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Virgin Galactic Selects First Commercial Astronaut Pilot From CompetitionMojave, CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2011 Just over fifty years ago, an historic competition for the first pilots to fly into space yielded the Mercury Seven astronauts. Today, from an intense selection process with more than 500 applicants including some of the best pilots in the world, Virgin Galactic has selected former USAF test pilot Keith Colmer as the first astronaut pilot to join the commercial spaceline's flight team. Colmer will join Chief Pilot David Mackay to begin flight training and testing, leading to operational miss ... read more |
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 UK space surveillance system takes birthday snap of only satellite ever launched by a UK rocket This week marks the 40th anniversary of Britain as a spacefaring nation. On the 28th of October 1971, the UK launched Prospero - a science and technology demonstration satellite - on top of a Black ... more | .. |
  Making sodium-ion batteries that are worth their salt Although lithium-ion technology dominates headlines in battery research and development, a new element is making its presence known as a potentially powerful alternative: sodium. Sodium-ion te ... more | .. |
  The Arianespace launcher family comes together in French Guiana Arianespace's full launcher family is now an operational reality as flight-ready versions of all three vehicles - Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega - are together at the Spaceport for the first time, positio ... more | .. |
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 NASA Langley Watches Ceres Launch Aboard NPP Satellite NASA Langley's latest Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES), an instrument that has studied the Earth's climate for nearly 30 years, is scheduled to launch at 5:48 a.m. Friday, Oct. 2 ... more | .. |
  Major moments of China's rocket launches China will launch a Long March-2F/H rocket early next month, carrying the unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 which will conduct the country's first space docking with Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace-1, a ... more | .. |
 NASA to launch weather-climate satellite Friday The US space agency is preparing to launch a satellite Friday that will send back data on climate and weather to better help forecasters predict major storms and other changes in the environment. ... more | .. |
 China to launch Shenzhou-8 early November 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 spa ... more |
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Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market
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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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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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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  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 | .. |
 China suspect in US satellite interference: report NASA satellites were interfered with four separate times in 2007 and 2008, possibly by the Chinese military, according to a draft of an upcoming report for the US Congress. ... more | .. |
  Russia shows little interest in new US missile offer: report Washington, keen to allay Moscow's fears over its planned missile defence system, has invited Russians to visit its Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and participate in tests, a newspaper said on Thursday. ... 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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  Teenager saved days after Turkey quake as toll reaches 550 Snow blanketed quake-hit eastern Turkey Thursday, while emergency crews found a teenager alive in the rubble more than 100 hours after the disaster even as the death toll climbed to 550. ... 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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 Nuclear pollution of sea from Fukushima was world's biggest France's nuclear monitor said on Thursday that the amount of caesium 137 that leaked into the Pacific from the Fukushima disaster was the greatest single nuclear contamination of the sea ever seen. ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Calif. airship reaches record height An unmanned airship created by a California company flew 95,085 feet into the air, higher than any airship in history, the company said. ... more | .. |
  Argentina losing out on Latin FDI flows Argentina is losing out on foreign direct investment flows into Latin America through a complex set of reasons that may have to do with the country's style of government. ... more |
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  Facebook to build massive Arctic data centre in Sweden Facebook announced Thursday that it would immediately begin building a massive data centre - its third globally and first in Europe - in the Swedish town of Luleaa, near the Arctic Circle. ... more | .. |
 Reversing course, Hewlett-Packard to keep PC unit Hewlett-Packard reversed course on Thursday and said it will keep its personal computer division after reviewing a proposal by its former chief executive to spin off the unit. ... more | .. |
  EU calls for China cash raises political hackles The decision by European leaders to solicit help from China to underpin new plans to save the euro and the world from recession raised political hackles Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Chinese business meet aims to boost Poland, EU trade A Chinese trade congress touted as the first of its kind in Europe drew nearly 2,000 delegates Thursday in Warsaw keen to do business with Poland, the only EU state to have escaped recession. ... more |
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