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February 10, 2011
ROCKET SCIENCE
Renewed Call For Competitive US Spaceflight Marketplace
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 10, 2011
The Competitive Space Task Force, a coalition of fiscal conservatives and free-market leaders, has unveiled its strategy for creating a free and competitive market for spaceflight and space services enabling the country to recapture the imagination and innovation of America's space program and foster a new entrepreneurial spirit in the emerging Space Economy. The Task Force unveiled its core strategy and principles today at a press conference in the hearing room of the Committee on Science, Space, and T ... read more

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AEROSPACE

Brown Kills Effort To Move Aeronautic Research Away From NASA
An amendment supported by U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) preserving civil aeronautics research and development at NASA passed the Senate this morning as part of the Federal Aviation Administration ( ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Rocket Team Hot Fire AJ26 Flight Engine For Taurus II
Aerojet, a GenCorp company, along with NASA and Orbital Sciences Corporation, conducted the acceptance hot-fire test of the second AJ26 flight engine that will power the first stage of Orbital's Tau ... more
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SPACEMART

ISRO To Terminate Spectrum Deal With Devas
As political attack mounted on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on yet another alleged spectrum scam, ISRO has announced that the process to terminate a suspect deal was underway. The space agenc ... more
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SPACEMART

U.S. Electrodynamics Achieves DoD Highest Level Security Requirements
U.S. Electrodynamics Incorporated (USEI) has announced that the company was recently rated compliant with the Department of Defense (DoD) Mission Assurance Category (MAC) I and Confidentiality Level ... more
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SPACEMART

TIBA Extends Capacity Deal With SES WORLD SKIES
Already home to Latin America's premier cable neighborhood, SES WORLD SKIES, has announced a capacity extension agreement with TIBA to enable the distribution of an expanding channel lineup across L ... more
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RUSSIAN SPACE

Medvedev Calls For Russian Space Exploration Program
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday Russia should develop its own space exploration program. "I believe this is a very important topic, even in terms of our scientific ambitions, ... more
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VSAT NEWS

KVH Doubles Mini-VSAT Broadband Capacity Across Three Key Regions
To meet the demands of a growing international commercial subscriber base, KVH Industries has completed a major capacity increase across three key regions of the mini-VSAT BroadbandSM satellite comm ... more
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'The war of tomorrow will begin in space': Macron
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EARTH OBSERVATION

TerraSAR-X-Image Of The Month: Calving Icebergs On Queen Maud Land
If the city of Bonn were located on the edge of the Fimbul Ice Shelf, in the Antarctic, its inhabitants would now be embarking on a journey through the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. An iceberg with ... more
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SPACEMART

eSpace Seeks Entrepreneurial Space Companies For Incubator Program
eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship, a non-profit business incubator and workforce development organization for aerospace start-up companies, has announced its third round call for new inc ... more
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VSAT NEWS

Supernet Serves Growing VSAT Market In Pakistan
SES WORLD SKIES has announced that it has signed an agreement with Supernet Limited, Pakistan's leading satellite service provider, for high powered Ku-band transponder capacity on the NSS-6 satelli ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

'Astonishing' Chinese patent growth marks world recovery
Asia led a recovery in international patent applications last year, as "astonishing" growth in filings by innovative Chinese companies left US firms by the wayside, the UN patent agency said Wednesday. ... more
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UAV NEWS

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
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MISSILE DEFENSE

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
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MICROSAT BLITZ

Iran expands space capabilities
Iran is expanding its operational capabilities in space. ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

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
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Largest modern crater identified in Chinas Holocene geology
Inner core of Earth found to exist in dynamic superionic phase
Carbon-rich waters are becoming even more acidic as atmospheric CO2 levels rise
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ROCKET SCIENCE

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
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ROCKET SCIENCE

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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TECH SPACE

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
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TECH SPACE

HP takes operating software into its own hands
Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced that it is adding its own operating software to personal computers to augment the capabilities of Microsoft's Windows. ... more
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TECH SPACE

HP hits tablet market with TouchPad
US computer powerhouse Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday unveiled a TouchPad tablet computer as its entry in a booming market dominated by Apple's iPad. ... more
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ROBO SPACE

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
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UAV NEWS

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
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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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Rise of the robots: the promise of physical AI
Amazon robotics lead casts doubt on eye-catching humanoids
'Western tech dominance fading' at Lisbon's Web Summit
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MISSILE NEWS

Iran tests anti-ship missiles
Tehran announced that it is mass-producing ballistic missiles that can travel three times the speed of sound and hit naval targets on the high seas. ... more
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MILTECH

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
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MILTECH

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
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MILTECH

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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EARTH OBSERVATION

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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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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EARTH OBSERVATION

A Snowy US Panorama By Satellite
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 Environ ... more
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INTERNET SPACE

Internet cable weakens US embargo: Cuba
Cuba on Wednesday hailed a new undersea fiber optic cable connecting the communist island to Venezuela as a blow to the decades-old US embargo. ... more
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