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Three for TiangongSydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 09, 2012 The closer we get to the launch of China's Shenzhou 9 spacecraft to the Tiangong 1 space laboratory, the more confused space observers have become. We should have a firmer picture of the whole mission by now, but there are still some big unanswered questions. Media reports on the mission have been garbled and contradictory. What is going on? This author believes that planning for this mission has been anything but straightforward. The overall pattern of reportage and disclosure is different from r ... read more |
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  What Next for X-37B 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 ... more | .. |
  Launch Madness at Wallops in March - "Five in Five" Launch madness will hit the east coast in March as NASA launches five rockets in approximately five minutes to study the high-altitude jet stream from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. ... more | .. |
  Humanoid robot will fight shipboard fires U.S. scientists say they're developing a humanoid robot to fight fires aboard warships, moving autonomously to handle firefighting tasks usually done by humans. ... more | .. |
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  'SimCity' game rebuilt for age of climate change Climate change is coming to SimCity. ... more | .. |
  Court ruling forces FBI to deactivate GPS to track suspects A recent US Supreme Court decision is hurting the ability of federal law enforcement agencies to monitor criminal suspects with global positioning satellites (GPS), according to FBI Director Robert Mueller. ... more | .. |
 Apple unveils new iPad, Apple TV box Apple unveiled a third-generation iPad on Wednesday enhanced with features aimed at keeping it on top of the booming tablet computer market. ... more | .. |
 Engineers Tuck NuSTAR in its Nose Cone Technicians at Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California are placing the two halves of the rocket nose cone, or fairing, around NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), in prepar ... 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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 Dr. Strangelove and How I Learned to Love Space Debris The whole issue of space debris smacks of Peter Sellers' character in Dr. Strangelove where one hand was trying to do the opposite of the other. This is much like the U.S. government's approac ... more | .. |
 Robotic Refueling Mission Begins With Space Station Robotics NASA's highly anticipated Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) began operations on the International Space Station with the Canadian Dextre robot and RRM tools March 7-9, 2012, marking important mileston ... more | .. |
  New Report Expands on Vital Role of Aerospace and Defense Industry to U.S. Economy A new report commissioned by AIA demonstrates the irreplaceable impact the aerospace and defense (A/D) industry has on America's economic and national security. Addressing the current economic crisi ... more | .. |
  Tile Makers Creating Orion Shield Workers recently began cutting and coating the first thermal protection system tiles - part of the heat shield that will protect an Orion spacecraft during an upcoming flight test which will simulat ... more |
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 Enjoying massage of the future at the world's top IT fair With all the frantic deal-making and head-spinning gadgets at the world's top IT fair, it is perhaps no surprise that a chair promising the benefit of two hours sleep in 20 minutes drew big queues. ... more | .. |
 Ground robot speed records raise hopes Record ground speeds achieved by robots in recent tests by the U.S. Department of Defense raise hopes more robots will be put to military use in the years to come. ... more | .. |
 Robot artist 'draws' crowds at world's top tech fair A robot caricaturist that can draw an accurate likeness of its subject in just three minutes was wowing the crowds on Wednesday at the world's biggest IT fair, but not every customer was satisfied. ... more | .. |
 Russia building robot to go into space Russia says it is building a humanoid robot to work in orbit on the International Space Station within two years, its first space robot in two decades. ... 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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  FAA Starts UAS Test Site Selection Process On 7 March, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released a request for public comment on the selection process for six unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) test sites (comments due by 9 May), follo ... more | .. |
  Boeing Delivers First P-8A Poseidon Production Aircraft to US Navy Boeing has delivered the first production P-8A Poseidon aircraft to the U.S. Navy in Seattle. The P-8A is the first of 13 anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, intelligence, surveillance and ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Awarded Contract for Patriot Engineering Services Raytheon has received a $138.7 million contract to provide engineering services for the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System. This is the third of four annual options to the base contract awarded ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Completes Delivery of All Components of First THAAD Battery to US Army Lockheed Martin has completed delivery of all hardware and components associated with the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weapon system's first U.S. Army Battery. In December, THAA ... more |
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  Boeing and Artel to Provide Commercial Satellite Services to US Government Boeing has announced that Boeing Commercial Satellite Services (BCSS), a unit of Boeing Satellite Systems International, will collaborate with Artel, a global leader in information technology and ma ... more | .. |
 IWI Introduces the World's Only 7.62mm Caliber LMG with Semi-Automatic Mode Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) - a leader in the production of combat-proven small arms for governments, armies, and law enforcement agencies around the world - launches its new Light Machine Gun (L ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Awarded US Army Contract to Counter Rockets The U.S. Army awarded Raytheon a $79.2 million contract to develop a system that will detect and destroy incoming rockets. The solution is called the Accelerated Improved Intercept Initiative (AI3). ... more | .. |
 Taiwan drone missing Taiwan's military said one of its drones was missing and believed to have crashed on Wednesday, the first such incident since the sophisticated pilotless aircraft was introduced two years ago. ... 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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  One Year after Fukushima The Fukushima disaster happened one year ago - the impacts are not over yet, neither in Japan nor in Germany. Immediately after the reactor accident became known, KIT established working groups that ... more | .. |
 Researchers harness Kraken to model explosions via transport First, the bad news: all across America, trucks and tractor-trailers are transporting industrial explosives on nearly every artery of the country's interstate and highway system. That's right, volat ... more | .. |
 GIS siting of emergency vehicles improves response time In an emergency, minutes matter. With this knowledge, University of Georgia researchers developed a new method for determining where emergency vehicle stations should be located. The results of thei ... more | .. |
  "We need energy storage for the energy revolution" Until now, energy storage has mainly been used in devices such as mobile phones or notebook computers. Energy experts say this is going to change. As the use of renewable energy sources expands, the ... more |
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 Overcoming the energy squeeze A polymer is a mesh of chains, which slowly break over time due to the pressure from ordinary wear and tear. When a polymer is squeezed, the pressure breaks chemical bonds and produces free radicals ... more | .. |
 Nanotrees harvest the sun's energy to turn water into hydrogen fuel University of California, San Diego electrical engineers are building a forest of tiny nanowire trees in order to cleanly capture solar energy without using fossil fuels and harvest it for hydrogen ... more | .. |
 Shift to green energy sources could mean crunch in supply of scarce metals A large-scale shift from coal-fired electric power plants and gasoline-fueled cars to wind turbines and electric vehicles could increase demand for two already-scarce metals - available almost exclu ... more | .. |
  Summit plan clouded by flap over Cuba Plans for a Latin American summit in Colombia are in disarray after a diplomatic flap that means Cuba may be barred from taking part. ... more |
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