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LockMart Makes Strides In Human Space ExplorationDenver CO (SPX) Mar 22, 2011 Forging a new path forward to ensure safe, affordable and sustainable human exploration beyond low Earth orbit, Lockheed Martin has unveiled the first Orion spacecraft and a spacious state-of-the-art Space Operations Simulation Center (SOSC). These two major projects, located at Lockheed Martin's Waterton Facility near Denver, Colo., showcase the NASA-industry teams' progress for human space flight, the Orion Project and NASA's Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. The spacecraft will undergo rigorous testi ... read more |
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  Commercial Rocket Engine Testing Continues At NASA Center NASA's Stennis Space Center is moving ahead in supporting Orbital Sciences Corporation testing of Aerojet's AJ26 engines for commercial cargo flights to the International Space Station. Orbita ... more | .. |
  Under Pressure? Turn To Space Tech When engineers come up with a super-strong new material for building shipping containers, trucking trailers and aircraft parts, it is a major challenge to simulate its strength and reliability accur ... more | .. |
  GPS Mundi Releases Points Of Interest Files For Ten More Major Cities We have all been there: We spend an hour navigating through an unfamiliar city looking for a place, only to find that the information in our trusty GPS is outdated or just plain wrong because it was ... more | .. |
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  Globalstar Takes Delivery Of Six New Satellites In Preparation For May Launch Globalstar has taken delivery of six new second-generation satellites at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Technicians from launch services provider Arianespace and satellite manufacturer Thale ... more | .. |
 Orbital Sciences And Segovia Join Satellite Industry Association The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) announced that two new companies have joined the organization: Orbital Sciences Corporation and Segovia, Inc. "SIA is delighted to welcome both Orbital ... more | .. |
 From Outer Sol To The Inner Rock Human Space Is Growing It's easy for a space enthusiast to feel depressed right now. The end of the Shuttle program is nigh. NASA seems neglected and directionless. Budgetary issues threaten spaceflight globally. Bu ... more | .. |
  EU e-waste recycling goals criticized Green groups in Europe say the European Union's new goals for dealing with the bloc's growing mountain of electronic waste are timid. ... more |
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 European space missions in jeopardy European space scientists say they're rethinking potential space missions after learning NASA won't be contributing significant funding to any of their efforts. ... more | .. |
  Iran Sends Rocket, Capsule Into Space Iran on Thursday signalled a broadening of its space ambitions by announcing the launch of a new rocket and a test capsule designed to house a monkey, amid Western concerns over its scientific advan ... more | .. |
 When A Bus Becomes A Satellite Alphabus has met Alphasat. Europe's largest telecom satellite is taking shape with final assembly and testing ready to begin in Toulouse, France. Planned for launch in late 2012 on Ariane 5, Alphasa ... more | .. |
  Thomas Reiter Appointed Director Of Human Spaceflight At ESA On 17 March 2011, Thomas Reiter, Executive Board Member responsible for Space Research and Technology at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), was appointed a ... more |
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 LockMart GPS III Team Completes Key Flight Software Milestone The Lockheed Martin-led team developing the U.S. Air Force's next generation Global Position System, known as GPS III, has successfully completed the program's first major flight software integratio ... more | .. |
  SES And ILS Announce Launch Of SES-6 On ILS Proton In 2013 International Launch Services (ILS) and SES have announced the launch of SES-6 in 2013 on ILS Proton. SES-6 is the sixth mission under the SES Multi Launch Agreement (MLA) signed in June 2007 betwee ... more | .. |
 ASC Signal to Demonstrate Next Gen Controller ASC Signal will demonstrate the enhanced capabilities of its Next Generation Controller (NGC) for satellite antenna systems at SATELLITE 2011 in Washington, D.C., March 15-17. The technical enhancem ... more | .. |
 Planetary Exploration Suit Will Be Tested In Antarctica University of North Dakota aerospace engineer and researcher Pablo de Leon is part of a unique mission to test a UND planetary exploration suit - the NDX-1 - at a remote military base in Antarctica. ... more |
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  Gilat Announces New Military Modem For Robust Tactical Satcom-On-The-Move Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has introduced a new military satellite modem - the MLT-1000 - and was showcased for the first time at Satellite 2011 in Washington DC this week. MLT-1000 will pr ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Support Enables High-Tempo F-22 Deployments Worldwide The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor is logging a deployment-intensive pace in early 2011 following a busy 2010, and the company continues to provide key support to the fleet as the Raptor projects power ... more | .. |
  MEADS System Integration Begins At Italian Test Site A Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) launcher and BMC4I Tactical Operations Center (TOC) have entered system test and integration at Pratica di Mare (PdM) Air Force Base in Italy. This miles ... more | .. |
 Raytheon BBN Technologies To Protect Internet Comms For Military Abroad Raytheon BBN Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon, has been awarded $1.9 million in defense research funding to develop safeguards for military Internet communications abroad. T ... more |
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  Dassault, BAE press ahead with drone plan France's Dassault Aviation has teamed with BAE Systems to collaborate exclusively on a plan to build self-piloting drones for use by both France and Britain. ... more | .. |
  Russia to double missile production from 2013: Putin Russia plans to double the production of strategic and tactical missile systems from 2013, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said, Russian news agencies reported. ... more | .. |
 PEO Ammo Picks Up 155mm Lightweight Howitzer Program The Program Executive Office for Ammunition has expanded to add towed artillery systems to the growing list of products that it manages for the military. On Jan. 20, Army Acquisition Executive ... more |
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Advanced air filter could enable building vents to capture carbon and reduce energy use
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 Northrop Grumman Ships First Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Fuselage Northrop Grumman completed the first of three fuselages for the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) System Development and Demonstration (SDD) program. The MQ-4C fus ... more | .. |
 First Flight For Thai Gripen The first flight on the morning of 15 March was completed by Squadron Commander Jackkrit Thammavichai, with Claes Wikstrom from the Swedish Air Force sitting in the rear seat of the Gripen D. ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Completes Work On Upgraded Early Warning Radar In Greenland Raytheon has completed all system requirements and testing of the Upgraded Early Warning Radar at Thule Air Base, Greenland. With this upgrade, the UEWR at Thule is ready to conduct the missile defe ... more | .. |
 Second And Third Flights Of X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Completed Less than a month after completing the first flight of the U.S. Navy's X-47B UCAS-Demonstration aircraft, flight test engineers from Northrop Grumman and the Navy have successfully completed the air ... more |
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  Smoke slows race to cool Japan nuclear plant Smoke belched from a stricken nuclear plant in Japan on Monday, disrupting urgent efforts to repair the cooling systems as Tokyo halted some food shipments owing to radiation worries. ... more | .. |
 UN atomic watchdog says Japan crisis will be overcome UN atomic watchdog chief Yukiya Amano said Monday he had "no doubt" that the current nuclear crisis in Japan would be "effectively overcome". ... more | .. |
 More volunteers 'prepared for death' at Fukushima In the scramble to avert catastrophe at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, selfless workers are volunteering to repeatedly endure high doses of radiation for the sake of millions of people. ... more | .. |
 Disaster could cost Japan $235 billion: WBank Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami could cost its economy up to $235 billion, or 4.0 percent of output, and reconstruction could take five years, the World Bank warned Monday. ... more |
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