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Internet entrepreneur hits paydirt in space, autosSan Francisco (AFP) May 22, 2012 It was a landmark day for Elon Musk. The onetime Internet entrepreneur's firm SpaceX became the first commercial outfit to launch its own spacecraft toward the International Space Station. To top it off, his Tesla Motors venture announced it would start delivery of its new "premium" electric sedan next month, ahead of schedule. The 40-year-old South African native has channeled a dot.com fortune into a series of ambitious ventures. Besides SpaceX and Tesla, Musk heads up SolarCity, a company ... read more |
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  SpaceX blasts off to space station in historic first Opening a new era in private space flight, the US company SpaceX on Tuesday became the first commercial outfit to launch its own craft toward the International Space Station. ... more | .. |
  Measuring Transient X-rays with Lobster Eyes A technology that mimics the structure of a lobster's eyes is now being applied to a new instrument that could help revolutionize X-ray astronomy and keep astronauts safe on the International Space ... more | .. |
  Researchers Improve Fast-Moving Mobile Networks Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) allow people in multiple, rapidly-moving vehicles to communicate with each other - such as in military or emergency-response situations. Researchers from North Caroli ... more | .. |
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  Beidou navigation system installed on more Chinese fishing boats China's homegrown Beidou Navigation Satellite System has grown in popularity among fishermen, with nearly 70,000 people using its short message service (SMS), said an official from the system's mana ... more | .. |
  Glitch mars opening of world's tallest tower Strong winds forced the operators of the Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest tower, to shut down its lifts on its opening day Tuesday, leaving some visitors stranded on a 450-metre-high observation deck. ... more | .. |
 Scientists design indoor navigation system for blind University of Nevada, Reno computer science engineering team Kostas Bekris and Eelke Folmer presented their indoor navigation system for people with visual impairments at two national conferences in ... more | .. |
  Gilat's Spacenet Introduces Connect Series of Managed Network Services Gilat's wholly owned subsidiary Spacenet has introduced the Connect Series of network services. Spacenet's Connect Series is a tiered set of managed services that helps clarify and simplify network ... more |
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North Korea warns US against pushing it to give up nukes
Iran vows stronger response if attacked again by US, Israel
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 SES-5 Satellite Delivered To Baikonur Launch Base SES has announced that the SES-5 satellite has arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where it will now be processed for launch aboard an ILS Proton Breeze M vehicle provided by Internati ... more | .. |
  When Will Shenzhou 9 Be Launched The answer is known only to the planners and leaders of China's space programme. However, with eight missions under the belt of China's piloted spacecraft, some clues have come to light from those e ... more | .. |
 Robotic Refueling Mission Results To Be Presented At NASA Satellite-Servicing Workshop NASA and the Canadian Space Agency will present results to date from the satellite-servicing Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) during the Second International Workshop, On-Orbit Satellite Servicing, h ... more | .. |
 SpaceX scrubs launch to ISS after engine problem Engineers aborted the launch of a privately built spacecraft on a landmark mission to the International Space Station at the last second Saturday due to a rocket engine problem. ... more |
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 NASA Team to Test New Vehicle-Descent Technologies NASA technologists will get a chance next summer to relive the good old days when Agency engineers would affix space-age gizmos to rockets just to see if the contraptions worked. In what will ... more | .. |
 Loral-Built Nimiq 6 Satellite ly Performs Post-Launch Maneuvers Space Systems/Loral reports that the Nimiq 6 satellite, designed and built for Telesat, one of the world's leading satellite operators, is successfully performing post-launch maneuvers according to ... more | .. |
 Friction Stir Welding Brings Together Reliability and Affordability For Space Launch System NASA's next heavy-lift launch vehicle, the Space Launch System, is moving further in development faster thanks to proven advanced technologies like friction stir welding. Friction stir welding ... more | .. |
Pictures show N. Korea rocket launch upgrade North Korea has undertaken a major upgrade of a launch pad that could pave the way for longer-range missiles, a research group said Tuesday, amid mounting concern over Pyongyang's nuclear program. ... more |
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BAE Systems completes delivery of NOAA and NASA space weather satellites for fall launch
Building blocks of life found in distant star system suggest origins in interstellar space
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  Lockheed Martin Orbits 100th and 101st Commercial Geo Satellites The 100th and 101st Lockheed Martin commercial geostationary communication satellites have been successfully placed in orbit after a dual launch aboard an Ariane 5-ECA launch vehicle. Both satellite ... more | .. |
 Chinese navigation system to cover Asia-Pacific this year China's homegrown Beidou Navigation Satellite System, or Compass Navigation System, will be able to provide high-quality services to most users in the Asia-Pacific region this year, an unidentified ... more | .. |
 Andre Kuipers: world ambassador Observing Earth from far above, ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers is acting as a world ambassador for the WWF, which issued its flagship publication the Living Planet Report. The Living Planet Report meas ... more | .. |
  US missiles kill four in Pakistan: officials US missiles killed four militants in a Taliban stronghold of Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said, amid increasing strains with the West over a six-month blockade on NATO supplies into Afghanistan. ... more |
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  Rafael seeks missile shield for helicopters Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems is developing a "hard kill" defense for helicopters against surface-to-air missiles, part of the air force new doctrine to counter advanced SAMs being acquired by Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and the Palestinians. ... more | .. |
 Turkey pushes US for sale of drones: report The Obama administration is trying to convince the US Congress to approve the sale of spy drones to Turkey for its campaign against Kurdish rebels, the Turkish president was quoted as saying Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 S. Korea 'to spend $2 bn' on hundreds of missiles South Korea plans to spend more than $2.0 billion dollars over the next five years on buying hundreds of new missiles to cope with threats from North Korea, reports said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Peru to upgrade fast aging air force jets Peru is going ahead with a $266 million upgrade of its fast aging combat aircraft while it considers how to keep its air force up to speed with changing technologies and modern warfare requirements. ... more |
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Palantir, the AI giant that preaches US dominance
China and US wrap first day of trade talks
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 China criticises US vote on Taiwan fighter jet sales China on Monday criticised a vote by the US House of Representatives last week requiring the United States to sell 66 new fighter jets to Taiwan, describing the measure as interference by Washington. ... more | .. |
  Italy declares state of emergency in quake zone The Italian government declared a state of emergency in the quake-struck region of northeast Italy on Tuesday, where 5,000 people were camped out in temporary shelters amid fears of aftershocks. ... more | .. |
One year after tornado, Obama sees US city as example US President Barack Obama on Monday cited the courage of Joplin residents as an inspiration for the rest of the country nearly one year after a powerful tornado killed 161 people in this Midwestern town. ... more | .. |
 From Lemons to Lemonade: Reaction Uses CO2 to Make Carbon-Based Semiconductor A materials scientist at Michigan Technological University has discovered a chemical reaction that not only eats up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, it also creates something useful. And, by the w ... more |
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 In chemical reactions, water adds speed without heat An international team of researchers has discovered how adding trace amounts of water can tremendously speed up chemical reactions-such as hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis-in which hydrogen is one o ... more | .. |
  China must act to prevent hard landing: World Bank China's economic growth will ease further this year, presenting policy makers in Beijing with the challenge of preventing an excessively abrupt slowdown, the World Bank said in a report Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Stanford bioengineers create rewritable digital data storage in DNA Sometimes, remembering and forgetting are hard to do. "It took us three years and 750 tries to make it work, but we finally did it," said Jerome Bonnet, PhD, of his latest research, a method for rep ... more | .. |
 Improved lubrication without oil Running nicely - this applies even more to aqueous biopolymer solutions than to oil. These solutions are used as a cooling lubricant for machining hard metals and for tool-making machinery on which ... more |
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