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Statement on Importance of Supporting Planetary ExplorationWashington DC (SPX) Sep 13, 2011 The AAS Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS), the world's largest organization of professional planetary scientists, has issued a statement highlighting the discoveries of highly successful planetary missions over the last decade and the importance of supporting ongoing and future missions in light of recent budgetary discussions within NASA including the James Webb Space Telescope. The DPS leadership stressed the importance of following the priorities identified by the planetary sciences communi ... read more |
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  Advances In Space Medicine Threatened By Funding Cuts Biomedical research in space has yielded a wealth of insights into the effects of weightlessness on the human body, but recent funding cuts undermine the ability of the United States to continue to ... more | .. |
  Keeping Rocket Engine Fuel Lines Bubble Free in Space You are in space... your spacecraft is tumbling out of control, you need to fire your control rockets, the fuel is sloshing all around the inside of the tank... where is your liquid fuel? Without gr ... more | .. |
 NASA Tests Five-Segment Solid Rocket Motor NASA and ATK Space Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of Development Motor-3 (DM-3), Thursday, Sept. 8. DM-3 is NASA's largest and most powerful solid rocket motor ever des ... more | .. |
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  First Galileo satellite touches down in French Guiana The first Galileo navigation satellite has arrived in Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, ready to begin preparations for launch on 20 October. Packed within its protective, air-conditioned c ... more | .. |
  Gilat Selected to Provide Cellular Backhaul Solution to South East Asian Mobile Network Operator Gilat has signed an agreement for the delivery of its SkyAbis cellular backhaul solution, based on the SkyEdge II platform, to a leading South East Asian mobile network operator. As part of th ... more | .. |
 Space food, shuttle tiles for sale by NASA The US space agency is offering schools and universities a special deal on astronaut cuisine and heat tiles from the now extinct space shuttles, just over 20 dollars a pack, NASA said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Ball Aerospace To Develop Cryogenic Storage and Transfer Concepts for NASA Ball Aerospace and Technologies is one of four companies that will study the storage and transfer of cryogenic propellants in space under a contract to NASA. Each company was awarded up to $600K to ... more |
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 Production on major part of China jumbo rocket completed, maiden voyage by 2015 Production on a major part of China's Long March-5 large-thrust carrier rocket has been completed and its maiden voyage is expected to take place during the country's 12th Five-Year Plan period (201 ... more | .. |
 Soyuz-U carrier rocket crash - causes announced, questions remain On August 24, the Soyuz-U carrier rocket, which was to bring Progress M-12M cargo spacecraft to the ISS, failed to reach orbit and burned up in the atmosphere shortly after launch. The intergovernme ... more | .. |
 First Space-Bound Orion Comes Alive With First Weld Construction began this week on the first new NASA spacecraft built to take humans to orbit since space shuttle Endeavour left the factory in 1991. Engineers at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in N ... more | .. |
ATK Conducts Third Test of Next-Gen Solid Rocket Motor ATK has conducted a third successful ground test of the next-generation solid rocket motor. The successful test, known as Development Motor (DM-3), is an important milestone in further validating th ... more |
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  Falling satellite could scatter debris A decommissioned NASA satellite will re-enter Earth's atmosphere within the next few weeks and may scatter debris across a 500-mile stretch of land. ... more | .. |
 European satellite in French Guiana launch A European satellite has arrived in French Guiana for a launch on a Soyuz rocket, the first Soyuz launch to be held in South America, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Russia blames 'chance' defect for space crash Russia on Friday blamed a one-off production fault in a rocket engine for the crash of an unmanned spaceship last month but nevertheless ordered checks of all similar rocket motors. ... more | .. |
  Automated Tool Points Way to Safe Separation of Aircraft on Final Approach Air traffic controllers at the Minneapolis Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) are using an innovative next generation tool developed by Lockheed Martin and the Federal Aviation Administration ... more |
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Amazonian forests altered by human actions show broad changes in diversity and evolutionary patterns
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  Asia Broadcast Satellite Awards Optimal Satcom Multi-Year Deal For Enterprise Capacity Management Optimal Satcom has been awarded a multi-year contract by Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) to provide its industry leading, enterprise satellite capacity system to help manage ABS' growing commercial s ... more | .. |
 Arianespace to launch Amazonas-3 for Hispasat Spanish operator Hispasat has chosen Arianespace to launch its new Amazonas-3 telecommunications satellite. Petra Mateos-Aparicio, Chairwoman of Hispasat, Carlos Espinos, CEO of Hispasat, and Jean-Y ... more | .. |
 SES and Gazprom to provide additional satellite capacity to Russian market Global satellite operator SES S.A. and Russian fixed satellite service operator Gazprom Space System (GSS) announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership to provide additional satelli ... more | .. |
 Roscosmos to enhance control of Soyuz rocket engines' production A special commission investigating the causes of the August 24 failed launch of Russia's Soyuz carrier rocket has recommended enhancing the control of the production of engines for Soyuz rockets, Ru ... more |
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 Planetary Congress meeting in Moscow The Association of Space Explores (ASE) Planetary Congress has started in Moscow and will run from the 5th to the 9th of September. The ASE and its participants are cosmonauts and astronauts and the ... more | .. |
 Aitech Appoints Vice President for Growing Space Business Sector Aitech Defense Systems Inc., a pioneer in true military embedded and mission critical computing technologies and an independent manufacturer of open architecture boards and subsystem products for en ... more | .. |
 US Congress sends Obama major patent overhaul The US Senate Thursday passed legislation to drag the web of US patent laws into the Internet age and spur high-tech innovation, sending the measure to President Barack Obama to sign into law. ... more | .. |
  Israel seeks to boost UAV strike power The Israeli air force is expanding its wing of unmanned aerial vehicles built by Israel Aerospace Industries and Elbit Systems, some to be used as missile-armed gunships. ... more |
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China emissions flat in third quarter as solar surges: study
Conference travel emissions exceed research energy use
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Turkey in talks with US on Predator drones: deputy PM Turkey was in talks with the United States to base Predator drones on its territory to operate against Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq, Anatolia news agency quoted Turkey's deputy prime minister as saying Monday. ... more | .. |
  Republic of Korea Navy Awards Raytheon Phalanx Contract Raytheon has signed a $65.5 million contract to deliver five Phalanx Block 1B Close-In Weapon Systems to the Republic of Korea Navy for the new Ulsan-1 class FFX ship program. The direct comme ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Fifth Generation IRCM System Northrop Grumman has demonstrated the company's fifth generation infrared countermeasures (IRCM) system specifically designed to protect military rotary-wing platforms. The demonstration prove ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin To Provide New Training Technology for the US Air Force C-130J Program The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin an $84.3 million contract to provide the first phase of the C-130J Maintenance and Aircrew Training System (MATS) II program. Under the award, Lockhe ... more |
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 Activists unite in Lebanon against killer cluster bombs Hundreds of activists and officials from across the globe gather in Beirut Monday with one aim in mind - to rid the planet of cluster munitions which have killed or maimed tens of thousands of people worldwide. ... more | .. |
 AeroVironment Receives Order for Raven AeroVironment, Inc. has received a $15,909,962 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract order on September 1, 2011, under an existing contract with the U.S. Army. The order comprises Army contractor logistics s ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Delivers Another Super Hercules To Dyess Lockheed Martin has delivered the sixth C-130J Super Hercules to crews at Dyess Air Force Base (AFB), Texas, Thursday. Lt. Gen. Robert Allardice, 18th Air Force Commander, accepted delivery of the s ... more | .. |
 Turkey asks US to base Predators on its soil: report The United States is considering a request from Turkey to base Predator drones there to operate against Kurdish separatists based in northern Iraq, The Washington Post reported late Saturday. ... more |
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