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Getting To Mars Means Stopping And LandingMoffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 05, 2011 The Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters were perhaps two of the most prominent reminders of how crucial it is that everything work just right for a spacecraft to travel to space and successfully return back to Earth. Whether it was the failure of the seal used to stop hot gases from seeping through, or a piece of foam insulation that damaged the thermal protection system, scientists and engineers must make thousands of predictions of all the things that could go wrong during flight. ... read more |
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 Russia And US To Discuss Nuke-Powered Spaceship Project Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos and NASA will discuss the development of a nuclear-powered spaceship on April 15, agency director Anatoly Perminov said on Monday. Not only the United S ... more | .. |
  India's GSAT-8 Delivered To French Guiana A dual-purpose Indian satellite to be orbited on another of Arianespace's Ariane 5 missions during 2011 arrived in French Guiana today. GSAT-8 - which also is known by the INSAT-4G designation ... more | .. |
  Rugged Satellite Earth Stations Enable Forward-Deployed Systems For Disaster Recovery ASC Signal Corporation has announced that its antennas have been chosen as a critical component of Globecomm Systems, Inc.'s Forward-Deployed Asset Support Terminal (FAST) system to enable rapid set ... more | .. |
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  Former Cosmonaut Offers First-Hand Account Of The Death Of Yury Gagarin Russian pilot and cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov has offered the most plausible account to date of the crash of the fighter jet that killed Yury Gagarin, the first man in space, and Vladimir Seryogin, ... more | .. |
  KVH Expands Airtime Rate Plans For Mini-VSAT Broadband Users When it was introduced in February 2011, the ultra-compact TracPhone V3 from KVH Industries shook up the maritime SATCOM industry. Not only was it the world's smallest maritime VSAT system, but it a ... more | .. |
 Russia To Get New Spaceport The Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur Region is slated to become Russia's major spaceport, with nearly half of the space launches planned to be carried out from it after 2020, the Russian Space Agenc ... more | .. |
  Israel to deploy four more 'Iron Dome' anti-rocket defences Israel is planning to deploy four more batteries of its "Iron Dome" short-range missile defence system, Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday. ... more |
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  Blood Simple Circuitry For Cyborgs Could electronic components made from human blood be the key to creating cyborg interfaces? Circuitry that links human tissues and nerve cells directly to an electronic device, such as a robotic lim ... more | .. |
 A Fallen Giant: The Soviet Space Industry Ordinary Russians see little connection between space exploration and economics. If anything, they see expensive space programs as a permanent drain on the nation's resources. Some are inclined to t ... more | .. |
 US lawmakers eye plan to compete with Asia on robotics US senators unveiled an initiative Monday to try to narrow the US gap with Asian nations more advanced in robotics, proposing exposing American high school students to a curriculum heavier on technology and science. ... more | .. |
  Processing Is Underway For Globalstar's Second-Generation Satellites To Be Launched By Soyuz In May The six Globalstar second-generation satellites to be orbited by Arianespace's next Soyuz mission from Baikonur Cosmodrome are well advanced in their preparations as activities continue for the lift ... more |
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  NASA Airborne Radar Set to Image Hawaiian Volcano The Kilauea volcano that recently erupted on the Big Island of Hawaii will be the target for a NASA study to help scientists better understand processes occurring under Earth's surface. A NASA ... more | .. |
 Aerojet Propulsion Assists Voyager 1 Precision Maneuver At The Edge Of The Solar System Aerojet says its thrusters on the Voyager 1 spacecraft assisted in several critical repositionings of the spacecraft over 10 billion miles away from the sun, at the edge of the solar system. O ... more | .. |
 Soyuz Launch Site Ready For First Flight The Soyuz site at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana is now ready for its first launch. ESA yesterday handed over the complex to Arianespace, marking a major step towards this year's inaugural flig ... more | .. |
  Raven Industries Manufactured Balloon Sets Records On March 4, 2011, a Raven Aerostar designed and manufactured Zero Pressure Balloon, flown by Cornell University graduate students, broke the world Amateur Radio High Altitude Ballooning records for ... 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
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  NASA Test Stand Passes Review For Next-Generation Rocket Engine Testing Forty-five years after its first Saturn V rocket stage test and 35 years after its first space shuttle main engine test, the A-2 Test Stand at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center achieved a mileston ... more | .. |
 Black box for spacecraft tested The first black box flight recorder designed to endure a re-entry from space survived a fiery return from low Earth orbit, its manufacturer said. ... more | .. |
 Affectiva technology taps into people's emotions Computers may soon understand people better than their spouses do, courtesy of innovations from startup Affectiva that expand on groundbreaking sensing research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). ... more | .. |
  DARPA Successfully Completes 3D Holographic Display Technology Demonstration Program Many of today's conflicts occur in urban settings, making the ability to visualize conditions in urban areas increasingly important to commanders and mission planners. The Defense Advanced Res ... more |
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 NEW-HIP Program Advances Avionics Networks Modern military aircraft are burdened with miles of heavily shielded copper wire cables that connect a multitude of components. This cabling is heavy and subject to deterioration due to harsh enviro ... more | .. |
 Small Diameter Bomb II Program Completes CDR Raytheon's Small Diameter Bomb II program completed a U.S. Air Force critical design review (CDR), clearing the way for the weapon to begin captive flight testing later this year. "Raytheon's ... more | .. |
 Israeli port city gets Iron Dome anti-rocket system The Israeli army on Monday deployed a second battery of its Iron Dome short-range missile defence system, this time around the southern port city of Ashkelon, a military spokeswoman said. ... more | .. |
  AeroVironment Global Observer Experiences Mishap During Extended Duration Flight Testing AeroVironment, Inc. has announced that the Global Observer unmanned air vehicle undergoing flight test envelope expansion at Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB) in California experienced a mishap at 2:30 ... 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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 Euro Hawk Undergoes Testing At Edwards AFB Engineers with the 772nd Test Squadron facilitated electromagnetic interference testing on a Euro Hawk unmanned aircraft at the Benefield Anechoic Facility here March 10 and 11. They teamed wi ... more | .. |
  Global Military Communications Market In 2010 Despite pressure on defence spending worldwide, military communications look set to remain central to defence procurement and investment in the coming years. Military communications are a vital part ... more | .. |
 Picatinny Fields First Precision-Guided Mortars To Troops In Afghanistan This month, U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan received 120mm GPS-guided mortar precision capability. The Program Executive Office for Ammunition fielded Accelerated Precision Mortar Initiative cartridges ... more | .. |
  MDA Awards Raytheon Contract For New SM-3 Block IB The Missile Defense Agency awarded Raytheon a $312 million manufacturing contract for the Standard Missile-3 Block IB program. The contract provides the funding necessary to complete the development ... more |
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  Tsunami-stranded dog reunited with owner in Japan A dog that was rescued from a floating roof off Japan's tsunami-battered northeast coast was reunited with its owner Monday, public broadcaster NHK said. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong speeds up visas for Japan expats Hong Kong is speeding up approval of work visas for professionals fleeing quake-hit Japan, immigration officials said Monday, as the city tries to snap up top-class staff in the finance sector. ... more | .. |
 Japan battles to stop radiation leak into sea Workers at Japan's crippled nuclear plant Sunday struggled to stop a radioactive water leak into the Pacific, as the government warned the facility may spread contamination for months. ... more | .. |
 Japan tsunami survivor returns to help save nuclear plant Three weeks after watching a massive wave smash into the Fukushima nuclear plant, Hiroyuki Kohno is heading back to the disaster zone to join crews struggling to avert a meltdown. ... more |
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