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March 17, 2012
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The Arianespace "Power of Three" strategy is spotlighted at Washington's Satellite 2012 event
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 16, 2012
Arianespace's new "Power of Three" theme is making its industry debut at this week's Satellite 2012 event in Washington, D.C., where the company is underscoring the synergy, availability, reliability and commercial advantages of its full launcher family - while also adding new payloads to its order book. Speaking at Satellite 2012's Launch Services panel, Chairman and CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall confirmed the launcher family's mission planning for this year - which will be the company's busiest ever, wi ... read more

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SPACE TRAVEL

Russia Drafts New Space Exploration Strategy
Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos has submitted to the government a draft of a space exploration strategy until 2030, Kommersant business daily reported on Tuesday. The ambitious program ... more
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TECH SPACE

Russia to build space warning system
Russia says it will spend $2.1 million to create an automatic warning system to prevent collisions between spaceships, satellites and orbital debris. ... more
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GPS NEWS

Navigation devices in market woes
Personal navigating device makers are shifting strategies as they face increasing competition from increasingly capable mobile apps, U.S. analysts say. ... more
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SPACEMART

Boeing to Build 4 Satellites for Asia Broadcast Satellite Satmex Team
Boeing has been awarded a four-satellite contract, with options for four additional satellites, through a joint procurement by Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) and Satelites Mexicanos (Satmex). Financ ... more
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SpaceX Signs Launch Agreements With Asia Broadcast Satellite And Satmex
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has signed contracts with Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) and Satelites Mexicanos (Satmex) for two launches aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. "This announ ... more
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SPACEMART

Arianespace to launch EUTELSAT 25B and Eshail 1 satellites
Eutelsat Communications and Es'hailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, have selected Arianespace to launch their EUTELSAT 25B1 / Es'hail 1 satellite in the second quarter of 2013 on board an Ariane 5 ... more
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Arianespace to launch Jabiru-1 satellite
Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Adrian Ballintine, founder and Chief Executive Officer of NewSat Limited (NewSat), have signed the launch services contract for the Jabiru-1 s ... more
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Deloitte launches Silent Shield system to monitor satellite cyber threats
Trump deploys nuclear submarines in row with Russia
Cascade raises 59M to develop full stack satellite communications platform
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SPACE TRAVEL

Safety Requirements Shape Commercial Crew Designs
NASA's plans for a new generation of commercially owned and operated spacecraft and launches involve meeting a number of goals, none higher than keeping to the agency's high standards for crew safet ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Boeing Completes PDR of Commercial Crew Space Transportation Vehicle
Boeing successfully completed a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the company's integrated Commercial Crew Space Transportation system, which includes the Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacec ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Sea Launch to Launch the Intelsat 27 Spacecraft
Sea Launch has been selected to launch the Intelsat 27 communications satellite in early 2013. Intelsat 27 will be placed into an optimized geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) utilizing the highly-p ... more
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Sea Launch Selected to Launch Eutelsat's W5A Spacecraft
Eutelsat has assigned the launch of its EUTELSAT 70B (ex. W5A) communications satellite to Sea Launch to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2012. The launch will occur from Sea Launch's laun ... more
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Sea Launch Signs Two Satellite Launch Contracts
The Sea Launch consortium said on Monday it has signed contracts on the launch of a European and a U.S. telecoms satellites. The company is expected to launch the Eutelsat 70B communications s ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Roboticists Gear Up For Horizon 2020
THE European Robotics Forum, the largest Robot industry and academia gathering in the EU, was held this year at Odense, Denmark. Delegates heard a renewed commitment to Robotic R and D from the Euro ... more
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VSAT NEWS

Maritime Satellite Communications Market Tops 1.4 Billion in Revenues
Euroconsult has forecast that the number of satellite communications terminals in the global maritime market will nearly double over the next decade, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7% ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Maglev-launched spacecraft proposed
One of the U.S. inventors of the superconducting maglev train says a bigger, better version of the technology could fire payloads from Earth into orbit. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Lockheed Martin Space Fence Radar Prototype Tracking Orbiting Objects
A prototype of a new radar system developed by a Lockheed Martin-led team is now tracking orbiting space objects, bringing the U.S. Air Force's Space Fence program one step closer to revolutionizing ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Robots in record-distance ocean swim
Four wave-powered robots have set a record by swimming more than 3,200 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean, their U.S.-based developer said. ... more
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GPS NEWS

Iris: watch how satcoms help pilots
ESA is set to unveil a new interactive display in Amsterdam demonstrating communications via satellite for pilots as part of its pioneering Iris air traffic management project. By 2020 Iris will all ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Latest Hot Fire Test on Launch Abort Engine for Boeing CST 100 Spacecraft Completed
Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne has successfully completed a full-mission duration hot-fire test on a Launch Abort Engine (LAE) for Boeing's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft. The CST-100 ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Shenzhou-9 may take female astronaut to space
Authorities have completed the initial selection of crew members for China's first manned space docking mission, and the roster includes female astronauts, an official with the country's manned spac ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China to launch 100 satellites during 2011-15
China has set a target of completing a space mission of "100 rockets, 100 satellites" between 2011 and 2015, according to a space official. According to Zhang Jianheng, deputy general manager ... more
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UAV NEWS

Drones may be controlled by gestures
Drone aircraft taxiing on a runway may someday be controlled by ground personnel using just standard gestures, U.S. researchers say. ... more
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MILTECH

Arjun tanks to get automatic video tracker
India's main battle tank, the Arjun, will be fitted with an Indian-made automatic video tracker for locking onto targets until they are destroyed. ... more
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MILTECH

Sweden agrees to ratify cluster bomb ban treaty
Swedish lawmakers voted Thursday in favour of ratifying a treaty that bans the use of cluster bombs, the UN Convention on Cluster Munitions. ... more
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MILTECH

New Zealand inducts first NH90 helicopters
The New Zealand air force inducted the first two of eight NH90 helicopters into limited operational service to be used for training missions. ... more
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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS

Northrop Grumman Wins Contract for USAF Command and Control Modernization Program
The U.S. Air Force has selected Northrop Grumman for the Air and Space Operations Center (AOC) Weapon System (WS) modernization program with an initial award of $120 million. The contract has a pote ... more
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Manga artist back in the frame after Japan disasters
The graphic scenes of real life destruction wreaked by last year's tsunami left manga artist Jiro Taniguchi wondering what the point of his art form was. ... more
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT

China iron mine accident kills 13
Thirteen people died after a capsule plunged into a pit at an iron ore mine in China's eastern Shandong province Thursday, official state media reported. ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Optics Express focus issue: Modular ultrafast lasers
Ultrafast lasers, lasers that emit light pulses that are as short as a few femtoseconds, have enabled a wide-range of fundamental science and applications over the past two decades. To highlig ... more
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TECH SPACE

UMass Amherst polymer scientists, physicists develop new way to shape thin gel sheets
Inspired by nature's ability to shape a petal, and building on simple techniques used in photolithography and printing, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a new to ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Laser lightning rod: Guiding bursts of electricity with a flash of light
Using an experimental apparatus reminiscent of a classic Frankenstein movie, French researchers have coaxed laboratory-generated lightning into striking the same place, not just twice, but over and ... more
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