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Russia grounds Soyuz rockets after space cargo craft crashMoscow (AFP) Aug 25, 2011 Russia has grounded its Soyuz rockets after one of the unmanned craft crashed shortly after blast-off while carrying tonnes of cargo for the International Space Station, a space official said Thursday. "A decision has been taken to halt the launch of Soyuz carrier rockets until the reasons for the accident become clear," the unnamed Russian official told the Interfax news agency. Wednesday's accident has raised concerns over the reserves of the six crew members on board the station and clouded t ... read more |
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  Russian spaceship crashes back to Earth An unmanned Russian spaceship with tonnes of cargo for the International Space Station crashed into Siberia shortly after blast-off Wednesday in the latest blow to the country's embattled space programme. ... more | .. |
  Raytheon-Rafael get boost for Iron Dome Raytheon's partnership with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems to market the Israeli company's Iron Dome anti-rocket system got a major boost in recent clashes in southern Israel when two batteries downed at least 15 rockets aimed at populated areas. ... more | .. |
  IAI showcases 'Ghost' spy UAV in U.S. Israel Aerospace Industries has unveiled its miniature Ghost unmanned aerial vehicle, a near-silent, 9-pound drone designed for clandestine special operations. ... more | .. |
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 Predators and MRAPS: the military's post-9/11 era The September 11 attacks ushered in a new era of warfare, with the United States relying on a new fleet of robotic aircraft and elite special forces with high-tech gear. ... more | .. |
 US drone attack kills four militants in Pakistan: officials A US drone strike targeting a vehicle in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt on Monday killed at least four militants, local security officials said. ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Unmanned Aircraft Systems Open Architecture Could Yield Cost Savings Raytheon is developing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework capable of providing unmanned aircraft systems with a mechanism that enables rapid integration of weapons and sensors. Th ... more | .. |
 Boeing Demonstrates Swarm Reconnaissance with Unmanned Aircraft Boeing has reported the successful autonomous communications and operation of dissimilar unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in flight tests over the rugged terrain of eastern Oregon. The July 7-10 ... more |
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Russia offers US nuclear talks in bid to ease tensions
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  Recent grad's astro feats regarded as research crown 'joule' Look out, Richard Dean Anderson. There's a new MacGyver in town. His name is 2nd Lt. Michael Trubilla, and a prestigious award is in the 2011 Air Force Academy grad's very near future: Trubilla is s ... more | .. |
  NRL Set to Launch Experimental TacSat-4 Spacecraft The Naval Research Laboratory's Tactical Satellite IV (TacSat-4) is scheduled to launch from the Alaska Aerospace Corporation's Kodiak Launch Complex, Tuesday, September 27, 2011, aboard an Orbital ... more | .. |
 Draper Spacesuit Could Keep NASA Astronauts Stable, Healthier in Space Draper Laboratory began work this month on a new spacesuit that could keep NASA astronauts healthy during long-duration space exploration missions and stabilize them while they work in microgravity. ... more | .. |
 Russia grounds rockets after launch failure Russia on Tuesday grounded its workhorse Proton-M rockets after the latest in a string of launch mishaps put a prized telecommunications satellite into the wrong orbit. ... more |
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  MSU, UR launch satellite from Russia A Russian Dnepr rocket roared out of a silo launcher into space carrying a satellite with hardware designed and built at Morehead State University. The rocket launched from Yasny, Russia, on the Kaz ... more | .. |
 Russia's recent catalogue of space disasters The failed launch of the unmanned Progress cargo space craft which crashed into Earth instead of delivering supplies to the ISS was the latest in a spate of mishaps in the Russian space programme. ... more | .. |
  Researchers Improving GPS Accuracy In The Third Dimension Researchers who are working to fix global positioning system (GPS) errors have devised software to take a more accurate measurement of altitude - particularly in mountainous areas. The softwar ... more | .. |
 NASA Picks Three Proposals for Flight Demonstration NASA has selected three proposals, including one from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space navigat ... more |
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Advanced air filter could enable building vents to capture carbon and reduce energy use
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  Taiwan to develop precision-guided missile Taiwan plans to develop a long-distance precision-guided missile which would be able to strike military bases along China's southeastern coastline in the event of war, a legislator said Monday. ... more | .. |
  "Network in A Box" Allows Military Vehicles To Be Used For Multiple Missions Answering the need to enable military vehicles to serve multiple mission roles, Lockheed Martin offers soldiers a mobile network in a carrying case. Lockheed Martin's Communications-on-the-Move (COT ... more | .. |
  Chile opts for refurbished U.S. howitzers Chile will spend $7 million as part of its long-standing plan to build a mechanized artillery battalion in which refurbished U.S.-made howitzers will play a significant part. ... more | .. |
Canadian drone helped rebels in Libya A Canadian unmanned micro-aerial vehicle or reconnaissance drone helped Libyan rebels in their fight against strongman Moamer Kadhafi, the company that sold it to them said Wednesday. ... more |
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 Melanin's 'trick' for maintaining radioprotection studied Sunbathers have long known that melanin in their skin cells provides protection from the damage caused by visible and ultraviolet light. More recent studies have shown that melanin, which is produce ... more | .. |
  Facebook-Twitter to face riot-spooked British officials Facebook and Twitter on Thursday will meet with riot-spooked British officials to discuss how social networks can play roles in keeping people safe during civil unrest. ... more | .. |
 Ex-Japanese foreign minister eyes top job Japanese former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara confirmed he will run his party's leadership race next week to succeed Naoto Kan as prime minister. ... more | .. |
 Lithuania vexed by Leningrad nuke mishap A construction accident at a next-generation prototype Russian nuclear power plant is alarming and shows a lack of transparency, Lithuanian officials say. ... 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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  Engineers discover nanoscale balancing act that mirrors forces at work in living systems A delicate balance of atomic forces can be exploited to make nanoparticle superclusters that are uniform in size-an attribute that's important for many nanotech applications but hard to accomplish, ... more | .. |
 New theory may shed light on dynamics of large-polymer liquids A new physics-based theory could give researchers a deeper understanding of the unusual, slow dynamics of liquids composed of large polymers. This advance provides a better picture of how polymer mo ... more | .. |
 Nickel nanoparticles may contribute to lung cancer All the excitement about nanotechnology comes down to this: Structures of materials at the scale of billionths of a meter take on unusual properties. Technologists often focus on the happier a ... more | .. |
  Etch-a-sketch with superconductors Reporting in Nature Materials this week, researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Physics Department of Sapienza University of Rome have discovered a technique to 'draw' superco ... more |
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 Nano bundles pack a powerful punch Rice University researchers have created a solid-state, nanotube-based supercapacitor that promises to combine the best qualities of high-energy batteries and fast-charging capacitors in a device su ... more | .. |
 Los Alamos achieves world-record pulsed magnetic field Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory's Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory have set a new world record for the strongest magnetic field produced by a nondes ... more | .. |
 Controlling magnetism with electric fields An international team of researchers from France and Germany has developed a new material which is the first to react magnetically to electrical fields at room temperature. Previously this was only ... more | .. |
  Human gait could soon power portable electronics If the vision of Tom Krupenkin and J. Ashley Taylor comes to fruition, one day soon your cellphone - or just about any other portable electronic device - could be powered by simply taking a walk. ... more |
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