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February 22, 2012
MICROSAT BLITZ
Astrium's Swarm satellite fleet tested and ready for space mission
London, UK (SPX) Feb 22, 2012
The three Astrium built satellites of the Swarm constellation have completed a series of environmental tests designed to demonstrate their fitness for space flight. The purpose of the Swarm mission is to analyse, in unprecedented detail, the geomagnetic field and its evolution over time. The results of the mission will help to improve our understanding of the Earth's interior and climate. The trio of satellites is due to be launched from Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome in July 2012. The Europea ... read more

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TECH SPACE

Baylor research on carbon fibers could help NASA
A NASA-funded research project may help gain recognition for Baylor's students, faculty and research program, Dr. David Jack, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, said. NASA's space statio ... more
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TECH SPACE

Google Algorithm Helps Drive Computational Chemistry With moleculaRnetworks
The technology that Google uses to analyze trillions of Web pages is being brought to bear on the way molecules are shaped and organized. Aurora Clark, an associate professor of chemistry at Washing ... more
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UAV NEWS

Raytheon demos fire-control system
A surveillance and fire-control radar system attached to tethered aerostats has been successfully tested in the United States. ... more
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ROBO SPACE

A robot sketches portraits
An industrial robot as artist? From March 6-10, 2012, researchers will be presenting what may at first seem to be a contradiction at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. There, interested visitors can view th ... more
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ROBO SPACE

In new mass-production technique, robotic insects spring to life
A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet. Devised by engineers at Harvard, the ingenious layering and f ... more
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ROBO SPACE

New system allows robots to continuously map their environment
Robots could one day navigate through constantly changing surroundings with virtually no input from humans, thanks to a system that allows them to build and continuously update a three-dimensional m ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Robot reconnoiters uncharted terrain
Mobile robots have many uses. They serve as cleaners, carry out inspections and search for survivors of disasters. But often, there is no map to guide them through unknown territory. Researchers hav ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
Deloitte launches Silent Shield system to monitor satellite cyber threats
Trump deploys nuclear submarines in row with Russia
Cascade raises 59M to develop full stack satellite communications platform
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ROBO SPACE

Human tests for first wirelessly controlled drug delivery chip
About 15 years ago, MIT professors Robert Langer and Michael Cima had the idea to develop a programmable, wirelessly controlled microchip that would deliver drugs after implantation in a patient's b ... more
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ROBO SPACE

'Duet of 1' possible with hand-controlled voice synthesizer
New technology at the University of British Columbia makes it possible for a person to speak or sing just by using their hands to control a speech synthesizer. UBC researcher Sidney Fels says the ge ... more
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ROBO SPACE

New 'soft' motor made from artificial muscles
"Perhaps the earliest public demonstration of an electric motor," writes a team of researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, "involved the automatic rotation of a turkey on a spit ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Stark warning emerges from science summit
A stark theme emerged from an annual scientific get-together in Vancouver: the world must be helped to believe in science again or it could be too late to save our planet. ... more
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GPS NEWS

Cell phone hackers can track your physical location without your knowledge
Cellular networks leak the locations of cell phone users, allowing a third party to easily track the location of the cell phone user without the user's knowledge, according to new research by comput ... more
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MICROSAT BLITZ

Swarm constellation heads north
The three satellites that make up ESA's Swarm magnetic field mission were unvieled last week to the media. Following a demanding testing programme, the satellites were displayed in the cleanroom bef ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

ASU professor uses Star Trek themes to communicate science
Before firing up the dilithium crystals in your warp drive, you should know what you are getting into, said Lawrence Krauss, ASU Foundation Professor at Arizona State University. When applied to the ... more
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GPS NEWS

LightSquared Response to FCC Public Notice
For more than a decade, LightSquared and its predecessor companies have worked to bring a private sector solution to a public problem - expanding wireless broadband connectivity to every corner of t ... more
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A weakening forest buffer challenges EU climate goals
DefendEye adds Starlink Mini to tube drone system for real time global search ops
Earth's magnetic field could form even with a fully liquid core
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DRAGON SPACE

Launch of China's manned spacecraft Shenzhou-9 scheduled
China will launch its manned Shenzhou-9 spacecraft between June and August this year, as well as conduct a space rendezvous and docking mission with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab module, a spoke ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Glenn: I don't think of myself as a hero
John Glenn, feted in his home state of Ohio Monday on the 50th anniversary of being the first American to orbit Earth, says he doesn't consider himself a hero. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

UA Huntsville scientific team helping Japanese space program launch safely
A team of scientists from The University of Alabama in Huntsville's Earth System Science Center is working with the Japanese space agency to develop new rules to protect spacecraft from lightning. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Rocket to be launched from Poker Flat Research Range
Scientists are now at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks waiting for acceptable conditions for the launch of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration sounding rocket. The rock ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Future of Space Transportation
The Air Force Space Command commander spoke to the critical aspects of space launch, new technologies in launch operations and the long range vision for the launch mission during his speech at the 1 ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

2.5 million pound investment will grow UK space technology industry
Twenty-two British companies are to share 2.5 million pound of government support to enable them to develop commercial products and services using space technology or space-derived data. The g ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Shenzhou 9 To Carry 3 Astronauts To Tiangong-1 Space Station
Chinese space officials said Friday that three astronauts will fly to Tiangong 1 aboard Shenzhou 9. This reverses previous published state media reports that the Shenzhou 9 mission would be unmanned. ... more
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MISSILE DEFENSE

Israel deploys Iron Dome ABM battery
Israel, struggling with rogue Palestinian missile launches of indigenous Qassam rockets from the Gaza Strip, has deployed countermeasures. ... more
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24/7 Energy News Coverage
Ancient Roman concrete longevity offers mixed sustainability benefits
Increasing solar energy use offers key opportunity to reduce US carbon emissions
Light driven visual microphone offers new tool for silent sound detection
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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS

General Dynamics Demonstrates First MUOS-based Communications on JTRS HMS Radio
Using the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Handheld, Manpack, Small Form Fit (HMS) two-channel networking radio (AN/PRC-155), General Dynamics C4 Systems recently completed the first demonstration ... more
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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS

Cambridge Consultants unveils ModStar radio architecture for military communications
Cambridge Consultants, a leading technology design and development firm, has introduced a new architecture, ModStar, for the design of low power and highly efficient software defined radios (SDRs) f ... more
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MILTECH

Edwards F-35A Conducts First External Weapons Test Mission
On Feb. 16, the first external weapons test mission was flown by an F-35A Conventional Takeoff and Landing (CTOL) aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., further expanding the program's flight t ... more
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UAV NEWS

Unmanned version of A-10 on way
Aurora Flight Sciences has been selected to work on a U.S. military project for an unmanned version of the A-10 close support aircraft. ... more
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Into the no-man's land of Fukushima
Every two minutes on the bus ride through the ghost towns surrounding Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, a company guide in a white protective suit holds up a display showing the radiation level. And it is rising. ... more
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT

China factory blast kills 13, injures 17
An explosion at a steel plant in northeastern China killed 13 people and injured another 17, a company official said Tuesday, in the latest industrial accident to hit the country. ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Stanford scientist to discuss the challenges of carbon sequestration at AAAS
When the Environmental Protection Agency issued its first comprehensive report on major greenhouse gas emitters last month, power plants topped the list, accounting for more than 70 percent of indus ... more
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CHIP TECH

Single-atom transistor is end of Moore's Law; may be beginning of quantum computing
The smallest transistor ever built - in fact, the smallest transistor that can be built - has been created using a single phosphorous atom by an international team of researchers at the University o ... more
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