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![]() Washington DC (SPX) Mar 05, 2012 On Feb. 29, NASA successfully conducted another drop test of the Orion crew vehicle's entry, descent and landing parachutes high above the Arizona desert in preparation for the vehicle's orbital flight test in 2014. Orion will carry astronauts deeper into space than ever before, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during space travel and ensure a safe re-entry and landing. An Air Force C-17 plane dropped a test version of Orion from an altitude of 25,000 feet above the U.S. ... read more |
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![]() Experiments going smoothly on Tiangong-1 Scientific and medical experiments being carried out onboard space lab module Tiangong-1 are seeing "good progress," according to a senior Chinese space technology expert. These experiments ar ... more | .. |
![]() Logistics, recycling key to China's space station China will have to test its docking, logistics and resource recycling technologies if it wants to establish a manned space station by 2020, a renowned Chinese scientist said Thursday. Qi Faren ... more | .. |
![]() China prepares for manned space docking this year A leading Chinese space engineer said here Thursday that China's first unmanned space module, the Tiangong-1, is now capable of accommodating astronauts, making it possible for China to carry out it ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Workers Remove Apollo-era Engines from Crawler at VAB For more than 30 years, NASA's two Apollo-era crawler-transporters carried six space shuttles (Atlantis, Challenger, Columbia, Discovery, Endeavour and Enterprise) atop mobile launcher platforms fro ... more | .. |
![]() Space department denies information to ex-ISRO chief The Department of Space (DoS) has declined to provide key documents sought by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair to know the basis on which the government deb ... more | .. |
![]() Lockheed Martin Selects Alaska's Kodiak Launch Complex To Support Future Athena Launches Lockheed Martin has chosen Alaska's Kodiak Launch Complex (KLC) as its dedicated West Coast launch facility for Athena rocket launches. The company's decision will enable Alaska Aerospace Corporatio ... more | .. |
![]() LAMIS - A Green Chemistry Alternative for Remote-Controlled Laser Spectroscopy At some point this year, after NASA's rover Curiosity has landed on Mars, a laser will fire a beam of infrared light at a rock or soil sample. This will "ablate" or vaporize a microgram-sized piece ... more |
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![]() No Sleep for Shenzhou 9 Mission to Tiangong 1 After enduring some confusing reportage by the Chinese media, the future of China's next astronaut mission is becoming a little clearer. It now seems certain that the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, ex ... more | .. |
![]() Early Detection of Immune Changes Prevents Painful Shingles in Astronauts and Earth-Bound Patients The physiological, emotional and psychological stress associated with spaceflight can result in decreased immunity that reactivates the virus that causes shingles, a disease punctuated by painful sk ... more | .. |
![]() Space station on another planet suggested An international space station could be built on another planet rather than in Earth orbit, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said. ... more | .. |
![]() Ex-ISRO chief Madhavan Nair ready for a probe "I have done no wrong. If an inquiry is ordered, I will come out clean. But the inquiry should be done by technical people and also those in the know of government procedures," Nair told reporters h ... more |
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![]() Arianespace maintains its open dialog with the space insurance sector Arianespace has a high-profile presence at this week's World Space Risk Forum in Dubai, where the company's activities include a half-day briefing for the space insurance sector's major players. ... more | .. |
![]() The initial Ariane 5 for launch in 2012 completes its final assembly Arianespace's heavy-lift Ariane 5 for the orbiting of Europe's third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is now complete following installation of its payload fairing - marking an important step as fin ... more | .. |
![]() MSU satellite surpasses goal; NASA taps MSU to queue up for another launch The Montana State University satellite that rode into space on a NASA rocket has now gathered information longer than the historic U.S. satellite it was built to honor, says the director of MSU's Sp ... more | .. |
![]() Private rocket assembled for space launch A private spaceship is close to heading to the International Space Station as SpaceX's Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket have been joined, the company says. ... more |
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![]() LightSquared Undertakes Search for New CEO LightSquared has announced that Sanjiv Ahuja has resigned his position as chief executive officer. He will continue to serve as chairman of the board. Doug Smith, currently chief network officer, an ... more | .. |
![]() Wish for city of the future takes shape at TED The innovation group TED has given its coveted annual prize for the first time to an idea - the city of the future. ... more | .. |
![]() SwRI and XCOR agree to pioneering research test flight missions Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has reached an agreement with XCOR Aerospace, Inc. to conduct pioneering suborbital space missions with Institute payload specialist astronauts flying aboard one ... more | .. |
![]() Lockheed Martin Team Completes On-Orbit Testing Of First AEHF Satellite Lockheed Martin reports the successful completion of on-orbit testing for the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications space vehicle (SV-1). The AEHF system will ... more |
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![]() Israel to test Arrow-3 anti-missile system Israel is preparing a ground-breaking test of its advanced Arrow-3 ballistic missile interceptor, designed to shoot down Iran's Shehab-3b and Sejjil-23 weapons, despite reports the program is threatened by major defense budget cuts. ... more | .. |
![]() Finding explosives with laser beams People like to keep a safe distance from explosive substances, but in order to analyze them, close contact is usually inevitable. At the Vienna University of Technology, a new method has now b ... more | .. |
![]() Northrop Grumman to Upgrade Software for the LN-251 Navigation System on the CH-53K Helicopter Northrop Grumman has been awarded a Phase II contract by the U.S. Navy to modify existing software for the LN-251 embedded GPS/fiber-optic inertial navigation system (INS) on the new CH-53K Super St ... more | .. |
![]() Raytheon Demonstrates Enhanced Capabilities for TOW Raytheon has tested a new propulsion system for the Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wireless (TOW) missile. Developed by ATK, the enhanced system doubles TOW's range and reduces the missile's flig ... more |
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![]() CU Team's Efficient Unmanned Aircraft Jetting Toward Commercialization Propulsion by a novel jet engine is the crux of the innovation behind a University of Colorado Boulder-developed aircraft that's accelerating toward commercialization. Jet engine technology ca ... more | .. |
![]() Raytheon And DARPA to Help Friendly Forces Communicate While Conducting Electronic Warfare Raytheon has been awarded a $3.8 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to allow armed forces to conduct jamming operations with minimal communication and contro ... more | .. |
![]() US Army Awards Contract for AN TPQ-53 Firefinder Radar The U.S. Army Product Manager for Radars (PdM Radars) awarded a contract yesterday to Lockheed Martin for the AN/TPQ-53 Firefinder Radar. The award is a Firm Fixed Price contract for $881 mill ... more | .. |
![]() Raytheon is Awarded DARPA Contract to Help Friendly Forces Communicate While Conducting Electronic Warfare Raytheon has been awarded a $3.8 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to allow armed forces to conduct jamming operations with minimal communication and contro ... more |
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![]() UBC researcher invents "lab on a chip" device to study malaria University of British Columbia researcher Hongshen Ma has developed a simple and accurate device to study malaria, a disease that currently affects 500 million people per year worldwide and claims a ... more | .. |
![]() New laser light source has a global market in consumer electronics Mobile phones currently on the market are capable of showing high quality images and video, but the phones' small size sets insurmountable limits on screen size, and thus the viewing experience. ... more | .. |
![]() Record-speed wireless data bridge demonstrated to take communications the last mile A team of researchers in Germany has created a new way to overcome many of the issues associated with bringing high-speed digital communications across challenging terrain and into remote areas, com ... more | .. |
![]() Unique salt allows energy production to move inland Production of energy from the difference between salt water and fresh water is most convenient near the oceans, but now, using an ammonium bicarbonate salt solution, Penn State researchers can combi ... more |
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