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China to launch Shenzhou-8 early NovemberJiuquan, China (XNA) Oct 27, 2011 China will launch the spacecraft Shenzhou-8 in early November at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest deseart area. The unmanned spacecraft is expected to perform China's first space docking with Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace-1, a space lab module that was launched in September from the same launch center. The spacecraft and its carrier rocket, an upgraded Long March-2F, were transferred on Wednesday morning on a 20-meter-wide railway to the launch pad. The launch pad is 1 ... read more |
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  NASA's NEEMO Mission Ending Early Due To Hurricane Rina Due to the predicted path of Hurricane Rina, the 15th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, or NEEMO, ended earlier than planned. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) op ... more | .. |
 Explorer 1 The First US Explorer On September 29, 2011, NASA announced the short list for five potential new "Explorer class" spacecraft. These missions are by definition small and relatively inexpensive, designed to be led by a sm ... more | .. |
 China plans space lab docking China's unmanned Shenzhou-8 spacecraft will be launched early next month for the first docking with the country's space lab module, scientists said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
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 NASA evacuates astronauts from deep-sea training NASA evacuated a crew of astronauts Wednesday from an underwater lab off the coast of Florida where they were training for a trip to an asteroid, due to the approach of Hurricane Rina. ... more | .. |
  Emirates seek French military satellite The United Arab Emirates has reopened negotiations with France for a military surveillance satellite, underlining the Persian Gulf state's concerns about Iran's expansionist policies. ... more | .. |
  Vega arrives at French Guiana in preparation for its January 26 inaugural launch The first lightweight Vega was delivered to the Spaceport with this latest member of Arianespace's expanded launcher family arriving only days after the service entry of its other new vehicle - the ... more | .. |
  Spacenet Selected by Cumberland Farms to Provide Managed Network Services Solution Gilat Satellite Networks reports that its subsidiary, Spacenet, was selected by Cumberland Farms to upgrade and manage its communications infrastructure for over 600 stores across 11 states. T ... more |
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 Weather Favorable for NPP Launch At this time, there is a zero percent chance of not meeting the launch weather criteria for liftoff of the NPP mission. Skies will be mostly clear with good visibility, forecasters say. At NAS ... more | .. |
  ROSAT re-entered atmosphere over Bay of Bengal On 23 October 2011 at 03:50 CEST, the German research satellite ROSAT re-entered the atmosphere over the Bay of Bengal; it is not known whether any parts of the satellite reached Earth's surface. ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
 Living on Tiangong 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 She ... more |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Northrop honors KUKA Systems Germany's KUKA Systems' U.S. subsidiary has earned supplier-of-the-year honors from Northrop Grumman for launching an F-35 Integrated Assembly Line. ... more |
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  Marines use Excalibur to limit collateral damage in Afghanistan The U.S. Marine Corps issued an urgent operational need for 1,037 Raytheon 155 mm Excalibur extended range, precision-guided artillery projectiles for use in Afghanistan. Successfully fielded ... more | .. |
 UK Defence Selects Lockheed Martin UK for Contract to Upgrade Warrior Vehicles The Ministry of Defence has selected Lockheed Martin UK to lead a 642 million pound ($1 billion) contract as part of the major 1 billion pound ($1.6 billion) upgrade of the British Army's Warrior Ar ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Advances in Ground Vehicle Protection Northrop Grumman has successfully demonstrated advanced technologies for ground vehicle protection and situational awareness at the Camp Roberts range. In one of the test scenarios, Northrop G ... more | .. |
 Russia delivers radar jammers to Iran Russia has sent a set of mobile radar jammers to Iran and is negotiating future deliveries that Moscow believes do not contravene the current UN sanction regime on the Islamic state, an official said Tuesday. ... 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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 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 | .. |
 F-22 fighters back in the air: US Air Force The US Air Force has allowed dozens of F-22 fighter jets back in the air after commanders briefly grounded the planes at two bases amid safety concerns, officials said Tuesday. ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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  Looting in Turkey as quake survivors seethe over aid Desperate survivors of Turkey's devastating earthquake looted truckloads of aid supplies as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan acknowledged failures Wednesday in the relief effort. ... more | .. |
  Geothermal mapping report confirms vast coast-to-coast clean energy source New research from SMU's Geothermal Laboratory, funded by a grant from Google.org, documents significant geothermal resources across the United States capable of producing more than three million meg ... more | .. |
  Nanotubes Key to Microscopic Mechanics In the latest issue of Elsevier's Materials, researchers from Spain and Belgium reported on the innovative use of carbon nanotubes to create mechanical components for use in a new generation of micr ... more | .. |
 Magnetic Nanoswitch for Thermoelectric Voltages The heat which occurs in tiny computer processors might soon be no longer useless or even a problem. On the contrary: It could be used to switch these processors more easily or to store data more ef ... more |
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