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China State media says Tiangong 1 to launch in early SeptBeijing (XNA) Aug 30, 2011 According to an unnamed source in a position of authority in Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, the remarkable Chinese unmanned space module Tiangong 1 will be launched soon. However, because the experimental orbiter SJ-11-04, which was launched last week, failed to enter Earth's orbit, the launch of Tiangong 1 has been postponed until early September. Tiangong 1, which means "Heavenly Palace" is the name of the first Chinese unmanned space module. After the launch of this aircraft, China will ... read more |
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  Lost Russian satellite poses threat to space navigation The Russian heavy satellite Express-AM4 lost on Aug. 18 might pose a threat to other space vehicles, local media reported Friday. Citing a source in the space industry, Interfex news agency sa ... more | .. |
  Proba-2 fuel tank refilled from 'solid gas' Sometimes all it takes is fresh air to get a new lease of life. ESA's Proba-2 microsatellite is a good example: an influx of nitrogen has replenished its fuel tank, in the process demonstrating a wh ... more | .. |
  NASA Collaborates on Cargo Airship Workshop in Alaska The two-day Cargo Airships for Northern Operations Workshop in Anchorage, Alaska kicked off Aug. 24, 2011. The workshop is co-organized by the State of Alaska and NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffet ... more | .. |
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  Negative Incentives for America's Space Program Part II The long awaited 2011 edition of Futron's Space Competitiveness Index has just been released, and it does not offer good news about the U.S. space program. While the U.S. remains in the top ra ... more | .. |
  NASA Aeronautics Is Focus Of Research And Technology Roundtable NASA officials will meet with aeronautics industry, academia, and government leaders Aug. 25 to kick off a series of roundtable discussions about future directions for aeronautics research and techn ... more | .. |
  Russian Space Taxi Goes on Strike Last Wednesday, an unmanned Russian spaceship carrying tons of cargo for ISS crashed in Siberia shortly after blast-off. Liftoff of the Soyuz booster carrying the Progress module from the Baikonur C ... more | .. |
 Progress space freighter destroyed in atmosphere Large pieces of the Progress M-12M space freighter have not been discovered because the ship most likely burned up in the Earth's atmosphere or the third stage of the Soyuz-U carrier rocket exploded ... 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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  Northrop Grumman Business Unit Astro Aerospace Delivers Antennas to Lockheed Martin for GPS III Astro Aerospace, a strategic business unit of Northrop Grumman, has delivered 16 self-deploying, monopole JIB antennas for the first two next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS III) satellite ... more | .. |
  Russia enters the era of space realism The recent string of spaceflight accidents in Russia is the symptom of a deep crisis in the nation's aerospace industry. Experts say it's time to tone down the rhetoric about Russia being a "great s ... more | .. |
 Russia to test launch Soyuz rockets before delivering ISS crews Russia will carry out two unmanned test launches of Soyuz carrier rockets in the coming fall before using them to deliver crews to the International Space Station, a source in the Russian space indu ... more | .. |
 Roscosmos smarting after Progress loss Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 29, 2011 Heads are expected to roll in Russia's space industry in the wake of the recent failures, above all the August 24 incident when the cargo spaceship Progress M-12M ... more |
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 "Progress's" misfortune doesn't change Russia's space plans The Russian, the US, the European, the Canadian and the Japanese space agencies, who are partners in using the International Space Station, are now jointly analyzing the reasons for the crash of the ... more | .. |
 Orbits for Tiangong The impending launch of China's first space laboratory will end years of waiting for this important mission. It will also hopefully begin to answer some of the many questions that remain unanswered ... more | .. |
 The fifth Ariane 5 of 2011 is ready for integration of its dual-satellite payload Arianespace has taken delivery of the Ariane 5 ECA for its fifth heavy-lift mission of 2011 at the Spaceport in French Guiana, which will orbit the Arabsat-5C and SES-2 telecommunications satellites ... more | .. |
  Israeli spat blocks missile defense plan A dispute between two major defense companies has blocked the Israeli military's plans to install systems on new armored personnel carriers to knock out enemy missiles. ... more |
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Advanced air filter could enable building vents to capture carbon and reduce energy use
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  Lockheed Martin AMF JTRS Team Delivers Joint Tactical Radio to AFRL For C-130J And C-5 Integration Risk Reduction High-capacity, secure battlefield communications links between all elements of the U.S. military forces are one step closer to truly being connected. The Lockheed Martin team has delivered a Small A ... more | .. |
 ASC Signal Will Support L-3 Communications with Multi-Band Transportable Communications for a U.S. Government Agency ASC Signal Corporation has been awarded a multi-million dollar sub-contract by L-3 Narda Satellite Networks (L-3 Narda), to provide more than 100, 3.9-meter, quad-band, fly-away antenna components a ... more | .. |
  USAF And Lockheed Martin Sign 5-Year Tri-Mode Seeker Cooperative Agreement The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Munitions Directorate and Lockheed Martin have signed a five-year cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) to assess the viability of its ... more | .. |
 US Army Selects Northrop Grumman for Force Protection Contract Northrop Grumman has received an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) award from the U.S. Army to provide force protection systems and components in theater and the continental United St ... more |
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 Lockheed Martin to Integrate TRADOC Architecture Under New $26.1M Contract Lockheed Martin's IS and GS-Defense product line will provide a host of new enterprise architecture services to the U.S. Army under a recent $26.1 million contract. Under the ITES-2 indefinite ... more | .. |
  Raytheon-Boeing Team Continues to Validate JAGM Single Rocket-Motor Solution Raytheon and Boeing have completed a second series of government-funded technology development phase tests of the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile's single rocket-motor solution, designed by Boeing and i ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Introduces Virtual Capability That Connects Interpreters with Battlefield Troops Deployed U.S. and international forces battling language barriers will now be able to instantly connect to a pool of highly qualified interpretation services through a real-time, virtual capability ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Delivers Third Production C-5M Super Galaxy To USAF Lockheed Martin has completed delivery of the third production C-5M Super Galaxy to the U.S. Air Force. The sixth C-5M overall to be delivered to the Air Force, this aircraft will undergo internal p ... 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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 Iran begins making carbon fiber, despite ban Iran on Saturday inaugurated a plant for producing carbon fiber, which it is banned from importing by international sanctions targeting dual-use materials, the official IRNA news agency reported. ... more | .. |
  Ikea pledges $62mn for world's largest refugee camp The charitable arm of furniture giant Ikea has made a record $62 million pledge to help thousands of people at Dadaab, the world's biggest refugee camp in Kenya, the UNHCR said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Did hurricane of hype engulf New York? Hurricane Irene may have been a category one storm, but some wondered if hot air from the media and politicians wasn't what really blew off the scale. ... more | .. |
 Greenpeace seeks nuclear action from next Japan PM Greenpeace on Monday called on Japan's incoming prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, to take steps to protect children from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, boost renewable energy and phase out atomic power. ... more |
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Obama remembers Katrina, after Hurricane Irene President Barack Obama paid tribute Monday to the grit of the people of the US Gulf Coast, exactly six years after Hurricane Katrina roared ashore and inundated New Orleans. ... more | .. |
  Tiny wires change behavior at nanoscale Thin gold wires often used in high-end electronic applications are wonderfully flexible as well as conductive. But those qualities don't necessarily apply to the same wires at the nanoscale. A ... more | .. |
 Scientists put a new spin on traditional information technology Sending information by varying the properties of electromagnetic waves has served humanity well for more than a century, but as our electronic chips steadily shrink, the signals they carry can bleed ... more | .. |
  Flexible electronics hold promise for consumer applications New research from Wake Forest University has advanced the field of plastic-based flexible electronics by developing, for the first time, an extremely large molecule that is stable, possesses excelle ... more |
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