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Russia, India in hypersonic missile talksNew Delhi (UPI) Mar 30, 2012 Russia and India are in discussions to develop a hypersonic cruise missile and are near agreement on a preliminary design, Indian officials said. "In the near future, we will set up a joint working group which will work out the parameters of the missile in cooperation with developers, and also decide how much each side will contribute to the project," Praveen Pathak, the head of the BrahMos Indian-Russian cruise missile program, told RIA Novosti. The weapon will be capable of speeds of M ... read more |
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  SLS Avionics Test Paves Way for Full-Scale Booster Firing NASA has successfully tested the solid rocket booster avionics for the first two test flights of the Space Launch System, America's next heavy-lift launch vehicle. This avionics system include ... more | .. |
  Orbital Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Company's Founding Orbital Sciences has celebrated the company's first three decades in the space business as it completed 30 years of operations since the enterprise's founding on April 2, 1982. At anniversary events ... more | .. |
  New Study Calls For Recognition of Private Property Claims in Space 150 years ago in 1862, amidst the bloodiest war in our nation's history, the Lincoln administration had the foresight to pass two historic pieces of legislation: the Pacific Railway Act and the Home ... more | .. |
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  China launches French-made communication satellite China successfully sent a French-made communication satellite, "APSTAR-7," into orbit Saturday evening, using a Long March-3B carrier rocket launched from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch C ... more | .. |
  ISS Keeps Watch on World's Sea Traffic As the International Space Station circles Earth, it has been tracking individual ships crossing the seas beneath. An investigation hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA) in its Columbus module h ... more | .. |
  KVH Industries Opens New Testing Facility to House a One-of-a-kind Motion Simulator Committed to providing global high speed Internet, television, and voice services to mobile users at sea, on land, and in the air, KVH Industries recently opened a new testing facility that houses a ... more | .. |
 Many US police use cell phones to track: study Many US police departments use cell phone tracking, often without court orders, to find suspects and investigate criminal cases, according to a study released Monday. ... more |
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 How interstellar beacons could help future astronauts find their way across the universe The use of stars, planets and stellar constellations for navigation was of fundamental importance for mankind for thousands of years. Now a group of scientists at the Max-Planck Institute for Extrat ... more | .. |
 ORS SpaceLoft-6 launch to test reliability, durability of payloads in suborbital voyage The SpaceLoft-6 sounding rocket will launch April 5, 2012, at Spaceport America, in Upham, N.M., with seven payloads, crucial for future Operationally Responsive Space missions, demonstrating its de ... more | .. |
 Russian Proton-M Puts Military Satellite into Orbit Russia's Space Forces launched a Proton-M carrier rocket with a Cosmos class military satellite on board on Friday, spokesman Lt. Col. Alexey Zolotukhin said. "The rocket put the Cosmos-series ... more | .. |
 Space Launch System Program Completes Step One of Combined Milestone Reviews America's next heavy-lift launch vehicle - the Space Launch System - is one step closer to its first launch in 2017, following the successful completion of the first phase of a combined set of miles ... more |
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 Getting to the moon on drops of fuel The first prototype of a new, ultra-compact motor that will allow small satellites to journey beyond Earth's orbit is just making its way out of the EPFL laboratories where it was built. The goal of ... more | .. |
  Facebook fans get to play out celebrity fantasies A trio of console videogame stars joined the online social play revolution with a free-to-play title that lets folks at Facebook virtually live out celebrity fantasies. ... more | .. |
  Spy robot can jump 30 feet straight up The U.S. Army has tested a reconnaissance robot that can jump 30 feet into the air, high enough to vault into a second story window, its maker says. ... more | .. |
Spinning stars could guide spacecraft Spacecraft may one day navigate in space by using X-ray signals from rotating pulsars as a sort of cosmic GPS, German researchers say. ... more |
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Airbus CO3D satellites begin mission to generate high precision global 3D map
NASA teams with India to launch Earth-tracking satellite
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 Russia to Build Nuclear Space Engine by 2017 A Russian Megawatt-class nuclear propulsion system for long-range manned spacecraft must be ready by 2017, Skolkovo Foundation's Nuclear Cluster head Denis Kovalevich said on Wednesday. "At pr ... more | .. |
 NASA Fires Up Rocket Sled Hardware at China Lake NASA recently performed a trial run on a rocket sled test fixture, powered by rockets, to replicate the forces a supersonic spacecraft would experience prior to landing. The sled tests will al ... more | .. |
  Russia offers space mission medical help Russia says it will offer its medical expertise to astronauts from partner countries on the International Space Station during post-mission rehabilitation. ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Conducts Air and Missile Defense Radar System Reviews Northrop Grumman has completed two key rounds of program reviews for the U.S. Navy's Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) program, demonstrating the program is on schedule to meet critical technolog ... more |
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  Northrop Grumman Delivers First F-35 Center Fuselage Produced by Integrated Assembly Line Northrop Grumman's first F-35 center fuselage produced by its Integrated Assembly Line (IAL) was delivered to Lockheed Martin on March 16, 2012. While the company has delivered 69 center fuselages s ... more | .. |
  USAF and Lockheed Martin Complete Final System Tests For Critical Missile Warning Satellite Lockheed Martin has completed a major milestone for the U.S. Air Force's second Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous satellite (GEO-2). The milestone, known as the Final Integrated Sys ... more | .. |
 New Raytheon Guided Bomb Completes Initial Flight Test Raytheon's Small Tactical Munition Phase II scored a direct hit on a target during the weapon's first guided flight test. "STM Phase II is ideally suited to weaponize Shadow-class unmanned air ... more | .. |
  AeroVironment Unveils Modular Gimbaled Sensor Payload on RQ-11B Raven Small UAV AeroVironment, Inc. has unveiled a new miniature gimbaled sensor payload on the battle-proven RQ-11B Raven small unmanned aircraft system at the Army Aviation Association of America Annual Professio ... more |
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Light driven visual microphone offers new tool for silent sound detection
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 'Smart' uniforms ahead for U.K. soldiers Electricity-conducting yarn could soon be woven directly into the clothing of British soldiers, replacing cumbersome batteries and cabling, researches said. ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin's Production-Optimized JLTV is Lighter and Costs Less Lockheed Martin has submitted a proposal for a substantially lighter and more affordable Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) for the next phase of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps competition. T ... more | .. |
 Iraq seeks killer missiles, but U.S. wary Iraq is acquiring an array of missiles and other sophisticated systems for the 36 Lockheed Martin F-16s it's buying to build an air force but Washington is reluctant to provide Baghdad with the most advanced U.S. weapons. ... more | .. |
  Health fears as flood-ravaged Fiji begins clean-up Flood-ravaged Fiji began a massive clean-up Tuesday, as the South Pacific nation's stretched health services expressed fears disease could quickly spread through evacuation centres. ... more |
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 Self-sculpting sand Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool. A few seconds later, you reach into the box and pull out a full-size footstool: The sand has assembled itself i ... more | .. |
 Whether grasping Easter eggs or glass bottles - this robotic hand uses tact It may be difficult to imagine, but pouring juice into a plastic cup can be a great challenge to a robot. While one hand holds the glass bottle firmly, the other one must gently grasp the cup. Resea ... more | .. |
 Honeycombs of magnets could lead to new type of computer processing Scientists have taken an important step forward in developing a new material using nano-sized magnets that could ultimately lead to new types of electronic devices, with greater processing capacity ... more | .. |
 UMass Amherst computer scientist leads the way to the next revolution in artificial intelligence As computer scientists this year celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the mathematical genius Alan Turing, who set out the basis for digital computing in the 1930s to anticipate the elect ... more |
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