to complete the constellation of satellites, raising its price tag to 5.4 billion euros ($7.2 billion). Aimed at rivaling the US-built Global Positioning System (GPS) and Chinese and Russian projects, th ... read more |
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  3D Model Of Ionosphere F-Region The first global simulation study of equatorial spread F (ESF) bubble evolution using a comprehensive 3D ionosphere model, SAMI3, has been demonstrated. The model self-consistently solves for the ne ... more | .. |
  Crosslink Capability Between STSS Demonstration Satellites Verified The effectiveness of the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration satellites has been expanded after a communications crosslink was activated and successfully tested by Northrop G ... more | .. |
  Kazakhstan Ratifies Space Cooperation Agreement With Russia Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed into law the ratification of a Russian-Kazakh space cooperation agreement, the government press service said on Monday. The intergovernmental a ... more | .. |
 ISRO Ready To Provide Satellite Images Of Sabarimala India's premier space agency ISRO has offered to provide to the Kerala government satellite pictures of Sabarimala area for taking measures to prevent disasters like the stampede that claimed 102 li ... more |
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  Spaceflight And ISILaunch Team To Provide Global Spaceflight Services For Small Payloads Spaceflight Services (Spaceflight) and Innovative Space Logistics BV (ISILaunch) have announced that they have teamed to create a global spaceflight services provider for small and secondary payload ... more | .. |
 SES ASTRA Expands In Central And Eastern Europe SES ASTRA has announced a further expansion into central and eastern Europe, and its entry into a new growth market, Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Direct-to-Home (DTH) operator Satellite BG will use three ... more | .. |
  Arianespace Announces Eutelsat Contract Continuing a 28-year relationship marked by 25 launch campaigns, Eutelsat Communications and Arianespace have announced they have concluded a new contract for a satellite launch in the 2012 period. ... more | .. |
 ViviSat Launched U.S. Space and ATK have announced the creation of ViviSat, a new satellite life extension venture. ViviSat provides geosynchronous satellite operators with flexible, scalable, capital-efficient, and ... more |
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 NASA Research Finds 2010 Tied For Warmest Year On Record Global surface temperatures in 2010 tied 2005 as the warmest on record, according to an analysis released Wednesday by researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. ... more | .. |
  NASA Invites Students To Send Experiments To The Edge Of Space NASA is inviting student teams to design and build experiments the agency will fly into the stratosphere, a near-space environment, more than 100,000 feet above the Earth. NASA's second annual ... more | .. |
 US Likely To Lift Ban On ISRO And DRDO Soon The U.S., which imposed curbs on trade with defence entities like ISRO and DRDO following India's nuclear tests in 1998, has set in motion regulatory changes to lift the ban soon, thus fulfilling a ... more | .. |
  US-backed bio-weapons lab irks Kazakh opposition The Kazakh opposition voiced alarm Tuesday over comments by the US ambassador revealing that the United States intended to help the republic build a "dangerous biological pathogens" facility in its largest city Almaty. ... more |
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  Missiles off target in major Taiwan drill Taiwan held a major missile drill Tuesday just days after rival China unveiled an aircraft that uses stealth technology, but several misses spoiled the exercise. ... more | .. |
 Air National Guard To Conduct Evaluation Of Guardian Anti-Missile System On KC-135 Northrop Grumman and the Air National Guard have initiated modifications to a KC-135 air refueling aircraft in preparation for the Operational Utility Evaluation of the company's Guardian anti-missi ... more | .. |
  Joint STARS Successfully Supports JSuW JCTD Northrop Grumman's E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) test bed aircraft recently completed the second of two deployments to Naval Air Station Pt. Mugu, Calif., in suppo ... more | .. |
 Tods Bow Sonar Domes For Australian Air Warfare Destroyers Composite materials specialists Tods Defence have secured the order for three Bow Sonar Domes for the new fleet of Royal Australian Navy 'Air Warfare Destroyers' (Hobart Class) which are due to star ... more |
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 RAF Begin Training With US On Intelligence Aircraft Members of the RAF's 51 Squadron have completed their first week of training with the US Air Force on the Rivet Joint aircraft, designed for airborne intelligence-gathering. Up to four UK crew ... more | .. |
 China got stealth tech from Russia: US lawmaker China got the technology for its first stealth fighter jet from Russia, a senior US lawmaker said Tuesday, one week after the airplane apparently made its maiden flight. ... more | .. |
 Future Defence Kit Showcased Technologies which could deliver benefits to the front line of the future were shown off by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) who have received MOD research contracts. The futuristic k ... more | .. |
  IAI delivers 12 UAVs to Russia in key deal Israeli Aerospace Industries has delivered a dozen unmanned aerial vehicles to Russia under a $400 million contract that will eventually allow Moscow to manufacture advanced drones that will significantly enhance its military capabilities. ... more |
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 Bagram Airfield Receives New Aircraft Fueling System The construction of a new fuel delivery system is in place on the flight line here to quickly refuel aircraft on Bagram Airfield. The 101st Sustainment Brigade oversaw construction of the proj ... more | .. |
 Soldiers Test New Beta Voice-Translation Smart Phones Soldiers from Task Force Currahee are the first in eastern Afghanistan to test the new smart phone, beta-version of a voice language translation program to be fielded in early January. Develop ... more | .. |
 DRS Expands Armor Product Offering With Its All-New Compact Tablet DRS Technologies has announced that its Tactical Systems Group has recently unveiled its newest ARMOR rugged mobile computer, the ARMOR X7 compact tablet. This all-new small mobile computer is speci ... more | .. |
 Global Observer Makes First Hydrogen-Powered Flight The Global Observer unmanned aircraft system successfully completed its first flight powered by the aircraft's hydrogen-fueled propulsion system here Jan. 6. This milestone marks the beginning ... more |
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