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Space Debris Remediation - Who Are We Kidding?Bethesda MD (SPX) Apr 10, 2012 Over the past few years we have endured idea after idea on how to remove space debris. The list is almost endless. There is the ground-based high energy laser that will zap trash right out of space. Tethers can do it better, faster and cheaper. Water sprays are simple and effective. Orbiting trash cans make all kinds of sense. Air bursts are very clean and simple. Nets can collect lots of debris quickly. And, the list goes on and on. Our all-time favorite idea is "Space Balls" that can passively c ... read more |
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  Russia to shift space launches to Plesetsk, Vostochny The number of space launches from Russia-based space ports Plesetsk and Vostochny must rise from 25% to 90% by 2020. This ambitious goal was laid down in the state space development project pr ... more | .. |
  Galileo satellites intensify competition on the market of navigation Two satellites of the European Galileo global navigation satellite system have successfully passed flight tests. Full satellite group will consist of 30 devices, and there are plans of its expansion ... more | .. |
 To boldly go where no glass has gone before QUT's first foray into space is bound to be a giant step for mankind. Dr Martin Castillo from Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) Science and Engineering Faculty, and researcher for the univ ... more | .. |
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  NASA Awards Launch Contract For Goes-R And Goes-S Missions NASA has selected United Launch Services, LLC of Englewood, Colo., to launch the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R and S, or GOES-R and GOES-S. The spacecraft will launch in Octob ... more | .. |
  Japan deploys missile defences for N.Korea rocket Japan has deployed missile batteries in Tokyo and dispatched destroyers as North Korea makes final preparations for a rocket launch that could take place this week despite fierce condemnation from across the globe. ... more | .. |
 Outside View: Obama's message to Medvedev Judging from the avalanche of negative comments about U.S. President Barack Obama's open microphone missile gaffe his Republican opponents got an unexpected windfall that can turn around or at least reduce the advantage in ratings that Obama presently enjoys. ... more | .. |
 Israel seeks $700M from U.S. for defense Israel is seeking $700 million from the United States to fund additional batteries of the Iron Dome counter-rocket system and other air-defense weapons. ... more |
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Trump deploys nuclear submarines in row with Russia
Navy F-35 jet crashes in California
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  Skygate And SES Sign Agreement For Distribution Of SES' Satellite Broadband Service In The Middle East SES and SkyGate has announced that they have signed a five year contract for the distribution of SES' successful satellite broadband service SES Broadband, formerly known as ASTRA2Connect, in the Mi ... more | .. |
 KVH mini-VSAT Broadband Network has the largest market share Launched in late 2007, the mini-VSAT Broadband service from KVH Industries, Inc. has quickly grown to become the world's leading maritime VSAT network, according to a new industry research report fr ... more | .. |
  Russia Plans First Tourist Spaceport The Uniparx Development company said on Thursday it was planning to build a spaceport in central Russia near the birthplace of Yury Gagarin, the first man to conquer space. The Russian spacepo ... more | .. |
  Murdoch's Sky News admits hacking 'canoe' man's emails Sky News, the British broadcaster partly owned by Rupert Murdoch, admitted on Thursday that it had illegally hacked into the emails of a man who notoriously faked his own death in a life insurance scam. ... more |
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  Plutonium to Pluto: Russian nuclear space travel breakthrough 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 o ... more | .. |
 Colombia's tinted gold passes for precious stones All that glitters is gold under a new thermochemical process developed by Colombian engineers for color-tinting the precious metal to make it look like sapphires, rubies or emeralds. ... more | .. |
  Pentagon considers nuclear-powered drones American scientists are working on new-generation nuclear-powered unmanned aircraft capable of staying in the air for up to several months. While being able to tackle a wider range of more complicat ... more | .. |
 China increases naval UAV use The China's People's Liberation Army Navy has begun deploying unmanned aerial vehicles aboard its ships. ... 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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 Israeli leaders play macabre numbers game Amid Israel's scramble to develop weapons to counter the threat of a massive missile bombardment by Iran, Syria and their proxies, top officials are playing a macabre numbers game about how many fatalities the Jewish state might suffer. ... more | .. |
 Yemen air force, US drone kill 24 Qaeda suspects Air strikes have killed 24 Al-Qaeda suspects in their strongholds in the country's south and east, the defence ministry and a tribal chief said on Sunday. ... more | .. |
  BAE, Embraer collaborate on transport jet Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer and the Brazilian air force have selected BAE Systems to provide part of the overall cockpit controls for the KC-390 military transport aircraft, the European defense manufacturer said. ... more | .. |
  Titanic disaster 'unlikely to happen again' World-leading ship science expert, Professor Ajit Shenoi, says that a seafaring tragedy on the scale of the Titanic disaster is unlikely to happen again. Professor Shenoi, who is the Director ... more |
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 JILA team demonstrates a new way of lasing: A 'superradiant' laser Physicists at JILA have demonstrated a novel "superradiant" laser design, which has the potential to be 100 to 1,000 times more stable than the best conventional visible lasers. This type of laser c ... more | .. |
 Defying conventional wisdom, water can float on oil Defying thousands of years of conventional wisdom, scientists are reporting that it is possible for water to float on oil, a discovery they say has important potential applications in cleaning up oi ... more | .. |
  Quantum control protocols could lead to more accurate, larger scale quantum computations A protocol for controlling quantum information pioneered by researchers at UC Santa Barbara, the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in Delft, the Netherlands, and the Ames Laboratory at Iowa State Unive ... more | .. |
 Free apps drain smartphone energy on 'advertising modules' Researchers have shown that popular free smartphone apps spend up to 75 percent of their energy tracking the user's geographical location, sending information about the user to advertisers and downl ... 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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  Politics key in Greek debt problem With the Greek elections about a month away, the resolution of the country's debt crisis is proving to be "primarily a political problem," the mayor of a town in central Greece said. ... more | .. |
  Facebook buys Instagram photo app for $1 bn Facebook announced Monday that it made a billion-dollar-deal to buy the startup behind wildly popular smartphone photo sharing application Instagram. ... more | .. |
 New York pay phones to get touchy feely makeover A handful of grimy New York pay phones will be reincarnated as touch-screen pads with online access to neighborhood information, the mayor's office said Monday. ... more | .. |
 AOL says to sell 800 patents to Microsoft for $1.0 bn AOL announced plans to sell more than 800 patents to Microsoft in a $1.056 billion deal giving the struggling Internet pioneer a needed cash injection as it seeks to fend off pressure from shareholders. ... more |
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 Chinese inflation rate rises to 3.6 pct in March China's inflation rate edged up in March, driven by rising food costs, official data showed Monday, but analysts said there was still scope for Beijing to stimulate the slowing economy. ... more | .. |
  Japan swings back to current account surplus Japan posted a current account surplus in February thanks to a stronger US economy, official data said, reversing a record deficit in January although the figure was still down 30.7 percent on-year. ... more | .. |
 China sets up rare earth body to boost sector China has set up a rare earth industry group, the government said Monday, in a bid to streamline the sprawling sector and fend off complaints about Beijing's seemingly monopolistic control. ... more | .. |
  Best marketing for renewable energies Transmission system operators must assess precisely the supply of electricity from renewable energies for the next day in order to market this electricity on the European Power Exchange (EPEX) as ef ... more |
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