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Voyager Seeks The Answer Blowin' In The WindPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 10, 2011 In which direction is the sun's stream of charged particles banking when it nears the edge of the solar system? The answer, scientists know, is blowing in the wind. It's just a matter of getting NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft in the right orientation to detect it. To enable Voyager 1's Low Energy Charged Particle instrument to gather these data, the spacecraft performed a maneuver on March 7 that it hadn't done for 21 years, except in a preparatory test last month. At 9:10 a.m. PST (12:10 p.m. ... read more |
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  SpaceX Expanding Texas Operations Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and the City of McGregor have signed a lease agreement allowing SpaceX to expand the size of its rocket development facility in McGregor. Under the deal ... more | .. |
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  Indian Space Agency To Now Launch Three Satellites In April The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) proposes to launch the latest remote sensing satellite and two others in the second week of April, seeking to replace a crucial component in its fully-a ... more | .. |
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  Boeing Completes Preliminary Design Review For Inmarsat-5 Satellites Boeing has announced that it has completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the Inmarsat-5 spacecraft and hosted payloads. Boeing is building three Ka-band satellites to add to Inmarsat's cur ... more | .. |
  Milestone Nears For European Missile Defense Plan The U.S. plan to defend Europe from a rapidly increasing ballistic missile threat will reach a milestone next week with the first deployment of missile defense technology, a senior Defense Departmen ... more | .. |
  Teaching Robots To Move Like Humans When people communicate, the way they move has as much to do with what they're saying as the words that come out of their mouths. But what about when robots communicate with people? How can ro ... more | .. |
 Mitsubishi Electric To Deliver Two CommSats To Turkey Mitsubishi Electric has announced that it has been awarded a turnkey contract to deliver the Turksat 4A and Turksat 4B communications satellite to satellite operator Turksat Satellite Communication ... more |
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  What Future for Chang'e-2 China's Chang'e-2 lunar orbiter has spent most of its mission in relative obscurity. This mission lacks the historical significance of Chang'e-1, which was China's first mission to the Moon. It has ... more | .. |
  UK scientists warn of 'dangerous over-reliance' on GPS Developed nations have become "dangerously over-reliant" on satellite navigation systems such as GPS, which could break down or be attacked with devastating results, British engineers said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Exacter Mobile Technology Stops Insulator Flashover Exacter has enhanced their EXACTER Outage-Avoidance System technology to identify and locate an impending insulator flashover on overhead lines. "Before a flashover causes a circuit outage, an insul ... more | .. |
 Annual Report To Baltimore County By AutoReturn Shows Solid Results Issuing its first annual report to Baltimore County since it was selected for logistics and towing management services, AutoReturn reported an increase in towed cars, improved efficiencies for the C ... more |
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 Skyhook's Location To Be Embedded In Next Gen Portable Entertainment System Skyhook has announced that Skyhook's Core Engine will be embedded in the next generation portable entertainment system from Sony Computer Entertainment. NGP, which will make its debut at the end of ... more | .. |
 TeenDriver.com Helps Parents Ensure Safety Of Their Teen Drivers TeenDriver has launched a new service that gives parents the tools they need to raise safe drivers. TeenDriver.com enables parents of teenagers to receive online confidential reports related to thei ... more | .. |
 Fred Meyer Stores And ECOtality To Install Blink EV Charging Stations ECOtality has announced the company's partnership with food retail chain Fred Meyer. Fred Meyer will install ECOtality's Blink Level 2 Electric Vehicle (EV) Commercial Pedestal Charging Station at s ... more | .. |
 Carbon Fibre Stretches From Comet To Machine Tools Ultra-light carbon-fibre rods used to stiffen a comet probe's legs are now being harnessed by a German manufacturer to boost the precision and efficiency of their laser cutters. Right now, the ... more |
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 'Facebook for scientists' an Internet hit Researchgate, a "Facebook for scientists" with 800,000 members, hopes to revolutionize the science community by connecting the smartest brains in the world through the Internet. ... more | .. |
 Study: Robots can understand humans A preliminary study found a robot can be programmed to understand when it gets a human's attention and when it doesn't, U.S. researchers said. ... more | .. |
 Andrews Space Awarded USAF Reusable Booster System Study Contract Andrews Space (Andrews) has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the United States Air Force (USAF) to study higher risk aspects of the Air Force's proposed Reusable Booster System. ... more | .. |
  How To Keep LISA's Laser On Target Five Million Kilometres Away A key technical challenge of the joint ESA-NASA LISA mission has been solved: how to maintain precise pointing of a laser beam across five million km of space. The next-decade Laser Interferom ... more |
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  Boeing Begins Final Assembly Of First P-8A Poseidon Production Aircraft Boeing has began final assembly of the first U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon production aircraft in the company's Renton factory. The P-8A is the first of six low-rate initial production aircraft that Boein ... more | .. |
  InterSKY 4M Provides BLOS Comms For C4I Military Systems Elbit Systems has announced the launch of its tactical broadband satellite communication (SATCOM) platform, InterSKY 4M. Designed specifically for government and military Beyond-Line-Of-Sight (BLOS) ... more | .. |
  Guardian Anti-Missile System Flight-Tested On A KC-135 Northrop Grumman, in partnership with the Air National Guard's 190th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), has announced the completion of the first round of flight testing with the company's Guardian System an ... more |
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 LockMart Completes C4ISR Mission System Delivery For Coast Guard Surveillance Aircraft Lockheed Martin recently delivered the ninth and final Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) mission system pallet for the U.S. Coast Gua ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Awarded Contract For USAF HH-60G FLIRs Raytheon has been awarded a $42 million U.S. Air Force contract for additional AN/AAQ-29A forward looking infrared imaging systems for installation on Pave Hawk HH-60G helicopters. Deliveries ... more | .. |
 New Design Of Through-Wall Radar Enables Increased Covert Surveillance Leading technology product design and development firm, Cambridge Consultants, has launched the latest evolution of its popular Prism through-wall radar product line. The Prism 200c is a lightweight ... more | .. |
  NASA Warns Ice Melt Speeding Up The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new NASA-funded satellite study. The findings of the study - the longest to date of changes in polar ic ... more |
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 Rare earths to be refined in Malaysia Australian mining company Lynas Corp. is building a $230 million rare earth refinery in Malaysia, the first processing plant to be built outside of China in nearly three decades, The New York Times reports. ... more | .. |
  Energy Focus Lights Up US Navy Ships And Submarines Energy Focus has announced that it is now supplying four families of fixtures incorporating LED Solid State Lighting (SSL) to U.S. Navy ships and submarines. The products being supplied were develop ... more | .. |
 EADS returns to profit on jet sales European defense giant European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. returned to profit in 2010 on strong jet sales at its subsidiary Airbus, reinstating a dividend and forecasting even greater sales in the year ahead. ... more |
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