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A Brighter Future for SpaceflightSydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 21, 2011 Recent times have been troubling for the global spaceflight community. We have witnessed the end of the venerable Shuttle program, without an operational replacement vehicle for NASA. America's space agency lacks funding, support and overall direction. Around the world, budgetary pressures are limiting the development of new missions, new technologies, and new spacecraft. Governments find themselves preoccupied with the larger financial problems plaguing the global economy, and have little time or ... read more |
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  GIS Degree A Safe Bet for Professionals in the Ever-Growing Oil Industry The Keystone Pipeline Project has been a hotly debated topic in Washington and around the country. The pipeline would carry crude oil from northeastern Alberta, Canada to several locations in the U. ... more | .. |
  Vega to fly ESA experimental reentry vehicle The launch of ESA's IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle on Europe's new Vega rocket is now in detailed planning, a major step towards the craft's flight in 2014. Launched into a suborbital t ... more | .. |
 Astrophysicist John Grunsfeld to Head NASA Science Directorate NASA has named physicist and former astronaut John Grunsfeld as the new associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington. Grunsfeld will take th ... more | .. |
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  Northrop Grumman And ITT Exelis Team For Army Vehicular Radio Northrop Grumman and ITT Exelis have teamed to compete for the U.S. Army's new vehicle-mounted, software-defined radio. The Army issued a draft request for proposal on Nov. 4, for the Mid-Tier Netwo ... more | .. |
  New system may one day steer microrobots through blood vessels for disease treatment Microscopic-scale medical robots represent a promising new type of therapeutic technology. As envisioned, the microbots, which are less than one millimeter in size, might someday be able to travel t ... more | .. |
  Six more Globalstars Ready for launch on a Soyuz from Baikonur The next cluster of second-generation Globalstar satellites to be orbited by Arianespace is ready for launch on a Soyuz vehicle that will lift off next week from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. ... more | .. |
  SSTL tests TechDemoSat-1 plasma population payload Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has completed another milestone in the UK's technology demonstration satellite TechDemoSat-1 with the successful testing of the engineering model of the first ... more |
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European Response to Escalating Space Security Crisis
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  Next ESA Astronaut Ready For Launch As Soyuz Rolls Out The Christmas season has brought the gift of a Soyuz launcher for the PromISSe mission. ESA's Andre Kuipers and his crewmates are running their final simulations and preparing to board the rocket on ... more | .. |
 Goddard Scientists Selected as Participating Scientists in Mars Lab and Cassini Missions Five scientists from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. have been selected as Participating Scientists in NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) and Cassini missions. The new MSL Parti ... more | .. |
 Mankind faces long road in space exploration After the retirement of the U.S. space shuttle fleet, the only way for astronauts to reach the International Space Station (ISS) is by Russia's Soyuz spacecraft until at least 2015. However, as one ... more | .. |
  China celebrates success of space docking mission China held a rally on Friday to celebrate the success of the country's first space docking mission between the target orbiter Tiangong-1 and the Shenzhou-8 spacecraft. President Hu Jintao, als ... more |
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 Nigeria launches satellite to replace earlier failed attempt Nigeria on Monday launched a communications satellite into space to replace one that failed in 2008, the country's satellite agency said. ... more | .. |
 AsiaSat and THAICOM Sign Cooperation Agreement Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) and Thaicom Public Company Limited (THAICOM), have announced the signing of a cooperation agreement to provide satellite services from the ... more | .. |
 Acra Control Proven in Low Earth Orbit Acra Control is proud to support Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) as they work to become the first commercial company in history to berth with the International Space Station (ISS). In ... more | .. |
 Industry Leaders Discuss New Booster Development for Space Launch System On Dec. 15, more than 120 aerospace industry leaders from more than 70 companies attended the Space Launch System's Advanced Booster Industry Day held at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ... 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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 NASA Takes Next Step In Developing Commercial Crew Program NASA has announced a modified competitive procurement strategy to keep on track the agency's plan to have U.S. companies transport American astronauts into space instead of outsourcing this work to ... more | .. |
 NASA Reaffirms Agency Scientific Integrity Policy NASA has reaffirmed its commitment to science with the release of a new framework on scientific integrity. The framework summarizes the agency's policies and practices that strengthen and uphold sci ... more | .. |
 Raytheon's Navy Multiband Terminal Tests With On-Orbit AEHF Satellite Raytheon has successfully tested with the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite that will provide secure communications for the U.S. military and international partners. Raytheon' ... more | .. |
  Japan Selects Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II The Japan Ministry of Defense has announced its selection of the Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-35 Lightning II as the Japan Air Self Defense Force's (JASDF) next generation fighter aircraft, followi ... more |
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 Northrop Grumman To Support LN-251 Navigation System Integration On CH-53K Helicopter Northrop Grumman has been awarded a follow-on contract by the U.S. Navy to provide integration and laboratory test support for the LN-251 embedded global positioning system (GPS)/fiber-optic inertia ... more | .. |
  N. Korea test-fires short-range missiles: report North Korea test-fired two short-range missiles off its east coast on Monday, the same day it announced the death of leader Kim Jong-Il, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said. ... more | .. |
 USAF Awards Northrop Grumman Major Joint STARS Support Contract The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a 30-month, $540 million contract for Total System Support Responsibility (TSSR) of the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STAR ... more | .. |
 Troubled F-35 fighter jet gets a boost from Japan Japan's decision to buy the US-built F-35 fighter jet gives a shot-in-the-arm to a troubled program faced with a litany of technical setbacks and a ballooning budget, analysts say. ... 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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  Raytheon To Supply New Patriot Missile Defense Systems for Taiwan Raytheon has received a $685.7 million Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract for additional new fire units of the combat-proven Patriot Air and Missile Defense System for Taiwan. "Our partners ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Ships First Mobile User Objective System Satellite To Cape For Launch Lockheed Martin delivered the U.S. Navy's first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on December 15, where it will be prepared for a Feb. 16, 2012 ... more | .. |
  Small fire at Japan nuclear lab; no radiation leak A building housing an experimental nuclear reactor in Japan caught fire Tuesday, but there was no leak of radioactive materials, officials said, amid nervousness over Japan's atomic industry. ... more | .. |
 Geography, squatting blamed for Philippine floods A freak storm, poor warning systems, flimsy buildings and human folly are all being blamed as Philippine officials struggle to explain one of the deadliest flash floods to have hit the country. ... more |
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Fukushima reactors may take 40 years to dismantle Japan said Wednesday that decommissioning the tsunami-wrecked reactors at Fukushima could take as long as 40 years, with melted nuclear fuel possibly stuck where it is for a quarter of a century. ... more | .. |
 A new kind of metal in the deep Earth The crushing pressures and intense temperatures in Earth's deep interior squeeze atoms and electrons so closely together that they interact very differently. With depth materials change. New experim ... more | .. |
 Infrared technology for measuring the effect of fire on materials The main problem associated with measuring the effects of fire on materials lies in the temperature of the flames, which reaches over 1000 C and can obscure the actual temperature of the material. ... more | .. |
 Research could improve laser-manufacturing technique Engineers have discovered details about the behavior of ultrafast laser pulses that may lead to new applications in manufacturing, diagnostics and other research. Ultrafast laser pulses are us ... more |
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