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Inaugural Vega Mission Ready For LiftoffKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jan 20, 2012 Final checkout of Europe's new Vega launcher was completed last Friday, marking another milestone towards its maiden flight from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The first Vega launch campaign began in November with the installation of the P80 first stage on the launch pad. The two solid-propellant second and third stages were added to the vehicle, followed by the AVUM - Attitude and Vernier Upper Module - liquid-propellant fourth stage. All four stages have undergone final accep ... read more |
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  China plans to launch 21 rockets, 30 satellites this year China plans to launch 21 rockets and 30 satellites this year, exceeding its record of 19 rockets and 22 satellites launched in 2010, the main contractor for the country's space program told Xinhua o ... more | .. |
  Voyager Instrument Cooling After Heater Turned off In order to reduce power consumption, mission managers have turned off a heater on part of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, dropping the temperature of its ultraviolet spectrometer instrument more than ... more | .. |
 Shenzhou 9 Behind the Curtain The first crew to fly to a Chinese space laboratory could lift off within three months. The launch of the Shenzhou 9 mission to the Tiangong 1 module could take place at the end of March or early Ap ... more | .. |
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 US joins effort to draw up space 'code of conduct' The United States pledged Tuesday to join an EU-led effort to develop a space "code of conduct" that would set rules for orbiting spacecraft and for mitigating the growing problem of orbiting debris. ... more | .. |
  Russian Scientists Mock U.S. Radar Theory on Mars Probe The theory that Russia's Mars mission failed due to a U.S. radar is extremely "exotic," Russian scientists said on Tuesday. Phobos-Grunt, Russia's most ambitious planetary mission in decades, was la ... more | .. |
 Russia to Test if US Radar Caused Failed Space Probe Russia says the failure of its space probe that was intended to travel to a moon of Mars could have been caused by radiation from U.S. radars. Space official Yuri Koptev said Tuesday he will h ... more | .. |
  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 |
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 SpaceX delays February flight to space stationl SpaceX said Tuesday it has postponed its February test flight of the Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, the first-ever bid by a private company to dock at the orbiting lab. ... more | .. |
 Goddard Spacecraft Cleanroom Goes Green For Magnetospheric Multiscale Fab When it launches in 2014, NASA's new Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will give scientists unprecedented insights into a little-understood physical process at the heart all space weather. Thi ... more | .. |
 Another Russian Mars Mission Fails The ill-fated Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe reentered on Sunday at 1745 GMT (12:45 p.m. EST). Most of the surviving pieces reportedly fell into the Pacific Ocean. About two months ago Phobos ... more | .. |
 Fourth Boeing Wideband Global SATCOM Satellite Ready for Liftoff Boeing has announced that the fourth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite the company is delivering to the U.S. Air Force has successfully completed prelaunch testing and is ready for launch. ... more |
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  Sukhoi tests new fighter Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi has flight tested its Serial Three Su-35S Flanker-E multipurpose jet fighter for the first time. ... more | .. |
  Raytheon and Mitsubishi in missile deal Raytheon will supply Evolved Seasparrow Missile components to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. for delivery of the weapon onward to Japan's military. ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Acquires Procerus Technologies Lockheed Martin has announced the acquisition of Procerus Technologies, a company specializing in autopilot and other avionics for micro unmanned aerial systems. The terms of the agreement were not ... more | .. |
 Boeing to Build More Wideband Global SATCOM Satellites for USAF Boeing has received authorization from the U.S. Air Force to produce and launch the eighth and ninth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites. The WGS-9 authorization and the WGS-8 production option, ... 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 F-35A Performs First Night Flight The first night flight in the history of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Program was completed Wednesday at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Piloted by Lockheed Martin Test Pilot Mark Ward, AF-6, an F- ... more | .. |
 MIT researchers find critical speed above which birds and UAVs will crash The northern goshawk is one of nature's diehard thrill-seekers. The formidable raptor preys on birds and small mammals, speeding through tree canopies and underbrush to catch its quarry. With reflex ... more | .. |
  Missile Defense "National Team" Awarded C2BMC Contract Lockheed Martin as prime contractor leading a consortium of five major defense contractors, has been awarded a follow-on contract with an estimated value of $980M to continue work on the Command, Co ... more | .. |
  TEPCO uses camera to survey Fukushima reactor The operators of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant said Thursday they had passed an industrial camera into one of the wrecked reactors, in their first attempt to directly check the interior. ... more |
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  GM reclaims world's biggest carmaker title as Toyota skids General Motors reclaimed its title as the world's biggest automaker Thursday, successfully emerging from its 2009 bankruptcy woes to overtake German giant Volkswagen and Japanese Toyota in the race to the top. ... more | .. |
  Taiwanese Clinic Realizes Savings with GlacialLights' LED and Panel Lights GlacialLight, a division of experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce that its environmentally-friendly LED lighting products are being used in many applications a ... more | .. |
  Obama seeks jobs boost from Chinese, Indian tourists US President Barack Obama went to Disney World on Thursday touting a new jobs-from-tourism plan, but a top Republican rival mocked his trip as new evidence he lived in a political "Fantasyland." ... more | .. |
 Photo pioneer Kodak files for bankruptcy Century-old photography pioneer Eastman Kodak, which brought photography to the masses, filed for bankruptcy early Thursday, succumbing to a 15 year digital assault by rivals. ... more |
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Oxford team unveils air-powered robots that synchronize without electronics
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 Spanish fold-up car to be unveiled at EU A tiny revolutionary electric fold-up car designed in Spain's Basque country as the answer to urban stress and pollution is to be unveiled next week before hitting Europe's cities in 2013. ... more | .. |
  The faster-than-fast Fourier transform The Fourier transform is one of the most fundamental concepts in the information sciences. It's a method for representing an irregular signal - such as the voltage fluctuations in the wire that conn ... more | .. |
 Apple unveils digital textbooks app for iPad Apple is taking aim at the textbook market. ... more | .. |
  Hollywood, Silicon Valley face off over piracy bill US congressional support for legislation targeting online piracy was eroding Wednesday as Wikipedia and Google led an online onslaught and branded the bills a danger to Internet freedom. ... more |
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  China agency warns of collapse in euro confidence Chinese ratings agency Dagong has warned that Europe's debt problems would cause a collapse of confidence in the euro, and predicted a worsening of the global financial crisis this year. ... more | .. |
Trouble spots of 2011 work to woo back tourists Tunisia, Egypt and Japan are working hard to lure back visitors who steered clear of their countries last year due to civil unrest and an earthquake, officials said at a world tourism fair. ... more | .. |
 2 Million Jobs On Offer If Americans Thinks Big on Energy Efficiency America is thinking too small when it comes to energy efficiency, while also making the mistake of "crowding out" economically beneficial investments in energy efficiency by focusing on riskier and ... more | .. |
 Global Smart Grid Market to Invest $2 Trillion by 2030, peaking at $155bn in 2018 A new report from Memoori Research on the global Smart Grid business, forecasts total expenditure to 2030 and highlights investment and financial activity in the market. By 2018 the world pure ... more |
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