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NASA Announces Key Decision For Next Deep Space Transportation SystemWashington DC (SPX) May 25, 2011 NASA has reached an important milestone for the next U.S. transportation system that will carry humans into deep space. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced that the system will be based on designs originally planned for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. Those plans now will be used to develop a new spacecraft known as the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV). "We are committed to human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and look forward to developing the next generation of systems to take u ... read more |
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 Welcome home, Paolo! ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli landed back on Earth this morning to conclude his 159-day mission to the International Space Station. Paolo had been serving as the flight engineer for Expeditions 26 and ... more | .. |
  NASA's NPP Satellite Completes Thermal Vac Testing The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) climate and weather satellite has successfully passed all environmental testing with th ... more | .. |
 Orbit of GSAT-8 Satellite Raised Further In the second orbit raising manoeuvre conducted at 12:22 hrs IST (May 23, 2011), the Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) on board GSAT-8 was fired for 35.8 minutes by commanding the satellite from ISRO's Mast ... more | .. |
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 New deep space vehicle to be based on Orion: NASA NASA said Tuesday that a new spacecraft to ferry humans into deep space will be based on designs for the Orion crew exploration vehicle and built by Lockheed Martin. ... more | .. |
 Long-delayed Duke Nukem videogame hits in June The 15-year wait for the return of videogame tough guy "Duke Nukem" will end in June, 2K Games promised on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Testing Spacesuits in Antarctica - Part 1 Once you've been to Antarctica, you just really want to go back. There is a sign in the lunch room here at Marambio base, that says (with poetic license thanks to Pablo): "When you arrived you barel ... more | .. |
  Galileo: Europe prepares for October launch The European Space Agency, Arianespace and the European Commission has announced that the launch of the first two satellites of Europe's global navigation satellite system is planned to take place o ... more |
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Orbit Raising Operation of GSAT-8 Satellite Conducted Successfully The first critical orbit-raising manoeuvre of GSAT-8 was successfully conducted at 03:58 hrs (IST) this morning (May 22, 2011) with the firing of the 440 Newton Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) on board GS ... more | .. |
  Russia opens negligence case over loss of Glonass satellites Russian prosecutors have opened a criminal case on charges of negligence that led to the loss of three Glonass satellites last year, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Monday. The satelli ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 EU announces launch date for first Galileo satellites The European Union announced Monday it will launch the first two satellites in its long-delayed and hugely over-budget Galileo navigation system from French Guiana on October 20. ... 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 | .. |
  First Lockheed Martin Advanced Block 50 F-16 Unveiled For Turkish Air Force Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) and Lockheed Martin unveiled the first of 30 new Turkish-built F-16s in ceremonies at TAI's facility near Ankara. Turkish officials at the event included the ... more |
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Understanding the nuances of human-like intelligence
Advanced air filter could enable building vents to capture carbon and reduce energy use
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 Committed to safety - flight test engineer Ina Niewind While pilots at the controls of an F-4F Phantom II or Eurofighter conduct test flights at altitudes of several thousand metres, their 'client' stands on the ground below; extremely concentrated, Ina ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Responds To US Army's CIRCM Request For Proposal Lockheed Martin, along with industry partners DRS Technologies and Daylight Defense, submitted a proposal for the Technology Demonstration phase of the U.S. Army's Common Infrared Countermeasure (CI ... more | .. |
 More delays in Brazil jet fighter deal More anxiety and suspense is in store for competing defense contractors from the United States and Europe who hope to secure Brazil's lucrative multibillion-dollar jet fighter deal. ... more | .. |
  Israel to switch Hawks for David's Sling The Israeli air force is considering phasing out its U.S.-built Raytheon Hawk surface-to-air missiles, backbone of its air-defense network since 1965, and replacing them with David's Sling, a weapon being developed by Rafael Advances Defense Systems. ... more |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  More focus needed on mental health triage in disaster preparedness Johns Hopkins University bioethicists say disaster-response planning has generally overlooked the special needs of people who suffer from pre-existing and serious mental conditions. Survivors alread ... more | .. |
  New nanoscale imaging may lead to new treatments for multiple sclerosis Laboratory studies by chemical engineers at UC Santa Barbara may lead to new experimental methods for early detection and diagnosis - and to possible treatments - for pathological tissues that are p ... more |
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Collaborative Agreement to Advance Solar Arrays for Satellite Power Systems
Diraq progresses to new stage in DARPA drive for practical quantum computers
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 Japan's TEPCO admits further reactor meltdowns The operator of Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday said it believed fuel had partially melted inside three reactors, as long suspected by experts. ... more | .. |
Japan's TEPCO admits further reactor meltdowns Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company said Tuesday it believed most of the fuel had melted at two more reactors at its tsunami-stricken nuclear power plant. ... more | .. |
  Microreactor Design Team Invents Portable Hydrogen Reactor for Fuel Cells Chemical Engineering students at Stevens Institute of Technology are transforming the way that American soldiers power their battery-operated devices by making a small change: a really small change. ... more | .. |
 Discovery opens the door to electricity from microbes Using bacteria to generate energy is a signifiant step closer following a breakthrough discovery by scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Published today by the leading scientific ... more |
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  University of Madrid builds an electric motorcycle This project, known as e-Moto, was created and developed by LGN Tech Design, a spin-off company that has its origins in a line of research begun in the Laboratorio de Maquinas (MAQLAB - Machine Labo ... more | .. |
 World Record in Ultra-Rapid Data Transmission Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have succeeded in encoding data at a rate of 26 terabits per second on a single laser beam, transmitting them over a distance of 50 km, and deco ... more | .. |
  Expert warns against 'experimenting' with flights in ashw/ Airlines and authorities should refrain from "experimenting" by flying planes through skies filled with ash from Iceland's erupting volcano, the author of a study on the impact of last year's ash cloud on aircraft said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Novel man-made material could facilitate wireless power Electrical engineers at Duke University have determined that unique man-made materials should theoretically make it possible to improve the power transfer to small devices, such as laptops or cell p ... more |
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