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NASA Seeks Game Changing Technology Payloads for Suborbital Research FlightsHampton VA (SPX) Feb 13, 2012 NASA is seeking proposals for small technology payloads that could fly on future NASA-sponsored suborbital flights. These future flights will travel to the edge of space and back, testing the innovative new technologies before they're sent to work in the harsh environment of space. "NASA's Game Changing Development Program focuses on maturing advanced space technologies that may lead to entirely new approaches for the agency's future space missions while providing solutions to significant national ... read more |
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  Europe stakes billion-dollar bet on new rocket A pencil-slim rocket is scheduled to lift into space from South America on Monday, carrying a billion-dollar bet that Europe can grab a juicy slice of the market to place satellites in low orbit. ... more | .. |
 April new date for SpaceX capsule launch Private space company SpaceX says late April is its new target for a launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and a Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. ... more | .. |
  GPS court ruling leaves US phone tracking unclear A US Supreme Court decision requiring a warrant to place a GPS device on the car of a criminal suspect leaves unresolved the bigger issue of police tracking using mobile phones, legal experts say. ... more | .. |
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 Rockot to launch two Sentinel satellites ESA and Eurockot have signed contracts for launching two ESA satellites: Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-3A will fly in 2013 on Rockot vehicles from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia for Europe's ... more | .. |
  Astrogenetix and NASA Sign Agreement to Continue Developing Medicines in Space to Save Lives on Earth Astrogenetix has entered into a Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA that commits to providing the critical resources needed to continue utilizing the International Space Station (ISS) and to further ... more | .. |
  Russia to build powerful laser facility Russia intends to build the world's most powerful laser research station at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion, a Russian nuclear official said. ... more | .. |
  Satellite telephony is unsafe Satellite telephony was thought to be secure against eavesdropping. Researchers at the Horst Gortz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) have cracked the encryption alg ... 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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  Space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concludes trip China's space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concluded its 154-day trip on Thursday after covering more than 30,000 sea miles. The ship returned to the port of China Satellite Maritime Tracking and ... more | .. |
 Iran Launches New Home-Made Satellite into Orbit Iran on Friday successfully sent another domestically-made satellite, named 'Navid-e Elm-o Sana'at' (Promise of Science and Industry), into orbit. The satellite was sent to space following a d ... more | .. |
  Space tours to the Moon - why not? The first space tourist may be flying around the moon already five years from now if Space Adventures company has its way. The Virginia-based private space exploration company recently announced pla ... more | .. |
 SpaceX to Launch AsiaSat 6 and AsiaSat 8 in 2014 Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the world's fastest growing space launch company, and Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), the leading regional satellite operator in ... more |
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 Augmented reality promises astronauts instant medical knowhow A new augmented reality unit developed by ESA can provide just-in-time medical expertise to astronauts. All they need to do is put on a head-mounted display for 3D guidance in diagnosing problems or ... more | .. |
 New European rocket lifts off on maiden flight A new lightweight rocket, Vega, lifted off from Europe's space base Monday carrying nine satellites on its inaugural flight, mission control said. ... more | .. |
 NASA PIT Crews Essential to Commercial Space Endeavor Just as every race car driver has a pit crew to keep them on track on the way to a victory quickly and safely, the seven aerospace companies that have teamed up with NASA's Commercial Crew Program h ... more | .. |
 Birthday Cake for X-37B It's almost time to light a candle for one of the world's most intriguing spacecraft. No, I don't mean ignite the rocket for launch. The second mission of the X-37B robot spaceplane is approaching t ... 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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 Jacob Bleacher Gives Free RATS Talk at Library of Congress The Black Point Lava Flow in northern Arizona offers a research haven for NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies (RATS) team of scientists and engineers, because this rough, dusty terrain, wi ... more | .. |
  Pakistan says US drone attacks "counter productive" Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said US drone strikes targeting Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants were counter productive and his country had not given permission for such attacks. ... more | .. |
  India says missile shield test a success India successfully tested on Friday an interceptor defence shield developed to detect and destroy incoming ballistic missiles, a government official said. ... more | .. |
 Israel conducts 'final test' on Arrow anti-missile system Israel and the United States recently carried out a successful test of the Arrow anti-missile system over the Mediterranean Sea, the Israeli defence ministry said on Friday. ... more |
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 Northrop Grumman Delivers 25,000th Electro-Optic Laser System to U.S. Army Northrop Grumman has announced that its Laser Systems business unit recently delivered its 25,000th electro-optic (EO) laser system in support of U.S. warfighters since the start of Operation Iraqi ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Delivers Next Gen Automatic Test System to US Army Northrop Grumman, together with DRS Technologies, has announced the delivery of the first Next Generation Automatic Test System (NGATS) to the U.S. Army. A mobile, rapidly deployable and recon ... more | .. |
  Harris wins follow-on Aussie radio deal The Harris Corp. has won a $235 million order with Australia's Department of Defense for its Falcon radios, a Type-1 tactical voice and data communications system. ... more | .. |
 US Air National Guard Deploys to Afghanistan With LITENING G4 Pods Northrop Grumman's LITENING G4 advanced targeting pod recently embarked on its first combat deployment with the Air National Guard on A-10 and F-16 Block 30 aircraft supporting Operation Enduring Fr ... more |
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Oxford team unveils air-powered robots that synchronize without electronics
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 US military loosens rules on women in combat units The US military opened up some dangerous jobs to female troops Thursday but stopped short of repealing a ban on women serving in combat, despite a decade of war where women fought and died on the battlefield. ... more | .. |
 Pakistan Al-Qaeda chief 'killed by US drone' US missiles on Thursday killed the most senior Pakistani in Al-Qaeda, one of the Americans' main targets in the country and wanted for attacks that killed scores of people, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Japan's Fukushima reactor may be reheating: operator Temperature readings at one of the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactors have risen above Japan's stringent new safety standard but there was no immediate danger, its operator said Sunday. ... more | .. |
  NIST provides octagonal window of opportunity for carbon capture Filtering carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from factory smokestacks is a necessary, but expensive part of many manufacturing processes. However, a collaborative research team from the National Inst ... more |
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 Electrical engineers build 'no-waste' laser A team of University of California, San Diego researchers has built the smallest room-temperature nanolaser to date, as well as an even more startling device: a highly efficient, "thresholdless" las ... more | .. |
 Developing a Potential Low Cost Alternative to Platinum for Splitting Water A technique for creating a new molecule that structurally and chemically replicates the active part of the widely used industrial catalyst molybdenite has been developed by researchers with the U.S. ... more | .. |
 New technology platform for molecule-based electronics Researchers at the Nano-Science Center at the University of Copenhagen have developed a new nano-technology platform for the development of molecule-based electronic components using the wonder mate ... more | .. |
 Engineers Boost Computer Processor Performance By Over 20 Percent Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows graphics processing units (GPUs) and central processing units (CPUs) on a single chip to collaborate - boo ... more |
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