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Planetary Science Institute Selects XCOR To Fly ATSA Suborbital ObservatoryTucson, AZ (SPX) Jul 12, 2011 The Planetary Science Institute (PSI) and XCOR Aerospace have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that lays the groundwork for flying the human-operated Atsa Suborbital Observatory aboard XCOR's Lynx spacecraft. The Atsa project will use crewed reusable suborbital spacecraft equipped with a specially designed telescope to provide low-cost space-based observations above the contaminating atmosphere of Earth, while avoiding some operational constraints of satellite telescope systems. "The XCO ... read more |
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  Time Enough for Tiangong It's taken long enough, but it seems that we are finally getting close to the launch of Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory. This small, cylindrical spacecraft will almost certainly take off ... more | .. |
  Space debris will not approach station: NASA A piece of space junk from a broken Soviet satellite is not expected to collide with the International Space Station after all, NASA said Monday. ... more | .. |
  No Malfunction With Globalstar Satellites, Fregat Upper Stage or Soyuz Launch Vehicle Globalstar, Inc. reports that there will an additional delay in the launch of six new Globalstar satellites. The launch of the second-generation satellites was originally targeted for July 11, 2011 ... more | .. |
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  New Missile Warning Satellite Delivers First Infrared Imagery The first Lockheed Martin-built Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-1) spacecraft beamed down its first infrared image on June 21 to the SBIRS ground station. Following its May 7 ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman-Led ICBM Prime Integration Team Participates in Test Launch of Minuteman III Missile The Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Prime Team, led by Northrop Grumman, participated in an Air Force Global Strike Command flight test of an operational Minuteman III ICBM launched from V ... more | .. |
 Debris may be on collision course with space lab: NASA NASA is tracking a piece of Soviet space debris that could collide with the International Space Station, the US space agency said Sunday after the shuttle Atlantis docked on its final mission. ... more | .. |
  High costs, risks, policy shift make U.S. quit space shuttle program Space shuttle Atlantis will soar into the sky Friday on NASA's 135th and final flight. Its scheduled return to Earth later this month will mark the end of NASA's 30-year space program. Since i ... more |
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Russia offers US nuclear talks in bid to ease tensions
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 The Lure of the High Frontier On April 12, 1981, I was on a rare visit home from University. I sat in front of the TV with my parents while we waited for STS-1 to get through its countdown. Even in a small terraced house i ... more | .. |
 End of shuttle flights only a 'bottleneck' A former German astronaut says the end of the space shuttle program is just a "bottleneck" and that the future of space exploration is bright. ... more | .. |
 Obama hails final shuttle flight, eyes Mars next President Barack Obama gave Atlantis an inspirational final sendoff Friday, hailing astronauts and crew of the 30-year shuttle program and evoking "new boundaries" in space, notably a mission to Mars. ... more | .. |
  A new algorithm could help prevent midair collisions The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has mandated that by 2020, all commercial aircraft - and small aircraft flying near most airports - must be equipped with a new tracking system that broadca ... more |
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  12 dead in blasts at Cyprus base, navy chief killed Huge blasts in a seized Iranian arms cache at a Greek Cypriot naval base in southern Cyprus killed at least 12 people on Monday, triggering power and water outages likely to last months. ... more | .. |
 Iran says fired missiles into Indian Ocean Iran said it fired two medium range missile into the Indian Ocean six months ago under the eyes of "American spy planes," local media reported on Saturday, quoting a top military commander. ... more | .. |
 F-35 Jet Blast Deflector Testing Underway at Lakehurst F-35C Lightning II carrier variant aircraft CF-2 is performing Jet Blast Deflector (JBD) tests at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey. The JBD, located behind the catapults aboard a ... more | .. |
  NIST prototype optics table on a chip places microwave photon in 2 colors at once Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a tunable superconducting circuit on a chip that can place a single microwave photon (particle of light) in two ... more |
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Advanced air filter could enable building vents to capture carbon and reduce energy use
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  Device captures ambient electromagnetic energy to drive small electronic devices Researchers have discovered a way to capture and harness energy transmitted by such sources as radio and television transmitters, cell phone networks and satellite communications systems. By scaveng ... more | .. |
 Geothermal industry to get boost from Reno research An ambitious University of Nevada, Reno project to understand and characterize geothermal potential at nearly 500 sites throughout the Great Basin is yielding a bounty of information for the geother ... more | .. |
 Light propagation controlled in photonic chips marks major breakthrough in telecommunications field Researchers at Columbia Engineering School have built optical nanostructures that enable them to engineer the index of refraction and fully control light dispersion. They have shown that it is possi ... more | .. |
 Serbia wants U.N. to honor Tesla birthday Serbia says it will ask the United Nations to declare the birth date of scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla International Science Day. ... more |
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  Walker's World: Double dips and worse China, the locomotive that has been driving the world economy, is slowing. And since the rest of the world is in no shape to compensate, a second recession or a very prolonged slowdown is starting to look inevitable. ... more | .. |
  BRICS vow to improve access to low-cost medicine The BRICS group of emerging countries on Monday vowed to improve access to low-cost and high-quality medicine - and called on developed nations to shoulder responsibility in helping the poor. ... more | .. |
 Google eBooks reader to debut in US The first electronic book reader designed to tap into Google's vast online library will debut in the United States on Sunday. ... more | .. |
China revises down Q1 current account surplus China's current account surplus plunged 21 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, revised government figures showed Monday - a much larger fall than previously announced. ... 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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  Belgium's highways shine into space - but for how long? When Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne feels homesick when in space, all he needs to do, provided it's night, is look down for the bright spot for even nowadays, Belgium keeps its highways switched on. ... more | .. |
  Power cut halts China's new high-speed train A power cut brought the new $33 billion high-speed rail link between Beijing and Shanghai to a standstill Sunday, Chinese railway authorities said, just 10 days after its high-profile launch. ... more | .. |
 1C adds Russian intrigue to action videogames Videogame powerhouse 1C Company is tapping into history with action titles that show who the good guys are in a battle can depend on which army is being asked. ... more | .. |
  New studies point to wrinkles and process contaminants in Graphene Using a combination of sophisticated computer modeling and advanced materials analysis techniques at synchrotron laboratories, a research team led by the University at Buffalo (UB) and including the ... more |
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  Robotic safe zones without protective barriers The modern working world is no longer conceivable without robots. They assist humans in manufacturing, laboratories or medicine. In the future, a new projection and camera-based system will prevent ... more | .. |
 Nanocrystal transformers While a movie about giant robots that undergo structural transformations is breaking box office records this summer, a scientific study about structural transformations within single nanocrystals is ... more | .. |
China inflation accelerates to 6.4% China said Saturday its politically sensitive inflation rate accelerated in June to the highest level in three years, as the government struggles to rein in soaring food costs. ... more | .. |
China's trade surplus widens to $22.27 billion China's politically sensitive trade surplus expanded to $22.27 billion in June, rising sharply from the previous month as the value of exports hit a record high, government data showed Sunday. ... more |
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