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Keeping the power on in spaceParis, France (ESA) Jun 02, 2011 All space missions have one inescapable dependency: the electricity flowing through their systems to keep them alive. Take away its power and a spacecraft is nothing more than space debris - an eventuality the space power professionals strive to avoid. Next week sees more than 250 experts come together at an ESA-organised conference on power systems. The Ninth European Space Power Conference (ESPC) will take place on 6-10 June in Saint Raphael on France's Cote d'Azur, jointly organised by ESA and ... read more |
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  A flexible virtual system makes any reality possible Product designers harness time-consuming procedures in prototype construction. Only then are they able to assess the results of their work in a comprehensive manner. In a three-dimensional mod ... more | .. |
 Astronauts and Students Connect at UA Lunar and Planetary Lab Students from Gridley Middle School in Tucson got a 30-minute window to ask Mark Kelly, Gregory Johnson and Ron Garan questions about life in space. More than 80 students from Gridley Middle School ... more | .. |
  Boeing Opens Exploration Launch Systems Office in Florida Boeing has established an Exploration Launch Systems Engineering and Integration office in Titusville to support the operational readiness of NASA's next launch system, currently under study. ... more | .. |
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  Army Receives First THAAD Missiles Lockheed Martin delivered the first two Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Missiles to the U.S. Army, capping off years of planning and development. The two missiles arrived at Anniston Defen ... more | .. |
 Medvedev says Russia, US 'losing time' on missile defense Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday expressed his dissatisfaction with how the negotiations with the United States on the missile defense shield are continuing, saying the sides are losing t ... more | .. |
  West to have 80,000 cruise missiles by 2020 Russian military experts forecast that Western nations will have 80,000 cruise missile by 2020, a deputy commander of the Russian General Staff said on Saturday. "We expect Western countries t ... more | .. |
  THAICOM Inks Major Agreement with MEASAT THAICOM Public Company, operator of the THAICOM / IPSTAR satellite fleet, has announced that an agreement has been signed with a subsidiary of MEASAT Global Berhad ("MEASAT") for the Malaysian paylo ... more |
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 SES Signs Agreement For Internet Connectivity Across Africa Global satellite operator SES S.A. has announced that it has signed an agreement with YellowSat, a French start-up company that provides Internet connectivity to enterprises, governments and institu ... more | .. |
 THAICOM 6 Satellite Project THAICOM Public Company has announced that the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology has approved the THAICOM 6 satellite that was proposed by the Company and the Board of Directors of ... more | .. |
 NASA is Making Hot, Way Cool The more advanced the electronics, the more power they use. The more power they use, the hotter they get. The hotter they get, the more likely they'll overheat. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to ... more | .. |
  China's Fengyun-3B satellite goes into official operation China's Fengyun-3B (FY-3B) weather satellite will go into official operation on Thursday after finishing a six-month trial period. The transfer of the satellite to the China Meteorological Adm ... more |
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 SES and Wananchi to launch powerful DTH line-up in East Africa Global satellite operator SES S.A. has joined forces with Kenyan television and broadband operator Wananchi to launch a new Direct-to-Home (DTH) line-up called Zuku TV in East Africa. Zuku TV is Eas ... more | .. |
  Colt evaluates Metal Storm MAUL for Manufacturing Arrangement Metal Storm has announced that Colt Defense is working with it to evaluate the possible manufacture of Metal Storm's MAUL accessory shotgun system by Colt, the world renowned firearms manufacturer, ... more | .. |
 Dutch Tank History Ends With a Bang With four shots fired on Range 6 at the Bergen-Hohne firing range, the Defence organisation said farewell to the Leopard 2A6 main battle tank on the 19th of may. The Dutch tank history ended on the ... more | .. |
  NMSU stages successful UAV test over Hatch From May 2-4, New Mexico State University's Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Test Center supported AAI Corporation's Shadow 200 Tactical UAS in conducting flights over the skies of Hatch, N.M. These ... more |
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Advanced air filter could enable building vents to capture carbon and reduce energy use
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 AeroVironment Receives New Orders for Digital Raven Systems AeroVironment has received a firm-fixed-price contract order valued at $8,373,995 under a follow-on contract with the U.S. Army. The order comprises new digital Raven small unmanned aircraft systems ... more | .. |
 Boeing Awarded PAC-3 Seeker Production Contract Boeing has received a $274 million contract from Lockheed Martin to produce more than 300 Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile seekers. The firm fixed price contract is Boeing's ninth ... more | .. |
  Japan's PM faces no-confidence motion Japan's centre-left prime minister, struggling with the quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster recovery and a flagging economy, had a no-confidence motion tabled against him by his opponents Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Haiti report shines light on rush to inflate death tolls An explosive report questioning the death toll from Haiti's earthquake has experts slamming "back-of-the-envelope calculations" that artificially inflate figures in times of crisis. ... more |
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 IAEA says Japan underestimated tsunami threat Japan underestimated the hazard posed by tsunamis to nuclear plants, the UN atomic watchdog said on Wednesday, while praising Tokyo's response to the March 11 disaster as "exemplary". ... more | .. |
  China manufacturing slows in May China's manufacturing sector expanded at the slowest pace in 10 months in May, independent data showed Wednesday, as Beijing seeks to rein in the world's second-largest economy and tame inflation. ... more | .. |
  Google gets into local bargain game with Offers Google on Wednesday will begin testing an Offers service that delivers local bargains to smartphone "wallets" in a challenge to online bargain hot spot Groupon. ... more | .. |
 Google given more time to reach book settlement A US judge on Wednesday allowed Google and US authors and publishers more time to seek a new settlement over the Internet giant's plan to create a massive online library and bookstore. ... 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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  World manufacturing output up 6.5% in first quarter: UN The world has emerged from its recent financial crisis, with global manufacturing output growing by 6.5 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2011, a top UN agency said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Toyota eyes Japan output at 90% of pre-quake level Japanese auto giant Toyota said Wednesday its domestic output would return to about 90 percent of pre-quake levels in June thanks to a faster-than-expected recovery of parts supplies. ... more | .. |
  Two plead guilty in China microchip case: US Two Chinese nationals pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to smuggle radiation hardened microchips to companies controlled by Beijing in violation of a US arms embargo, the Justice Department said. ... more | .. |
 Google's Schmidt insists it's no one-trick pony Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt took the blame for the Internet giant's failure to go "social" but insisted the company was much more than a search engine. ... more |
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 iPad challenge looms large at Asia IT show Tablets that match the iPad but at a cheaper price. Slimmer, more powerful notebooks. At Computex, Asia's top IT fair, manufacturers are showing how they plan to face the challenge from Apple's iconic product. ... more | .. |
 Virtual natural environments and benefits to health A new position paper by researchers at the European Centre for the Environment and Human Health and the University of Birmingham has compared the benefits of interaction with actual and virtual natu ... more | .. |
 On And Off Chameleon Magnets Could Revolutionize Computing What causes a magnet to be a magnet, and how can we control a magnet's behavior? These are the questions that University at Buffalo researcher Igor Zutic, a theoretical physicist, has been exploring ... more | .. |
 Superior sound for telephones and related devices mp3 for phone calls - Considering the poor sound quality of many phone calls, this is a great idea. Videoconference phone calls in particular can be unintentionally awkward because the participants ... more |
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