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Cleaning up with space techParis, France (ESA) Sep 07, 2011 There's just about nowhere that state-of-the-art space technologies cannot reach - from the martian atmosphere to those hard-to-clean spots under the couch. The search for space dust is giving us cleaner homes. Just ask Heinrich Iglseder, the Austrian scientist who created a technique to study dust in space that is now being used in a super-efficient Miele household vacuum cleaner. "Dust particles in space are very important to get information about how matter is generated in the cosmos," ex ... read more |
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  Malfunction at devices connection blamed for orbiter launch failure China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said Monday that malfunction at connection between devices of rocket led to the orbiter launch failure last month. Investigation result showe ... more | .. |
  Tiangong 1 might be launched in late September Due to the launch failure of the experimental orbiter SJ-11-04, the Chinese unmanned space module Tiangong 1, the prototype of the Chinese space experiment station, which was scheduled to launch in ... more | .. |
  ViaSat Wins Contracts from Boeing for Ground Based Beam Forming System for Mexican Satellite System ViaSat has been awarded contracts valued at approximately $40 million by Boeing to develop a ground based beam forming (GBBF) system for the Mexican Satellite System (MEXSAT). The beam forming ... more | .. |
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  KVH mini-VSAT Broadband Service Now Fully Global with Live Service in South America KVH Industries has announced that mini-VSAT BroadbandSM service is now available to mariners in South American waters, officially completing the original global coverage plan for the maritime satell ... more | .. |
  Americans tap into location-based services: study One in four Americans uses their cellphone to get directions or to receive recommendations about nearby attractions based on their present location, according to a survey published on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 SES Reach Agreement For Distribution Of Satellite Broadband Across Central And West Africa SES S.A. has reached an agreement with Sea and Space Exploration for the distribution of SES' proven satellite broadband service ASTRA2Connect in 20 countries in Central and West Africa. ASTRA ... more | .. |
 NASA Gives Public New Internet Tool to Explore the Solar System NASA is giving the public the power to journey through the solar system using a new interactive Web-based tool. The "Eyes on the Solar System" interface combines video game technology and NASA data ... 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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 Lockheed Martin Recreates STORRM in Earthbound Lab Lockheed Martin's state-of-the-art Space Operations Simulation Center (SOSC) has completed its first orbital simulation test with hardware and data that was flown on NASA's STS-134 space shuttle End ... more | .. |
  Louisiana Tech and NASA partner to conduct zero-gravity experiments Researchers from Louisiana Tech University will be floating high above the Gulf of Mexico this month to conduct zero-gravity testing of an experimental DNA analysis instrument developed at Tech that ... more | .. |
 Inmarsat GX Selects Rockwell Collins as Aeronautical Technology Partner Inmarsat has reached agreement in principle with Rockwell Collins whereby which Rockwell Collins will take the leading role in development, production and distribution of User Terminals (UTs) for fu ... more | .. |
 Gilat Selected to Provide Satellite Broadband Network for Security Communications Gilat Satellite Networks has been selected to provide a multi-million dollar SkyEdge II broadband network and services for security communications in Latin America. The network will be used to ... more |
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KVH Rolls Out Global Upgrade to mini-VSAT Broadband; Boosts Uplink Speed to 1 Mbps Already the world's fastest growing maritime VSAT network, mini-VSAT Broadband sm from KVH Industries, Inc., took another major step ahead of the competition with the announcement that KVH and partn ... more | .. |
 Andre makes a PromISSe All the pieces are coming together for the next long mission by a European astronaut. Now it has a name and logo. ESA has revealed the name of Andre Kuipers' mission: PromISSe. ESA called on c ... more | .. |
  Bad weather hampers search for debris of Russian space freighter Poor weather conditions in South Siberia's Altai Republic may prevent the search for the crash site of a Progress-M spacecraft for the second consecutive day, a Russian space official said on Friday ... more | .. |
 50 percent more satellites to be launched in the decade ahead Euroconsult has forecasted that an estimated 1,145 satellites will be built for launch during the next ten years (2011-2020), 51% more satellites than the previous decade. These projections come fro ... 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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 Space Agencies Meet To Discuss A Global Exploration Roadmap Senior managers representing 10 space agencies from around the world met in Kyoto, Japan to advance the Global Exploration Roadmap for coordinated space exploration. During the past year, the ... more | .. |
 Space chief warns Israel losing its edge The outgoing chief of Israel's military space program has warned the country is in danger of losing its superiority in space over its Middle Eastern adversaries because the government won't free promised funds for the high-tech industry. ... more | .. |
  Saft signs contract with Boeing to build Li-ion satellite batteries for MEXSAT-1 and 2 Saft has won a multi-million dollar contract from Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems to supply lithium-ion (Li-ion) satellite batteries for MEXSAT-1 and MEXSAT-2. The satellites are part of the n ... more | .. |
 Space junk at dangerous 'tipping point': study Clouds of space junk orbiting the Earth have reached a dangerous "tipping point", threatening to smash satellites and endanger astronauts, US scientists warned in a study this week. ... more |
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  Taiwan to produce new anti-China missiles: lawmaker Taiwan is expected to mass produce a potent new missile system designed to nip a Chinese invasion in the bud by striking airfields and harbours on the mainland, a lawmaker said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin/KAMAN K-MAX Completes US Navy Unmanned Cargo Assessment The Lockheed Martin-led unmanned K-MAX team successfully completed a five-day Quick Reaction Assessment (QRA) for the U.S. Navy's Cargo Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) program. "The autonomous ... more | .. |
  Environmental Testing of New Military Communications Satellite Completed Lockheed Martin has completed thermal vacuum testing of the U.S. Navy's first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite, a major program milestone that validates spacecraft performance in a simu ... more | .. |
  Miniature Air Launched Decoy Jammer Demonstrates Capability to Protect Manned Aircraft The U.S. Air Force demonstrated that Raytheon's Miniature Air Launched Decoy Jammer could protect aircraft when it completed the first test of the MALD-J in a simulated operational environment. ... 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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 Boeing Receives US Air Force Contract for A-10 Avionics Modernization Boeing has been awarded a one-year, $2.9 million contract by the U.S. Air Force to develop and validate a modification of the A-10 aircraft's Digital Video Audio Data Recorder (DVADR). The modificat ... more | .. |
  Iran criticises NATO's Turkey radar plan A senior Iranian diplomat criticised neighbouring Turkey on Monday for agreeing to host an early warning radar as part of NATO's missile defence system for Europe. ... more | .. |
  Japan's ex-PM Kan feared 'uninhabitable Tokyo': report Japan's former premier Naoto Kan feared Tokyo would be rendered uninhabitable by the Fukushima nuclear crisis, he said in an interview published Tuesday in which he recalled the "spine-chilling" thought. ... more | .. |
  Research gives crystal clear temperature readings from toughest environments Researchers at the University of Warwick and Oxford University have developed a form of crystal that can deliver highly accurate temperature readings, down to individual milli-kelvins, over a very b ... more |
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  Innovative Nanoparticle Purification System Uses Magnetic Fields A team of Penn State University scientists has invented a new system that uses magnetism to purify hybrid nanoparticles - structures that are composed of two or more kinds of materials in an extreme ... more | .. |
  Recent trends show recession effect on US advanced technology exports U.S. exports of advanced technology products (ATP) fared better than other non-advanced technology exports during the recent U.S. recession, says a new report from the National Science Foundation (N ... more | .. |
 Innovation is step toward digital graphene transistors Researchers are making progress in creating digital transistors using a material called graphene, potentially sidestepping an obstacle thought to dramatically limit the material's use in computers a ... more | .. |
  US: Europe has will to face debt crisis The White House said Tuesday it was confident Europe had the ability and will to tackle its debt crisis and said there was "no question" events across the Atlantic could impact the US economy. ... more |
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