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A Snowy US Panorama By SatelliteGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 09, 2011 Last week 30 U.S. states were affected by a massive winter storm. This week satellite images created by NASA provide a snowy panorama of that fallen snow. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) that cover the U.S. weather, GOES-11 and GOES-13 are operated by NOAA, and the NASA GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. creates images and animations from those satellite data. A Feb. 3 GOES-13 image provided a snowy panorama of the U.S. and show ... read more |
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  Euro-US partners eye 'low-cost' space launcher: report European technology firm Astrium is teaming up with US company Alliant to make a "low-cost" space rocket launcher that could one day take tourists into orbit, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 TRMM Satellite Totaled Cyclone Yasi's Heavy Rainfall In Queensland Queensland, which is still trying to recover from earlier widespread flooding as a result of above-normal rainfall due to La Nina and previous tropical cyclone activity, just received a direct hit o ... more | .. |
  NASA's Earth Data System Earns Praise If you're distributing 412 million data products in a year to more than 1.1 million users, how do you ever make sure people are getting what they want? The Earth Observing System Data and Informatio ... more | .. |
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  Surface Combat Systems Center Tests Aegis BMD Capabilities Surface Combat Systems Center tested the updated capabilities of the U.S. Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense(BMD), Jan. 22, launching a target vehicle from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility as ... more | .. |
  US Navy X-47B Unmanned Combat Aircraft Completes Historic First Flight The Northrop Grumman -built U.S. Navy X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D) aircraft has successfully completed its historic first flight at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), Calif. ... more | .. |
 Stunning Satellite Imagery Of Cyclone Yasi From Space Earth observation scientists at the University of Leicester have recorded stunning images of tropical cyclone Yasi by orbiting satellites. Japanese Meteorological Agency and European Space Age ... more | .. |
  Vandenberg Launches Minotaur One A Minotaur I rocket was launched from Space Launch Complex-8 here at 4:26 a.m. (PST) Feb. 6. The rocket carried a national security payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. Col. R ... more |
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'The war of tomorrow will begin in space': Macron
UN watchdog calls on Iran to urgently allow 'long overdue' uranium stockpile verification
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  Iran Unveils Homemade Satellites And Carrier Iran unveiled four domestically- manufactured satellites on Monday, two years after it launched the first self-developed satellite into orbit, the local satellite Press TV reported. Four natio ... more | .. |
  NASA And Worcester Polytechnic Institute Are Challenge Partners NASA has signed an agreement with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) of Worcester, Mass., to manage the Sample Return Robot Challenge, one of the agency's new Centennial Challenges prize comp ... more | .. |
  Iran expands space capabilities Iran is expanding its operational capabilities in space. ... more | .. |
 No Major Flaw In Failed GSLV-F06 There was no major design flaw in the Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle of the Indian Space Research Organisation - GSLV-F06 - which crashed seconds after take-off on December 25 last year, sai ... more |
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  U.S. wary of China space weapons Senior Pentagon officials are sounding concern over China's development of weapons designed to shoot down satellites or jam communication signals. ... more | .. |
 US, France to sign accord on tracking space debris US and French defense chiefs plan to sign a space cooperation agreement on Tuesday designed to help track debris in outer space threatening vital satellites, officials told AFP. ... more | .. |
 Charles Bolden's Story: "From the Segregated South to Low Earth Orbit" It's a long way from the segregated south to low Earth orbit. But I am fortunate to have made the journey and to have had many opportunities to serve my nation in a 34-year career with the U.S. Mari ... more | .. |
 Opening Up The X-37B The US Air Force's X-37B spaceplane has generated a lot of attention and suspicion, even before the vehicle blasted off on its maiden voyage in April 2010. Conspiracy theorists would have us believe ... more |
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Largest modern crater identified in Chinas Holocene geology
Inner core of Earth found to exist in dynamic superionic phase
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  Boeing pushes for multi-weapon Avenger Boeing is pushing for an innovative - and deadly - multi-weapon variant of its Avenger system that is set to give a new edge to fighters in modern warfare conditions. ... more | .. |
U.S. Navy stealth drone in first flight A U.S. Navy stealth drone designed to take off and land from an aircraft carrier has had its first test flight, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Integration Of First Complete Ground / Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) System Northrop Grumman has announced the integration of all subsystems of the AN/TPS-80 Ground / Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) system. This first, complete G/ATOR system is currently undergoing s ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Team To Develop Tool To Reduce Radar Interference From Wind Farms Raytheon was selected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to develop an advanced wind turbine modeling tool. The tool will provide an accurate assessment of the turbine's effects on radar sy ... more |
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 Russia Tests Upgraded Mig Fighter Jet For India Russia's MiG corporation on Friday carried out the first test fight of a MiG-29 fighter modernized under a contract with the Indian Air Force (IAF). "On February 4, 2010, a MiG-29UPG fighter c ... more | .. |
 Russia To Unveil New Air Defense System At Indian Air Show A Russian firm will disclose information about a new mobile short-range air defense system based on the Strelets launcher at the upcoming Aero India 2011 air show. "The [Kolomna-based] Enginee ... more | .. |
 Navy Test Pilot Completes First F-35 Flight After a series of extensive ground and simulator training events, Lt. Cmdr. Eric "Magic" Buus completed the first flight by a U.S. Navy test pilot Feb. 3, 2011. "The flight was very enjoyable ... more | .. |
  Disasters could reverse growth: Australia A drop in coal and agricultural exports forced by Australia's flood and cyclone disasters could "thump" its economy in the first quarter, forcing growth into reverse, Treasurer Wayne Swan has warned. ... more |
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Rise of the robots: the promise of physical AI
Amazon robotics lead casts doubt on eye-catching humanoids
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 Australian MPs weep for disaster victims Australian lawmakers wept Tuesday as they paid tribute to the tens of thousands of citizens whose lives have been rocked by floods, fires and cyclones, as authorities reined in a major blaze which gutted 68 homes. ... more | .. |
  Normal Air Could Halve Fuel Consumption Every time a car brakes, energy is generated. At present this energy is not used, but new research shows that it is perfectly possible to save it for later use in the form of compressed air. It can ... more | .. |
 Research Helps Drivers Cut Fuel Use Ever wonder how much fuel you can save by avoiding stop-and-go traffic, closing your window, not using air conditioning or coasting toward stops? Research at the University of California, Rive ... more | .. |
  Aluminum To Replace Copper As A Conductor In On-Board Power Systems Electric power and electronics are playing an ever-increasing role in all kinds of vehicles. Currently copper is the conductive material of choice. But in comparison to aluminum copper is heavy and ... more |
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  EU keen to secure an early Mercosur deal EU officials visiting Latin America have given the clearest signal yet they are keen to seal a wide-ranging economic collaboration pact with Mercosur regional trade bloc. ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Dow heads for 13,000 The U.S. economy is growing only moderately and the job market remains sluggish, but stocks keep roaring ahead - and they should. ... more | .. |
 China raises interest rates to tame inflation China's central bank on Tuesday raised interest rates for the third time in four months, as authorities ramp up efforts to tame inflation amid fears it could trigger social unrest. ... more | .. |
 Bookstores feeling pain from digital technologies Pundits might put a different spin on how and when it will happen but all see a struggle for survival by traditional booksellers thanks to a growing shift to electronic books and Internet sales. ... more |
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