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Two Women For TiangongSydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 11, 2012 After a long and convoluted saga, we are finally approaching the launch of China's next human spaceflight mission. The Shenzhou 9 spacecraft is expected to lift off in mid-June, carrying three astronauts to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory. It's been a long wait. China's last human space mission was Shenzhou 7, which flew in 2008. The gap between flights is almost four years! The gap between missions has been lengthened by the fact that China's human spaceflight program has reached a new ... read more |
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 Shenzhou 9 Ready For Manned Mission To Tiangong-1 With the June 9 rollout of the Long March launch vehicle from its assembly building, Shenzhou 9 has taken a major step towards orbit. The Shenzhou launch campaign has settled into a routine where th ... more | .. |
  Sea Launch Releases Preliminary Payload Telemetry Data on Intelsat 19 Sea Launch has released preliminary "Quick Look" payload unit (PLU) telemetry information to Intelsat S.A. and Space Systems Loral on June 8, 2012. The data covered the full mission profile from lif ... more | .. |
 EpicNG Satellite Platform bring high performance enhancement to Intelsat birds Intelsat S.A., the world's leading provider of satellite services, has introduced the Intelsat EpicNG satellite platform, a new series of satellites based upon a high performance, open architecture ... more | .. |
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  Tennessee takes big step towards nuclear fusion power Imagine a world without man-made climate change, energy crunches or reliance on foreign oil. It may sound like a dream world, but University of Tennessee, Knoxville, engineers have made a giant step ... more | .. |
  NuSTAR Arrives at Island Launch Site NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, and its rocket flew above the palm trees to arrive at their launch location at the U.S. Army's Reagan test site at Kwajalein Atoll. Kwa ... more | .. |
 China to launch manned spacecraft this month China will launch a spacecraft this month to conduct its first manned space docking, state media said Saturday, the latest step in a plan aimed at giving the country a permanent space station by 2020. ... more | .. |
  NASA Surpasses Test Facility Record With Long-Duration J-2X Powerpack Test NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., broke its own record on June 8, when it conducted a test on the new J-2X powerpack. The test lasted for 1,150 seconds, breaking the previous re ... more |
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Airbus CO3D satellites begin mission to generate high precision global 3D map
BlackSky to supply satellite imagery and analytics for Latin American security operations
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  Study: Vacations are going digital Packing smartphones, tablets and laptops is as much a part of vacations these days as remembering the sunscreen, a Michigan State University study found. ... more | .. |
  US scientists host 'bake sale for NASA' Could some really great cupcakes be enough to send Americans back to the Moon? ... more | .. |
 Russia, EADS to Build Space Plant by 2015 Russia's Energia space rocket corporation and Astrium, an aerospace subsidiary of the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS), will build a joint venture in Russia in about two years, E ... more | .. |
 Smooth moves: how space animates Hollywood If you've been to see Wrath of the Titans, then you've watched it in action. A computer programmer is using software he developed to control spacecraft to help animators make more realistic computer ... more |
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  Rogozin Talks Up New Spaceport Plan State investment in the creation of a cosmodrome in the Amur Region is comparable in scale to the first Soviet long-term plan for the electrification of Russia, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin ... more | .. |
 XCOR Appoints Space Expedition Corp As General Sales Agent For Space Tourism Flights With the Tom Sachs space-themed art exhibit, "Space Program: Mars" as a backdrop, XCOR Aerospace named Space Expedition Corporation (SXC) as the new General Sales Agent (GSA) for the XCOR owned Lynx ... more | .. |
 CU-Boulder students to help NASA develop plant food production for deep space University of Colorado Boulder students and faculty have been selected to develop a remotely operable, robotic garden to support future astronauts in deep space. The project is one of five universit ... more | .. |
  Boeing, Raytheon and Harris to Pursue GPS Control Segment Sustainment Contract Boeing, Raytheon and Harris Corporation will work together to pursue future development and sustainment work on the Air Force GPS Control Segment Sustainment (GCSS) contract. The control segment is ... more |
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First wildfire images reveal FireSat's unmatched detection capabilities
MetOp Second Generation satellite fully fuelled ahead of August launch
MicroCarb satellite launch marks new era in urban carbon tracking | .. |
 Another Ariane 5 begins its initial build-up at the Spaceport The fourth Ariane 5 for launch by Arianespace in 2012 is beginning to take shape with the assembly start-up of this heavy-lift vehicle at the Spaceport in French Guiana, which will orbit a dual-pass ... more | .. |
  Indian border force eyes sat-phone upgrade India's Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a request for information to upgrade its satellite phone system for use by the Border Security Force. ... more | .. |
  European country orders targeting system An unidentified Western European country has ordered a ground observation and target acquisition system from Israel Aerospace Industries. ... more | .. |
  Israel: Second F-35 deal is in the cards Israel's military leaders are expected to give the green light to buying more of Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning Joint Strike Fighters to equip a second squadron when they meet this month to finalize the military's procurement plan. ... more |
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  Boeing Accepts Delivery of 1st Harpoon Launch Structure from Danish Aerotech Boeing has accepted delivery of the first Aluminum Launch Support Structure (ALSS) produced by Danish Aerotech A/S for ship-based deployment of the Harpoon weapon system. The Karup-based supplier re ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Conducts Successful EAPS Controlled Flight Test Lockheed Martin's Extended Area Protection and Survivability Integrated Demonstration (EAPS ID) program successfully conducted a Controlled Test Vehicle flight test on May 26 at White Sands Missile ... more | .. |
  UN backs probe into US drone civilian casualties The UN human rights chief on Thursday called for a UN investigation into US drone strikes in Pakistan, questioning their legality and saying they kill innocent civilians. ... more | .. |
  Study predicts imminent irreversible planetary collapse Using scientific theories, toy ecosystem modeling and paleontological evidence as a crystal ball, 18 scientists, including one from Simon Fraser University, predict we're on a much worse collision c ... more |
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Trump administration expected to say greenhouse gases aren't harmful
MicroCarb satellite launches to map global carbon dioxide emissions from space
Rollable solar array by GalaxySpace redefines satellite compactness and power efficiency | .. |
  Rice, UCLA slash energy needs for next-generation memory Researchers from Rice University and UCLA unveiled a new data-encoding scheme this week that slashes more than 30 percent of the energy needed to write data onto new memory cards that use "phase-cha ... more | .. |
 SFU helps quantum computers move closer The quantum computer is a futuristic machine that could operate at speeds even more mind-boggling than the world's fastest super-computers. Research involving physicist Mike Thewalt of Simon F ... more | .. |
 Lawrence Livermore research identifies precise measurement of radiation damage Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have for the first time simulated and quantified the early stages of radiation damage that will occur in a given material. "A full understanding of ... more | .. |
  China exports, imports rise sharply China's exports and imports shot up in May, but analysts cautioned the better-than-expected data released Sunday was no cause for joy amid global economic woes and a slowdown in the Asian powerhouse. ... more |
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  China revives key economic reform amid transition China's move to allow more competition in its state-dominated banking sector revives a reform shelved for nearly a decade and defies expectations of a policy freeze before leadership change this year. ... more | .. |
 Apple courts developers vital to its popularity Apple on Monday will spotlight next-generation software for its coveted gadgets as it kicks off its annual gathering of developers whose applications are vital to the company's success. ... more | .. |
  China auto sales rise 16% in May Vehicle sales in China rose 16 percent year-on-year in May to 1.61 million units, according to industry data Saturday, indicating a strengthening recovery in the world's biggest auto market. ... more | .. |
 Fusion power said one step closer U.S. researchers say they've completed an important step in developing a key technology that could lead to clean nuclear fusion power. ... more |
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