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ESA May Use Russian Technology In Nuke-Spaceship ProjectMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 13, 2011 The European Space Agency (ESA) has no immediate plans for cooperation with Russia in creating nuclear-powered spacecraft for future missions to Mars, but is considering using Russian experience and technology in its developments, the agency's head, Jean-Jacques Dorden, said on Monday. ESA in cooperation with NASA is currently developing a major Mars exploration project, entitled ExoMars (Exobiology on Mars), which is due to launch in 2016. Nuclear-powered spaceships are believed to be the most ef ... read more |
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  Putin Urges Ukraine To Join New Russian Space Center Project Ukraine should participate in the construction of the Vostochny Space Center in Russia's Far East, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in Kiev on Tuesday. Russia currently uses two launch sites: Baik ... more | .. |
  Russia's Medvedev Gives State Honors To Cosmonauts President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday awarded state honors to some of Russia's most senior cosmonauts as Russia is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight. Fifty years ... more | .. |
 Yury Gagarin's Flight Remembered On the morning of April 12, 1961, the Vostok spacecraft was launched into orbit carrying the world's first cosmonaut, Yury Gagarin, a citizen of the Soviet Union. YouReporter users and bloggers shar ... more | .. |
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  Soviet space capsule sells for nearly $3 million A Soviet space capsule sold for nearly $3 million at auction to a Russian businessman in New York on Tuesday, the 50th anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin's historic conquest of space. ... more | .. |
  Boeing Receives Contract for SM-3 IIB Concept Design Boeing has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to develop the Standard Missile-3 Block IIB (SM-3 IIB). This $41.2 million, 32-month contract is for the concept definitio ... more | .. |
  Tracking Ballistic Missiles From 'Birth-to-Death' Two recent Ballistic Missile Defense System-wide (BMDS) tests involving the Northrop Grumman-built Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration satellites showed that the satellite sy ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Delivers Record Number of Evolved SeaSparrow Missiles Raytheon Missile Systems business delivered a record number of Evolved SeaSparrow Missiles last year. The company's delivery of 366 ESSMs in 2010 more than doubled the previous year's total. " ... more |
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 Gagarin As A Symbol Of Modernization "Let's go!" With these words Yuri Gagarin blasted off on a flight that would shock the world. How could a country still emerging from the devastation wrought by WWII accomplish such an incredible fe ... more | .. |
 "I See Earth! It Is So Beautiful!" Today is the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering flight into space. ESA is celebrating these five decades of human spaceflight with a collection of articles, videos and interviews. " ... more | .. |
 Report Provides NASA With Direction For Next 10 Years Of Space Research During the past 60 years, humans have built rockets, walked on the moon and explored the outer reaches of space with probes and telescopes. During these trips in space, research has been conducted t ... more | .. |
  Computer demand shrinks amid tablet craze: reports Figures released on Wednesday showed that the personal computer market shrank for the first time in more than a year due to frugality and a tablet computer craze led by Apple's hot-selling iPads. ... more |
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 Lost Treasures Of The Soviet Space Era While Russians will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight on April 12 with impressive 50-salvo fireworks, Sotheby's in New York will be auctioning off the descent caps ... more | .. |
50 years on, space 'still priority' for Russia: Medvedev Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin's historic flight, space travel is a priority for post-Soviet Russia and exploration of the cosmos remains in its infancy, President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Model Of Russian Piloted Spacecraft To Go On Show In August The head of the Russian spacecraft manufacturer RKK Energia promised on Thursday to demonstrate a mock-up of a new manned spaceship at the August 16-21 Maks-2011 air show to be held in Zhukovsky, ne ... more | .. |
 US helps eliminate Ukraine's Scud missile stockpile The United States said Wednesday it helped Ukraine destroy a stockpile of 185 surface-to-surface Scud missile systems. ... more |
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AI enables tailored education for medical students at scale
MIT senior turns waste from the fishing industry into biodegradable plastic
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  US drones kill six militants in Pakistan: officials US drones on Wednesday resumed missile attacks in Pakistan for the first time in a month, killing six fighters from the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network on the Afghan border, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Ancient slingers added insult to injury, researcher says Centuries before Allied bomber crews would send gleefully personalised ordnance to Adolf Hitler, ancient skirmishers mastered the art of enemy taunts by slingshot, according to a researcher. ... more | .. |
 Gallium Nitride-Based Modules Set New 180-Day Standard For High Power Operation Northrop Grumman has set a new standard for its gallium nitride-based high power transmit/receive (T/R) modules by reliably operating them for more than 180 days during continuous high-power testing ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Fire Scout Hits New Single-Day Endurance Flight Record The Northrop Grumman-built MQ-8B Fire Scout vertical takeoff and landing tactical unmanned aerial vehicle marked a new single-day flight record of 18 hours. U.S. Navy operators achieved the re ... more |
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  Nuclear workers face radiation limit, but fight on The thinning ranks of men struggling to tame Japan's nuclear emergency are invoking the spirit of the samurai as they ignore personal radiation limits in their battle to avert disaster. ... more | .. |
 Japan plant area uninhabitable for years: adviser People may not be able to live in areas near Japan's radiation-spewing nuclear power plant for up to 20 years, an adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan's government said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Material Devloped To Remove Radioactive Contaminants From Drinking Water A combination of forest byproducts and crustacean shells may be the key to removing radioactive materials from drinking water, researchers from North Carolina State University have found. "As ... more | .. |
 Pakistan flood recovery sees $600 mln shortfall Pakistan is short of $600 million needed to help millions of families rebuild their lives nine months after the country suffered nationwide floods in its worst ever natural disaster, the UN said Wednesday. ... more |
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High precision measurement advances fusion plasma diagnostics
New design strategy boosts lithium alloy electrodes for solid-state batteries
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Russia nuclear chief says Japan exaggerates crisis The disaster at the Fukushima atomic power plant cannot be compared to Chernobyl, Russia's nuclear chief said on Wednesday, suggesting Tokyo was exaggerating the emergency, possibly for financial reasons. ... more | .. |
Merkel ally lashes out at Italy's 'mafia methods' A senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives Wednesday hit out at what he called Italy's "mafia methods" in the row within Europe over how to deal with North African immigrants. ... more | .. |
China state paper blasts Japan over nuclear crisis Japan owes its neighbours an apology for failing to tell them about the severity of its nuclear crisis, a Chinese state newspaper said Wednesday, accusing the West of letting Tokyo off the hook. ... more | .. |
 Japan police scour nuclear zone for tsunami bodies Police began searching Thursday for tsunami victims in a 10-kilometre (six-mile) zone around Japan's crippled Fukushima atomic plant where frantic efforts continued to contain a nuclear crisis. ... more |
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 Japan hula girls to save hot springs from nuclear fallout They pulled on their grass skirts to help save their mining town once before, now Japan's "hula girls" plan to save it again, this time from becoming a nuclear ghost town. ... more | .. |
Nine killed in blast at Chinese plant: state media At least nine people were killed after an explosion at a chemical plant in northeast China, local officials said Thursday, according to state media. ... more | .. |
Japan's nuclear evacuees shunned over health fears People fleeing Japan's crippled nuclear plant are being turned away from evacuation centres because of unfounded fears they might contaminate others with radiation. ... more | .. |
  Toward A Green Grid For Delivering Solar And Wind-Based Electricity After years of neglect, scientists and policy makers are focusing more attention on developing technologies needed to make the so-called "green grid" possible, according to an article in ACS' Chemic ... more |
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