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China masters space command, controlBeijing (XNA) Nov 08, 2011 China's space control network has realized integrated command and control, which ensured the successful docking of the unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou 8 with the space lab module Tiangong 1, according to the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Communication Technology. This institute is the general design organization for the integration test of China's aerospace measurement and control network. On the eve of the docking, the first for China, scientists from this institute upgraded the systems of the R ... read more |
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 China's great big leap skyward A Chinese Long March 2F carrier rocket hurled Shenzhou-8 into orbit a week ago. Two days later, the unmanned spacecraft linked up with the Tiangong-1 module, accomplishing China's first space dockin ... more | .. |
  Astrium contracted to build DirecTV 15 communications satellite Paris, France (SPX) Nov 08, 2011 ASTRIUM, Europe's leading space company, has been selected by DirecTV, one of the world's leading providers of digital television entertainment services to design a ... more | .. |
  Six Astrium satellites on the same flight Astrium is prime contractor for all six satellites to be launched in mid-December by the second Soyuz launcher to lift off from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. The Pleiades 1 Very High ... more | .. |
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 What does the Tiangong 1 space station mean for China China has successfully completed the first step of building a space station when Shenzhou 8 docked with lab module Tiangong 1 on Nov. 3, 2011, but what is the significance of the project for the nat ... more | .. |
  NASA's Future Up In Space In a recent interview at the White House, President Obama addressed NASA's future. He said, "I am hugely committed to manned space flight but I want to make sure that we're doing it right and that w ... more | .. |
  Map mischief creates furore in India New Delhi lodged a diplomatic protest with China after a map used in a commercial presentation showed sections of northern India as part of China. ... more | .. |
  NASA Robotic Lander Test Flight Will Aid in Future Lander Designs NASA will conduct a 100-foot robotic lander altitude test flight Friday, Nov. 4, to mature the technology needed to develop a new generation of small, smart, versatile robotic landers capable of ach ... more |
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Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market
'Western tech dominance fading' at Lisbon's Web Summit
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  Lockheed Martin Acquires Sim-Industries Lockheed Martin has announced the acquisition of Sim-Industries B.V., a commercial aviation simulation company located in the Netherlands. The acquisition is a demonstration of the Corporation's str ... more | .. |
 Voyager 2 to Switch to Backup Thruster Set NASA's Deep Space Network personnel sent commands to the Voyager 2 spacecraft Nov. 4 to switch to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Confirmation was received that ... more | .. |
 Galileo satellites handed over to control centre in Germany Europe's first two Galileo satellites have reached their final operating orbits, opening the way for activating and testing their navigation payloads. Marking the formal end of their LEOP Laun ... more | .. |
 China's space industry to see accelerated expansion over next 10 years China's space industry will develop quickly over the next 10 years as the country pushes ahead with its space programs after its first space docking on Thursday. Lab modules, a space station a ... more |
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 Will China's next space mission be manned? An interview with Huang Weifen, deputy chief director of China's astronaut program. b>Reporter: /b>When will Chinese astronauts perform the space rendezvous and docking task? b>Huang ... more | .. |
 GMV Awarded Contract For Paz Satellite Control Center GMV has been awarded a 3 million Euro contract to provide the control center of the new Spanish satellite Paz, due for launch at the end of next year. The contract includes all platform-planning and ... more | .. |
 China has Australia space tracking station: report China has acquired a space tracking station in Australia, its first such facility in a close US ally, a report said Saturday. ... more | .. |
  NASA-sponsored study describes how space flight impacts astronauts' eyes and vision A new study sponsored by NASA finds that space flights lasting six months or more can cause a spectrum of changes in astronauts' visual systems. Some problems, including blurry vision, appear to per ... 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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 Japan computer smashes speed record A Japanese supercomputer has broken its own record as the world's fastest machine by performing 10 quadrillion calculations per second, its developers announced. ... more | .. |
 Russia launches navigation satellites Russia on Friday successfully launched three satellites for its global navigation system Glonass on a Proton-M rocket from its Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency said. ... more | .. |
  National Armaments Directors Approve MEADS Program Continuation Plan The National Armaments Directors of Germany, Italy and the United States approved a contract amendment that funds two flight intercept tests of the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS). ... more | .. |
  Moller International Awards CliC Goggles First M400X Skycar Flight Sponsorship Moller International, the developer of the Skycar aircraft, the Rotapower line of rotary engines and the Aerobot line of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), is enjoying a strong interest in sponsorships ... more |
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  Libya's NTC pledges to destroy chemical weapons: OPCW Libya's National Transitional Council has pledged to continue with the previous regime's programme of destroying its chemical weapons stockpiles, an international monitoring group said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Taiwan Hawkeye aircraft head for US upgrading Taiwan has sent two early warning aircraft for upgrading in the United States and will send two more, media and the air force said Tuesday, as part of an arms deal that upset US ties with Beijing. ... more | .. |
  Tokyo city starts radiation tests on food in shops Tokyo city government on Tuesday began radiation tests on samples of food bought in shops to reassure residents amid a contamination scare after a major nuclear accident in northeast Japan. ... more | .. |
 Current Training Programs May Not Prepare Firefighters to Combat Stress Current training programs may not effectively prepare firefighters for the range of scenarios they are likely to encounter, according to human factors/ergonomics researchers Michael R. Baumann, Caro ... 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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 Social media use soars in flood-hit Thailand Thais struggling to make sense of the kingdom's deadly flood crisis are turning to social media like never before, spurred by confusing official information about the disaster, observers say. ... more | .. |
 Mask-bot: A robot with a human face Mask-bot can already reproduce simple dialog. When Dr. Takaaki Kuratate says "rainbow", for example, Mask-bot flutters its eyelids and responds with an astoundingly elaborate sentence on the subject ... more | .. |
 An Incredible Shrinking Material They shrink when you heat 'em. Most materials expand when heated, but a few contract. Now engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have figured out how one of these curious mate ... more | .. |
  Study compares techniques for doping graphene for device and interconnect fabrication Nanotechnology researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have conducted the first direct comparison of two fundamental techniques that could be used for chemically doping sheets of two-dime ... more |
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 The secrets of tunneling through energy barriers Electrons moving in graphene behave in an unusual way, as demonstrated by 2010 Nobel Prize laureates for physics Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, who performed transport experiments on this one- ... more | .. |
 Berkeley Lab Researchers Ink Nanostructures with Tiny 'Soldering Iron' Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shed light on the role of temperature in controlling a fabrication technique for draw ... more | .. |
 Tying atomic threads in knots may produce material benefits A new generation of lighter, stronger plastics could be produced using an intricate chemical process devised by scientists. Chemists working on the nanoscale - 80,000 times smaller than a hair's bre ... more | .. |
 Scientists carve nanowires out of ultrananocrystalline diamond thin films A team of scientists working at Argonne National Laboratory's (ANL) Center for Nanoscale Materials has successfully carved ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) thin films into nanowires, boosting the ... more |
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