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NASA moves forward in manned spaceflightWashington (UPI) Aug 12, 2011 NASA says it has created a new department, the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, to oversee manned spaceflight in the post-shuttle era. The department combines two previous arms of the space agency, the Space Operations Directorate and the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate. NASA is preparing for human missions to deep space - including trips to the moon, then on to asteroids and Mars - with President Barack Obama having given the agency the goal of putting men ... read more |
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  US looks for answers after hypersonic plane fails Pentagon scientists on Friday acknowledged they were puzzled by the failed flight test of an experimental hypersonic plane and said they were trying to understand what went wrong. ... more | .. |
  DC-8 Flying Lab Validates Laser Instruments Twenty scientists went aloft aboard NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory in late July to conduct an airborne test of four very different laser techniques for remotely measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide a ... more | .. |
  Russia to build new space center in Far East Russia is planning to build a 250 billion ruble (8.5 billion U.S. dollar) space center in its Far East, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos told a local newspaper Thursday. In an interv ... more | .. |
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 NASA Selects Seven Firms To Provide Near-Space Flight Services NASA has selected seven companies to integrate and fly technology payloads on commercial suborbital reusable platforms that carry payloads near the boundary of space. As part of NASA's Flight ... more | .. |
  More challenging environment ahead for the satellite communications sector According to a new report from Euroconsult - Satellite Communications and Broadcasting Markets Survey, Forecasts to 2020 - the fixed satellite sector grew both in terms of transponder demand (+4.4%) ... more | .. |
 China launches satellite for Pakistan China launched a communications satellite on Friday that will be used by Pakistan, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. ... more | .. |
 US military loses contact with hypersonic aircraft US military scientists on Thursday launched a hypersonic aircraft but lost contact with the experimental plane in its second test flight, officials said. ... 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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 Russia space chief regrets focus on manned missions The new chief of Russia's space agency on Thursday said it had put too much emphasis on manned space flight and needed to increase financing on projects that brought a tangible return. ... more | .. |
  NASA selects Virgin Galactic for Suborbital Flights Virgin Galactic has been selected by NASA to provide flight opportunities for engineers, technologists and scientific researchers to fly technology payloads into space. This arrangement marks ... more | .. |
 Exotic quantum crystal discovered Nature knows two opposite types of solids: one that emerges upon compression from a liquid and a second that appears if the pressure on a liquid is reduced. While the former is typical for sub ... more | .. |
  Launch date set for NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X satellites SSTL has announced that it will launch the NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X satellites on behalf of the Nigerian National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) by a Dnepr launch vehicle from Y ... more |
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 China, Bolivia launch telecom satellite project China and Bolivia on Wednesday jointly launched a communications satellite project that will be completed within three years. The construction of the Tupac Katari satellite, named after an 18t ... more | .. |
  Technology Plays Important Role to Improve the Wine Industry Great wines come from combining site selection with appropriate viticulture and winemaking skills and style. But now geographic information systems (GIS) technology plays an important role in the wi ... more | .. |
  Airborne Infrared Sensor Cued In ABM Test With The Integrated Sensor Manager Northrop Grumman has successfully completed the first test to demonstrate real-time cueing of the Airborne Infrared (ABIR) sensor for the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) with the Integrated ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Wins Navy GPS Positioning, Navigation and Timing Service Contract Raytheon has been awarded a $32.2 million U.S. Navy contract for the Global Positioning System-based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Service program for Navy surface and subsurface platforms. ... 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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  China may have examined US stealth chopper: report Pakistan probably let Chinese engineers examine the wreckage of a top-secret US stealth helicopter that crashed during the raid killing Osama bin Laden, The New York Times reported. ... more | .. |
  US jails Iranian over missile component plot A US judge sentenced an Iranian national Monday to more than four years in prison for plotting to export radio equipment and components for anti-tank missiles from the United States to Iran. ... more | .. |
 Russia set to show off its first stealth fighter Russia was due Tuesday to unveil its first stealth fighter to the public, lifting the curtain on a secret project designed to flood the market with cheaper versions of veteran US jets. ... more | .. |
Taiwan developing new 'aircraft carrier killer' Taiwan is developing a new mobile version of its supersonic "aircraft carrier killer" missile, a legislator said Sunday, after China sparked regional concerns with sea trials of its first carrier. ... more |
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  Greenpeace hands Rainbow Warrior to Bangladesh Environmental campaign group Greenpeace on Tuesday handed over its iconic protest ship Rainbow Warrior II to a Bangladeshi charity which will turn it into a floating hospital. ... more | .. |
 Disaster-hit Japan marks 66 years since WWII end Japan will recover from the March 11 quake and tsunami just as it did after World War II, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Monday, the 66th anniversary of the country's surrender. ... more | .. |
Japan economy shrank less than thought after quake Japan's economy shrank less than expected in the April-June quarter, data showed Monday, fuelling hopes that its recovery from the March 11 quake and tsunami disasters is on track. ... more | .. |
Japan PM contender urges national unity government Japan's finance minister, tipped as a candidate to become the country's next premier, on Saturday proposed to form a government of national unity to spearhead the country's recovery from natural disasters. ... 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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 Kyoto rejects disaster wood over nuclear fears Japan's former imperial capital of Kyoto apologised Saturday after rejecting wood from the tsunami-ravaged Pacific coast for a traditional bonfire festival over fears of radioactive contamination. ... more | .. |
 Catalyst that makes hydrogen gas breaks speed record Looking to nature for their muse, researchers have used a common protein to guide the design of a material that can make energy-storing hydrogen gas. The synthetic material works 10 times faster tha ... more | .. |
  New anticensorship scheme could make it impossible to block individual sites A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole web into a proxy server, making it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual sites. ... more | .. |
  New tool may yield smaller and faster optoelectronics The steady improvement in speed and power of modern electronics may soon hit the brakes unless new ways are found to pack more structures into microscopic spaces. Unfortunately, engineers are alread ... more |
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 Shooting light a curve Zhang, a principal investigator with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and director of the University of California at Berkeley's Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center (SINAM), is the c ... more | .. |
 Bilayer graphene: Another step toward graphene electronics The Nobel Prize winning scientists Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov have taken a huge step forward in studying the wonder material graphene and revealing its exciting electronic p ... more | .. |
  Bright light for fuel cell market A U.S. market research company says the military fuel cell market is expected to grow to a $1.2 billion industry segment by 2017. ... more | .. |
  Walker's World: And if China slows ... Nobody really knows whether Europe and the United States are heading for a double-dip recession, stagflation or a currency collapse. But it is a safe bet that neither will be contributing much to global growth over the next few years, so China's future is going to be pivotal for us all. ... more |
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