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FAA Spaceport grants will strengthen America's commercial space industryWashington DC (SPX) Aug 31, 2011 If you're like me, you probably watched the final landing of the Space Shuttle Atlantis last month with a strong sense of nostalgia for an astounding era in American space travel. The good news is that the Federal Aviation Administration has been working hard to usher in a new era for U.S. space transportation. I'm excited to announce that the FAA is awarding grants to projects at three spaceports. With matching support, these projects will develop and expand our nation's commercial space transpor ... read more |
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  Time Limits for Tiangong The launch date for Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory, has been the subject of much confusion in recent months. It seems that a launch is not too far away, and could appear within a week. ... more | .. |
  Robonaut Wakes Up In Space After months of patiently snoring away in its storage bag, Robonaut 2 - the first dexterous humanoid robot in space - finally got its wakeup call on Monday. R2, as the robot is called, was del ... more | .. |
 Chang'e-2 moon orbiter travels around L2 in outer space China's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2, has arrived in outer space about 1.5 million km away from Earth and is now orbiting the second Lagrange Point (L2), where gravity from the sun and Earth b ... more | .. |
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  Arianespace preps for next Ariane 5 mission to launch Arabsat-5c Payload integration for Arianespace's fifth Ariane 5 mission of 2011 has begun with installation of the Arabsat-5C satellite atop the SYLDA dual-payload dispenser system at the Spaceport in French G ... more | .. |
 Express-AM4 Launch Failure Inter-Agency Commission Concludes Investigations The Inter-Agency Commission has completed its investigation of the off-nominal orbital injection of Express-AM4 launched on 18 August from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Based on its activities and ... 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 | .. |
 China State media says Tiangong 1 to launch in early Sept 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 th ... 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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 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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 'Smart collars' will track wildlife U.S. researchers say "smart collars" will enable people to learn how animals live their lives and possibly transform how wild populations are managed. ... 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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  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 | .. |
  AeroVironment Introduces Shrike VTOL Unmanned Aircraft System AeroVironment has introduced its lightweight and man-portable Shrike VTOL unmanned aircraft system. In August 2008 AeroVironment announced the receipt of a contract from DARPA (the Defense Advanced ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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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 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 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 | .. |
  Insurers escape the worst of Hurricane Irene Global insurance companies have got off relatively lightly with Hurricane Irene and it is just as well because their earnings this year were already under pressure from other natural disasters, analysts say. ... more |
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 US rescues thousands stranded by Irene US rescuers battled Tuesday to reach thousands cut off by flooding in towns across Vermont, New Jersey and upstate New York as the death toll from Hurricane Irene climbed towards 50. ... 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 | .. |
  Novel alloy could produce hydrogen fuel from sunlight Scientists from the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville have determined that an inexpensive semiconductor material can be "tweaked" to generate hydrogen from water using sunlight ... more | .. |
 Breakthrough in hydrogen fuel cells A team of USC scientists has developed a robust, efficient method of using hydrogen as a fuel source. Hydrogen makes a great fuel because of it can easily be converted to electricity in a fuel cell ... more |
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