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Living on TiangongSydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 25, 2011 With China's first space laboratory, Tiangong 1, settled into orbit, it's now time to consider the missions that will follow. We're expecting China to perform two docking tests with the unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft in November this year. If that mission goes well, astronauts will fly to Tiangong 1 in the first half of 2012 aboard Shenzhou 9. They will do more than just dock with Tiangong. They will live aboard the laboratory. What, then, will it be like to live on board Tiangong 1? Prior t ... read more |
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  New SES Satellite Astra 1N Operational SES has announced that its new ASTRA 1N satellite has entered commercial service at the orbital position of 28.2 degrees East. ASTRA 1N was built by Astrium on the Eurostar E3000 platform and is equ ... more | .. |
 Space Systems/Loral Delivers AsiaSat 7 Satellite to Baikonur Launch Site Ahead of Schedule AsiaSat 7, a new communications satellite designed and built for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), the world's leading provider of commercial ... more | .. |
  Is Your Space Elevator Going Up Anyone who follows new space concepts has heard of the Space Elevator. This is conceived as a non-rocket space structure that is intended to transport material from the Earth's surface into space. ... more | .. |
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  Russia to launch four Glonass satellites in November Russia is planning to add four Glonass navigation satellites to its orbital grouping in November. Three Glonass-M satellites will be launched on November 4 aboard a Proton-M carrier rocket fro ... more | .. |
 Successful launch for Europe's satellite navigation system Europe's first two fully operational Galileo satellites were successfully launched October 20 2011 from the European spaceport in French Guiana, South America. The satellite payloads were buil ... more | .. |
  Space Waste Transporter: Going Where No Garbage Man has Gone Before With the growing number of incidents of falling space debris in the news, there is a pressing need to find an alternative solution. John D. Arwood, a Native American and owner of Arwood Waste, propo ... more | .. |
 One Soyuz launcher, two Galileo satellites, three successes for Europe The first pair of satellites for Europe's Galileo global navigation satellite system has been lofted into orbit by the first Russian Soyuz vehicle ever launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Gui ... more |
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Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market
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 Thousands of dreams to fly on Shenzhou 8 The dreams of more than 40,000 people will be stored as text and video on a chip and sent into space along with Shenzhou VIII spacecraft next month. The Shenzhou VIII is slated to take off in ... more | .. |
 German satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere A German satellite the size of a car re-entered the Earth's atmosphere early Sunday, officials said, adding they did not know yet if any debris had hit the Earth. ... more | .. |
 GPS shoes for Alzheimer's patients to hit US The first shoes with built-in GPS devices - to help track down dementia-suffering seniors who wander off and get lost - are set to hit the US market this month, the manufacturer says. ... more | .. |
 Proposal would 'recycle' satellite parts The U.S. Department of Defense says it is looking for ways to recycle space junk thousands of miles above Earth into valuable new satellite parts. ... more |
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 Soyuz places Galileo satellites in orbit - mission control A Russian rocket on Friday placed in orbit the first two satellites in Europe's Galileo geopositioning system after its maiden launch from Europe's space base, mission controllers said. ... more | .. |
  SpaceX Completes Key Milestone to Fly Astronauts to International Space Station Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has announced it has successfully completed the preliminary design review of its revolutionary launch abort system, a system designed for manned missions usin ... more | .. |
  The Spark Of A New Era Was A Blast For Rocket Science Seventy-five years ago this Halloween, at 9 a.m., a truck from the California Institute of Technology turned on to a road owned by the Pasadena Water Department and after heading down a small hill c ... more | .. |
  Lightweight MEADS Launcher Arrives At White Sands for Initial Flight Test After completing extensive system integration testing, the first Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) launcher has arrived at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., ready to demonstrate its advanced ... 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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 Launchers carry AMRAAM, Sparrow, Sidewinder missiles The U.S. Navy's Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Raytheon a contract valued up to $83 million to produce LAU-116B/A missile launchers. The contract includes a $7.3 million firm-fixed-pric ... more | .. |
  US Air Force grounds F-22 fighters -- again: officers The US Air Force has had to ground dozens of F-22 fighter jets for the second time this year after concerns a pilot suffered a lack of oxygen in the cockpit, officers said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Boeing Completes Delivery of RAAF Super Hornets Ahead of Schedule Four new Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornets joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Super Hornet fleet at RAAF Base Amberley, completing delivery of all 24 RAAF Super Hornets ahead of contract schedu ... more | .. |
 US Army and LockMart Demonstrate Multi-Sensor Situational Awareness Technology Lockheed Martin was selected by the U.S. Army's Research Development And Engineering Command, Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (RDECOM CERDEC) Night Vision and ... more |
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  Use Japan nuke disaster to reform mental health system: WHO Japan should use a higher rate of mental health problems after the Fukushima nuclear accident to update outdated attitudes to depression in the country, a top health official said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Radiation hotspot near Tokyo linked to Fukushima: officials Radiation levels as high as those in the evacuation zone around Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have been detected in a Tokyo suburb, and are likely linked to the disaster, officials said Monday. ... more | .. |
Rice regrets shoe shopping amid Katrina disaster: book Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice regrets having gone shoe-shopping and out for a night at the theater while Hurricane Katrina ravaged the US Gulf coast, she wrote in excerpts of her memoir released Sunday. ... more | .. |
  Using new technique, scientists uncover a delicate magnetic balance for superconductivity A new imaging technology is giving scientists unprecedented views of the processes that affect the flow of electrons through materials. By modifying a familiar tool in nanoscience - the Scanning Tun ... 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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  Robotic bug gets wings, sheds light on evolution of flight When engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, outfitted a six-legged robotic bug with wings in an effort to improve its mobility, they unexpectedly shed some light on the evolution of fl ... more | .. |
  Electromobility: New Components Going for a Test Run The future belongs to electrical cars - that's what most experts think. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of problems that have not been solved. This is the reason why researchers at 33 Fraunhofe ... more | .. |
 Microring device could aid in future optical technologies Researchers at Purdue University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a device small enough to fit on a computer chip that converts continuous laser light into ... more | .. |
 Electrochemistry controlled with a plasma electrode Engineers at Case Western Reserve University have made an electrochemical cell that uses a plasma for an electrode, instead of solid pieces of metal. The technology may open new pathways for battery ... more |
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  US House targets EU airlines emissions rule US lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Monday to strike a blow at a controversial European Union plan to require non-EU airlines to buy carbon permits to fly to and out of the 27-nation bloc. ... more | .. |
  Walker's World: Euro crisis turns surreal The euro crisis is becoming surreal in that everything that possibly could go wrong is now doing so, all at once. ... more | .. |
  Greece, China to sign new trade memorandum: ministry Greece and China will sign a trade memorandum on Monday during a visit by senior Chinese officials and conclude orders worth around 550 million euros ($766 million), the development ministry said. ... more |
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