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Russia May Sink Satellite Salvage Plan For Antarctic Internet ConnectionJindabyne, Australia (SPX) Mar 19, 2012 A modern, state of the art communications satellite stranded last August in a useless orbit will constitute a double failure if Russian officials de-orbit the spacecraft as planned, according to an expert from the team hoping to salvage the spacecraft. The Russian Express-AM4 satellite, built by Astrium, was designed for geosynchronous orbit, but stranded in a six hour elliptical orbit at an inclination of 51 deg by a Proton Briz-M upper stage failure last August. Underwriters later declared ... read more |
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  Ecliptic RocketCams Capture Action on ISS During Initial Phase of Robotic Refueling Mission Demo Six rugged RocketCam color video cameras captured close-up views of the first phase of NASA's teleoperated Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) demonstration, conducted March 7-9 on the exterior of the I ... more | .. |
  Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Hot-Fires Launch Abort Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, which is supporting The Boeing Company during the development of its CST-100 spacecraft in NASA's Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2), completed mission-durati ... more | .. |
  Roscosmos takes on NASA The Russian space agency Roscosmos has submitted to the government a draft strategy for space development through 2030. The strategy lays out a plan to accomplish what the Soviet Union failed to ach ... more | .. |
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  Space foil helping to build safer cars A special foil sensor developed to measure the pressure on a spaceplane's wings during reentry into Earth's atmosphere is now helping to build safer cars. This 'space' foil has been transformed into ... more | .. |
  China's Lunar Docking Manufacturing has begun on China's first lunar lander, Chang'e 3, which is expected to launch in 2013. This spacecraft will release a rover onto the surface. If all goes well, we can expect the Ch ... more | .. |
  Hughes 9502 BGAN M2M Terminal Receives Inmarsat Type Approval Hughes Network Systems has announced that its new Hughes 9502 BGAN M2M (machine-to-machine) terminal has been fully Type Approved by Inmarsat and commercial shipments have begun. Hughes, a major pro ... more | .. |
 Gilat Launches Dual-Waveform SCPC TDMA VSAT Gilat Satellite Networks has launched the SkyEdge II Accent Dual Waveform VSAT, featuring a dual SCPC/TDMA return channel. The new VSAT will now allow operators the flexibility to implement both tec ... 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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 NASA and CSA Robotic Operations Advance Satellite Servicing NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) experiment aboard the International Space Station has demonstrated remotely controlled robots and specialized tools can perform precise satellite-servicing tas ... more | .. |
  NASA Viz App Will Now Take Users Across the Universe NASA's Science Mission Directorate is organized into four disciplines: Heliophysics, Planetary, Astrophysics and Earth science. This structure has put NASA scientists at the forefront of discovery a ... more | .. |
 Prolonged Space Travel Causes Brain and Eye Abnormalities in Astronauts Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the eyes and brains of 27 astronauts who have spent prolonged periods of time in space revealed optical abnormalities similar to those that can occur in intracran ... more | .. |
 Gilat's Wavestream Introduces New 80W X-Band Solid State Amplifier Gilat Satellite Networks reports that its wholly owned subsidiary Wavestream introduced a new 80W X-band Matchbox solid state power amplifier to address the needs of military and government applicat ... more |
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  Call for a Small mission opportunity in ESA's Science Programme Through the present Call the Director of Science and Robotic Exploration solicits from the broad scientific community in ESA's Member States proposals for the competitive selection of mission concep ... more | .. |
 NASA Sub-Scale Solid-Rocket Motor Tests Material for Space Launch System A sub-scale solid rocket motor designed to mimic NASA's Space Launch System, or SLS, booster design successfully was tested by engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. ... more | .. |
  North Korea to invite observers to satellite launch North Korea said Saturday it would invite foreign experts and journalists to observe a satellite launch which has sparked widespread condemnation and US threats that it could jeopardise food aid. ... more | .. |
 Skydiver in 4-minute free-fall jump An Austrian who made a free-fall jump from 71,581 feet into New Mexico that lasted nearly 4 minutes plans to make a 120,000-foot "space jump," officials said. ... 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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 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 | .. |
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 | .. |
 The Arianespace "Power of Three" strategy is spotlighted at Washington's Satellite 2012 event 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, reliabilit ... more | .. |
  Tucson site is largest Raytheon facility to receive a superior rating superior security rating in an annual vulnerability assessment by the U.S. Defense Security Service. DSS completed a two-week review at Raytheon Missile Systems headquarters and rated the site's sec ... more |
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  Russia to build mini drone Russian warplane maker Irkut has signed a contract with Vietnam to build a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a media report said Thursday. The $10 million deal, with Vietnam Aerospace Assoc ... more | .. |
  'Japan can crash North Korea satellite if needed' If the need arises, Japan's armed forces could shoot down North Korea's satellite, planned to be launched next month, a minister has said.Japanese Defence Minister Naoki Tanaka said this Saturday, S ... more | .. |
 Israel assesses eye-in-the-sky platforms Israel's military is evaluating two new aerial surveillance units known as tethered hovering platforms. ... more | .. |
 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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Ancient Roman concrete longevity offers mixed sustainability benefits
Increasing solar energy use offers key opportunity to reduce US carbon emissions
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  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 | .. |
  Australia braces for cyclone, floods A severe tropical cyclone smashed into Western Australia's north coast on Saturday, forcing residents to bunker down as they waited for the destructive gale-force winds to pass. ... more | .. |
  Straintronics: Engineers create piezoelectric graphene In what became known as the 'Scotch tape technique," researchers first extracted graphene with a piece of adhesive in 2004. Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb, hexago ... more | .. |
  Inner workings of magnets may lead to faster computers Using the world's fastest light source - specialized X-ray lasers - scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have revealed the secret i ... more |
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 Using Virtual Worlds to 'Soft Control' People's Movements in the Real One Eighty-eight percent of Americans now own a cell phone, forming a massive network that offers scientists a wealth of information and an infinite number of new applications. With the help of these ph ... more | .. |
 Researchers develop graphene supercapacitor holding promise for portable electronics Electrochemical capacitors (ECs), also known as supercapacitors or ultracapacitors, differ from regular capacitors that you would find in your TV or computer in that they store substantially higher ... more | .. |
  India cannot achieve China-like growth without reforms Without new and sustained governmental reforms, India will not realize its economic growth goals or potential, according to a new policy report from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Poli ... more | .. |
 Researchers create more efficient hydrogen fuel cells Hydrogen fuel cells, like those found in some "green" vehicles, have a lot of promise as an alternative fuel source, but making them practical on a large scale requires them to be more efficient and ... more |
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