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Toronto teens send Lego man into space: videoOttawa (AFP) Jan 25, 2012 A video posted on YouTube Wednesday appeared to show the amazing voyage of a Lego man sent into space on a homemade spacecraft by two Toronto students. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, used a weather balloon ordered online and a makeshift Styrofoam spacecraft to send the plastic astronaut 24 kilometers (15 miles) into the stratosphere, reports said. Their high school principal Lecourgos Papathanasakis confirmed the "amazing voyage" to AFP, but neither of the teens was immediately available ... read more |
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  Fusion: X-ray laser zaps solid to 2 million degrees The quest to create nuclear fusion may have come a step closer when scientists heated solid matter to two million degrees with the world's most powerful X-ray laser, a study reported Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Nair blames ISRO Lashing out at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) order to debar him and three other senior scientists from holding any post-retirement government jobs for their alleged involvement in the controvers ... more | .. |
  Proton-M, Dutch Satellite Taken to Launch Pad The Proton-M carrier rocket with the Dutch SES-4 (NSS-14) satellite was installed on a launch pad at the Baikonur space center, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday. The launch ... more | .. |
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 ISRO: A great institution's fall from grace From humble beginnings of ferrying rocket parts on a bicycle to launching satellites of other countries and landing a craft on the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has occupied a ... more | .. |
  Opening of UK site producing the heart of Galileo The first Galileo satellites are already in orbit, with more on the way. ESA's Director General and the UK's Universities and Science Minister have attended the grand opening of the facility where n ... more | .. |
 ISRO has gone to dogs, says Madhavan Nair Former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G. Madhavan Nair Wednesday described as "improper" the move to blacklist four scientists, including him, from a government job and said the spa ... more | .. |
 ISRO mum on Nair's outburst, scientists dismayed The state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Wednesday declined to comment on the outburst of its former chairman G. Madhavan Nair on the space agency and its current chairman K. Radhakri ... more |
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 Boeing GPS IIF Satellites Assembled Using 'Pulse' Manufacturing Line Boeing has accelerated the assembly of its Global Positioning System (GPS IIF) satellites through the use of a pulse-line manufacturing approach adapted from the Boeing 737 airplane production line. ... more | .. |
 2012 - Year of the Dragon Today marks the start of the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese calendar and this year, SpaceX's Dragon will become the first privately developed spacecraft to visit the International Space Station. ... more | .. |
 Old satellite teaching new lessons Since Jan. 13, the 2nd Space Operations Squadron here has been busy disposing of an old and trusted satellite. Squadron members could soon refer to the vehicle, known as SVN-30, as the satellite tha ... more | .. |
  China's satellite navigation sector annual output predicted to reach 35 bln USD in 2015 The annual output value of China's satellite navigation industry is estimated to reach more than 225 billion yuan (35.64 billion U.S. dollars) in 2015, according to a latest research report on the c ... more |
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  ATK Completes Third Space Act Agreement Milestone for Liberty under NASA's Commercial Crew Program ATK's Liberty program successfully held its Launch System Initial Systems Design (ISD) Review, which completes the third of five milestones in the company's unfunded Space Act Agreement (SAA) with N ... more | .. |
  Russia's space programs fully financed until 2016 The Russian government has fully financed its space research programs until 2016, including two Moon expeditions, a leading Russian aerospace company Lavochkin said Tuesday. According to Lavoc ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman to Supply Marine Navigation Equipment for Suez Canal Authority Northrop Grumman's Sperry Marine business unit has won orders to supply navigation equipment to the Suez Canal Authority for tugboats and other assorted workboats. The orders include radar upg ... more | .. |
 Australia joins the fight against space junk Australia is backing a proposal to minimise the amount of 'space junk' circling the planet. The plan has been put forward by the EU, and calls for an international code of conduct for outer sp ... 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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 Ball Aerospace Makes Progress for NASA's Joint Polar Satellite System-1 Spacecraft Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. expects to have initiated the procurement of the majority of avionics and electronics components required to build the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) spa ... more | .. |
  Indra Develops a Maritime Surveillance Light Aircraft Indra is working on the development of a new maritime surveillance light aircraft in collaboration with Italian aircraft manufacturer Tecnam, firms SELEX Galileo, FLIR Systems and Remote Sensing and ... more | .. |
 World's First Net-Enabled Weapon Completes Developmental Testing The Navy recently completed a milestone test phase for its network-enabled weapon that will give forces greater effectiveness at sea. Joint Stand-off Weapon (JSOW) C -1, DoD's first network-en ... more | .. |
  US Navy Progresses in Demonstrating Unmanned Refueling Capability The Navy is testing a system that promises to significantly increase the endurance and range of carrier-based unmanned aircraft. As part of the Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D ... more |
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  Brazil to assemble Harris tactical radio Brazil is set to start local assembly of Harris RF Communications tactical communications systems in a follow-up to a $10.7 million deal it signed last year. ... more | .. |
  Lithuania faults Russia over missile plan on EU borders Lithuania on Wednesday challenged Russian moves to deploy missiles on the EU's borders, which Moscow claims are meant to offset a planned US anti-missile shield in eastern Europe. ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Wins Award for USAF Design and Engineering Support Program The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for its Design and Engineering Support Program (DESP III). Northrop Grumman is one of 26 companie ... more | .. |
  US Navy Completes Raytheon Laser-guided Maverick Testing The U.S. Navy completed developmental and operational testing (DT/OT) of the newest variant of Raytheon's laser-guided Maverick missile. This brings U.S. Sailors and Marines one step closer to condu ... more |
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 Colombia mulls buying more Israeli UAVs Colombia has bought an Israeli unmanned air vehicle for security patrols on its troubled border with Venezuela and is considering acquiring at least one more, defense industry sources said. ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin F-35A Performs First Night Flight The first night flight in the history of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Program was completed last Wednesday at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Piloted by Lockheed Martin Test Pilot Mark Ward, AF-6, ... more | .. |
 Russia 'sells Syria 36 military jets' In its third display of support for Syria's embattled regime in recent weeks, Russia has reportedly signed a $550 million deal to provide Syria with 36 Yak-130 advanced training jets that can also be used for ground-attack missions. ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Delivers Fourth Upgraded CBP P-3 Orion In Record Time Lockheed Martin delivered the fourth P-3 Orion with new Mid-Life Upgrade (MLU) modifications to U.S. Customs and Border Protection two months ahead of schedule on Jan. 20. The MLU installation ... more |
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 Boeing Receives Additional USAF JDAM Contract Boeing has received a $126 million contract from the U.S. Air Force on Nov. 30 for approximately 5,000 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kits. Deliveries will begin in June 2013 and continue ... more | .. |
  Argentine government, importers on warpath Argentina's government and importers are on the warpath after President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner slapped new taxes on the traders and refused to budge in the face of furious demands for change. ... more | .. |
  Toyota confirms loss of No. 1 carmaker spot Toyota Motor confirmed Wednesday that its world group sales fell below the eight million mark in 2011, losing the firm its number one spot in the global carmakers' league. ... more | .. |
  Google revising privacy policies, data use Google said Tuesday it is revising its privacy policies and changing how it uses data from users of its services to provide more personalized search results and advertisements. ... more |
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