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Solar Sail StunnerHuntsville AL (SPX) Jan 25, 2011 In an unexpected reversal of fortune, NASA's NanoSail-D spacecraft has unfurled a gleaming sheet of space-age fabric 650 km above Earth, becoming the first-ever solar sail to circle our planet. "We're solar sailing!" says NanoSail-D principal investigator Dean Alhorn of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. "This is a momentous achievement." NanoSail-D spent the previous month and a half stuck inside its mothership, the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology SATellite (FASTSA ... read more |
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  STSS Demonstration Satellites Complete On-Orbit Calibration, Ready For BMDS Tests The Space Tracking and Surveillance (STSS) Demonstration program satellites are ready to fully participate in Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) tests after on-orbit calibration of the acquisit ... more | .. |
 Looking Back At Uranus As NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made the only close approach to date of our mysterious seventh planet Uranus 25 years ago, Project Scientist Ed Stone and the Voyager team gathered at NASA's Jet Propu ... more | .. |
  SDA Now Performs Conjunction Screening For More Than 300 Satellites The Space Data Association (SDA), established by commercial satellite operators to improve the safety and efficiency of space operations, has announced that it now provides conjunction assessment (C ... more | .. |
  Slow progress in U.S.-China space efforts Analysts say mutual wariness is keeping cooperative efforts on space exploration between the United States and China in low gear. ... more |
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  Japanese rocket puts cargo into orbit A Japanese rocket successfully took an unmanned cargo transporter to the International Space Station into orbit on Saturday, Japan's space agency said. ... more | .. |
  First Delta IV Heavy Launches From Vandenberg The first West Coast Delta IV Heavy Launch Vehicle was launched from Space Launch Complex-6 here Jan. 20 at 1:10 p.m. PST. The largest rocket ever to launch from the West Coast of the United S ... more | .. |
  Smiling In Space Relations between China and the USA have never been easy. In recent years, they have taken on an exceptionally frosty character over matters such as economic policy and strategic problems. It was ag ... more | .. |
 Google looks to its next decade Google, which prides itself on helping people navigate the Internet, is facing a tangled Web as it weaves its own future. ... more |
  
China's Shenzhou-20 astronauts return to Earth after delay
Blue Origin launches NASA Mars mission and nails booster landing
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 Beaming Rockets Into Space Space launches have evoked the same image for decades: bright orange flames exploding beneath a rocket as it lifts, hovers and takes off into the sky. But an alternative propulsion system proposed b ... more | .. |
  Russia Launches Meteorological Satellite Russia launched on Thursday a Zenit-3SB rocket carrying a meteorological satellite from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, said. "The launch was carried ... more | .. |
 Romania Accedes To ESA Convention Romania took a step further in its relations with ESA by signing the Accession Agreement to the ESA Convention on 20 January 2011, to become the 19th ESA Member State. The signing ceremony too ... more | .. |
 Redfern Integrated Optics Awarded Contract For Development Of Laser For Space LIDAR Redfern Integrated Optics has announced that it has been awarded a Phase 1 SBIR contract for further development of its breakthrough single-frequency narrow-linewidth semiconductor laser, suitable f ... more |
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 NASA's Glory Mission Will Study Key Pieces Of Climate Puzzle Earth's climate continues to change at a rapid pace. Last week, NASA announced that 2010 was tied as the warmest year on record. Likewise, the last decade was the warmest in the 130-year global temp ... more | .. |
  Boeing And SAIC Submit Revised Ground Combat Vehicle Proposal To US Army Boeing has teamed with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to submit a revised proposal for the technology development phase of the U.S. Army's Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) program. ... more | .. |
  LockMart Receives Contract For Long Range Anti-Ship Missile Demonstrations Lockheed Martin has received two contracts totaling $218 million for the Demonstration Phase of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) program. ... more | .. |
 Boeing Begins Flight Testing UK Chinook Mk4 Boeing and its Boeing Defence UK subsidiary have announced that the Boeing UK Rotorcraft Support team has begun flight testing the first Chinook Mk4 helicopter for the Royal Air Force (RAF). The fir ... more |
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 Raytheon Signs Paveway Contract With Saudi Arabia Raytheon has signed a contract worth $475 million with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the combat-proven Paveway family of precision-guided munitions. Raytheon's Paveway is a kit that transforms "du ... more | .. |
 Kuwait Awards Contract To Raytheon For Patriot GEM-T Missiles Raytheon has received a $145 million Foreign Military Sales production contract for Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missiles - Tactical (GEM-T) to augment Kuwait's air and missile defense. The U.S. ... more | .. |
 2000th Production Viper Laser Will Be Delivered Ahead-of-Schedule Northrop Grumman has announced the ahead-of-schedule delivery to the U.S. Navy of the company's 2,000th Viper laser which provides the jamming energy for the company's battle-proven infrared counter ... more | .. |
  US military's tanker deal: a saga without end The battle between aerospace giants Boeing and EADS to supply new aerial refueling tankers for the US Air Force could drag on even after the military finally makes a decision on the contract, experts say. ... more |
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  Three US drone strikes kill 13 in Pakistan A series of unmanned US drone strikes in a lawless district of Pakistan on Sunday killed at least 13 militants, officials said, as tribesmen took to the streets to protest the aerial campaign. ... more | .. |
 S. Korea, U.S in talks over missiles South Korea and the United States have been in talks to revise a bilateral pact that could allow for Seoul's bid to make missiles capable of landing anywhere in North Korea. ... more | .. |
  Robotic Glider To Map Moreton Bay Impacts A $200,000 CSIRO coastal glider is bound for Queensland to be deployed in Moreton Bay to investigate the impact of the recent flooding on marine ecosystems. Dr Andy Steven from CSIRO's Wealth ... more | .. |
 S.Africa flood death toll 123 Floods and heavy storms in South Africa have killed at least 123 people and left around 20,000 in need of immediate basic relief aid, a government official said Monday. ... more |
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 Haiti violence against women on the rise since quake: HRW Haiti's devastating earthquake last year has severely compromised the state's ability to safeguard basic human rights, with women and girls more at risk of sexual violence in displaced persons' camps, a rights group said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Nano World In Color Microscopically small nanostructured arrays of lenses that can record or project amazingly sharp images in brilliant colors are being demonstrated by Fraunhofer research scientists at the nano tech ... more | .. |
  Major developer sees no property bubble in China The chairman of one of the mainland's biggest developers on Monday dismissed fears of a property bubble in China and said government measures to curb real estate prices were hurting developers. ... more | .. |
 Researchers Discover How To Tame Hammering Droplets A water hammer can occur when a valve is suddenly opened or closed in a pipe carrying water or steam, causing a pressure wave to travel down the pipe with enough force that it can sometimes cause th ... more |
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 Walker's World: China inflation warning What is it about France and the Chinese? The latest warning by French bank Societe Generale that the Chinese economy is overheating dangerously is just the latest piece of grit in the gears of what should be a mutually rewarding relationship. ... more | .. |
  Huawei sues Motorola over IP transfer to NSN China's Huawei Technologies Co. sued Motorola on Monday to prevent confidential Huawei intellectual property information from being allegedly transferred to Nokia Siemens Networks. ... more | .. |
  Twitter 2011 ad revenue estimated at $150 million Microblogging sensation Twitter is expected to rake in $150 million in advertising revenue this year, according to a study published Monday. ... more | .. |
 Google and Mozilla take 'Do Not Track' steps Mozilla and Google on Monday took steps toward giving people more online privacy but each said hurdles remain to creating simple "Do Not Track" buttons for Web browsing software. ... more |
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