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Transneft to use GLONAS for monitoringMoscow (Voice of Russia) May 15, 2012 The "Transneft" company and the Navigational Information Systems company have begun to create a system of transport monitoring with the help of GLONAS. The Russian GLONAS and the American GPS are now being used in Russia in different transport systems. All public government transport in Russia is to be fitted with GLONAS starting from this year. The "Transneft" company wants to establish more than 20 thousand terminals- from the Far East to the Baltic Sea within a few years for transport mon ... read more |
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  Building a Heavenly Palace in outer space China's permanent space station, the Heavenly Palace, is to be launched into orbit within a decade. According to Chinese media reports, the 60-ton craft will include a central module and two laborat ... more | .. |
  Refurbishment on Grand Scale for Iconic VAB The Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has been a landmark to the technological advancements of sending men to the moon and astronauts into space for more than 45 ye ... more | .. |
  Marshall Completes Wind Tunnel Testing For Dream Chaser Space System NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., successfully completed wind tunnel testing for Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) Space Systems of Louisville, Colo. The test will provide aerodynamic ... more | .. |
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 North Korea stops jamming South's GPS: official North Korea has stopped sending GPS jamming signals that affected hundreds of civilian flights in South Korea over a two-week period, officials said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Popovkin replaces Perminov at Russian space agency Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed former First Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin as head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos on Friday, replacing Anatoly Perminov. Popo ... more | .. |
  Wireless firm Lightsquared seeks bankruptcy Lightsquared, a firm whose an ambitious high-speed wireless broadband venture was thwarted by US regulators, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, documents showed. ... more | .. |
 Nigeria to commercialize satellite services: official The newly-launched earth observation satellite, NigeriaSat-2, is now set for commercial activities, a top government official has said. Director-general of the National Space Research and Deve ... more |
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Boeing X37B Spaceplane Prepares for Eighth Orbital Test Mission
Israel military intercepts Huthi missile fired from Yemen; Gaza civil defence says Israel strikes kill 30
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  NASA Robot Competition Rolls Onto WPI Campus June 14-17 Autonomous robots created by 11 teams of engineers from across the country will compete for a NASA prize purse of $1.5 million on the campus of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), in Worcester, M ... more | .. |
  VPT Adds 15 Amp Point of Load DC-DC Converter to Space Family of Power Conversion Products VPT, Inc., a HEICO company, has announced availability of a new point of load power converter designed and manufactured for use in the extreme environment of space. The new SVGA0515 Series point of ... more | .. |
 Vietnam's 2nd satellite to be launched Vietnam will send its second satellite into orbit on May 16, the Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), on Thursday. VNPT said that after the first one, VINASAT-1, was launched in 2 ... more | .. |
 Long March-2F rocket delivered to launch center A Long March-2F carrier rocket was recently delivered to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, a spokesman with the country's manned space program said on Thursday. The Long ... more |
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 NASA Continues J-2X Powerpack Testing NASA conducted a long duration test of the J-2X powerpack, 340 seconds total, at the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi on May 10, marking another step in development of the next-generatio ... more | .. |
  Cubesats "Land" at National Science Foundation on Thursday, May 24th Imagine a fully instrumented satellite the size of a half-gallon milk carton. Small low-cost satellite payloads, built mainly by students and hitching rides into orbit on Air Force and NASA la ... more | .. |
 India conducting new round of cryogenic engine testing The Indian space agency will Saturday conduct a crucial test on an indigenously built cryogenic engine for launching its heavier rockets from its spaceport, a top official said Friday. "The cryogen ... more | .. |
 SpaceX and Bigelow Aerospace Join Forces to Offer Crewed Missions to Private Space Stations Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Bigelow Aerospace (BA) have agreed to conduct a joint marketing effort focused on international customers. The two companies will offer rides on SpaceX' ... more |
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Cosmic dust particles reveal snapshot of Earth's ancient air
Spire to Provide ESA with Satellite Weather Data for European Research
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 EchoStar XVII comes to French Guiana for a dual-payload Arianespace flight in June with Ariane The initial passenger for Arianespace's third Ariane 5 mission of 2012 is now in French Guiana for a heavy-lift launch scheduled for June 19 from the Spaceport. A chartered An-124 cargo jetlin ... more | .. |
  A Solution for Medical Needs and Cramped Quarters in Space Imagine you're an astronaut exploring the surface of Mars, when suddenly you fall ill or injure yourself. As your team struggles to get you safely back to base, you become seriously dehydrated. With ... more | .. |
  ATK Announces Complete Liberty System to Provide Commercial Crew Access ATK reports that it has developed Liberty into a complete commercial crew transportation system, including the spacecraft, abort system, launch vehicle, and ground and mission operations, designed f ... more | .. |
 For smartphone users: location, location, location More smartphones means more Americans are using the devices to get location information or to share their whereabouts with friends, a study showed Friday. ... more |
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North Korea stops jamming South's GPS: official North Korea has stopped transmitting signals which jammed the GPS systems of hundreds of civilian aircraft and ships in South Korea for two weeks, officials said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Russia Does Not Rule Out Preemptive Missile Defense Strike Russia does not exclude preemptive use of weapons against [NATO] missile defense systems in Europe but only as a last resort, the Russian General Staff said on Thursday at a missile defense conferen ... more | .. |
  American Hypersonic Weapons Are Threat To Russia Says Rogozin American research into hypersonic weapons, which the U.S. aims to complete by 2015, represents an especially serious threat to Russia, acting Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday. ... more | .. |
  Russia to buy 90 brand-new Su-35S fighters By 2020, the Russian Air Force is to procure some 90 cutting-edge super-maneuverable Su-35S fighter jets, Air force spokesman Vladimir Drik told Ria-Novosti today. The Su-35S is a highly moder ... more |
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Designing compact drones to safely navigate air ducts
Map Africa project to deliver continentwide geospatial data for 54 nations
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 Russian Air Force roundtable: status quo, revamps, perspectives An roundtable of experts on Russia's Air Force and ABM systems is slated for May 16, 2012, at the Voice of Russia radio station. It will tackle the implementation of the State Arms Program and ... more | .. |
 Russia Pulls Out of Indonesian Rocket System Tender Russia's arms trading company Rosoboronexport has pulled out of an Indonesian tender for the supply of multiple launch rocket systems, the company told Military Industrial Courier magazine. Th ... more | .. |
 Hitting the wrong target with missile-interceptor The US has carried out regular tests of the NATO missile defense system for Europe in anticipation of the NATO summit in Chicago scheduled fo ... more | .. |
 Pentagon to unveil funding for Israel The Pentagon is expected to announce an additional $680 million in U.S. aid for Israel to boost the development of anti-missile systems to shield the Jewish state from a feared bombardment by Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and the Palestinians. ... more |
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 Raytheon Completes First Flight Test of Improved SM-3 Raytheon has completed the first successful flight test of the Standard Missile-3 Block IB, which is the cornerstone of phase two of the administration's Phased Adaptive Approach (PAA). This is the ... more | .. |
  Two Lockheed Martin F-35Bs Ferried To Eglin, Marking 25th DOD Delivery Two Lockheed Martin F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) production aircraft were ferried last week to Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., marking the 24th and 25th F-35 deliveries to the Department ... more | .. |
 Boeing Completes 1st Flight of QF-16 Aerial Target for US Air Force Boeing and the U.S. Air Force completed the first manned flight of the QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target (FSAT) on May 4 at Cecil Field in Jacksonville. The QF-16 took off at 3:05 p.m. Eastern time and ... more | .. |
 F-35 costs have US partners worried Countries backing the Pentagon's new F-35 fighter jet are anxious about the program's spiraling costs and incessant delays, with some postponing or cutting investments as they wait to see if the aircraft lives up to its promise. ... more |
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