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China Mars probe set for November launchShanghai (AFP) Feb 21, 2011 China's first Mars probe will be launched from a Russian rocket in November, two years later than originally planned, state media reported Monday. China's Mars explorer, Yinghuo-1, marks the country's first attempt at deep space exploration after sending a probe to the moon, the state-run China Daily reported, citing comments from a China Academy of Space Technology official. The 110-kilogram (240-pound) micro-satellite was originally due to blast off in October 2009 with Russia's "Phobos Explor ... read more |
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  A Solar System Family Portrait, From the Inside Out What would our solar system look like if visitors from other worlds took a series of pictures? NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft did just that by piecing together the first portrait of our solar sys ... more | .. |
  Weather radar used in wildlife studies A U.S. scientist says using storm-chasing radars to follow swarms of bats as they emerge at night is advancing a new scientific discipline dubbed "aeroecology." ... more | .. |
 Are plant hydraulics a path to adaptive dream machines? Airplanes might soon have flexible wings like birds and robots could change shape as they please thanks to research under way on mimosa plants, researchers said. ... more | .. |
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  SpaceX to focus on astronaut capsule Commercial space company SpaceX says it has put off development of its Falcon rocket to focus on its Dragon capsule intended to take astronauts into orbit. ... more | .. |
 As US cuts back, China aims to be top at science China has its eye on becoming the top science nation in the world, overtaking the United States and European nations, researchers at a US science conference said Friday. ... more | .. |
 No US stockpile of rare earths: experts The United States should not try to stockpile precious elements for new energy technologies, experts said Friday after China announced plans to tighten control of its rare earths industry. ... more | .. |
Obama vows US will 'out-hustle' world President Barack Obama vowed Friday to make America "the best place on Earth to do business," making his case for investments that have sparked a raging budget battle with Republicans. ... more |
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UN watchdog calls on Iran to urgently allow 'long overdue' uranium stockpile verification
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  Ground-Based Lasers Vie With Satellites To Map Earth's Magnetic Field Mapping the Earth's magnetic field - to find oil, track storms or probe the planet's interior - typically requires expensive satellites. University of California, Berkeley, physicists have now come ... more | .. |
  Worldwide Government Spending On Space To Flatten Over The Next Five Years Euroconsult, the leading international consulting and research and firm specializing in the space and satellite sectors, announced the findings of its just-published report "Government Space Markets ... more | .. |
  KVH Introduces TracPhone V3, World's Smallest and Most Affordable Maritime VSAT System This week's unveiling of the ultra-compact TracPhone V3 represents the latest advancement in maritime satellite communications from KVH Industries, Inc.,. Introduced at the Miami International Boat ... more | .. |
 Southampton Scientists Develop Control System To Allow Spacecraft To Think For Themselves The world's first control system that will allow engineers to programme autonomous satellites and spacecraft to think for themselves has been developed by scientists from the University of Southampt ... more |
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 Monitoring Killer Mice From Space The risk of deadly hantavirus outbreaks in people can be predicted months ahead of time by using satellite images to monitor surges in vegetation that boost mouse populations, a University of Utah s ... more | .. |
 ATV Johannes Kepler Operating Flawlessly Following a spectacular launch on 16 February, Europe's space freighter is now in its planned orbit. Mission controllers are preparing to match its trajectory with that of the International Space St ... more | .. |
 Europe's ATV Johannes Kepler Supply Ship On Its Way To Space Station ESA's second Automated Transfer Vehicle, Johannes Kepler, has been launched into its targeted low orbit by an Ariane 5. The unmanned supply ship is planned to deliver critical supplies and reboost t ... more | .. |
 Space Operations Inc Announces First Orbital Manned Commercial Spacecraft Operational By 2012 Space Operations, Inc. has announced plans to build a two-seat manned orbital spacecraft for commercial and government use. The company plans a test launch on February 20, 2012, with a regular fligh ... 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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 Antrix-Devas Deal Scrapped By Indian Government The Cabinet Committee on Security has scrapped the contract between the Indian Space Research Organisation's commercial arm, Antrix, and Bangalore-based multimedia firm Devas. The five-member commit ... more | .. |
 UK Celebrates A Decade Of Disaster Monitoring From Space A UK-led international consortium that uses satellite imagery to provide disaster mitigation celebrates its ten year anniversary this week as its members meet in London to plan for the coming decade ... more | .. |
 Orbital Awarded Contract For SES-8 Communications Satellite By SES World Skies Orbital Sciences has reported that one of its major customers, SES of Luxembourg, has placed a firm order for its sixth STARTM communications satellite for its worldwide network. The new satellite, ... more | .. |
  Russian defense satellite in wrong orbit A Russian defense satellite sent into the wrong orbit can't perform its mission, said First Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin. ... more |
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  Boeing EA-18G Growlers Deployed by US Navy Boeing has announced that EA-18G Growler airborne electronic attack aircraft have been deployed for the first time by the U.S. Navy. "The men and women of Boeing are honored to see this new ca ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Receives $34.5 Million Contract For Paveway II Plus Laser Guided Bomb Kits Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $34.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for production of paveway II Plus Laser Guided Bomb (LGB) GBU-12 kits. The majority share contract includes deliveri ... more | .. |
 A Device Enables The Remote Explosion Of Improvised Land-Mines Composed of diverse elements, mostly of plastic, with little metal used, improvised explosive devices are very difficult to detect. In cooperation with two colombian universities, scientists at EPFL ... more | .. |
  AeroVironment Develops World's First Fully Operational Life-Size Hummingbird-Like Unmanned Aircraft for DARPA AeroVironment, Inc. has accomplished a technical milestone never before achieved - controlled precision hovering and fast-forward flight of a two-wing, flapping wing aircraftthat carries its own ene ... 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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 New wing tests for carrier drone The low-speed characteristics of a new wing design for a carrier-launched unmanned aerial system have been validated by its California manufacturer. ... more | .. |
 Pakistan test fires Babur cruise missile Pakistan successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable Hatf-7, or Babur, cruise missile as "part of a process of validating the system," a government statement said. ... more | .. |
 Europe to forge ahead on climate satellite European space officials say they will press ahead with a planned Earthcare space laser mission despite a 30 percent increase in its likely final cost. ... more | .. |
  Haiti town struggles to emerge from the rubble Residents of the seaside Haitian town of Leogane, which was largely destroyed by the January 2010 earthquake, would love to rebuild, but first they have to get past the mounds of rubble. ... more |
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  New Nanomaterials Good News For Next-Generation Electronic Device In recent years, topological insulators have become one of the hottest topics in physics. These new materials act as both insulators and conductors, with their interior preventing the flow of electr ... more | .. |
 Hydrogels Used To Make Precise New Sensor Researchers are developing a new type of biological and chemical sensor that has few moving parts, is low-cost and yet highly sensitive, sturdy and long-lasting. The "diffraction-based" sensor ... more | .. |
  New Material Provides 25 Percent Greater Thermoelectric Conversion Efficiency Automobiles, military vehicles, even large-scale power generating facilities may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to a new alloy developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laborato ... more | .. |
  Stanford Researchers Develop Wireless Technology For Faster Networks "Wireless communication is a one-way street. Over." Radio traffic can flow in only one direction at a time on a specific frequency, hence the frequent use of "over" by pilots and air traffic control ... more |
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