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Russian craft brings astronauts back to EarthArkalyk, Kazakhstan (AFP) March 16, 2011 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. "All the crew members are in good health," the Russian Federal Space Agency said in a statement. "All the descent and landing operations were carried out normally." The Soyuz craft brought back Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka and US astronaut Scott Kelly after a five month stin ... read more |
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  Arianespace's Success Is Built On Transparency At this week's Satellite 2011 conference in Washington, D.C., Arianespace addressed an important "hot button" issue for the global launch services sector - and underscored its continued leadership a ... more | .. |
 ORBCOMM And SpaceX Set Plans To Launch Satellites On Next Falcon 9 ORBCOMM and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) have announced plans to carry the first two ORBCOMM next-generation OG2 satellites to orbit on the next Falcon 9 launch this year. Falcon 9 ... more | .. |
  AIAA To Host First Biennial Congressional Aerospace Policy Retreat On Friday, March 18, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will host its first biennial Congressional Aerospace Policy Retreat. This inaugural event will brief Members of Con ... more | .. |
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  DLR Center Takes Over Operation Of The Swedish PRISMA Satellite Mission On 15 March 2011, the German Space Operations Center (GSOC) at the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen took over operation of the Swedish PRISMA satellite mission. The Swedish Space Corporat ... more | .. |
 XTAR Launches New Brand Identity XTAR, the first commercial provider of satellite communications services in the X-band frequency, has unveiled a new brand identity which is being introduced during the Satellite 2011 conference in ... more | .. |
 Arianespace To launch Argentina's Arsat-2 Satellite ARSAT has once again selected Arianespace for its commercial launch services - this time to orbit the Argentinean satellite operator's second satellite, Arsat-2. Participating in this week's S ... more | .. |
  X-37B - This Is Only A Test 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 anot ... more |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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  Death toll up to 24 in NW Pakistan drone strike: officials The death toll from a US drone strike in Pakistan's lawless northwest reached 24 on Thursday, and officials said all those killed were militants in the Al-Qaeda and Taliban-hit region. ... more | .. |
Mexico allows unarmed US drones over its territory Mexico admitted Wednesday that unarmed US drones have flown over its territory to gather intelligence on organized crime, showing increased, politically-sensitive cooperation in its drug war. ... more | .. |
  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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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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 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 | .. |
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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Japan choppers dump water on stricken atomic plant Japanese military helicopters dumped tonnes of water Thursday onto the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant northeast of Tokyo in a bid to douse fuel rods and prevent a disastrous radiation release. ... more |
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 Mounting Japan crisis sparks warnings to leave Tokyo Alarm over Japan's nuclear crisis grew on Thursday as army helicopters water-bombed an overheating power plant and foreign governments urged citizens to leave Tokyo. ... more | .. |
Japanese baker picks up pieces after tsunami Hideo Chiba firmly believes that hard work can be uplifting. So the 70-year-old baker has busied himself with a smile, cleaning up his house and shop ravaged by the killer tsunami. ... more | .. |
S.Korea warns against panic-buying of iodide pills South Korean pharmacists issued an appeal Thursday cautioning against panic over Japan's crisis-hit nuclear plants, as callers flooded drug stores with requests for iodide pills. ... more |
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