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Aiming For An Open Window To Launch Into SpaceCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 24, 2012 Why does NASA sometimes schedule a rocket launch for the middle of the night, or aim for a liftoff time when weather is notoriously unlikely to cooperate? The simplicity of the question belies the complexity of the answer. The best time to start a mission is based on a blend of factors: the flight's target and goals, the needs of the spacecraft, the type of rocket, and the desired trajectory, which refers to the path the vehicle and spacecraft must take to successfully start the mission. Not ... read more |
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  GMV Announces Contract With Loral for THOR 7 Telecommunications Satellite GMV, a private, multi-national firm based in Madrid, with North American headquarters in Rockville, Md., announces a contract with Loral (www.loral.com) to provide the flight dynamics system and the ... more | .. |
  The Future of Mankind - Space The human race is a continuing race against time. If we do nothing to alter the effects of time on mankind, we will surely perish over the coming centuries. There are many reasons for this. Begin wi ... 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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  Cosmonaut Testing at Star City Deceptively Simple 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 fo ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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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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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Raytheon Completes First Test of JSOW-ER Warhead Raytheon has completed the first test of the warhead and fuze for the Joint Standoff Weapon Extended Range. "JSOW-ER's design will enable the warfighter to attack land-based and moving maritim ... more |
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  Raytheon's JLENS Proves Tracking Capabilities During Test Raytheon's Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) recently completed Demonstration Test 1 (DT-1), proving its ability to track targets and integrate with fire ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Expands Facility For F-35 Component Manufacturing In Pinellas Park, Fla. Lockheed Martin's operation in Pinellas Park has officially opened a new 57,000 square foot manufacturing facility to produce aircraft canopy components for the F-35 Lightning II fighter. The ... more | .. |
  Innocon has received an order for its MiniFalcon II Tactical UAV Innocon, designing and manufacturing a wide range of innovative and unique UAVs, announced it has received an order for its Tactical UAV system, MiniFalcon II, from Northland Community and Technical ... more | .. |
  Longbow Delivers First Production Block III Apache Data Link System to US Army LONGBOW, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, recently delivered the first production Unmanned Aerial Systems Tactical Common Data Link Assembly (UTA) to the U.S. Army for 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
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 Pakistan tribesmen protest US drone strikes Hundreds of armed tribesmen on Thursday rallied against US drone attacks in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt, demanding compensation for damage and losses, witnesses said. ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  France, China can learn from Fukushima: French minister French Industry Minister Eric Besson said China and France could learn from Japan's nuclear disaster, during a Beijing visit Thursday to discuss joint development of a medium capacity reactor. ... more | .. |
 Red Cross appeals for $3 mln for Mozambique cyclone victims The Red Cross appealed Thursday for nearly $3 million to help thousands of families still waiting for aid after two tropical cyclones that killed at least 12 people in Mozambique last month. ... 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 | .. |
 Gas leak at China steel plant kills three A gas leak at an east China steel works Thursday left three workers dead and 10 injured, the government said, in the latest industrial accident to hit the nation. ... 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 | .. |
  Only the lowest CO2 emitting technologies can avoid a hot end-of-century Could replacing coal-fired electricity plants with generators fueled by natural gas bring global warming to a halt in this century? What about rapid construction of massive numbers of solar or wind ... more |
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 ORNL finding has materials scientists entering new territory Solar cells, light emitting diodes, displays and other electronic devices could get a bump in performance because of a discovery at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory that esta ... more | .. |
 Mn-doped ZnS is unsuitable to act as a dilute magnetic semiconductor Dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMS) have recently been a major focus of magnetic semiconductor research. A laboratory from the University of Science and Technology of China explored the feasibility ... more | .. |
 Yale paper finds arsenic supply at highest risk Modern technology depends on reliable supplies of a wide variety of materials, but there is increasing concern about the dependability of those supplies. In the first detailed assessment of me ... more | .. |
 Inspired by Gecko Feet, UMass Amherst Scientists Invent Super-Adhesive Material For years, biologists have been amazed by the power of gecko feet, which let these 5-ounce lizards produce an adhesive force roughly equivalent to carrying nine pounds up a wall without slipping. No ... more |
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