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Mid East At Forefront Of $7.5 Billion Space Tourism IndustryAbu Dhabi (SPX) Feb 23, 2011 Space and satellite forum to highlight regional business opportunities for private and public sector investors - tourists will fly into space for $25,000 by 2030 The plethora of opportunities for private and public sector investors throughout the region that exist in the commercial space and satellite industry will be examined during the third annual Global Space and Satellite Forum (GSSF), in Abu Dhabi on 9-11 May. With many aspects of commercial space and satellite services continuing to take g ... read more |
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 Watch Out Virgin Galactic and Space Adventures Here Comes The Lynx Mitchell J. Schultz, space tourism specialist and managing director of Xtraordinary Adventures, recently published several articles about the possiblities of a mishap in early private space flight, ... more | .. |
 Future Of Space Tourism, Research Will Be Focus Of Conference The CEO and president of Richard Branson's space company, Virgin Galactic, will discuss the promise of space tourism at the University of Central Florida on Monday, Feb. 28. George Whitesides ... more | .. |
  Glory And Taurus Ready For Liftoff The launch of NASA's Glory spacecraft aboard an Orbital Sciences Taurus XL rocket is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 23. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 576-E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Califor ... more | .. |
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 NASA Awards SAIC $62 Million Information Technology Contract Extension Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has announced it was awarded a contract extension by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the Unified NASA Information T ... more | .. |
  Successful Launch Of REXUS 9 Yesterday at 12:50 local time the student rocket REXUS 9 took aloft from Esrange Space Center in the northern part of Sweden. The rocket, with its four experiments, reached an altitude of 80.6 km an ... more | .. |
  Revolutionary Design For Stratospheric High Altitude Balloon Missions Raven Aerostar announces the successful flights of multiple stratospheric balloons, including the Raven-manufactured Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) manufactured for NASA. A 14 Million Cubic Foot ... more | .. |
  NASA Mission to Tote CU Instrument And Student Satellite A $28 million University of Colorado Boulder instrument developed to study changes in the Sun's brightness and its impact on Earth's climate is one of two primary payloads on NASA's Glory mission se ... more |
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  Boeing Forms Commercial Satellite Services Group to Sell Satellite Capacity Boeing has established Boeing Commercial Satellite Services to market commercial satellite telecommunications services to the U.S. government and other satellite users. Headquartered in El Segundo, ... more | .. |
  Israel successfully tests Arrow anti-missile system Israel and the United States on Tuesday carried out a successful test of the Arrow anti-missile system, intercepting a test ballistic missile, the Israeli defence ministry said. ... more | .. |
 Shaping A Transition From Rocket Fuel To Oil Rigs 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 wit ... more | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 |
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Carbon-rich waters are becoming even more acidic as atmospheric CO2 levels rise
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  System Integration Test For SM-3 Kinetic Warhead Completed Raytheon and Aerojet have completed a kinetic warhead system integration test for Standard Missile-3 Block IB. The test verified the ability of the warhead to detect, track and intercept a moving ba ... more |
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  RC-12X Aircraft Provides Highly-Capable SIGINT Systems To Warfighter Northrop Grumman will field the first systems in the upgraded RC-12X Guardrail fleet, providing the U.S. Army with unparalleled signals intelligence (SIGINT) capability, under a recent task order aw ... more | .. |
 $7 bn UAE missile deal expected this spring A Lockheed Martin official said on Tuesday that he expects an agreement to be concluded this spring for the United Arab Emirates to buy an anti-ballistic missile system reputedly worth about $7 billion. ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Awarded UAS Common Architecture Working Group Contract The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $3.3 million contract to participate in the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Control Segment (UCS) Architecture Working Group (UCSWG). Sponsored by the Unm ... more | .. |
 JLENS Program Achieves Critical Milestone Raytheon's JLENS (Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System) program has successfully demonstrated the ability to transmit from an elevated aerostat. The JLENS dem ... 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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 First Series Of Laser-Guided Maverick Captive Flight Testing Completed Raytheon has completed a series of initial captive carry flight tests of the AGM-65E2/L, the newest variant of the laser-guided Maverick missile. The laser-guided Maverick missile is a direct- ... more | .. |
 Preliminary Design Review for Updated Bleed Air System Completed Northrop Grumman recently completed the JT8D propulsion pod's bleed air system's preliminary design review (PDR) for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS). "The ... more | .. |
 ThalesRaytheonSystems Announces Command View Mobile For C4I Solution ThalesRaytheonSystems has developed a mobile application for its Command View C4I product that will enable users to gain essential situational awareness and decision-making information on a variety ... more | .. |
  Boeing Receives Second Option Of B-52 Engineering Sustainment Contract Boeing has announced that the U.S. Air Force has exercised a $21.7 million option for the company to continue supporting the B-52 Stratofortress bomber under an Engineering Sustainment Program (ESP) ... more |
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 Thales Germany unveils new radar A long-range ground surveillance radar from Thales Germany has been unveiled at an international exhibition in the United Arab Emirates. ... more | .. |
 LockMart Receives Major Contract Modification For F-22 Raptor Sustainment Lockheed Martin has received a $726.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force for sustainment of the F-22 Raptor fleet. This modification is for the 2011 Follow-On Agile Sustainm ... 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 | .. |
 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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