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Private Lunar mission and the future of space tourismMoscow, Russia (Voice of Russia) Apr 11, 2012 Teams from America, Europe and Asia compete for the Google Lunar X-Prize. At stake are $30 mln. The aim is to send privately funded mission to the Moon, to land a robot on its surface able to travel 500 meters and send back to Earth video, images and data. A rover has to reach the Moon before the end of 2015. Astrobotic Technology is one of a handful of teams competing for $20 million offered by Google to the first private company that would ma ... read more |
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  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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  Big boost for UK space technology industry The Government is to grant nearly 6 million pound to co-fund major new British research that will develop commercial products and services using space technology and data from space-based systems. ... more | .. |
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  NASA Selects Loral Platform to Help Enable Next Era of Space Communications Space Systems/Loral is teaming with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to host a laser communications relay demonstration (LCRD) on a commercial satellite to be launched in 2016. NASA 's Space Techn ... more | .. |
  New 'rocket' can go to moon on 100 cc fuel A lightweight satellite thruster can go to the Moon on just 100 ml of fuel, slashing cost of space missions. The mini motor uses electricity to expel ions and generate thrust, built to manoeuvre spa ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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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Trump deploys nuclear submarines in row with Russia
Navy F-35 jet crashes in California
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 Space Debris Remediation - Who Are We Kidding? 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. ... 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 Open access to science research debated One of the world's largest research charities, Britain's Wellcome Trust, says it will support efforts by scientists to make their work freely available for all. ... more |
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  N. Korea set to install satellite on rocket: official North Korea is set to complete the assembly of its latest rocket by installing the satellite payload later Tuesday, a senior space official said. ... 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 waiting for S-500 air defense system The S-500, a new generation surface-to-air missile system, is to enter the Russian Air Defense arsenal in 2015. At present, the Russian Air Forces are outfitted with the S-400 and S-300V4 complexes, ... more | .. |
  Boeing to Upgrade B-1 Navigation System for USAF Boeing has received a $55.3 million production contract from the U.S. Air Force to upgrade the B-1 Lancer navigation system. The upgrade will replace the original navigation hardware with a new ring ... more | .. |
 Pirates, Beware: US Navy Smart Robocopters Will Spy You in the Crowd Navy unmanned aircraft will be able to distinguish small pirate boats from other vessels when an Office of Naval Research (ONR)-funded sensor starts airborne tests this summer, officials said. Calle ... more | .. |
 Fifth generation fighters provide air superiority According to American Air force officials "The F-22 is better than any other aircraft in the world at air-to-ground except for the F-35, and the F-35 is better than any other aircraft in the world a ... more |
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 Russian AA, ABM systems - alternative for India India's army chief General Vijay Kumar Singh said in March that the Indian army had been rendered inefficient, slamming the defense ministry for corruption, which can help Russia get its foot in the ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract to Deliver Unattended Ground Systems The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to provide SCORPION and SCORPION II Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) systems to protect soldiers with a remote persistent unattended surveillance ... more | .. |
 Boeing, US Navy Conduct Networked Distributed Targeting Capability Flight Test on Super Hornet Boeing and the U.S. Navy have successfully completed a flight test of the prototype Distributed Targeting System-Networked (DTS-N) on a Super Hornet. The system is designed to enhance the F/A-18E/F ... more | .. |
 US grounds unmanned helicopters after accidents The US Navy said Tuesday it grounded its fleet of unmanned MQ-8B Fire Scout helicopters after what it termed "two unrelated operational mishaps" with the aircraft. ... 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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 Iran commander denies report of US drone overflights A top Iranian military commander on Tuesday denied a US news report that the CIA has been successfully sending spy drones over Iran over the past three years. ... more | .. |
 China increases naval UAV use The China's People's Liberation Army Navy has begun deploying unmanned aerial vehicles aboard its ships. ... more | .. |
  Sulfur in every pore From smartphones to e-bikes, the number of mobile electronic devices is steadily growing around the world. As a result, there is an increased need for batteries that are small and light, yet powerfu ... more | .. |
  Chips as mini Internets Computer chips have stopped getting faster. In order to keep increasing chips' computational power at the rate to which we've grown accustomed, chipmakers are instead giving them additional "cores," ... more |
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 Controlling quantum tunneling with light Scientists at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge have used light to help push electrons through a classically impenetrable barrier. While quantum tunnelling is at the heart of the peculiar wave n ... more | .. |
 Simulation software optimizes networks By the year 2020, thousands of kilometers of new grids will be operating in Germany to permit even more extensive use of power from renewable sources. However, these new "smart grids" also come with ... more | .. |
 Researcher Finds Faster, Cheaper Way To Cool Electronic Devices A North Carolina State University researcher has developed a more efficient, less expensive way of cooling electronic devices - particularly devices that generate a lot of heat, such as lasers and p ... more | .. |
 Opening the gate to robust quantum computing Scientists have overcome a major hurdle facing quantum computing: how to protect quantum information from degradation by the environment while simultaneously performing computation in a solid-state ... more |
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