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Russia Mars probe 'crashes into Pacific': militaryMoscow (AFP) Jan 15, 2012 Russia believes fragments of its Phobos-Grunt probe which spiralled back to Earth after failing to head on a mission to Mars crashed Sunday into the Pacific Ocean, a spokesman for its space forces said. The splashdown marks an inglorious if spectacular end for the Phobos-Grunt probe which Russia launched in November and hoped would scoop up a sample from Mars' largest moon Phobos and bring it back to Earth. "According to information from mission control of the space forces, the fragments of Phob ... read more |
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  US Air Force Awards Lockheed Martin Contract for Third and Fourth GPS III Satellites The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $238 million contract for production of the third and fourth satellites in the next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation, known a ... more | .. |
 Raytheon to Develop Mission Critical Launch and Check Solution for Global Positioning System Raytheon has been awarded a $27.4 million contract by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center for development of a Global Positioning System (GPS) Launch and Checkout System (LCS), which ... more | .. |
  The gadgets which stood out at CES The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which wrapped up on Friday in Las Vegas featured a dazzling array of high-tech gadgetry. ... more | .. |
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 CES gadgets bringing the "Matrix" to life The annual Consumer Electronics Show ended Friday, leaving gadget lovers with visions of a "Matrix"-like world in which the Internet surrounds them no matter where they go. ... more | .. |
 Space station to dodge superfast debris The International Space Station will need to dodge a small but superfast piece of orbiting communication debris Friday morning, the U.S. Space Command said. ... more | .. |
 Smart appliances set to transform the home You're at work when you get word of unexpected dinner guests. No problem. Smart appliances to the rescue. ... more | .. |
  Don't pass the buck, Roskosmos The head of Roskomos, Vladimir Popovkin, has insinuated that the embarrassing failure of Phobos-Grunt (which I wrote about earlier) could be attributed to a shadowy plot of some kind. "I don't want ... more |
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European Response to Escalating Space Security Crisis
BlackSky to deliver advanced Gen-3 tactical ISR capabilities to international customer
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 First Galileo satellite GIOVE-A outlives design life to reach sixth anniversary British satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is celebrating the sixth year of transmission of signals from its GIOVE-A satellite, which signalled the start of Europe's ambit ... more | .. |
 ESA Coordinates International Satellite Reentry Campaign For Phobos-Grunt An international campaign to assess the imminent atmospheric reentry of Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars craft is being coordinated by experts in ESA's Space Debris Office. Participants include NASA and R ... more | .. |
 Boeing begins NASA solar electric propulsion study Boeing has begun work on a four-month NASA contract to develop a mission concept study for solar electric propulsion technologies. Under the $600,000 firm, fixed-price contract, Boeing will ev ... more | .. |
  Canaveral has busy 2012 launch schedule The director of Florida's Cape Canaveral rocket range says a busy 2012 launch schedule is proof there's life after the end of NASA's shuttle program. ... more |
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  Israel needs $3.9B to fund Arrow plan Amid controversial cuts in Israel's defense budget and concerns of new conflict in the Middle East, the Defense Ministry is grappling with the problem of funding costly plans to build a multi-layered shield against Iranian and Syrian ballistic missiles. ... more | .. |
  Australia buys portable UAV landing mat Australia's Department of Defense has bought a portable landing mat for use with unmanned aerial vehicles from manufacturer Faun Trackway USA. ... more | .. |
 Briton loses US extradition fight over Iran missile claims A retired British businessman on Friday lost a High Court battle against extradition to the United States on charges of conspiring to sell missile parts to Iran. ... more | .. |
  US hopes for missile shield accord this year: report The United States hopes to reach a deal with Russia by the end of the year for the deployment of a ballistic missile shield in Europe, the State Department's top arms control official 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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  US Army Testing Demonstrates Readiness of Raytheon's MAINGATE Radio Raytheon's Mobile Ad hoc Interoperability Network GATEway (MAINGATE) radio system successfully provided tactical networking capabilities at two major U.S. Army exercises, giving soldiers reliable ba ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Awarded Contract for US Air Force Field Service Support Raytheon has been awarded a $179.5 million follow-on contract by the U.S. Air Force to provide Contractor Field Service (CFS) support for U-2 sensors, data links and the Air Force Distributed Common ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Awarded First International Airborne Low Frequency Sonar Contract Raytheon has been awarded an $80.8 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy in support of a Foreign Military Sale of the AN/AQS-22 Airborne Low Frequency Sonar to the Royal Australian Navy. ... more | .. |
 India buys MBDA missiles India will buy 500 air-to-air missiles from European guided weapons manufacturer MBDA for its Mirage 2000 aircraft in a contract worth around $1.2 billion. ... more |
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US drone strike kills four militants: Pakistan officials A US missile strike targeting a militant vehicle killed four rebels on Thursday in the second drone strike in 48 hours to hit Pakistan's tribal region, local security officials said. ... more | .. |
 Raytheon awarded contract for Evolved Seasparrow Missile Raytheon has been awarded two contracts totaling $212.8 million for the production of the Evolved Seasparrow Missile, with an option for $33 million in additional work. The first contract from ... more | .. |
 Raytheon and Thales Australia Deliver Next Generation Desktop to Australia's DoD Raytheon Trusted Computer Solutions (RTCS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon, has announced a partnership with Thales Australia to deliver an innovative next generation desktop (NGD) environmen ... more | .. |
  Simulating firefighting operations on a PC Firefighters often put their lives at risk during operations, so it is essential they have reliable tools to help them do their job. Now, a modular simulation kit is set to help develop new informat ... 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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 Still in ruins: Haiti marks two years after quake President Michel Martelly laid a wreath Tuesday at the mass grave north of the capital of victims of a catastrophic earthquake that killed a quarter-of-a-million people in the poorest country in the Americas. ... more | .. |
 Japan disaster builds international bridges Out of the tragedy of ruin wreaked by the tsunami that laid waste to large stretches of Japan's northeast coast, a beacon of international friendship has risen. ... more | .. |
  One-third of car fuel consumption is due to friction loss No less than one third of a car's fuel consumption is spent in overcoming friction, and this friction loss has a direct impact on both fuel consumption and emissions. However, new technology c ... more | .. |
  Rice's 'quantum critical' theory gets experimental boost New evidence this week supports a theory developed five years ago at Rice University to explain the electrical properties of several classes of materials - including unconventional superconductors - ... more |
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 Making Building Blocks For Chemical Industry From Wood While Boosting Production 40 Percent Chemical engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, using a catalytic fast pyrolysis process that transforms renewable non-food biomass into petrochemicals, have developed a new catalyst ... more | .. |
 Building the smallest magnetic data storage unit Scientists from IBM and the German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) have built the world's smallest magnetic data storage unit. It uses just twelve atoms per bit, the basic unit of info ... more | .. |
  Open-source robotic surgery platform going to top medical research labs Robotics experts at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Washington (UW) have completed a set of seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical research la ... more | .. |
  China steel maker Baoshan's profits fall China's Baoshan Iron and Steel Co said its annual net profit for 2011 fell by around 43 percent, as the nation's industry is hit by a slowdown in the domestic and global economy. ... more |
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