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No Fleet Future For X-37BSydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 15, 2011 The second flight of the US Air Force's X-37B spaceplane has been underway for weeks. During this time, the USAF has been fairly quiet about its operations, but this hasn't stopped amateur satellite watchers from finding it. So far, there seem to be no big surprises. The vehicle is apparently intact and not doing anything too strange in its orbit. We know the first mission was successful, and we can reasonably expect that the second spaceplane is working just as well. With one successful test fli ... read more |
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  Arianespace to launch ASTRA 2E Satellite In the frame of the "Multi Launch Agreement" with Arianespace, the Luxemburg operator of satellites SES has confirmed to Arianespace the launch of the ASTRA 2E satellite slated for the second semest ... more | .. |
 Kazakh Space Launch Project Delayed Until 2017 The commissioning of a key space launch facility has been postponed again to 2017 due to errors in the draft design and slow progress in relevant flight tests, a Kazakh national space agency officia ... more | .. |
  Drugs in space may need special handling Drugs intended to treat minor illnesses of astronauts in space may need special handling to remain stable in the environment of space, NASA scientists say. ... more | .. |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  ESA May Use Russian Technology In Nuke-Spaceship Project 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 ... 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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Europe Strives to Counter Russian and Chinese Satellite Menace
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 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 | .. |
  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 |
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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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Obama urged to limit Russia missile shield sway President Barack Obama must beat back any Russian demands for "red-button" sway over a missile shield in Europe and deny Moscow access to sensitive data tied to the program, US senators urged Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Elbit Systems Awarded Soltam's Artillery System Contract Elbit Systems has announced that it was awarded a contract to supply self-propelled artillery and accompanying systems to an African country. The contract, valued at approximately $24 million, will ... 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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 LockMart And Atmos To Pursue Brazil Air Surveillance Radar Program Lockheed Martin and Atmos Sistemas have signed a teaming agreement to pursue the Brazilian Air Force's future Three-Dimensional (3-D) Long-Range Radar procurement program, which seeks to upgrade and ... more | .. |
 Answering The Warfighter's Call For Joint Air-To-Ground Missile Raytheon has received the U.S. Army and Navy's Joint Air-to-Ground Missile request for proposal and will respond as a prime contractor. Raytheon is teamed with Boeing for the competition. The ... more | .. |
 Fire Control Radar Completes Target-Of-Opportunity Tracking Raytheon's JLENS (Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System) has successfully demonstrated tracking targets of opportunity in the Salt Lake City air space. Testing and i ... 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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  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 | .. |
  Japan police find 10 bodies in nuclear zone Japanese police on Thursday found the bodies of 10 tsunami victims in the first search of a 10-kilometre (six-mile) zone around an atomic plant, as emergency crews battled to contain a nuclear crisis. ... more | .. |
 Japan can pay for rebuild: central bank governor Japan's economy suffered a big blow in the triple earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, but the country should have no problem financing reconstruction, the central bank chief said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 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 |
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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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Plasma Nanoscience Needed For Green Energy Revolution A step change in research relating to plasma nanoscience is needed for the world to overcome the challenge of sufficient energy creation and storage, says a leading scientist from CSIRO Materials Sc ... more | .. |
 Using Carbon Fiber To Reinforce Buildings And Protect From Explosions Most buildings are not constructed to withstand an unexpected explosion or impact. Now, a researcher at the University of Missouri is working with the U.S. Army to test a method of retrofitting buil ... more |
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 Store blood cells from Fukushima workers - Lancet letter A group of Japanese doctors on Friday urged workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant to have their blood stemcells stored as a safeguard should they be exposed to life-threatening levels of radiation. ... more | .. |
  Google shares slide as profit falls short Google shares fell in after-hours trading on Thursday as the Internet giant's earnings came in slightly below Wall Street expectations, dragged down by rising operating expenses. ... more | .. |
  Germany growing faster than expected: minister The German economy is on course to expand faster than expected this year, the government said on Thursday as it raised its growth forecasts for Europe's economic powerhouse. ... more | .. |
 Huffington says blogger suit 'without merit' Arianna Huffington, co-founder of The Huffington Post, has dismissed as "utterly without merit" a lawsuit filed against the website claiming compensation for unpaid bloggers. ... more |
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