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Belarus Strongman Vows Nation Will Build World's Best Spacecraft EverMoscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 22, 2011 Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday the former Soviet republc would build the best spaceship the world has ever seen. Lukashenko, once famoulsy dubbed "Europe's last dictator" by the United States over the country's poor human rights record, said he had spoken with the country's leading scientists on the "construction of our own spacecraft." "We agreed: the craft will be the best in the world," Lukashenko told an energy conference in Minsk. "Who would have thought in ... read more |
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  Stefan Gardefjord to lead SSC as new CEO Stefan Gardefjord has been appointed as the new CEO of SSC by the Board of Directors. He succeeds Lars Persson who is moving on after serving five years as CEO. At fifty-three years of age, St ... 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
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  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 | .. |
 A Brighter Future for Spaceflight 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 spac ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 |
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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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Philippines seeks US F-16s amid China concerns The Philippines wants to acquire F-16 fighter jets from the United States as part of stepped up efforts to defend the archipelago, Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Finland launches probe into China-bound Patriot missiles Finland has launched a probe after 69 surface-to-air Patriot missiles were found in a ship bound for the Chinese port city of Shanghai, police said. ... 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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Thai army targets New Year protests Thailand's army will help local police during the New Year period in case of threats to public order, especially protests over the restrictive lese-majeste laws. ... more | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
  EU, US lock horns on Europe airline emissions charges Europe and the United States headed for confrontation Wednesday after the EU won key legal backing for its scheme to slap carbon emissions charges on all airlines in its airspace from January 1. ... more | .. |
 Need a new material? New tool can help Thanks to a new online toolkit developed at MIT and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, any researcher who needs to find a material with specific properties - whether it's to build a better m ... more | .. |
  Researchers discover a way to significantly reduce the production costs of fuel cells This ALD method for manufacturing fuel cells requires 60 per cent less of the costly catalyst than current methods. This is a significant discovery, because researchers have not been able to achieve ... more |
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Oxford team unveils air-powered robots that synchronize without electronics
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  Chinese hacked into US Chamber: report A Chinese group has hacked into America's largest business lobbying organization, compromising all data on its servers and information about its three million members, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Japan recovery paused, warns BoJ, as deficit grows The Bank of Japan said Wednesday the country's economic recovery "has paused" because of the slowing global economy and strong yen, as data revealed a growing trade deficit for the export-dependent nation. ... more | .. |
 Internet lets US export consumer lifestyle As gift-buying frenzy mounts in the days before Christmas, US retailers are exporting the country's shopping culture along with once hard-to-get goods to locales around the world. ... more | .. |
 Hollywood still struggling to focus 3D technology Two years after breakthrough 3D megahit "Avatar," Hollywood is still struggling to decide how best to use the new technology, as filmgoers tire of the novelty and say no to annoying glasses. ... more |
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 EU court rejects US airline challenge to emissions charges The European Court of Justice threw out Wednesday a case brought by north American airlines against a new EU system charging airlines for carbon emissions. ... more | .. |
 Taiwan lets Chinese lenders buy bank shares Taiwan will lift a ban put in place more than 60 years ago preventing Chinese banks from investing in the island's lenders, officials said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 S. America cool toward U.S. trade pitch? U.S. President Barack Obama is pitching for more trade with Latin America at a time when potential partners hope to extract maximum concessions out of Washington, which they see as needier than their booming economies. ... more | .. |
 Canada hunts for rare earth metals as China cuts back A steep decline in Chinese exports of rare earth metals used in many hi-tech gadgets has forced a global search for new crucial supplies and hopes are high for major finds in Canada, analysts say. ... more |
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