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Ball Aerospace Develops Flight Computers for Next-Generation Launch VehiclesBoulder CO (SPX) Jul 26, 2011 Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has completed development of prototype launch vehicle flight computers equipped to bring safety and reliability to future human spaceflight systems. These flight computers were financed by Ball Aerospace and are based on deployed units now being used by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in their simulation laboratories to develop software and test systems for future human-rated launch vehicles. The computers are a critical part of the electronic comman ... read more |
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  SwRI suborbital astronaut payload specialists move to flight planning phase, release mission patch Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announced in February that it had contracted multiple suborbital flights for its own astronaut payload specialists as part of a larger effort to promote the devel ... more | .. |
  China to launch 9th orbiter for indigenous global navigation network China will launch the ninth orbiter into space in "coming days" as part of its indigenous satellite navigation and positioning network. The "Beidou," or Compass, navigation satellite will be l ... more | .. |
  Spotlight Time for Tiangong The upcoming launch of China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory will come at a critical time. The US space program has just retired its fleet of Space Shuttles, and currently lacks any means of launching ... more | .. |
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 Graybiel Lab poised for next chapter of space exploration A 30-year chapter in the history of space travel has ended with the landing of the space shuttle Atlantis, and what comes next is still unknown. But whatever direction the story takes, researchers o ... more | .. |
  Closing In On The Famous Pioneer Anomaly Scientists working with recovered data from the Pioneer 10 and 11 missions are closing in on a solution to the famous Pioneer Anomaly. Their just-published results show that the mysterious effect on ... more | .. |
 Neptec's TriDAR technology to take off on Orbital's Cygnus Spacecraft Neptec Design Group, a leader in space, defence and industrial systems and applications, has announced it will provide its TriDAR rendezvous and docking sensors to Orbital Space Science Corp.'s Cygn ... more | .. |
  Final Nanosatellite Launched from Space Shuttle Atlantis The final satellite launched in the 30-year lifetime of the shuttle program, the latest in a series of nanosatellites built by The Aerospace Corporation with support from the Space and Missile Syste ... more |
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Arrival of US aircraft carrier fuels Venezuelan fears of attack
Russia offers US nuclear talks in bid to ease tensions
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 GSAT-12 Communication Satellite placed in Geosynchronous Orbit The GSAT-12 Communication Satellite, launched onboard Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C17), has been successfully placed in Geosynchronous Orbit with a perigee of 35,684 km, apogee of 35,715 ... more | .. |
  Boeing Delivers 400th Airplane to GECAS Boeing has reached a major milestone with GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) yesterday by delivering the leasing company's 400th airplane, a Next-Generation 737-800. GECAS leasing customer Xiamen ... more | .. |
 Gantry's First Splash Test Is a Booming Success The principle is the same one that allows a kid to swing from a bank into a pond on a long rope hanging from a tree to beat the summer heat. On Wednesday, the "kid" was 2,300 pounds of steel, ... more | .. |
 New Russian carrier rockets to the Moon Russia is working on two large-scale space projects simultaneously, including the next generation of the "Soyuz" spaceships and a principally new space system with the Rus-M carrier rocket. The laun ... more |
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  Russian satellite will honor Gagarin Russians on the International Space Station will launch a mini-satellite to honor this year's 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight, mission control said. ... more | .. |
 Angry Birds plot global domination Look out Nokia, Angry Birds are plotting to knock you off your perch as Finland's top company. ... more | .. |
  JLENS Successfully Completes Endurance Test Raytheon'saerostat system - Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensors (JLENS) - recently completed a successful endurance test. "Providing long endurance surveillance fo ... more | .. |
  USAF Approves Production of NGC Deployable Digital Wireless System for Remote Warfighters The U.S. Air Force has approved Northrop Grumman's Theater Deployable Communications (TDC) Wireless Distribution Module (WDM) for production. TDC WDM provides a line-of-sight extension of a lo ... 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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 First Euro Hawk Unmanned Aircraft System Touches Down in Germany Euro Hawk, the first high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE), signals intelligence (SIGINT) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) based on the RQ-4 Global Hawk produced by Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) for the ... more | .. |
 Israeli company producing UAVs with French Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. is working with French company Dassault Aviation SA to manufacture F-Heron TP unmanned aerial vehicle drones in Israel. ... more | .. |
  GA-ASI Awarded Contract for Hellads Weapon System Demonstrator General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently awarded the company a contract for development of the complete Demonstrator Las ... more | .. |
 U.S., Iran spar over downed drone claim A senior Iranian legislator is claiming that his country downed a U.S. spy drone overflying the Fordo nuclear enrichment plant in Iran's Qom province in central Iran. ... more |
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  IAEA chief visits Japan's stricken nuclear plant The head of the UN atomic watchdog agency visited Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant on Monday to survey efforts to contain the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. ... more | .. |
 Japan passes second recovery budget Japan's parliament on Monday enacted a $25 billion extra budget to pay for relief and rebuilding after the March 11 quake-tsunami, as Prime Minister Naoto Kan faced mounting pressure to resign. ... more | .. |
  Nanoplasmonic Breaks Emission Time Record in Semiconductors Renaissance architects demonstrated their understanding of geometry and physics when they built whispering galleries into their cathedrals. These circular chambers were designed to amplify and direc ... 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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  A new discovery paves the way for using super strong nanostructured metals in cars Super strong nanometals are beginning to play an important role in terms of making cars even lighter, enabling them to stand collisions without fatal consequences for the passengers. A PhD student a ... more | .. |
 Rare Coupling of Magnetic and Electric Properties in a Single Material Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have observed a new way that magnetic and electric properties - which have a long history of ignoring and counteracting ... more | .. |
 New photonic crystals have both electronic and optical properties In an advance that could open new avenues for solar cells, lasers, metamaterials and more, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated the first optoelectronically active 3-D photoni ... more | .. |
  Innovnano builds new nanomaterial plant The construction of a new Innovnano plant, in the Coimbra iParque, has begun this month. This is an innovative industrial unit, which will manufacture nanomaterials from a worldwide unique process. ... more |
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  NASA and Chevron Partner to Benefit the Energy Industry NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and Chevron Corporation in San Ramon, Calif., have announced a partnership to develop a range of advanced technologies that can be used in harsh ... more | .. |
 Sharper deeper faster 3D imaging For modern biologists, the ability to capture high-quality, three-dimensional (3D) images of living tissues or organisms over time is necessary to answer problems in areas ranging from genomics to n ... more | .. |
  IMF: Food, fuel prices inhibit C. America Food and fuel prices threaten to hold back Central American growth, currently expected to reach about 4 percent this year, an International Monetary Fund survey said. ... more | .. |
 Clinton says 'confident' of deal on US debt crisis US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday she was confident lawmakers would reach a deal to avert a debt default, as she addressed business leaders in Hong Kong. ... more |
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