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Satellites for Asia and India are orbited on Arianespace's third Ariane 5 mission of 2011Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) May 20, 2011 The 44th consecutive successful Ariane 5 flight has further underscored the flexibility and performance of this workhorse launch system - orbiting a pair of telecommunications spacecraft to serve one of the world's most dynamically-developing regions, and maintaining Arianespace's mission pace in 2011. Lifting off on time from the Spaceport in French Guiana at 5:38 p.m., the heavy-lift vehicle deployed its Asian/Indian payload of the ST-2 and GSAT-8 satellite passengers during a 31-minute mission ... read more |
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 Russia sends two Soyuz carrier rockets to French Guiana Two Russian Soyuz-ST carrier rockets are on the way from Samara to St. Petersburg to be shipped to French Guiana for future launches from the Kourou space center, the Progress design bureau said. ... more | .. |
 ILS Proton Successfully Launches Telstar 14R And Estrela do Sul 2 for Telesat International Launch Services (ILS) has successfully carried Telstar 14R/Estrela do Sul 2 into orbit on an ILS Proton for Telesat, a leading global fixed satellite services operator. The ILS P ... more | .. |
  Environmental Tectonics Forms Non-Profit NASTAR Foundation to Support Aerospace Industry Environmental Tectonics has announced the formation of the NASTAR Foundation, a non-profit organization that fosters opportunities for people of all ages to experience the excitement of aerospace ex ... more | .. |
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 Taiwan, Singapore launch satellite Taiwan's leading telecom operator Chunghwa Telecom has launched its second commercial communications satellite in a joint venture with Singapore Telecommunications, local media said Saturday. ... more | .. |
  Ariane 5 is in the launch zone for dual-payload mission launch The 58th Ariane 5 to be launched from the Spaceport has rolled out for Arianespace's dual-payload flight tomorrow from French Guiana, carrying satellites for Asia and India. For this third Ari ... more | .. |
  GMV provides the flight dynamics system for the O3b constellation Thales Alenia Space has awarded GMV a contract to supply the flight dynamics system for the O3b satellite constellation that will be set up by O3b Networks Ltd (Other 3 billion). The constellation, ... more | .. |
 ISRO begins sounding rocket launches on regular basis ISRO has resumed monthly launches of sounding rockets from the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) under Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) here to conduct studies of upper atmospher ... more |
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Arrival of US aircraft carrier fuels Venezuelan fears of attack
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  AIA Says US Human Spaceflight At Critical Juncture The future of the U.S. human spaceflight program is at a critical juncture, said Aerospace Industries Association Vice President for Space Frank Slazer. "Cutting exploration budgets any furthe ... more | .. |
  Antibody production gets confused during long-term spaceflight The trip to Mars just got a little more difficult now that French researchers have discovered that antibodies used to fight off disease might become seriously compromised during long-term space flig ... more | .. |
 NASA Denies Entry To Chinese Journalists For Shuttle Launch U.S. space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, kicking off its 25th and final mission. The event was important to the eyes of media and scientists in China because the ... more | .. |
  Intelsat General To Support Armed Forces Radio And Television Service Intelsat General, an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Intelsat, S.A., has been awarded a contract with a potential value of $145 million to provide comprehensive satellite connectivity to the Ar ... more |
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  Thousands protest against US drone attacks in Pakistan Thousands demonstrated in Karachi on Sunday to demand an immediate end to US missile strikes in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas and urge the blocking of NATO supplies passing through the country. ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman to Develop New Micro Gyro Technology for DARPA Northrop Grumman, in partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been selected to develop a new type of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) gyroscope technology for the Defense Advan ... more | .. |
 Stratospheric UAV Payloads Provide New Ways to Chase Al Qaeda The classic special operations success in killing Osama bin Laden was certainly supported by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). That was undoubtedly a difficult operation given the limited endurance b ... more | .. |
 RAF Announces New Reaper Squadron A new Reaper squadron is to form at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire which will control the aircraft over Afghanistan from the UK for the first time. Speaking at the disbandment of Number XIII Tornado ... 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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 Rotorcraft Technology Contributes to US Navy's Successful Test Bed Flight Northrop Grumman's Digital Avionics Suite technology was recently used for the first time in the successful flight of a UH-1N helicopter that serves as an avionics test bed for future rotary wing ha ... more | .. |
 US Navy and Northrop Grumman-led UCAS-D Flight Test Team Honored Twice by USAF The U.S. Air Force has recognized for operational excellence the U.S. Navy/Northrop Grumman flight test team that successfully conducted first and subsequent flights of the Navy's X-47B unmanned air ... more | .. |
  Russia plays down missile differences with US Russia said Saturday it may be ready to drop its objections to the US-backed missile defence shield for Europe if it receives a formal security pledge from the United States. ... more | .. |
  China 'to target 1,800 missiles at Taiwan in 2012' The number of Chinese missiles targeted at Taiwan is likely to reach 1,800 next year, despite improving ties between the former arch-rivals, Taiwanese media said Friday. ... more |
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  China, S.Korea offer support to Japan China and South Korea Sunday offered to help Japan recover from the March 11 quake and tsunami as Beijing lifted bans on some food imports imposed after the disasters triggered a nuclear emergency. ... more | .. |
 16 dead in Malaysia orphanage landslide A close-knit village on the outskirts of the Malaysian capital was grieving on Sunday for the deaths of 16 people, mostly children, after an orphanage was hit by a devastating landslide. ... more | .. |
 Erratic information fuels mistrust of TEPCO Tokyo Electric Power's belated admission that damage to crippled reactors at its nuclear plant is worse than it first thought has fuelled suspicion it withheld bad news in the first days of Japan's crisis. ... more | .. |
 Japan, China, S. Korea leaders visit nuclear region The leaders of Japan, China and South Korea travelled to Fukushima on Saturday in a show of solidarity over the ongoing nuclear crisis, visiting evacuees left homeless by the quake and tsunami. ... 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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'Mega-float' to hold water at Japan nuclear plant A huge floating structure to hold radioactive water was on Saturday berthed at the quay of Japan's disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. ... more | .. |
UN launches study of Japan's nuclear disaster: Ban The United Nations has launched a broad study of the implications of the accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant following the earthquake and tsunami in March, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced. ... more | .. |
Leaders of Japan, China, S. Korea meet in Fukushima Leaders of Japan, China and South Korea were to gather in Fukushima City Saturday in a gesture of solidarity over the ongoing nuclear crisis - but with Tokyo's neighbours reportedly concerned by its actions. ... more | .. |
  Splitting water to create renewable energy simpler than first thought An international team, of scientists, led by a team at Monash University has found the key to the hydrogen economy could come from a very simple mineral, commonly seen as a black stain on rocks. ... more |
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  'Computer synapse' analyzed at the nanoscale Researchers at Hewlett Packard and the University of California, Santa Barbara, have analysed in unprecedented detail the physical and chemical properties of an electronic device that computer engin ... more | .. |
 Which technologies get better faster Some forms of technology - think, for example, of computer chips - are on a fast track to constant improvements, while others evolve much more slowly. Now, a new study by researchers at MIT and othe ... more | .. |
 Researchers Use Nanoantenna to Enhance Plasmonic Sensing Such highly coveted technical capabilities as the observation of single catalytic processes in nanoreactors, or the optical detection of low concentrations of biochemical agents and gases are an imp ... more | .. |
  West vs. East over IMF top post As Dominique Strauss-Kahn was getting ready to be released from jail and put under house arrest Friday, the battle over his succession as head of the International Monetary Fund was in full swing. ... more |
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