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EADS acquires Vizada for its Astrium DivisionLeiden, Holland (SPX) Aug 03, 2011 Astrium, has entered into an agreement to acquire Vizada from Apax France, a French Private Equity fund and the majority shareholder, for $ 960 million. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals. Vizada is a leading independent provider of global satellite-based mobility communication services, serving customers across sectors including maritime, aero, land, media, NGO (non-governmental organizations) and government/defence. Via all satellite network operators, it offers mobile ... read more |
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  Raytheon to Provide Wisconsin County's First Interoperable Communications System Raytheon has been awarded a contract to provide Rock County, Wis., with its first interoperable communications system, a 20-site conventional P25 digital land mobile radio system. It will provide se ... more | .. |
  Material created at Purdue lets electrons 'dance' and form new state A team of Purdue University researchers is among a small group in the world that has successfully created ultrapure material that captures new states of matter and could have applications in high-sp ... more | .. |
  Invisibility cloak closer to reality Scientists have devised an "invisibility cloak" material that can hide objects from detection using light that is visible to humans, a U.S. journal reports. ... more | .. |
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  Maritime domain awareness, emergency response, and maritime system resilience issues The National Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce (CSR) completed its 2nd Summer Research Institute, held on the campus of Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. For the secon ... more | .. |
 NPP Runs the Gauntlet of Environmental Testing The NPP satellite sits surrounded by 144 rock concert speakers. They're stacked in a circle 16 feet high in a testing room at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado. As engineers set up for the e ... more | .. |
 India to help Afghanistan in expanding media network India will help Afghanistan to expand the mass media network and build communication infrastructure in the conflict-hit country, it was decided at a meeting of officials of the two countries here Mo ... more | .. |
 3D Printing Now Possible in Zero-Gravity Conditions 3D Systems Corporation reports that its affordable BfB( 3000 3D printer successfully completed two zero-gravity test flights in partnership with MADE IN SPACE, a start-up dedicated to providing solu ... 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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 Kodak Imaging Technology Used To Explore Jupiter When NASA's Juno spacecraft is launched this week to begin its five-year voyage to the planet Jupiter, image sensor technology from Eastman Kodak will be on board to help capture images of the gas g ... more | .. |
  Southampton engineers fly first printed aircraft Engineers at the University of Southampton have designed and flown the world's first 'printed' aircraft, which could revolutionise the economics of aircraft design. The SULSA (Southampton Univ ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Develops Miniature Antenna To Extend Millimeter Wave Friendly ID Technology Raytheon has developed a miniaturized interrogation antenna capability to extend use of its Cooperative Target ID technology to soldiers and unmanned aircraft to help prevent fratricide. This ... more | .. |
 Discovery of a new magnetic order Physicists at Forschungszentrum Julich and the universities of Kiel and Hamburg are the first to discover a regular lattice of stable magnetic skyrmions - radial spiral structures made up of atomic- ... more |
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  Bionic microrobot mimics the 'water strider' and walks on water Scientists are reporting development of a new aquatic microrobot that mimics the amazing water-walking abilities of the water strider - the long-legged insect that scoots across the surface of ponds ... more | .. |
  Inmarsat Selects ILS Proton For Inmarsat-5 Inmarsat reports that Inmarsat SA, one of its subsidiary companies, has signed a contract with International Launch Services (ILS) for the launch of three Inmarsat-5 satellites. The launches, schedu ... more | .. |
 SES selects Gilat for the delivery of Consumer Ka-band equipment for ASTRA2Connect SES S.A. and Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. have announced that they have signed an agreement for the delivery of network equipment and Ka-band end user terminals for SES's satellite-based Internet s ... more | .. |
 India eyes manned space missions India's space agency has plans to launch a manned space mission in the future, but a lot of work needs to be done before that to ensure such missions are failure-proof, a top scientist has said. ... more |
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 Satellite innovators launch smartphone Space App competition Surrey experts in space technology have launched a Facebook competition challenging the British public to develop innovative applications that will run on its smartphone-powered satellite due for la ... more | .. |
  Russian Spacewalkers to Move Cargo Boom, Deploy Ham Radio Satellite Two Russian cosmonauts will leave the confines of the International Space Station on Aug.3 to move a cargo boom from one airlock to another, install a prototype laser communications system and deplo ... more | .. |
 Commercial Space Industry Works With NASA and Creates Tech Jobs in Silicon Valley Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) reports that Lori Garver, Deputy Administrator of NASA, and John Celli, President of Space Systems/Loral, met on July 29 to discuss commercial space industry capabilities ... more | .. |
 Reinventing Space We have been using the space environment for the last 50+ years. Satellites have been placed in orbits that take advantage of natural perturbations while offering convenient geometries for various m ... more |
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 Taiwan's Foxconn to use one million robots by 2014 Taiwan IT giant Foxconn - hit by a spate of suicides at its Chinese plants - plans to replace 500,000 workers with robots in the next three years, state media reported Monday. ... more | .. |
 United Launch Alliance Saves Money with First Combined Atlas and Delta Shipments on Mariner United Launch Alliance (ULA) completed Friday the first combined Atlas and Delta rocket shipment from its factory in Decatur, Ala., to the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on t ... more | .. |
 New Webb Telescope Technologies Already Helping Human Eyes Even while construction of the James Webb Space Telescope is underway on the most advanced infrared vision of any space observatory, its technologies are already proving useful to human eye health h ... more | .. |
 Virgin Galactic Appoints Its First Chief Financial Officer In this newly created role, Sunshine will be responsible for managing the company's financial strategy, driving growth and overseeing all finance and accounting functions as Virgin Galactic transiti ... 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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 BSkyB sweetens shareholders, James Murdoch remains boss British pay-TV giant BSkyB offered its shareholders over Pounds 1.0 billion in payouts Friday as it moves on from a failed takeover bid and phone-hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. ... more | .. |
  Russia to carry out 3 space launches in August Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Friday it is planning to launch two satellites and a space freighter next month. The Express-AM4 satellite will be launched on August 18 on board a Prot ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin to Implement Energy Efficient Data Center Consolidation for DoE Lockheed Martin is partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to increase energy efficiency through data center consolidation and information technology enhancements for the DOE complex. ... more | .. |
 Elbit Systems Awarded an Israeli Ministry of Defense Follow-on Order for the Digital Army Program Elbit Systems Ltd. has announced that it was awarded a $40 million order by the Israel Ministry of Defense (MOD) for the follow- on Digital Army Program (DAP). The total value of this phase of ... more |
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 China launches another experimental satellite China launched an experimental orbiter into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province on Friday. The SJ-11-02 orbiter was sent into space at 3:42 p.m. ... more | .. |
 Boeing Delivers UAE Air Force and Air Defence 3rd C-17 Boeing on July 28 delivered a third C-17 Globemaster III airlifter to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force and Air Defence at the C-17 program's final assembly facility in Long Beach. "We ... more | .. |
  HALE-D Demonstrated During Abbreviated Flight The U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin launched the first-of-its kind High Altitude Long Endurance-Demonstrator this morning, demonstrating a number of key technologies critical to development of unmanne ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin JASSM Lot 8 Software Validated During Flight Test Lockheed Martin's Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) recently completed a successful Product Verification Test (PVT) at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. Released by a B-52 at an alti ... more |
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