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SpaceX, NASA readies for April 30 launch to ISSWashington (AFP) March 20, 2012 Preparations for the April 30 launch of the SpaceX's Dragon commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station are underway without major problems, a top NASA official said Tuesday. "The simulations are taking place, I don't know about big drivers right now, only of what they have to do between now and launch day," said NASA Space Station manager Mike Suffredini at a news conference. There is "a lot of work to do between now and April 30, but their schedule supports it as we see it today," ... read more |
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  Early Detection of Immune Changes Prevents Painful Shingles in Astronauts and Earth-Bound Patients4 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 | .. |
 Arianespace's third ATV launch for ISS servicing is given a "go" for liftoff The Ariane 5 launch of Europe's no. 3 Automated Transfer Vehicle has been given the green light for a March 23 liftoff from the Spaceport in French Guiana on a servicing mission to the International ... 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 has been successfully tested by engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Al ... more | .. |
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  United Technologies To Sell Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne In a meeting with investors and analysts, United Technologies has updated its financing plan for the proposed $16.5 billion cash acquisition of Goodrich Corp., including expected proceeds of approxi ... more | .. |
  Experients may force revision of astrophysical models of the universe In a challenge to current astrophysical models of the universe, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories Z machine and the University of Rostock in Germany have found that current estimates of ic ... more | .. |
  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 |
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  Students and Robots Take to the Courts in Competition If you had chosen Cimarron Memorial High School, Orcutt Academy High School and Dos Pueblos High School Engineering Academy as your top picks in this past weekend's "Robotics March Madness Bracket," ... more | .. |
 Astrium and Air Liquide create EuroCryospace Astrium and Air Liquide have announced the creation of a European strategic partnership called EuroCryospace. It is an extension of Cryospace, which was set up 25 years ago to develop and manufactur ... more | .. |
  GIS Technology Offers New Predictive Analysis to Business It isn't often that managers can look to law enforcement for clues on how to more effectively do their work. But police are delivering an important lesson on the use of geographic information system ... more | .. |
 Ashton Kutcher signs up for Branson space flight Actor Ashton Kutcher is set to go into orbit after becoming the 500th customer to sign up for Richard Branson's pioneering space ship, the British tycoon said Monday. ... more |
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  Russia May Sink Satellite Salvage Plan For Antarctic Internet Connection 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 ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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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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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Newest US Missile Warning Satellite Exceeding Performance Expectations The first Space Based Infrared Systems geosynchronous earth orbit satellite, currently undergoing a rigorous operational certification process, is meeting or exceeding performance requirements, and ... more | .. |
 NRL Tests Robotic Fueling of Unmanned Surface Vessels Engineers from the NRL Spacecraft Engineering Department (SED) successfully demonstrate the robotic fluids transfer from a stationary platform to an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) in wave heights gr ... more |
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  Ethical considerations of military-funded neuroscience The United States military and intelligence communities have developed a close relationship with the scientific establishment. In particular, they fund and utilize an array of neuroscience applicati ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Awarded for Missile Defense C2BMC Contract Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $96 million follow-on contract as one of five major defense contractors on the Missile Defense National Team to continue development, operations and sustainment w ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Signs Teaming Agreement With Persistent Surveillance Systems Northrop Grumman has signed a teaming agreement with Persistent Surveillance Systems (PSS) LLC, Dayton, Ohio to integrate and support PSS's family of sensors into commercial derivative special missi ... more | .. |
 Raytheon to Help US Army Better Detect Rocket, Artillery and Mortar Threats Raytheon has been awarded a $45.5 million contract for the prototype build of the Ku Band Multi-Function RF System (MFRFS) Sense and Warn (S and W) radars for the U.S. Army. The contract is a ... more |
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 Peru upgrades air defense with $140M plan Peru has embarked on a much-delayed modernization of its air defense system and awarded a $140 million contract to an international consortium of military suppliers. ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Awarded LITENING Post Production Support Contract Northrop Grumman has been awarded a post-production support contract by the U.S. Air Force. Under the terms of this five-year-delivery, indefinite quantity contract Northrop Grumman will provi ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Receives Contract for LAIRCM Missile Defense Systems Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $334 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasure (LAIRCM) systems and support. Critical to t ... more | .. |
  Raytheon to Continue Supporting Coalition Forces' Information-Sharing Computer Network Raytheon has been awarded a contract by the Defense Information Systems Agency to continue supporting a global research, test and evaluation computer network used by U.S. and coalition forces. ... more |
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 Japan says may try to shoot down N. Korean rocket Japanese Defence Minister Naoki Tanaka has said Tokyo may try to shoot down a North Korean rocket if it heads towards Japanese territory or waters, according to reports on Tuesday. ... 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 | .. |
  A basic - and slightly acidic - solution for hydrogen storage Sometimes, solutions for hard problems can turn out to be pretty basic. That's especially true for a team of researchers at the Office of Science's Brookhaven National Laboratory (Brookhaven Lab), w ... more | .. |
 Japan, US, and EU to meet on rare earths Japan said Wednesday it will host the European Union and United States at a meeting on developing alternatives for rare earths as Chinese controls on the key minerals raise fears of a supply squeeze. ... more |
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