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Cosmonaut Testing at Star City Deceptively SimpleMoscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 23, 2012 So you want to be a cosmonaut? Now is your chance, but prepare to be tested like one. The countdown is on for Russia's first ever open cosmonaut recruitment drive, and while organizers wait for the tidal wave of applications to finally rush in, they decided to lay bare the admission tests to the space-loving masses. Most tests demonstrated to the media during a press tour of the cosmonaut training facility in Star City this week look deceptively simple, ranging from spot-a-dot attention exer ... read more |
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  Sea Launch on Track to Loft Intelsat 19 Sea Launch AG, through Energia Logistics Ltd., has conducted a Hardware Acceptance Review of the Zenit-2S launch vehicle to be utilized in support of the Intelsat 19 mission. A team of special ... more | .. |
  Russia to Launch 2 Glonass Satellites in 2012 Russia will launch two Glonass satellites in 2012 to expand its global satellite navigation network in orbit, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday. Glonass is Russia's ... more | .. |
  Laser radar illuminates the way to deep space This car was not snapped with a camera but scanned by a 3D imaging lidar, the laser equivalent of radar. ESA is developing the sensor as a navigation aid for exploring deep space. Lidar stands ... more | .. |
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  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 | .. |
  Astrium's Swarm satellite fleet tested and ready for space mission 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 ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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Deloitte launches Silent Shield system to monitor satellite cyber threats
Trump deploys nuclear submarines in row with Russia
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Anglo-French UAV cooperation progresses The governments of Britain and France are moving forward with plans to acquire a range of unmanned aerial vehicles. ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Foliage Penetrating Reconnaissance Radar Deployed After successfully completing operational demonstrations, Lockheed Martin's [NYSE: LMT] penetrating radar capable of detecting objects that are buried, camouflaged or concealed under dense foliage w ... 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
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  Third MEADS Battle Manager Arrives In Huntsville for Integration Testing Lockheed Martin has begun integration testing on the third completed Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) battle manager at its facility in Huntsville, Ala. Integration testing on the th ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Engages Malaysian Industry for Missile Work Raytheon awarded an initial contract to Malaysian-based Contraves Advanced Devices Sdn. Bhd. for the production and supply of components for the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM). This is the ... more | .. |
 US Army Fires Raytheon Griffin Missile During Forward Operating Base Protection Test The U.S. Army precisely engaged targets using the Raytheon Griffin B missile as part of a test to protect forward operating bases (FOBs) and small combat outposts. "Griffin enables ground forc ... more | .. |
  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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  Public Safety Benefits of Open Architecture Approach to Interoperable Emergency Communications In a keynote session at the International Wireless Communications Expo, Raytheon declared that the right technical model for a mobile broadband public safety network is open architecture, non-propri ... more |
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Ancient Roman concrete longevity offers mixed sustainability benefits
Increasing solar energy use offers key opportunity to reduce US carbon emissions
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 Swiss Re net profits up sharply to $2.6bn despite disasters Reinsurance giant Swiss Re shrugged off natural disasters to report net profits of $2.6 billion for 2011 on Thursday, up sharply from the $863 million recorded the previous year and higher than analysts had expected. ... more | .. |
 New Zealand pays silent tribute to quake dead New Zealand paused for two minutes' silence on Wednesday to mark the first anniversary of the devastating Christchurch earthquake, which left 185 people dead. ... more | .. |
 TEPCO to cement Fukushima seabed to stem radiation The operator of Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear plant is to cover a large swathe of seabed near the battered reactors with cement in a bid to halt the spread of radiation, the company said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 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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 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 | .. |
  Carbon storage project combines innovation and outreach Geologists are hoping to learn a great deal about geologic carbon sequestration from injecting 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into sandstone 7,000 feet beneath Decatur, Ill. And they're hop ... more | .. |
  China risks economic crisis if no reforms: report China could face an economic crisis if it does not implement major reforms in the next 20 years, the Wall Street Journal said Thursday, citing a report by the World Bank and Chinese government researchers. ... more | .. |
 UK takes the lead in redefining the kilogram New research, published by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), takes a significant step towards changing the international definition of the kilogram - which is currently based on a lump of plat ... more |
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