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DLR tests Australian spacecraftBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 12, 2011 Can new types of engine make spaceflight easier and more economical? This question is being investigated by researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) using one of Europe's leading hypersonic wind tunnels, located in Gottingen. The engine is being tested for an Australian Scramjet-based Access-to-Space Systems (SCRAMSPACE) experimental spacecraft - SCRAMSPACE I - scheduled for launch in 2013. Flight at 10 to 15 times the speed of sound? Flight ... read more |
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  NASA Announces Launch Date and Milestones for Spacex Flight NASA has announced the launch target for Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) second Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration flight will be Feb. 7, 2012, pending completi ... more | .. |
 O3b signs agreement with Arianespace for third Soyuz launch O3b Networks Limited, the developer of a new global, high-speed, satellite-based Internet network for telecommunications operators and ISPs, has exercised the first of the two options in its contrac ... more | .. |
  Lightweight GPS tags help research track animals of all sizes GPS tracking has shown its utility for wildlife studies, and now, development of light-weight GPS tags will allow researchers access to information about a broader range of small- to medium-sized an ... more | .. |
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 SpaceX mission to space station set for February SpaceX will fly its Dragon capsule on an unmanned mission to the International Space Station in February, marking the first-ever bid by a private company to dock at the orbiting lab, NASA said Friday. ... 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 | .. |
 Russia to put two more Glonass satellites into operation 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 th ... more | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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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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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 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 | .. |
  5,000 surface-to-air missiles secured in Libya: US A top US official said on Sunday that a team of US and Libyan bomb disposal experts has secured about 5,000 surface-to-air missiles stockpiled during the regime of Moamer Kadhafi. ... more | .. |
  Iran's boasts over US drone reveal inconsistencies Iran's boast it downed a highly sophisticated US drone has handed the Islamic republic a propaganda coup while revealing numerous inconsistencies in both Iranian and US accounts of the incident. ... more | .. |
 Seoul shopping for cruise missiles South Korea has set aside $343 million toward buying 177 air-to-surface cruise missiles next year, a report in The Korea Herald newspaper said. ... 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 | .. |
Pentagon analyzing Iranian footage of US drone American experts are analyzing Iranian footage of what appeared to be a downed US drone that allegedly entered Iran's airspace last week, the Pentagon said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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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 | .. |
We will reverse-engineer US drone: top Iranian MP Iran will reverse-engineer the US drone it has in its possession, and is in the "final stages" of unlocking the aircraft's software secrets, the head of Iran's parliamentary national security committee said on Monday. ... 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 | .. |
 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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