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Plutonium to Pluto: Russian nuclear space travel breakthroughMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 05, 2012 A ground-breaking Russian nuclear space-travel propulsion system will be ready by 2017 and will power a ship capable of long-haul interplanetary missions by 2025, giving Russia a head start in the outer-space race. The megawatt-class nuclear drive will function for up to three years and produce 100-150 kilowatts of energy at normal capacity. The new project proposes the use of an electric ion propulsion system. The engines exhaust thrust will be generated by an ion flow, which is further acc ... read more |
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  Spy satellite-carrying rocket blasts off A Delta 4 rocket was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on a mission to deliver a spy satellite to orbit, officials said. ... more | .. |
  James Murdoch quits as BSkyB chairman James Murdoch resigned as chairman of British pay-TV giant BSkyB Tuesday, saying he did not want to become a "lightning rod" for the hacking scandal at his father Rupert's media empire. ... 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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 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 | .. |
 Orbital Receives Order for Minotaur I Space Launch Vehicle From USAF 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 (OR ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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 | .. |
  B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Completes First Ever Polar Test Mission Under contract to the U.S. Air Force, Northrop Grumman's B-2 Spirit stealth bomber has completed its first 18.5-hour sortie over the North Pole to validate new flight management software. The ... more | .. |
  Iran 'advises' Arab neighbours against missile shield Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi on Wednesday "advised" neighbouring Arab states in the Gulf not to adopt a missile shield project being promoted by the United States. ... more | .. |
 NATO awards Typhoon support contract NATO has signed a five-year contract with Germany's Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH for support of Typhoon aircraft flown by four countries. ... 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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 First F-35 For The Netherlands Rolls Out Of F-35 Production Facility The first F-35 Lightning II for The Netherlands rolled out of the F-35 production facility on April 1. This is the latest step in the production process leading to its eventual assignment to Eglin A ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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 | .. |
 '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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  At least eight dead in Nairobi landslide Massive boulders crashed onto houses Wednesday in Mathare, a Nairobi slum, killing at least eight people after a night of heavy rains, police and the Kenyan Red Cross said. ... more | .. |
 Fiji says open for tourists despite floods Flood-ravaged Fiji insisted it was "business as usual" for the South Pacific nation's vital tourism industry Wednesday, as officials confirmed the death toll from recent downpours had risen to five. ... more |
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 'Smart City' ambitions for quake-struck Italian town Three years after a quake devastated L'Aquila, the Italian town has launched a bid to become a hi-tech European city - to the scepticism of thousands of people still living in temporary housing. ... more | .. |
  US DHS Tests Rapid Recovery Transformers The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S and T) has announced the successful completion of a drill to move, deploy and energize a trio of fast-recovery ... more | .. |
  Giant piezoelectricity from ZnO materials, comparable with perovskite, was achieved In recent years, with the growing concerns over environmental protection and human health, environment-friendly materials have received increasing attention, and for decades researchers have been fi ... more | .. |
  Argentina escalates quarrel with Spain Argentina escalated its quarrel with Spain over the fate of largest oil producer YPF, controlled by Spain, and threatened action against another Spanish company accused of failing its telecommunications customers. ... more |
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