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What Next for X-37Bby Morris Jones Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 05, 2012 On March 5, the X-37B robot spaceplane celebrated a birthday in orbit. This mysterious, semi-classified spacecraft is still up there, and it's not clear when it will return to Earth. It can't stay up there forever. At some point, mission controllers will order the small vehicle to descend to a runway. But it's not clear when that will happen, or exactly why the US Air Force will decide to end the mission at a specific time. There would certainly be calcu ... read 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
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  NASA Conducts New Parachute Test for Orion 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 fli ... 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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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Deloitte launches Silent Shield system to monitor satellite cyber threats
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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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Flying robots swoop and swarm as a team Tech-savvy TED-goers watched in wonder as flying robots darted through tossed hoops, worked together in swarms and even formed a band to play trademark "James Bond" film theme music. ... more |
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 In Swiss city, 'augmented reality' is out of this world A pair of Swiss policemen cast a suspicious eye as a creature in a space helmet with a camera mounted on top and carrying an astronaut's backpack wanders around Basel's St. Johann Park. ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
  Pakistan test fires short-range ballistic missile Pakistan said Monday it had successfully test fired a short-range ballistic missile capable of carrying atomic warheads. ... more | .. |
  At least 100 dead in Congo arms depot blasts Huge explosions rocked a munitions depot in the Republic of Congo's capital Brazzaville Sunday, killing at least 100 people and leaving hundreds of others injured, the government said. ... 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 |
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  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 | .. |
  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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  Japanese monk guards remains of tsunami unknown Hundreds of the 19,000 people killed by Japan's horrific quake-tsunami remain unmourned, their bodies never claimed because there is no one left to notice they have gone. ... more | .. |
  China may target slower economic growth: media China might set an annual economic growth target below 8.0 percent for this year, state media said Saturday, as the leaders of the world's second largest economy acknowledge it is slowing. ... more |
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