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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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 Antrix To Boost Market Share In Remote Sensing Data Products Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), plans to increase its remote sensing data products market share with the launch of Resource-sat-2, a remote s ... more | .. |
  'Smartphone Satellite' Developed By Surrey Space Researchers Space researchers at the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) have developed 'STRaND-1', a satellite containing a smartphone payload that will be launched into orbit a ... more | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 |
  
China's Shenzhou-20 astronauts return to Earth after delay
Blue Origin launches NASA Mars mission and nails booster landing
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  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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  New US drone spy cameras fail Air Force test: study A much-touted new camera system for US unmanned aircraft that is supposed to bolster surveillance efforts in Afghanistan has proved ineffective in tests, a US Air Force report concluded. ... more |
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  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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 Canada to upgrade military radars Canada on Tuesday announced a Can$55.6 million ($55.7 million) contract to modernize two military radar systems said to play a major role in defending North American airspace. ... more | .. |
 US engineer jailed 32 years for tech sale to China A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer guilty of selling classified military technology to China that could help cloak missiles has been sentenced to 32 years in prison, the US Justice Department said Tuesday. ... more |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Quake tipped half million Chileans into poverty: govt The devastating earthquake that struck Chile nearly a year ago pushed half a million people into poverty, raising the percentage of the population living in poverty to 19.4 percent, a government survey released Tuesday has found. ... more |
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  IMF official urges 'faster' appreciation of yuan The International Monetary Fund urged "faster" appreciation of the Chinese currency on Tuesday, with a senior official saying it was the "logical and reasonable" thing to do. ... more | .. |
  China to roll out nationwide resource tax: report China will roll out a resources tax across the country over the next five years as Beijing tries to boost local government income and reduce reliance on land sales, state media said Wednesday. ... 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 |
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