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SpaceX Antes Up With Falcon HeavyWashington DC (SPX) Apr 06, 2011 Elon Musk, CEO and chief rocket designer of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has unveiled the dramatic final specifications and launch date for the Falcon Heavy, the world's largest rocket. "Falcon Heavy will carry more payload to orbit or escape velocity than any vehicle in history, apart from the Saturn V moon rocket, which was decommissioned after the Apollo program. This opens a new world of capability for both government and commercial space missions," Musk told a press conference at t ... read more |
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  100-Year Starship Study Strategic Planning Workshop Held The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the NASA Ames Research Center announced their 100-Year Starship Study in October. This study is examining the business model needed to devel ... more | .. |
  Iran wants to retrieve satellite built in Italy Iran is pressing Italy over a satellite, Mesbah-1, built by an Italian company in 2005 but never delivered to Tehran, a top Iranian space official said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Make Your Satnav Idea A Reality Submit a great satnav idea and win a prize with ESA support to create your own business. Previous winning ideas today guide visitors around exhibition centres, help position offshore ships with cent ... more | .. |
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 ILS And Melco Announce Contract For Launch Of Turksat Satellites International Launch Services (ILS) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) of Tokyo, Japan, announced a new contract for the launch of Turksat 4A and Turksat 4B on ILS Proton. Turksat 4A is sch ... more | .. |
 SpaceX unveils heavy launcher SpaceX unveiled Tuesday what its chief executive Elon Musk has called the world's most powerful rocket, the Falcon Heavy, which will have its first demonstration flight at the end of 2012. ... 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 | .. |
  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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 |
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Carbon-rich waters are becoming even more acidic as atmospheric CO2 levels rise
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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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 Getting To Mars Means Stopping And Landing 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 succ ... more |
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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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 US Navy Accomplishes Several Firsts During Operation Odyssey Dawn The U.S. Navy, while partnering with joint forces and coalition forces, made several first-time accomplishments During Operation Odyssey Dawn March 31. During the beginning of Odyssey Dawn, st ... more | .. |
 iRobot Delivers More Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles iRobot has announced that the U.S. Army plans to procure two additional low-rate initial production brigade sets of model 320 SUGVs. The Defense Acquisition Board formalized its approval to pu ... more | .. |
 Argon ST Awarded Joint Precision Air Drop System Ultra Light Weight Contract Argon ST and teammate Atair Aerospace, Inc (Atair) have announced that they have received a $45,000,000 not-to-exceed ceiling firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for t ... more | .. |
 Preparations Underway As US Army Gears Up For Large-Scale Network Evaluations As preparations for the Army's Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) kick into high gear, Soldiers, engineers, combat developers and test officials are joining forces at Fort Bliss, Texas, and White ... more |
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 US Army Selects AAI's Man-Portable Aircraft Survivability Trainer AAI Test and Training has announced that its Man-Portable Aircraft Survivability Trainer (MAST) has been selected by the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentati ... more | .. |
 South African Rooivalk Handed Over To SAAF The upgraded Rooivalk combat support helicopter has been handed over to the South African Air Force for operational duties. The helicopter, designed and manufactured in South Africa, was received by ... more | .. |
 Boeing Supports First Hellfire Test Launch From Avenger System Boeing supported the U.S. Army's first test launch of an AGM-114 Hellfire missile on Feb. 23 at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The missile was fired from a modified Avenger weapon system as part o ... more | .. |
 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 |
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