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X-37B - This Is Only A TestSydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 16, 2011 We are regularly warned on emergency speakers that an upcoming alarm signal is only a test. It's a necessary precaution to prevent panic. Some members of community need a similar heads-up about another imminent event. We are now into the early stages of another flight of the X-37B spaceplane, probably the sexiest and most controversial new spacecraft in years. It's like a scaled down version of its larger cousin, the NASA Space Shuttle, but carries no crew. Operated by the US Air Force, the ... read more |
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  Russian craft brings astronauts back to Earth A Russian Soyuz space capsule brought a US astronaut and two Russians safely back to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday, with the crew parachuting down in the Kazakh steppe. ... more | .. |
  NASA Seeks Partners To Manage Night Rover, Nano-Sat Launcher Challenges NASA is seeking partner organizations to manage the agency's upcoming Night Rover and Nano-Satellite Launcher Centennial Challenges. NASA's Centennial Challenges are prize competitions for technolog ... more | .. |
  UK Space Agency Champions Adaptation Of Space Technology For Terrestrial Uses UK space technology that is being developed to explore other worlds could soon be benefiting us on ours, with the launch of the UK Space Agency's new knowledge exchange programme. The UK Space ... more | .. |
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  NASA Unveiling New Rocket Integration Facility At Wallops NASA will unveil its new rocket integration facility at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. EDT on March 22. The Horizontal Integration Facility ... more | .. |
  N. Korea rejects Seoul's plea to stop jamming signals North Korea rejected South Korea's plea on Tuesday to stop beaming signals aimed at disturbing Seoul's military and mobile communications, an official said. ... more | .. |
 US, Russia sign deal to transport astronauts until 2016 The US space agency has renewed a contract to use Russian spaceships to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) up to 2016, the Russian space agency said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  FASTSAT Mission Update To date, the MINI-ME instrument has acquired more than 29 days of observations at optimal science level (i.e., running with the power inputs and other characteristics to which it was initially calib ... more |
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  Industry First VSAT with microSD Multi-Giga Byte Cache Memory Gilat Satellite Networks has launched WebEnhance, the industry's first VSAT with upgradeable, high-capacity, multi Giga byte microSD memory. Based on an innovative CacheMode technology, the We ... more | .. |
 Africa's First Private Sector Telecom Satellite Is Readied For Launch Pre-launch checkout is continuing at the Spaceport in French Guiana for Intelsat New Dawn - the first-ever African private sector communications satellite - which is one of two spacecraft passengers ... more | .. |
 Ariane 5 Moves To Final Assembly Building The heavy-lift Ariane 5 for Arianespace's second launch of 2011 is now in the Final Assembly Building at Europe's Spaceport, where it will be fitted with the dual payload of Yahsat Y1A and Intelsat ... more | .. |
 HP looks to the 'cloud' Hewlett-Packard plans to offer a complete range of cloud computing services, HP chief executive Leo Apotheker said Monday as he outlined his strategy for the US computer giant. ... more |
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FASTSAT Mission Update To date, the MINI-ME instrument has acquired more than 29 days of observations at optimal science level (i.e., running with the power inputs and other characteristics to which it was initially calib ... more | .. |
NASA Unveiling New Rocket Integration Facility At Wallops NASA will unveil its new rocket integration facility at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. EDT on March 22. The Horizontal Integration Facility ... more | .. |
NASA Seeks Partners To Manage Night Rover, Nano-Sat Launcher Challenges NASA is seeking partner organizations to manage the agency's upcoming Night Rover and Nano-Satellite Launcher Centennial Challenges. NASA's Centennial Challenges are prize competitions for technolog ... more | .. |
 SSTL's European GNSS Payload Passes Design Review Payloads being delivered by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) for Europe's future satellite navigation system have passed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR), having proved to a panel including ... 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
Halter Virtual Fencing revolutionizes cattle management across US | .. |
 SES gives SpaceX first geostationary satellite launch deal Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES said on Monday it had reached an agreement with the privately owned company SpaceX for a 2013 launch that will be the first geostationary satellite placement using the US firm's Falcon 9 rocket. ... more | .. |
 Winds blowing radioactivity offshore, away from Japan: WMO The UN weather agency said Tuesday that winds are currently blowing radioactive material towards the ocean, and that there were "no implications" for Japan or countries nearby. ... more | .. |
Health experts sound warning over iodine rush Japan's nuclear crisis has sparked panic buying of iodine pills, with online bids exceeding $500 for one packet, but health experts hosed down the hysteria and warned the pills are of limited use. ... more | .. |
Radiation 'not threat outside nuclear plant zone' Radiation from a quake-hit Japanese nuclear power plant poses no immediate health threat outside a zone which has already been evacuated, the chief government spokesman said Wednesday. ... more |
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  China aims new missile at Taiwan: intelligence chief Taiwan's top intelligence chief said Wednesday that China is targeting the island with a new type of ballistic missile. ... more | .. |
  Fuel Cell Milestone Validates Potential In-Theater Use Lockheed Martin and Technology Management for the first time have operated a fuel-cell generator for 1,000 hours using the military's standard fuel, JP-8. This milestone paves the way to field fuel- ... more | .. |
  Advanced Emulation Accelerates Deployment Of Military Network Technologies The US Army will soon be conducting a series of network developmental exercises and evaluations at Fort Bliss, TX and White Sands Missile Range that are intended to evaluate technologies and integra ... more | .. |
 Training Team Helping European Soldiers Counter IEDs Improvised explosive devices are the weapons of choice for insurgents, and representatives from Europe and the Middle East participated in the U.S. Army in Europe and the Joint Multinational Trainin ... 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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  BAE And Dassault Sign MoU To Develop UAS Proposal BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate exclusively on the preparation and submission of a joint proposal to the UK and French Ministries of ... more | .. |
 Tactical Communications Group Completes Deployment Of Ground Support Systems Tactical Communications Group (TCG), the leading independent provider of tactical data link (TDL) software solutions for military test, training, simulation and operational applications worldwide, h ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Announces Next Generation of ACU Interoperable Communications Raytheon has launched the Audio Connect Unit-5000 that provides the ability to connect a greater number of channels to enable seamless communication among first responders. Designed for greate ... more | .. |
 Britain won't scrap spy planes Two British spy planes planned to have been retired this month will be kept in service for at least three additional months. ... more |
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 Multispectral Intelligence Sensor Integrated Into E-8C Keel Accessory Bay With the goal of reducing the sensor-to-shooter timeline to just minutes and expanding airborne ground surveillance command and control, Northrop Grumman has completed the installation and testing o ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman and Boeing Submit ABM Simulation Architecture Proposal Northrop Grumman and industry partner Boeing have submitted a joint proposal for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Objective Simulation Framework (OSF) program. OSF, which will integrate t ... more | .. |
 Three killed in US drone strike in Pakistan: officials At least three militants died Monday in a US missile strike on a vehicle in a tribal town in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border, security officials said. ... more | .. |
 Space Team Improves GPS Capability For Warfighters Joint force warfighters around the globe will soon be able to assess real-time and future GPS accuracy, both where they are and where they're going, with a new capability developed by the 2nd Space ... more |
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