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Chip satellites depart on Endeavour's final launchIthaca NY (SPX) Apr 28, 2011 A group of Cornell-developed, fingernail-sized satellites may travel to Saturn within the next decade, and as they flutter down through its atmosphere, they will collect data about chemistry, radiation and particle impacts. Three prototypes of these chip satellites, named "Sprite," will be mounted on the International Space Station after the space shuttle Endeavour delivers them on its final flight, which is scheduled to launch at 3:47 p.m. EDT on Friday, April 29. President Barack Obama and ... read more |
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  Five Things About NASA's Voyager Mission Here are five facts about NASA's twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, the longest continuously-operating spacecraft in deep space. The Voyagers were built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena ... more | .. |
 NNSA Announces New Space Debris Modeling All this week, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is highlighting its advanced supercomputing capabilities with a week of features demonstrating the science and technology work done ... more | .. |
  Russia to build aerospace defence shield Russia will build a national aerospace defense shield by the end of 2011, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Viktor Ozerov told reporters on Tuesday in the cosmonau ... more | .. |
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  Goodrich Delivers ORS-1 Satellite Goodrich, the prime contractor for the Operationally Responsive Space-1 (ORS-1) satellite, has announced that the pre-ship review was successfully completed last week and the satellite is being prep ... more | .. |
  World's Smallest Ku-band Maritime VSAT Terminal Receives FCC License KVH Industries has announced two key developments for its new TracPhone V3 satellite communications system and mini-VSAT BroadbandSM network. The first shipments of the TracPhone V3, the smallest Ku ... more | .. |
  Apple denies tracking iPhones, to fix 'bugs' Apple on Wednesday dismissed claims it was tracking iPhone users but said it would fix software "bugs" that resulted in location data being unencrypted and stored for up to a year. ... more | .. |
 SES To Invest In New Luxembourg Satellite Control Facilities And Business Center In a foundation stone laying ceremony SES S.A. celebrated its EUR 34 million investment in a new state-of-the-art satellite control facilities at its Betzdorf campus as well as in an additional Busi ... more |
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Arrival of US aircraft carrier fuels Venezuelan fears of attack
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 Global Crossing Inks New Capacity Deals With SES WORLD SKIES Well positioned to serve emerging markets, SES WORLD SKIES has announced three new capacity deals with Global Crossing to meet growing connectivity demand across Latin America. The agreements ... more | .. |
 Resourcesat-2, Youthsat, X-Sat functioning satisfactorily The country's latest remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2 and two micro satellites launched by home grown PSLV-C16 rocket on April 20 from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh ''are functioning satisfact ... more | .. |
 Researchers working to advance predictability research initiatives Faculty from the University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology are leading the school's predictability research initiatives with multiple projects that could one day lead to more accurate forecasts o ... more | .. |
  Countdown begins for Chineses space station program Authorities in charge of the manned space program unveiled plans on Monday to build a 60-ton space station, made up of three capsules, and develop a cargo spaceship to transport supplies. The China ... more |
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  DLR measures the shape of a barn owl wing in flight The flight of birds is still largely unexplored; in particular, the movements performed during the beat of a wing and the airflow around the wing remain a puzzle to scientists. The German Aerospace ... more | .. |
 The Big Picture Wins Big Remember life before cell phones? Or GPS? Or tablet computers? Kind of hard, isn't it? Air traffic management researchers feel the same way about life before the Future ATM (Air Traffic Management) ... more | .. |
 Tugboats in Space Rendezvous and docking in orbit is tricky. Take a huge, complex target like the International Space Station, and the task becomes even trickier. The problems of getting spacecraft to dock with ... more | .. |
  GSAT-8 put through its paces The Indian GSAT-8 multi-role spacecraft for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 mission is undergoing an in-depth checkout at the Spaceport in French Guiana in preparation for its liftoff on May 19. G ... 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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 Europe approves powerful research lasers The European Commission says it has approved plans to build new lasers that will dwarf the power of existing lasers for research into particle physics. ... more | .. |
 T-38s Soar as Spaceflight Trainers Years before the space shuttle would glide home to a safe touchdown on runways in California and Florida, astronauts pitched the noses of T-38 jet trainers toward the same runways to find out what i ... more | .. |
  Apache to Field Ground Fire-Detection System Apache attack helicopters will soon field a new, high-tech Ground Fire Acquisition System, which uses cameras and infrared sensors to instantly identify the source location of ground fire, service o ... more | .. |
 Boeing Vigilare System Completes Operational Testing in Australia The Boeing Vigilare network centric command and control system has passed its last formal operational test. Testing took place at Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base Williamtown's Eastern Regiona ... more |
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 US Army's new Lakota packed with high-tech gear The Army National Guard is preparing to receive the first light utility helicopter equipped with a new, state-of-the-art mission equipment package. The new MEP aboard the UH-72A Lakota light u ... more | .. |
 Aviators Praise F Model Chinook The U.S. Army and its industry partner Boeing have built 126 CH-47 Chinook "F" model helicopters, the latest modernized cargo aircraft built with state-of-the-art avionics, automated flight controls ... more | .. |
  Irobot Awarded 230 Million From US Navy iRobot has announced that it received a $230 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) on April 12, 2011. Under the contract's terms, ... more | .. |
  First Flight of Heavy-Fuel Powered Fury 1500 UAS AME Unmanned Air Systems (AME UAS) announces the successful first flight of the Fury 1500 Small Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (STUAS) powered by a heavy-fuel engine. The successful flight occurred ... 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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  Taiwan missile can reach Beijing: report Taiwan has developed a missile capable of reaching Beijing and tested it successfully three years ago, a report said Wednesday, citing a former defence minister. ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Awarded Contract for Patriot Tactical Missile Upgrades Raytheon has been awarded a $58.3 million contract for Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missile-Tactical, or GEM-T, missiles. The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM), Redstone Arsenal, Ala ... more | .. |
 Missile Warning Satellite Encapsulated in Launch Vehicle Payload Fairing The first Lockheed Martin-built Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-1) spacecraft was encapsulated into its payload fairing April 20 in preparation for an early May liftoff aboar ... more | .. |
 GPS Operational Control Segment Enters Service With USAF Boeing has announced that its GPS Operational Control Segment (OCS) has gained full operational status with the U.S. Air Force 50th Space Wing, Schriever Air Force Base, Colo. OCS keeps the GPS syst ... more |
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 Northrop Grumman Begins Testing New Multi-Function Active Sensor Northrop Grumman has announced the start of system tests of a new Multi-Function Active Sensor (MFAS) being developed here for use by the U.S. Navy onboard the MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Delivers First Standard Missile-6 To US Navy Raytheon delivered the first Standard Missile-6 production round to the U.S. Navy. "Five years ago, Raytheon promised the U.S. Navy that SM-6 would be delivered in March 2011, and we delivered on th ... more | .. |
 Chernobyl's radioactivity reduced the populations of birds of orange plumage On April 26, 1986, history's greatest nuclear accident took place northwest of the Ukrainian city of Chernobyl. Despite the scale of the disaster, 25 years later, we still do not know its real effec ... more | .. |
  Higher radioactivity level at Bulgarian plant: operators Engineers detected higher levels of radioactivity in the containment reactor at Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear plant, prompting a shutdown that prevented any leak, operators said Wednesday. ... more |
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