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A Soyuz takes shape in French Guiana for the next dual Galileo satellite launchKourou, French Guiana (ESA) May 10, 2012 The launcher for Arianespace's next Soyuz mission from the Spaceport in French Guiana is completing its initial checkout for a flight in the second half of 2012, which will carry another two spacecraft for Europe's Galileo satellite navigation constellation. During activity at the Spaceport's Soyuz Launcher Integration Building - known by its Russian "MIK" designation - the vehicle's four first-stage strap-on boosters have been mated with the Block A core second stage, followed by integration of t ... read more |
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  NASA Conducts Tests on Orion Service Module Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center are testing parts of the Orion service module to ensure the spacecraft can withstand the harsh realities of deep space missions. To date, Marshall ha ... more | .. |
  Curtiss-Wright Controls Awarded Contract By Alenia Aermacchi Curtiss-Wright Controls has announced that it has received a contract from Alenia Aermacchi S.p.A. to supply rugged data acquisition subsystems for use in the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) ... more | .. |
 TDRS-4 Mission Complete; Spacecraft Retired From Active Service The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 4 (TDRS-4) recently completed almost 23 years of operations support and successfully completed end-of-mission de-orbit and decommissioning activities. TDRS-4's ... more | .. |
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 Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Propulsion Orbits Critical Communications Satellite for US Military Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne upperstage propulsion successfully orbited the second in a series of Advanced Extremely High-Frequency (AEHF) communications satellites for the U.S. military once again ... more | .. |
  United Launch Alliance IAMAW Employees Ratify New Contract United Launch Alliance has been notified that the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) representing its workforce at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Decatur, ... more | .. |
 KIT Researchers Succeed in Realizing a New Material Class A research team lead by Professor Martin Wegener at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has succeeded in realizing a new material class through the manufacturing of a stable crystalline meta ... more | .. |
  S. Korea to urge N. Korea to stop GPS jamming South Korea said Wednesday it would send formal complaints to North Korea and to UN agencies, urging Pyongyang to stop sending GPS jamming signals that have affected hundreds of civilian flights. ... 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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  Britain confirms U-turn over F-35 jets Britain confirmed Thursday it has reversed its choice of fighter jets for future aircraft carriers, ditching the preferred conventional take-off version of the US-built F-35 for a jump-jet model. ... more | .. |
  Autonomous Vehicle Developed for Surveying Assault-Zone Runways TORC Robotics recently demonstrated an autonomous vehicle for Air Force Research Labs (AFRL) capable of performing expedient runway surveys, including taking soil hardness measurements, providing te ... more | .. |
 GE Aviation to Participate in Demo on AAI's Shadow UAS GE Aviation has been awarded a contract by AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems to provide the stores management system for a demonstration involving Shadow. The ... more | .. |
 Lower the Boom BAE Systems has been awarded a contract to develop and manufacture the Actuator Control Unit (ACU) for the Boeing KC-46A tanker. The contract is for the design, development, test, and production of ... more |
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 GD to Develop Joint Assault Bridge Prototypes The U.S. Army Contracting Command has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems a $26 million contract to build two Joint Assault Bridge (JAB) prototypes. General Dynamics Land Systems is a business uni ... more | .. |
 3D MAW (FWD) explores the use of unmanned helicopters Improvised explosive devices have changed the way the Marine Corps engages hostile forces. The need has risen for supplies to reach the most remote parts of Afghanistan quickly, reliably and safely. ... more | .. |
 Spy drone crash kills engineer in S. Korea: police A foreign engineer from an Austrian company was killed and two South Korean colleagues were injured Thursday when an unmanned spy drone crashed into their control vehicle during a test flight, police said. ... more | .. |
  China interested in Russian missile system China wants to purchase Russia's S-400 anti-aircraft missile system to replace the S-300 system, a military and technical cooperation official told reporters on May 6. China has placed an orde ... 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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 USAF between F-22 and a hard place The wrap-up of the F-22 Raptor production in the US may mark the beginning of its military carrier. In fact, many experts believe that the redeployment of these stealthy air dominance fighters to th ... more | .. |
 K-MAX Unmanned Aerial Cargo Hauler Exceeds Million-Pound Milestone Two unmanned K-MAX helicopters have delivered more than one million pounds in less than four months in support of the U.S. Marine Corps in Afghanistan and will remain in theater until September on a ... more | .. |
 US military to pack more BlackBerry smartphones Research In Motion (RIM) on Wednesday announced that the US Department of Defense staff and partners have been given the go-ahead to use more of the Canadian firm's BlackBerry OS 7 smartphones. ... more | .. |
  2012 not end of world for Mayans after all Mayan wall writings in Guatemala include calendars suggesting the culture was not convinced the world will end in 21012, as many have believed, researchers say. ... more |
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  Coconuts, wind and sun to power Pacific nations Tiny Pacific nations which are most at threat from rising seas have vowed to dump diesel and other dirty expensive fuels blamed for causing global warming and replace them with clean sources. ... more | .. |
  Electric-powered van to make trans-Africa trip An electric-powered van launched a trip Thursday to cross eastern and southern Africa, in an expedition designed to showcase the endurance of the vehicles and promote green energy use. ... more | .. |
  China trade surplus widens in April China said Thursday its trade surplus widened in April as import growth slowed, casting doubts over the capacity of the world's second biggest economy to rebound quickly. ... more | .. |
 Green growth is not just for rich nations: World Bank The World Bank urged global governments Thursday to heed the environment when pursuing prosperity, rejecting what it called a myth that green growth is a luxury most countries cannot afford. ... 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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 Spanish firm hit with $43M Argentine fine Spanish telecom operator Telefonica faces a $43 million fine in Argentina amid reports Buenos Aires has the company in sight for a possible takeover after seizing the Repsol YPF energy firm. ... more | .. |
  Microsoft weaves Facebook into Bing search Microsoft on Thursday said that it is weaving insights from user's Facebook friends into Bing results as part of the biggest revamp of the search engine since its launch three years ago. ... more | .. |
 Amazon conjures rights to borrow Harry Potter; Samsung buys streaming AV service Amazon said Thursday it has signed a deal for the electronic books rights to all seven Harry Potter titles English, French, Italian, German and Spanish for its Kindle lending library. ... more | .. |
 US regulators urge online 'do not track' law A top US regulator urged Congress Wednesday to enact an online privacy law that includes "do not track" mechanisms for consumers on the Internet, amid indications of a split among lawmakers. ... more |
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 Thailand buys Chinese tablet computers for schools Thailand on Thursday signed a multi-million dollar deal to buy hundreds of thousands of Chinese-made tablet computers for primary school children, an official statement said. ... more | .. |
 Japan's Hitachi looks to future after wobbly year Japanese high-tech firm Hitachi said Thursday its operating profit fell in the year to March due to the earthquake and tsunami disaster at home and Thai floods, but it expected growth this year. ... more | .. |
 Fed clears China's first US bank takeover The United States on Wednesday opened its banking market to China's biggest bank ICBC, for the first time clearing a takeover of a US bank by a Chinese state-controlled company. ... more | .. |
  SIA seeks tie-ups in India, China as profits flounder Singapore Airlines (SIA) said Thursday it is exploring partnerships in India and China as it looks to guard against increased competition and global economic uncertainty. ... more |
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