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Shaping A Transition From Rocket Fuel To Oil RigsParis, France (ESA) Feb 22, 2011 Technology used to shape rocket fuel tanks could help one German company to form floats for industrial chemical tanks and oil rigs, thanks to funding from ESA. ESA's Ariane 5 rockets steer with small rocket engines firing bursts of hydrazine, a highly volatile fuel stored under high pressure in corrosion-resistant tanks. The best metal for the tanks is Titanium 6/4 because it is a strong and light alloy of titanium, aluminium and vanadium that doesn't react with the hydrazine inside. " ... read more |
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  Blast Off! Tech Students' Winning Satellite To Be Launched Into Orbit A team of Michigan Technological University students has taken first place in the prestigious University Nanosat 6 competition, earning the rare privilege of having the Department of Defense launch ... more | .. |
  GIS Development Announces Latin American Geospatial Forum GIS Development with intent to expand its activities and programs in Latin American continent has announced their upcoming conference Latin American Geospatial Forum to be organised from 17th 19th A ... more | .. |
  Russian Cosmonauts To Get New Uniform, Anna Chapman Not Involved Experts are designing a new uniform for Russia's cosmonauts but former spy Anna Chapman is not among them despite some media reports, the chief of the astronaut training center said on Friday. ... more | .. |
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  China Mars probe set for November launch China's first Mars probe will be launched from a Russian rocket in November, two years later than originally planned, state media reported Monday. ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
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 |
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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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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How fishes of the deep sea have evolved into different shapes
Carbon-rich waters are becoming even more acidic as atmospheric CO2 levels rise
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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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  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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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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Advanced air filter could enable building vents to capture carbon and reduce energy use
MIT physicists observe key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene
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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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Cables show China used debt holdings to press US Leaked diplomatic cables vividly show China's willingness to translate its massive holdings of US debt into political influence on issues ranging from Taiwan's sovereignty to Washington's financial policy. ... more |
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  Social media, cellphone video fuel Arab protests Social media, cellphone cameras, satellite television, restive youth and years of pent-up anger are proving to be a toxic mix for authoritarian regimes in the Middle East. ... more | .. |
 2012 Science Budget Endorsed By Earth And Space Scientists The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has endorsed President Barack Obama's 2012 budget request, specifically noting its recognition of the critical impact scientific research has on economic competi ... more | .. |
  Kollmorgen unveils modified power system A variant of a low-voltage power generation system for the U.S. Army's Fuel-Efficient Ground Vehicle Demonstrator is being introduced by Virginia's Kollmorgen. ... more | .. |
 Murdoch's News Corp. buying daughter's company News Corp. announced Monday it has agreed to buy Shine Group, a television production company owned by News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth, for Pounds 415 million ($672 million). ... more |
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