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Europe's first EGNOS airport to guide down giant Beluga aircraftParis, France (ESA) May 11, 2011 Pau Pyrenees in southern France has become Europe's first airport to use the new EGNOS Safety-of-Life Service, to guide aircraft in for landing using only this highly accurate space navigation signal. Clermont-Ferrand Airport in central France is also set to start using EGNOS - serving mainly business aircraft - while Marseilles Airport should also join them, chosen because it is used by Eurocopter for helicopter certification. Le Bourget Airport is also scheduled to be equipped with EGNOS b ... read more |
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  Broadband Lidar Instrument Successfully Tested on NASA's DC-8 How do instruments end up on satellites orbiting the Earth? For many of them, long before they are ever launched into space, they are tested from NASA airplanes. One of the objectives of the NASA Ai ... more | .. |
  AFIT education paves way to space How far can a higher education take you? About 220 nautical miles - straight up. That's at least true for retired Col. Steve Lindsey, an astronaut with NASA and graduate of the Air Force Institute o ... more | .. |
  Israeli researcher develops nano-scale gyroscope Jerusalem, Israel (XNA) May 11, 2011 Israeli researcher Jacob (Koby) Scheuer, from the Tel Aviv University (TAU) School of Electrical Engineering, has developed a nano-scale gyroscope, the Ha'aretz ... more | .. |
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 Northrop Grumman's Astro Aerospace Delivers Deployable Reflector to Astrium for Alphasat I-XL Spacecraft Astro Aerospace has delivered its fourth deployable AstroMesh reflector to Astrium in Toulouse, France, this one for the Alphasat I-XL spacecraft that will provide commercial, broadband telecommunic ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Scalable SIRU Guides MESSENGER Spacecraft to Orbit Mercury Northrop Grumman's space navigation aid recently provided key guidance and control information that allowed NASA's MESSENGER to become the first spacecraft to successfully orbit Mercury, marking the ... more | .. |
 Materials: Out of This World Space isn't empty. Space is considered an environment - an extreme environment, filled with entities that can be harmful to spacecraft. In space, there are several environmental threats that c ... more | .. |
  Successful advanced JAXA drop test performed at Esrange Space Center On the 7 May at 05.17 local time, an advanced balloon drop test of a new technique for supersonic transportation was performed at Esrange Space Center, SSC's operational base for space activities. ... more |
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 NASA Selects 'Whipple' Mission for Technology Development As part of its Discovery Program, NASA has selected three potential missions for 2016 that would look at Mars' interior for the first time; study an extraterrestrial ocean on one of Saturn's moons; ... more | .. |
  ST-2's installation on SYLDA marks the start of final payload integration for Ariane 5's next mission Arianespace's third Ariane 5 flight of 2011 has entered its final preparations with installation of the ST-2 satellite on the launcher's SYLDA dual-passenger dispenser system, positioning it for the ... more | .. |
  Israel to invest $1 billion in Iron Dome: report Israel plans to invest $1 billion in the development and production of batteries for its Iron Dome rocket interception system, a top Israeli defence official said in an interview published Monday. ... more | .. |
  Robot Based on Carnegie Mellon Research Engages Novice Computer Scientists Learning how to program a computer to display the words "Hello World" once may have excited students, but that hoary chestnut of a lesson doesn't cut it in a world of videogames, smartphones and Twi ... more |
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 ESA hands over keys to Soyuz launch site The official ceremony marking ESA's handover of the Soyuz launch site to Arianespace took place at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, after the site was declared ready for the first flight and the ... more | .. |
  Gilat to Provide Turnkey VSAT Network and Operations for Interim Satellite Service in Australia Gilat Satellite Networks has been selected by Optus Networks Pty Limited to provide a SkyEdge II Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) network, installation, operation and maintenance for the Australi ... more | .. |
 Orbital Space Tourism Demand Space projects and organisations such as Excalibur, Galactic Suite, Bigelow's Space Complex Alpha and Russian Orbital Technologies plans have created increasing interest in orbital space tourism, an ... more | .. |
 Soyuz launch from Europe space base set for October The maiden launch of the veteran Soviet-Russian rocket Soyuz from Europe's space base in South America has been scheduled for October, a spokesman for launch operators Arianespace said on Tuesday. ... 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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 NASA Selects Investigations for Future Key Missions NASA has selected three science investigations from which it will pick one potential 2016 mission to look at Mars' interior for the first time; study an extraterrestrial sea on one of Saturn's moons ... more | .. |
 SSTL delivers groundstation equipment for UK operational space HQ As part of the Astrium-led Earth Observation (EO) Hub project at the International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC) in Harwell, small satellite pioneer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has compl ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin To Produce Equipment For US Army Tactical On-The-Move Network Additional equipment is being produced for the U.S. Army's on-the-move, high-capacity communications network that brings high-bandwidth, mobile, two-way satellite communications and ad hoc mesh radi ... more | .. |
  LockMart Receives Instrumented Ranges/Digital Range Training System Contract Award Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract to provide the Instrumented Ranges / Digital Range Training System (IR/DRTS) by the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumen ... more |
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 United States unfolding missile defense in Europe de facto says Rogozin The United States is already deploying its missile defense system in Europe without waiting for an agreement with Russia, Russia's envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said. Romania announced on Tuesd ... more | .. |
 Boeing, Havelsan to Jointly Market VSOC Sentinel Boeing and Havelsan, a Turkish software and systems development company, have signed a memorandum of agreement to jointly market Boeing's Visual Security Operations Console (VSOC) Sentinel. The cere ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract to Develop EHF SatComms Antenna for B-2 Bomber A new antenna system now under development by Northrop Grumman will enable the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber to send and receive battlefield information securely by satellite up to 100 times faster than ... more | .. |
  US drone attack kills four militants in Pakistan: officials A US drone strike destroyed a vehicle in Pakistan's tribal belt on Tuesday, killing four militants in the second drone attack since the killing of Osama bin Laden, local officials said. ... 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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 E. Timor rejected Chinese radar over spy fears: report East Timor rejected China's proposal to build a radar on its territory after concerns it would be used for intelligence purposes, according to WikiLeaks, a report said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Osama bin Laden hideout a videogame battleground Images of the Pakistani compound where Osama bin Laden made his final stand have been turned into a videogame battleground. ... more | .. |
 DRC Awarded Additional Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Work Dynamics Research Corporation has announced that it has been awarded two delivery orders with a combined value of $24.5 million for a base year with an additional option year period of performance. ... more | .. |
 LockMart Delivers First USAF Production F-35 Lightning II The U.S. Air Force has accepted into its fleet the first of a planned 1,763 production-model Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters. The signing of formal acceptance documents for ... more |
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 Ecuador's Correa eyes more security, FDI Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, empowered by a weekend "yes" vote in a referendum, is weighing measures that will boost urban security, contain urban crime and make way for more flows of foreign direct investment. ... more | .. |
 Technology in US helicopter not so secret: expert Pakistan or other countries may not have much to learn from the wreckage of a "stealth" US helicopter used in the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, a defense analyst said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Tiltable head improves ability of robots to navigate disaster debris Search and rescue missions have followed each of the devastating earthquakes that hit Haiti, New Zealand and Japan during the past 18 months. Machines able to navigate through complex dirt and rubbl ... more | .. |
 Quake-hit N.Z. faces 'largest-ever' deficit New Zealand is set to post its worst-ever deficit this year, as the country faces a mammoth bill from two major earthquakes in Christchurch, Finance Minister Bill English said Tuesday. ... more |
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