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NASA Proposes Orion Spacecraft Test Flight In 2014Washington DC (SPX) Nov 10, 2011 NASA plans to add an unmanned flight test of the Orion spacecraft in early 2014 to its contract with Lockheed Martin Space Systems for the multi-purpose crew vehicle's design, development, test and evaluation. This test supports the new Space Launch System (SLS) that will take astronauts farther into space than ever before, create U.S. jobs, and provide the cornerstone for America's future human spaceflight efforts. "President Obama and Congress have laid out an ambitious space exploration p ... read more |
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  The second Soyuz launcher's Fregat upper stage is readied for flight A focus of activity for Arianespace's second Soyuz flight from French Guiana is now on the Spaceport's S3B clean room facility, where the medium-lift launcher's Fregat upper stage is being readied f ... more | .. |
  New elements join the periodic table Chemistry students bent on memorizing the periodic table of elements have three new names to commit to memory, scientists meeting in Britain said. ... more | .. |
  Congress and NASA: expedite commercial crew The end of the Space Shuttle program this summer caused the US to voluntarily give up its capability to put our own astronauts into orbit. By doing so before a new human spaceflight launch system is ... more | .. |
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 Arianespace Ends 2011 With Three Launcher Campaigns On November 7, for the first time in the history of Arianespace, the company's operating teams were all deployed concurrently on the Ariane, Soyuz and Vega launch pads at the Guiana Space Center in ... more | .. |
  Preparing to Stock the Medicine Cabinet for Long-Duration Missions When aerospace engineers design the new vehicle intended for long-duration space travel, they will need to include a good-sized medicine cabinet. Stocking it, however, is more of a challenge than a ... more | .. |
 NASA plans 2014 test-flight of deep-space capsule NASA said Tuesday it will launch in 2014 an unmanned test flight of its Orion deep space capsule, made by Lockheed Martin to someday carry astronauts to the moon, an asteroid or Mars. ... more | .. |
  In GPS case, US court debates '1984' scenario The US Supreme Court delved Tuesday into the issue of privacy amid 21st century technology, hearing arguments on whether police can use a GPS device attached to a vehicle to track a suspect without a search warrant. ... more |
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Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market
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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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 China masters space command, control 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 ... more |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  US military adds armed robotic helicopters to fleet The US military plans to add a lethal new drone to its fleet - a robotic helicopter for the US Navy equipped with laser-guided rockets, defense giant Northrop Grumman said Wednesday. ... 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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  Australian Police to Trial Metal Storm MAUL Metal Storm is pleased to announce that two Australian Police Forces have formally requested an opportunity to trial the Metal Storm MAUL 12-gauge weapon system. BREON Defence, the Asia Pacifi ... more | .. |
 New Light Machine Gun Aims to 'SAW' Soldiers' Load Nearly 20 Soldiers participated in a two-week assessment of a prototype light machine gun to demonstrate its potential impact on mission effectiveness and to help engineers develop possible improvem ... more | .. |
  Harris Extends Tactical Networking to Dismounted Warfighter Harris has introduced the Falcon III AN/PRC-152A, the first and only NSA Type-1 certified handheld radio to put the power of wideband tactical networking-including the capability to send and receive ... more | .. |
 Navy to Arm Northrop Grumman-Built Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter Northrop Grumman has started work outfitting the U.S. Navy's MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter with a weapons system. The Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System laser-guided 70mm rocket - i ... more |
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 RAAF receives another Airbus Military A330 A third Airbus Military A330 MRTT multi-role tanker/transport has been formally handed over to the Royal Australian Air Force. ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Reduces Time Required to Build SDB II Seeker Raytheon engineers have reduced the time required to build the Small Diameter Bomb II uncooled tri-mode seeker from more than 75 hours to 40 hours. "Reducing the amount of touch labor required ... more | .. |
 LockMart Provides Affordable Smartphone Tactical Network Capability to US Marine Corps The U.S. Marine Corps will soon be using a tactical Smartphone network developed by Lockheed Martin to support their humanitarian assistance and disaster relief mission exercises. The Marine C ... 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 |
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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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US Navy Extends Afghan Tour of Duty for Northrop Grumman-Built Fire Scout Northrop Grumman's Fire Scout unmanned helicopter has improved ground commanders' ability to see potential threats and increase fighting effectiveness in Afghanistan - prompting the U.S. Navy to ext ... more | .. |
  Thaksin keeps low profile in Thai flood crisis With a flood crisis rocking his sister's government, fugitive ex-Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra is lying low as prospects of a triumphant homecoming look ever more distant, observers say. ... more | .. |
 Japan lower house approves $156bn recovery budget Japan's lower house on Thursday approved a 12.1 trillion-yen ($156 billion) draft budget to finance post quake reconstruction and boost an economy hit by slow global growth and a strong yen. ... more | .. |
 Thai opposition challenges PM over flood budget Thailand's opposition lashed out Wednesday at Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's financial plans for dealing with the worst floods in half a century, saying the economy was under threat. ... more |
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  Green Heat: GE Pulls Power Out of Hot Air Investors have bet billions on developing new forms of energy, so far with mixed results. Engineers at GE Oil and Gas took a different tack. They focused on waste heat. Today, they are pulling clean ... more | .. |
 Adobe pulls plug on Flash for mobile US software maker Adobe pulled the plug Wednesday on its Flash player for mobile browsers, which Apple's late chief executive Steve Jobs refused to allow on the iPhone and iPad. ... more | .. |
  ACE Africa cable to go online late next year: France Telecom A fibre-optic cable from France to South Africa will go online in the second half of 2012, bringing high-speed Internet links to a host of west African countries, France Telecom said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  HSBC logs surging net profit, warns of 'headwinds' in sector Global bank HSBC said Wednesday its third-quarter net profit soared on a large accounting gain but underlying earnings sank as the group warned of "significant headwinds" for the sector. ... more |
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