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Orbital Receives Order for Minotaur I Space Launch Vehicle From USAFDulles, VA (SPX) Apr 04, 2012 Orbital Sciences reports that the U.S. Air Force has exercised an option order for a Minotaur I space launch vehicle to support the ORS-3 "Enabler" mission for the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office of the Department of Defense. This most recent Minotaur I space launch vehicle ordered by the Air Force will be launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) facility at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Virginia in 2013. "We are very pleased to continue to pro ... read more |
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  Boeing Completes Parachute Drop Test of Crew Space Transportation Spacecraft Boeing has completed a parachute drop test of the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft at the Delmar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nev. CST-100 is part of the Boeing Commercial Crew T ... more | .. |
  NASA and ATK Push Ahead With Booster for Deep Space Exploration System NASA and ATK hascompleted the first test for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) booster program March 28 at ATK's Promontory, Utah, test facility. This demonstration was a key avionics and controls te ... more | .. |
  Handover of Japan-built Radar to NASA On March 30, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) officially handed off a new satellite instrument to NASA at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The Dual-frequency Precipitation Ra ... more | .. |
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  Hardware 'bug' hits TomTom nav devices The Dutch maker of TomTom satellite-navigation units says a "leap year bug" has caused a fault resulting in some of the devices malfunctioning. ... more | .. |
  US scientists launch personalized robot project Imagine going to a local store, picking out a design for a robot to help with some household chores, and having the device built within a matter of hours. ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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Trump deploys nuclear submarines in row with Russia
Navy F-35 jet crashes in California
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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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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  Boeing Completes On-cost, On-schedule Delivery of F-15K Slam Eagles to Korea Boeing has delivered the final two F-15K Slam Eagles to the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) on April 2 at Daegu Air Base. All ROKAF F-15Ks were delivered on cost and on schedule. "Boeing i ... more | .. |
 Boeing, Mitacs Sponsor Advanced Technology Research with Brazil and Canada Boeing in conjunction with Brazilian university researchers and Mitacs of Canada, expect ideas that were generated during a two-day Visual Analytics workshop in Sao Paulo to lead to high-tech projec ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Awarded US Army III Corps Training Command Contract The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman a five-year, $100 million contract to continue support of the III Corps Mission Command Training Center (MCTC). The program, which was awarded under ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Awarded UK MOD Paveway IV Replenishment Contract The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded Raytheon UK a replenishment contract for Paveway IV, the latest generation GPS precision-guided munition, as part of a 60 million pound contract. R ... more |
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  Lockheed Martin Receives Contract To Maintain Shared Early Warning System for US Space and Missile Command The system that provides U.S. Theater Combatant Commanders and partner nations with U.S. missile event information will continue to be supported by Lockheed Martin. The U.S. Air Force Electron ... more | .. |
 Canada auditor general blasts F35 program Canada's auditor general on Tuesday accused the defense department of misleading lawmakers on the US-led F35 fighter jet program's soaring costs, in a scathing report. ... more | .. |
 '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 | .. |
 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 |
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Light driven visual microphone offers new tool for silent sound detection
Ancient Roman concrete longevity offers mixed sustainability benefits
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  Fuel-efficient autos drive sales higher US auto sales revved up in March amid an improving economy and as high gasoline prices boosted buying of fuel-efficient vehicles, US and foreign automakers said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Robosquirrels versus rattlesnakes Robot squirrels from the University of California, Davis, are going into rattlesnake country near San Jose, continuing a research project on the interaction between squirrels and rattlesnakes. ... more |
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