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Terraforming a landscape for a robotic roverParis (ESA) May 08, 2012 Challenged to design a background for a small rover controlled from space, students in Germany have delivered a futuristic cityscape. The cool space art will be seen by astronauts in orbit via the rover's camera eye as they remotely control their avatar later this year. The ultimate goal is for robot astronauts to roam around hazardous places like Mars and asteroids guided by human controllers safely orbiting overhead in their spacecraft. As a first step, ESA is linking the International Space Sta ... read more |
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  US to conduct 'largest ever' missile defense test - Pentagon The US plans to conduct 'the largest ever test launch' of its missile defense program elements to intercept and destroy five 'enemy' missiles- three medium-range ballistic missiles and two cruise mi ... more | .. |
  Next Galileo satellites to launch after the summer The European Commission has announced the launch date of the next pair of ESA-procured Galileo satellites. These will be launched together on a Soyuz from French Guiana on 28 September, joining the ... more | .. |
  Second AEHF Military Communications Satellite Launched The second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-2) military communication satellite, built by a Lockheed Martin team for the U.S. Air Force, was successfully launched Friday from Cape Canaveral A ... more | .. |
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  China firm seeks settlement in iPad row: lawyer A Chinese computer company which sued Apple over the rights to the iPad trademark in China is now in talks for an out-of-court settlement, a lawyer for the firm said Monday. ... more | .. |
  SpaceX Launch Targeted for May 19 Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, of Hawthorne, Calif., on Friday targeted May 19 for the launch of its upcoming demonstration mission to the International Space Station. This follows ... more | .. |
Air Force launches 2nd advanced satellite The 45th Space Wing successfully launched the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V vehicle here Friday from launch pad 41 at 2:42 p.m. A ... more | .. |
 A trio of Ariane 5 launchers are now at the Spaceport Arianespace's ability to support the sustained launch pace for its heavy-lift Ariane 5 is being demonstrated once again as vehicles for the next three missions are now together in French Guiana. ... more |
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Navy F-35 jet crashes in California
Slingshot unveils TALOS AI to simulate and support strategic space operations
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  Boeing Completes Full Landing Test of Crew Space Transportation Spacecraft Boeing has completed the second parachute drop test of the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft on May 2 at the Delamar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nev. The test demonstrated the pe ... more | .. |
  Aerojet's AJ26 Flight Engine Successfully Hot-Fire Tested for Orbital's Antares Rocket Aerojet, reports that its AJ26 engine successfully completed a hot-fire test yesterday at NASA's Stennis Space Center. Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital), Aerojet and NASA monitored the fu ... more | .. |
 United Launch Alliance Urges IAM Members to Vote in Favor of New Contract United Launch Alliance (ULA) has urged its employees represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) to vote this Sunday, May 6, in favor of a new three-year c ... more | .. |
 Russia Develops Revolutionary Ammonia Rocket Engine Power engineering manufacturer Energomash has started development of a new rocket engine which could vastly reduce the cost of rocket launches and avoid the need to produce hydrogen for fuel, the ma ... more |
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 ULA Launches Advanced Extremely High Frequency-2 Satellite to Orbit for the U.S. Air Force A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Advanced Extremely High Frequency-2 (AEHF-2) satellite for the United States Air Force lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 here at 2:42 ... more | .. |
 3-D pod like something from Star Trek A Canadian scientist says he has created a Star Trek-like 3-D pod to allow people in different locations to talk as if they are standing in front of each other. ... more | .. |
 SpaceX boss admits sleep elusive before ISS launch Elon Musk, the Internet entrepreneur and owner of SpaceX, which aims to be the first private firm to send a cargo craft to the International Space Station, admits he has a case of pre-launch jitters. ... more | .. |
  JUICE is Europe's next large science mission Jupiter's icy moons are the focus of Europe's next large science mission. The Jupiter Icy moons Explorer - JUICE - was selected over two other candidates: NGO, the New Gravitational wave Observatory ... 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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  Migratory locusts in a wind tunnel Insects are capable of masterful feats of flying; whenever they witness locusts flying long distances or moths hovering over flowers, aerodynamicists can only marvel. This is why researchers at the ... more | .. |
 How will the US biotechnology industry benefit from new patent laws? Passage of the America Invents Act into law led to the most dramatic changes in the U.S. patent system in 60 years. These reforms will have a significant impact on technology innovators such as biot ... more | .. |
  Citing safety, two F-22 pilots refuse to fly: report Two F-22 pilots say they have stopped flying the US Air Force's most advanced fighter jet because of safety fears over the aircraft's oxygen system, according to a CBS television "60 Minutes" report. ... more | .. |
Lockheed Martin Delivers Final, Historic F-22 Raptor To USAF Lockheed Martin has delivered the 195th and last F-22 Raptor to U.S. Air Force leadership in a ceremony at the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics site here. With this delivery, the U.S. Air Force now posse ... more |
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 Experts write on the risks of low-level radiation Each time a release of radioactivity occurs, questions arise and debates unfold on the health risks at low doses-and still, just over a year after the disaster at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station ... more | .. |
 Revolutionary technology enables objects to know how they are being touched A doorknob that knows whether to lock or unlock based on how it is grasped, a smartphone that silences itself if the user holds a finger to her lips and a chair that adjusts room lighting based on r ... more | .. |
 Robot reveals the inner workings of brain cells Gaining access to the inner workings of a neuron in the living brain offers a wealth of useful information: its patterns of electrical activity, its shape, even a profile of which genes are turned o ... more | .. |
 Thanks for the memory: More room for data in 'phase-change' material A team led by Johns Hopkins engineers has discovered some previously unknown properties of a common memory material, paving the way for development of new forms of memory drives, movie discs and com ... more |
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Bridges gain new voice through real time GNSS monitoring of structural behavior
Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials
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 Flying 3D eye-bots They can be deployed as additional surveillance resources during major events, or as high-resolution 3D street imaging systems. Intelligent swarms of aerial drones are a universally useful tool for ... more | .. |
  Analyzing energy potential from minor discrete sources Sensors, radio transmitters and GPS modules all feature low power consumption. All it takes is a few milliwatts to run them. Energy from the environment - from sources such as light or vibrations - ... more | .. |
 Colors burst into contemporary architecture White stopped being the official colour of architecture a while ago. New buildings have now been transformed and fragmented and they display movement and innovation thanks to the versatility of colo ... more | .. |
 Fabrication method can affect the use of block copolymer thin films A new study by a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) indicates that thin polymer films can have different properties depending on the method by w ... more |
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  Yahoo! raiders step up attack on CEO, board A hedge fund battling the management of Yahoo! called for the release of documents about the recruitment of chief executive Scott Thompson in a scathing filing Monday with regulators. ... more | .. |
 Google violated copyright, but no damages: jury A jury in a high-profile technology case ruled Monday that Google violated copyrights owned by Oracle Corp. for the Android mobile platform, but failed to agree on whether damages should be awarded. ... more | .. |
  Luxury goods market to grow 7% in 2012: study The global luxury market is forecast to grow by up to seven percent in 2012 despite the financial crisis, as China continues to drive consumption, a study by an Italian foundation released on Monday showed. ... more | .. |
  Toyota unveils 'first all-electric SUV' Toyota unveiled Monday what it says is the first all-electric sports utility vehicle (SUV) on the market, a version of its popular RAV4 with a top range of 100 miles and minimum six-hour charge time. ... more |
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