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KARI joins International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters'Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Jul 21, 2011 Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), part of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST), has become the newest member of the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters' (The Charter). The Charter is a joint initiative for providing emergency response satellite data free of charge to those affected by disasters anywhere in the world. Charter members put space technology at the service of authorities in the event of a major disaster, providing earth observation data of the ... read more |
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 Gilat Provides Turnkey Broadband SatComms for Russian Yakutia Ministry of Finance Gilat has announced that it has been selected by Russian Yakutia Ministry of Finance to provide a full turnkey SkyEdge II broadband satellite network to serve new Ministry of Finance locations acros ... more | .. |
  Romantis and iSat signed distribution agreement Romantis GmbH, as a part of an international group of companies specializing in space segment sales and VSAT network solutions, has announced it has entered into a new distribution agreement with iS ... more | .. |
  FY12 House Funding Bill for NASA On July 13, the House passed a bill that addresses the FY12 NASA budget. The total recommended amount is $16.81 billion. Here are a few details on this budget. For FY11 the NASA appropriation was $1 ... more | .. |
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  Russia sends observation satellite into space A Russian Zenith-3M rocket with an observation satellite blasted off early Monday, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said. The rocket with Fregat-SB upper stage and Russian astrophysical obse ... more | .. |
  'Bloom is off the rose' for 3D: DreamWorks CEO DreamWorks Animation chief executive Jeffrey Katzenberg said Tuesday that Hollywood "greed" is responsible for a glut of lousy 3D movies and weak ticket sales. ... more | .. |
  NASA Begins Commercial Partnership With ULA Through a new agreement, United Launch Alliance (ULA) will provide technical information to NASA about using the Atlas V rocket to launch astronauts into space. The announcement was made Monday at U ... more | .. |
 NASA inks agreement with maker of Atlas V rocket NASA said Monday that it had reached an agreement with United Launch Alliance (ULA) to try to adopt the Atlas V commercial rocket to send astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). ... more |
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 Russia launches 2 foreign satellites into orbit Russia launched early on Saturday a Proton-M rocket carrying a Kazakh and a U.S. communications satellites from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russian Space Agency Roscosmos said. "T ... more | .. |
  Second Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Sends First Signals from Space Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from the second of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites it is building for the U.S. Air Force. GPS IIF-2, renamed SVN-63, is functioning n ... more | .. |
 "Space taxi" coming The last Atlantis shuttle which docked with the ISS this week is due to return to Earth on July 21st . From then on, astronauts and cargoes will be delivered to the ISS by Russian Soyuz spaceships. ... more | .. |
  NASA Begins Testing of Next-Gen J-2X Rocket Engine NASA conducted a combined chill test and 1.9-second ignition test July 14 of the next-generation J-2X rocket engine that could help carry humans beyond low-Earth orbit to deep space. The test ... more |
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  First US Navy Demonstration of Joint Tactical Radio Network Lockheed Martin performed its first successful Joint Tactical Radio network demonstration for the U.S. Navy, transmitting Internet-Protocol enabled data and video communications Using a Joint Tactic ... more | .. |
 Improved Aircraft Survivability and Digital Interoperability Technology developed as part of Northrop Grumman's Rotorcraft Avionics Innovation Laboratory (RAIL) took flight for the first time aboard the U.S. Navy's T-Rex UH-1N test bed aircraft to demonstrate ... more | .. |
 Boeing P-8A Poseidon Production Aircraft Completes First Flight The first Boeing P-8A Poseidon production aircraft completed its first flight on July 7, taking off from Renton Field and landing three hours later at Boeing Field in Seattle. The P-8A is the first ... more | .. |
 Dogs With Cameras Search for Bombs The dog school of the Royal Netherlands Air Force has acquired a new technique for detecting explosives. With a camera attached to its head, a search dog can search for explosives by itself. T ... 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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  Pakistan drone crashes near oil refinery: navy A Pakistani surveillance navy drone crashed near an oil refinery after hitting a bird on a routine flight, coming down in the country's largest city of Karachi on Tuesday, the navy said. ... more | .. |
  Japan's lower house approves 2nd recovery budget Japan's powerful lower house Wednesday approved a $25 billion extra budget to pay for relief and rebuilding after the March 11 quake-tsunami, amid mounting pressure on Prime Minister Naoto Kan to resign. ... more | .. |
  Conducting energy on a nano scale Modern electronics as we know them, from televisions to computers, depend on conducting materials that can control electronic properties. As technology shrinks down to pocket sized communications de ... more | .. |
 Chilean copper-molybdenum mine moves ahead Chile's Sierra Gorda copper-molybdenum mining project is moving ahead with a $1 billion participation from Fluor Corp. ... more |
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  Twitter looking to make money from commerce Twitter could potentially generate revenue from commerce in addition to advertising, its current money-maker, the chief executive of the company said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Apple profit rockets with hot iPad, iPhone sales Apple revenue and profit rocketed to record highs in the recent quarter as sales of iPhones and iPads more than doubled with help from accelerating demand in Asia. ... more | .. |
  Taiwan boosts profile of Hong Kong, Macau offices Taiwan on Wednesday upgraded the status of its de facto consulate in Hong Kong, in a move described as "historic" by officials with analysts saying it signalled warming ties with mainland China. ... more | .. |
  Amplified nanotubes may power the future Rice University scientists have achieved a pivotal breakthrough in the development of a cable that will make an efficient electric grid of the future possible. Armchair quantum wire (AQW) will ... 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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  Your brain on androids Ever get the heebie-jeebies at a wax museum? Feel uneasy with an anthropomorphic robot? What about playing a video game or watching an animated movie, where the human characters are pretty realistic ... more | .. |
 Efforts to stabilise nuclear crisis on track - Japan Japan on Tuesday said plans to end the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant by January next year are on schedule, with crippled reactors being "stably" cooled and radiation levels reduced. ... more | .. |
  Flight Options buys Embraer executive jets Flight Options will buy Brazilian-made executive jets with $167 million loaned by a Brazilian bank. ... more | .. |
 Indonesia urges ASEAN to harness Twitter, Facebook ASEAN must maximise the use of Twitter, Facebook and other social media to engage the region's citizens, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Tuesday. ... more |
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 Vancouver real estate prices fanned by Chinese Its quality of life is routinely ranked among the best in the world, but that's only one reason Vancouver real estate prices are red hot. ... more | .. |
Lawsuit threat over Canadian mine project in Transylvania Opponents of a Canadian gold mine project at an ancient Roman site in Transylvania threatened to sue authorities on Monday after Romania's culture ministry issued a permit for the mine. ... more | .. |
  More Chinese cities see home prices fall in June More Chinese cities saw prices of new homes fall in June compared with the previous month, official data showed Monday, as Beijing vowed to step up efforts to cool its real estate market. ... more | .. |
 Earnings-outlook spry at 100-year-old IBM Technology stalwart IBM started its second-century in business with a rise in quarterly earnings and an improved outlook for the year. ... more |
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