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Soyuz is put through its paces for Thursday's launchKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 19, 2011 A full dress rehearsal for Arianespace's first Soyuz flight from French Guiana was performed today, validating the mission from countdown to spacecraft separation in preparation for this Russian-built launcher's historic liftoff on October 20 with two Galileo satellites. Today's dress rehearsal provided one of the final verifications for this milestone flight - designated VS01 in Arianespace's launcher family numbering sequence - offering a realistic representation of the mission, including flight ... read more |
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  Branson opens Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space at Spaceport America Looking skyward, more than 800 guests marveled at Virgin Galactic's commercial space vehicles as they soared through the skies of southern New Mexico during the dedication ceremonies of Virgin Galac ... more | .. |
  Space industry workers' negligence caused Russian spacecraft loss Negligence by space industry enterprises' employees was the reason for the loss of an Express AM-4 telecommunications satellite and Progress M-12M space freighter earlier this year, Russian Prosecut ... more | .. |
  First Polish satellite delivered to ESTEC PW-Sat, a student Cubesat project and the first Polish satellite, has just been delivered to ESTEC in the Netherlands. This is an important step towards the launch of this mission. PW-Sat is a ... more | .. |
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  Dead German satellite to fall on earth An abandoned German satellite was expected to fall on Earth this week, but the exactly time and location remained unknown, according to media reports. The German space agency has offered a landfall ... more | .. |
 NASA Veteran Alan Stern to Lead Florida Space Institute A former NASA leader whose career has touched nearly every aspect of manned and unmanned space flight has been named director of the Florida Space Institute. S. Alan Stern will help the instit ... more | .. |
 Russia blames scientists for rocket crashes Russia's chief prosecutor on Tuesday blamed a recent spate of disasters threatening the future of the International Space Station (ISS) on negligence by the country's underpaid rocket scientists. ... more | .. |
 Branson opens world's first 'spaceport' in New Mexico British billionaire Richard Branson on Monday opened the world's first-ever commercial spaceport in the New Mexico desert, the new home for his company, Virgin Galactic. ... more |
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  Gravitational biology and space life sciences and implications for the Indian space program This paper is an introduction to gravitational and space life sciences and a summary of key achievements in the field. Current global research is focused on understanding the effects of gravity/micr ... more | .. |
 Astrotech Subsidiary Awarded Task Order for NASA Mission Astrotech Space Operations (ASO) has won a fully-funded task order under the previously announced indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract for payload processing support at the Easte ... more | .. |
  Robot biologist solves complex problem from scratch First it was chess. Then it was Jeopardy. Now computers are at it again, but this time they are trying to automate the scientific process itself. An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Van ... more | .. |
 ASU in space: 7 current missions, more in the wings Arizona State University is no stranger to space exploration missions. Whether to Mars or other solar system targets, its involvement with NASA planetary exploration began in the 1970s and at presen ... more |
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  Galileo - keeping time with atomic clocks An equation with four unknowns - at least, that is how satellite navigation is summarised by Walter Paffgen, Managing Director of the German Aerospace Center's Space Applications Company and Head of ... more | .. |
 First Soyuz ready for liftoff from French Guiana The first Soyuz to take off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana is now at its launch pad. The rocket that will carry the first two Galileo navigation s ... more | .. |
 New entrant certification strategy announced The U.S. Air Force, the National Reconnaissance Office, and NASA announced Oct. 14 their strategy for certifying commercial launch vehicles that could compete for future contracts for space launch m ... more | .. |
 Space Exploration Technologies Ready to Compete for Upcoming DoD Launches Today the U.S. Air Force issued a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the NRO and NASA that serves as a joint agreement on the process they will use to allow new companies to compete to provide l ... more |
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Cane toad invasion threatens Pilbara biodiversity and culture
Amazonian forests altered by human actions show broad changes in diversity and evolutionary patterns
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  U.S. aid to help find Libyan missiles U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Libya Tuesday with a $10 million aid pledge, much of which is to fund efforts to track down missing weapons from the Gadhafi regime. ... more | .. |
  Computer virus did not target US drone fleet: general A computer virus that affected the US military's drone fleet last month was not "specifically" aimed at the unmanned aircraft's network, the head of US Strategic Command said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  First shipboard integration of a true dual-band radar suite Raytheon has completed the shipboard installation of the Cobra Judy Replacement program's X- and S-band antennas onto the USNS Howard O. Lorenzen (T-AGM 25). These massive active phased-array antenn ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Awarded contract for Lightweight Torpedoes Raytheon has been awarded a $42.6 million U.S. Navy contract to provide MK54 lightweight torpedo hardware. Under the contract, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) will deliver a total of 100 M ... more |
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 Lockheed Martin Delivers First F-35 Weapons Load Training System to Eglin AFB Lockheed Martin has delivered and installed the first weapons load training device at the F-35 integrated pilot-and-maintenance training center (ITC) at Eglin Air Force Base's 33rd Fighter Wing. ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Completes Meads Intra-Fire Unit Communications Hardware Ahead of Schedule Lockheed Martin recently completed early delivery of intra-fire unit communications kits designed for use with the tri-national Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS). This tactical hardware for ... more | .. |
 US Army to fly 'kamikaze' drones A miniature "kamikaze" drone designed to quietly hover in the sky before dive-bombing and slamming into a human target will soon be part of the US Army's arsenal, officials say. ... more | .. |
 Philippines unfazed by Taiwan Spratlys missile plan The Philippines said Sunday it was prepared to defend its claims in the South China Sea, but downplayed a plan by Taiwan to deploy missiles in the area. ... 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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  A team for an emergency Earthquakes, tsunamies, hurricanes - natural disasters always catch us by surprise, no matter how many early-warning systems are in place. This makes it all the more important for rescue teams to ge ... more | .. |
 Fukushima city begins decontamination of homes Fukushima City began Tuesday its first decontamination of private properties, seven months after the worst atomic accident since Chernobyl spread radioactive materials over eastern Japan. ... more | .. |
 A hidden order unraveled Fluctuations are fundamental to many physical phenomena in our everyday life, such as the phase transitions from a liquid into a gas or from a solid into a liquid. But even at absolute zero temperat ... more | .. |
  Boeing Forecasts 1,250 New Airplanes Needed in Northeast Asia Boeing projects 1,250 new airplanes will be delivered to Northeast Asian carriers valued at approximately US $200 billion over the next 20 years. "The combined effect of liberalization and rapid eco ... more |
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  Frustration Inspires New Form of Graphene As Researchers Find Promise in Crumpling They're the building block of graphite - ultra-thin sheets of carbon, just one atom thick, whose discovery was lauded in 2010 with a Nobel Prize in Physics. The seemingly simple material is gr ... more | .. |
 RIM out to rev up BlackBerry with new apps Research In Motion (RIM) on Tuesday set out to rev up its BlackBerry and PlayBook lines with a tactic from Apple's winning playbook - sexy, entertaining software applications. ... more | .. |
  Key US House panel to review trade ties with China A key US congressional panel plans to put the White House in the hot seat at an October 25 hearing to study action against China's "distorting trade politics," the committee's chairman said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Lebanon tries to catch up on Internet Boudy Nasrala runs a successful brand design company in Lebanon, but when it comes to communicating with clients around the globe using the Internet, he knows to arm himself with patience - lots of it. ... more |
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