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Russia to put two more Glonass satellites into operationMoscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 09, 2011 Two more Glonass navigation satellites will be up and running before the end of the year, Russian space officials said on Thursday. "We plan to put two more satellites into operation before the end of the year, and another at the beginning of 2012," the Roscosmos space agency said. The group of 24 Glonass sat-navs needed to provide global coverage is already in orbit. The last satellite, launched from the Baikonur Space Center last month, was put into operation on Wednesday. Glonass is ... read more |
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 Germans join probe of mobile phone tracker The German state of Bavaria and other European authorities said this week they have launched data privacy investigations of the Connect IQ mobile phone software. ... more | .. |
  Europe's Vega rocket launch set for early 2012 Europe's new Vega rocket, which can place a 1.5-ton satellite into low-Earth orbit, is expected to see its first launch early next year, Arianespace chief Jean-Yves Le Gall said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Philatelic Cover Reveals the secret names of second Taikonaut team "The names of the seven military pilots selected in 2010 to form China's second group of taikonauts, which have been a closely guarded secret for the last 18 months, appear to have been released to ... more | .. |
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  Early Earth may have been prone to deep freezes Two University of Colorado Boulder researchers who have adapted a three-dimensional, general circulation model of Earth's climate to a time some 2.8 billion years ago when the sun was significantly ... more | .. |
  Boeing Receives USAF Reusable Booster System Contract Boeing has received a $2 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to define requirements and design concepts for the Reusable Booster System (RBS) Flight and Ground Experi ... more | .. |
 Soyuz' second mission from French Guiana is readied at the Spaceport One of four mission campaigns currently underway for Arianespace is entering its final phase with the payload integration and completion of basic build-up for the Soyuz that will perform this medium ... more | .. |
 NASA Ready to Test Upgraded J-2X Powerpack For engineers working on the J-2X engine program, installation of the upgraded J-2X powerpack on the A-1 Test Stand on Dec. 5 had to feel like a long-awaited holiday gift. The powerpack consis ... more |
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European Response to Escalating Space Security Crisis
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 Lockheed Martin Selected USAF for Reusable Booster System Flight Demonstrator Program Lockheed Martin has been selected by the U.S. Air Force for a contract award to support the Reusable Booster System (RBS) Flight and Ground Experiments program. The value of the first task order is ... more | .. |
 On the record with Arianespace Arianespace Chairman and CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall and members of the company's management team are in Washington, DC this week for their traditional year-end visit and holiday event. While in the US na ... more | .. |
 Much Ado about Space Debris In recent days there has been a hutesium et clamor, otherwise known as a hue and cry, for a cleanup of space debris. The demand to remove all that space trash is admirable. The human race has been c ... more | .. |
  China to launch communications satellite for Turkmenistan China will launch a communications satellite for Turkmenistan with its Long March-3B carrier rocket in 2014, the Chinese launch contractor said on Tuesday. The satellite will be Turkmenistan's ... more |
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 United Launch Alliance Marks Five Years of Mission Success With 56 Launches in 60 Months United Launch Alliance was formed just five years ago, bringing together the world's two most experienced launch teams and two highly reliable launch systems, Atlas and Delta. ULA's unparalleled rec ... more | .. |
  Ball Aerospace Delivers Orion Phased Array Antenna EDUs Ball Aerospace and Technologies has delivered two Phased Array Antenna (PAA) Engineering Development Units (EDUs) for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle to prime contractor Lockheed Martin. ... more | .. |
 Orion Continues to Make a Splash Testing continues at NASA Langley Research Center as the 18,000-pound (8,164.6 kg) Orion test article took its seventh splash into the Hydro Impact Basin Dec. 1. Orion, NASA's next deep space ... more | .. |
 SES Appoints New Commercial Head For Europe SES has announced the appointment of Ferenc Szelenyi as its new Senior Vice President Commercial Europe for SES. He succeeds Norbert Holzle in this function, who has decided to leave SES. Fere ... more |
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No picnic: How to survive a bear encounter; as Japan battles spike in attacks
COP30: Indigenous peoples vital to humanity's future
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 Astrium takes a major step forward in the development of Ariane 5 ME Astrium, the European space industry leader, has received confirmation from the European Space Agency (ESA) following its Preliminary Design Review (PDR) that the Ariane 5 Midlife Evolution launcher ... more | .. |
 China honors its 'father' of space efforts China says it is commemorating the centennial birth anniversary of Qian Xuesen, considered the country's father of space technology. ... more | .. |
 Leicester set to fly high in India's first-ever national astronomy mission Highly specialised equipment constructed at the University of Leicester for India's first national astronomy satellite- Astrosat - is to be handed over to a delegation from India in December. ... more | .. |
  The ethics of unmanned vehicle warfare The U.S. military has faced criticism over the ethics of the use of the unmanned aerial vehicles as the number of strikes carried out with drones skyrocketed in recent years. ... more |
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 US drone penetrated 250 km: Iran protest The US drone which Iran said it had brought down penetrated 250 kilometres (150 miles) inside the Islamic republic's air space, state television's website reported on Friday. ... more | .. |
  Airman brings space to ground forces Satellite communications and Global Positioning Systems are common battlefield tools for U.S. and coalition forces in today's overseas contingency operations. Occasionally, these tools can be hinder ... more | .. |
  NATO, Russia fail to defuse missile defence row NATO and Russia failed to resolve a rift over a European missile shield on Thursday but agreed to press on with negotiations aimed at reaching a cooperation deal. ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Awarded Contract to Advance Thermal Imagers Manufacturing Raytheon has been awarded $13.4 million by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Low Cost Thermal Imaging Manufacturing (LCTI-M) program. The goal of LCTI-M is to dev ... more |
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Oxford team unveils air-powered robots that synchronize without electronics
Teaching robots to map large environments
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 Satellite Tracking Specialist, Track24, wins Canadian Government Contract Track24 has won a contract to supply the Canadian government with short burst data (SBD) services from Iridium Communications Inc., operator of the world's furthest reaching communications network. ... more | .. |
 Iran airs footage of US drone, protests 'violation' Iran made a formal protest on Thursday over a US drone entering "deep" into its eastern airspace last week, and aired footage of what appeared to be the downed aircraft on state television. ... more | .. |
 Cassidian debuts new radar product A new wide-area radar to protect coastlines, maritime infrastructure and harbors against asymmetric threats has been introduced by a German company. ... more | .. |
 Australia receives final Tiger helicopter Australian Aerospace delivered the last of 22 Tiger armed reconnaissance helicopters to the army at the company's final assembly plant at Brisbane Airport. ... more |
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 Plextek picks tracking technology supplier British technology firm Cambridge Pixel has been contracted by Plextek Ltd. to supply tracking technology for electronic ground-scanning surveillance radar. ... more | .. |
Coastal radar offers unprecedented performance of littoral surveillance Cassidian, the defence and security division of EADS, introduces a new security radar into the market which opens up completely new opportunities for the wide-area protection of coastlines, maritime ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Delivers Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance System to Air Force An airborne signals intelligence system configured specifically for the newest C-130J aircraft has been delivered to the U.S. Air Force by Lockheed Martin. The system, which is part of the Senior Sc ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Delivers Modernized Laser Rangefinder for Apache Helicopter Lockheed Martin delivered the first Modernized Day Sensor Assembly (M-DSA) upgrade prototype units to the U.S. Army for use on the Apache attack helicopter. Five System Design and Development ... more |
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