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Europe set for landmark launch with robot freighterParis (AFP) Feb 13, 2011 A robot freighter is poised to blast into the skies on Tuesday in the heftiest liftoff in Europe's space programme that will also bring its tally of launches to a historic 200. Designed to supply mankind's outpost in orbit, the Johannes Kepler will be hoisted by an Ariane 5 ES super-rocket from Kourou, French Guiana. Liftoff is pencilled for 2208 GMT. A successful mission will boost the case for scientists who want the ATV to be the template of a manned spacecraft, placing ESA on an equal footi ... read more |
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  Satellites Locate Seized Italian Oil Tanker The Cosmo-SkyMed satellites, operated by the Italian space agency, have acquired the first images of the Italian oil tanker Savina Caylyn since it was hijacked earlier this week by Somali pirates in ... more | .. |
 Biogeochemistry At The Core Of Global Environmental Solutions If society wants to address big picture environmental problems, like global climate change, acid rain, and coastal dead zones, we need to pay closer attention to the Earth's coupled biogeochemical c ... more | .. |
  NASA's NPP Satellite Undergoing Flight Environmental Testing The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) climate/weather satellite is undergoing flight environmental testing at Ball Aerospace ... more | .. |
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  Astronaut's space tales aim to inspire When NASA astronaut Leland Melvin thinks back on his 12-year career, he estimates he must have read to a half million children, sometimes in classrooms, sometimes via videolink from space. ... more | .. |
  IBM's 'Watson' to take on Jeopardy! champs Nearly 15 years after an IBM machine defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov, the US computer pioneer is rolling out another device to challenge mankind. ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Ships Out First Orion Spacecraft The Lockheed Martin Orion team shipped out the first Orion crew module spacecraft structure from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, La. The spacecraft is headed to Lockheed Marti ... 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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 PM Forms Commission To Probe ISRO Agreement Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has formed a high-level commission to look into allegations of revenue losses in the allocation of space spectrum using S-band - high value and scarce radio waves - bet ... more | .. |
  ATK And Astrium Unveil Liberty Rocket For NASA CCDev-2 Competition ATK and Astrium are working together in response to NASA's Commercial Crew Development-2 (CCDev-2) procurement. The team is offering NASA launch services with the Liberty rocket. This new launch veh ... more | .. |
  Russia To Launch Glonass Satellite Feb 24 Russia will launch a new Glonass-K navigation satellite from the Plesetsk space center on February 24, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. The Glonass satellite network is Russia's answer ... more | .. |
 LightSail-1 On NASA Short List For Upcoming Launch NASA announced this week that the Planetary Society's LightSail-1 solar sail mission is on their short list for upcoming launch opportunities. The missions selected are Cubesats destined for piggyba ... more |
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  For Robust Robots, Let Them Be Babies First Want to build a really tough robot? Forget about Terminator. Instead, watch a tadpole turn into a frog. Or at least that's not too far off from what University of Vermont roboticist Josh Bonga ... more | .. |
 Rockets, doughnuts could face ax in US budget cuts Hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars have been wasted on everything from doughnuts to rockets, auditors told Congress Thursday as budget-minded lawmakers prepared to slash science funding. ... more | .. |
 Renewed Call For Competitive US Spaceflight Marketplace 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 ... more | .. |
 Amount of data stored worldwide estimated U.S. researchers say they've estimated the amount of data stored worldwide by 2007 at 295 exabytes - equivalent to 1.2 billion average computer hard drives. ... 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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  DSS Awards Raytheon Missile Systems' Tucson Site First Superior Security Rating Raytheon's Missile Systems' site in Tucson, Ariz., received a superior rating in an annual audit by the U.S. Defense Security Service. DSS completed a two-week review at RMS headquarters and rated t ... more | .. |
  Knesset urges $1.4 billion Iron Dome buy The Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee has recommended the military buy 13 batteries of the Iron Dome anti-missile system at a cost of $1.4 billion amid repeated warnings by military commanders of the threat of a major missile blitz. ... more | .. |
  India closes in on fighter aircraft deal India's air force is keeping its fingers crossed that the forthcoming $10.4 billion contract for 126 fighters won't fall foul of any corruption watchdog investigation. ... more | .. |
 Swiss up in arms over guns in the home Xavier Schwitzguebel's collection of firearms is apparently so well dispersed throughout his Swiss home that he admitted it would take too long to dig them out and assemble them on a table. ... more |
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  Elbit Performs Joint Flight Missions Of Hermes 450 And Hermes 900 Elbit Systems has successfully performed a series of joint flight missions of its Hermes 450 and Hermes 900 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The two different UAS were controlled and operated ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Conducts Free-Flight Demonstration Of JSOW-C From F-16IN Raytheon has completed a series of free-flight demonstrations of the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) AGM-154-C from an F-16IN fighter aircraft. The tests were part of the Indian Air Force's Medium Mult ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Wins US Marine Corps Common Aviation Command and Control System Contract The U.S. Marine Corps has selected Northrop Grumman for a key phase of the Marine Corps Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2S) that will enable more effective command, control and coordi ... more | .. |
 Boeing Submits Final NewGen Tanker Proposal To US Air Force Boeing has submitted its final proposal for the U.S. Air Force's KC-X tanker competition. The proposal offers a fleet of Boeing NewGen Tankers - 767-based, multi-mission aircraft that deliver superi ... 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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 Indian army gets its first Nishant UAVs The Indian army took delivery of the first indigenously designed and developed Nishant unmanned aerial vehicles after the last test flights in Rajasthan state. ... more | .. |
  Japan eclipsed by China as world's second economy Japan surrendered its 42-year ranking as the world's second-biggest economy to China in 2010, after data Monday showed a fourth-quarter contraction caused by weaker consumer spending and a strong yen. ... more | .. |
 LED Products Billed As Eco-Friendly Contain Toxic Metals, Study Finds Those light-emitting diodes marketed as safe, environmentally preferable alternatives to traditional lightbulbs actually contain lead, arsenic and a dozen other potentially hazardous substances, acc ... more | .. |
  Researchers At Harvard And MITRE Produce World's First Programmable Nanoprocessor Engineers and scientists collaborating at Harvard University and the MITRE Corporation have developed and demonstrated the world's first programmable nanoprocessor. The groundbreaking prototyp ... more |
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 How Much Information Is There In The World? A study appearing on Feb. 10 in Science Express, an electronic journal that provides select Science articles ahead of print, calculates the world's total technological capacity - how much informatio ... more | .. |
 Powerful New Ways To Electronically Mine Research May Lead To Scientific Breakthrough The Internet has become not only a tool for disseminating knowledge through scientific publications, but it also has the potential to shape scientific research through expanding the field of metakno ... more | .. |
  Nanonets Give Rust A Boost As Agent In Water Splitting's Hydrogen Harvest Coating a lattice of tiny wires called Nanonets with iron oxide - known more commonly as rust - creates an economical and efficient platform for the process of water splitting, an emerging clean fue ... more | .. |
  Israel gears up to go electric These heralds of a new age are remarkably quiet. No drums, no trumpets, just the whirr of a robot changing batteries and an electric car silently gliding around the Better Place test track. ... more |
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