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That's No Lab, It's a Space StationSydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 22, 2012 Tiangong 1 is described by its Chinese builders as a "space laboratory". This term is has been widely adopted by journalists and space analysts. It's probably not inaccurate to call the Tiangong 1 spacecraft, which has received its first crew of astronauts, a laboratory, for scientific experiments are certainly being conducted there. But does this term fully describe Tiangong 1? Prior to the arrival of three astronauts on board the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, it was difficult to say a lot about what wa ... read more |
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 Designer elaborates on challenges facing Shenzhou-9 mission In an interview, the general designer of the Tracking, Telemetry, Command and Communication System of the China Manned Space Engineering Qian Weiping said that, if we say the core mission of the She ... more | .. |
  Boeing Completes Key Reviews of Space Launch System Boeing has completed its first major technical reviews for the cryogenic stages of the Space Launch System (SLS), bringing the team into the design phase for the nation's next heavy-lift, human-rate ... more | .. |
 Complex Challenges Solved In Tech Meetings For Commercial Crew Program NASA's Commercial Crew Program is turning to a number of strategies to work through the complex challenges of engineering a new generation of rockets and spacecraft. Technical Interchange Meetings, ... more | .. |
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 Two NASA Visualizations Selected for Computers Graphics Showcase A NASA computer animation that shows how the sun's heat drives the Earth's swirling winds and ocean currents and a series that tours the lunar surface and the evolution of the moon are the scientifi ... more | .. |
  DeLorme Releases New Features For inReach Two-Way Global Satellite Communicator DeLorme, the innovation leader in personal satellite messaging, tracking and navigation technology, has announced the release of a major upgrade for inReach two-way satellite communicators. inReach ... more | .. |
  Space is Big, But Getting Smaller Last week there was an event that tells us the "end" is nearing; the end of BIG SPACE. Ever since the first satellite was launched some 55 years ago, the space community has thought of space as bein ... more | .. |
 DeLorme and Pivotel Partner to Deliver inReach Satellite Communicator in Australasia and Indonesia DeLorme has announced a partnership with Pivotel Satellite, the leading provider of mobile satellite services in Australia. As a Delorme service partner, Pivotel will deliver the award-winning inRea ... 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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  SES Gathers Momentum In Asia-Pacific With Further Significant Fleet Investment The increasing popularity of direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television and the growing demand for High Definition (HD) broadcast content across Asia-Pacific are driving the demand for satellite capa ... more | .. |
  Seven scientists named as research team leaders for NSBRI The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) has enlisted seven of the nation's top scientists to serve as team leaders in its efforts to protect astronaut health during long-duration sp ... more | .. |
 Optimal Satcom and O3b Networks Enter into a Strategic Partnership Agreement Optimal Satcom and O3b Networks announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership agreement whereby Optimal Satcom will provide enterprise capacity management systems to O3b and its cust ... more | .. |
  Via satellite: staying in touch at sea Working on the high seas can be lonely separated from friends and family for weeks at a time. Communications via satellite close this gap by providing the means to stay in touch. Now, with ESA's sup ... more |
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  Robotics 101 - With NASA's Chris McQuin + Jaret Matthews When you hear the word "robot," you might think of Hollywood creations such as the Terminator, C-3PO or Megatron. Thankfully, the reality of current robotics isn't quite that sinister, emotional or ... more | .. |
 Science world commemorates father of computer science Scientists will gather from Bangalore to Texas on Saturday to honour British mathematician Alan Turing, a pioneer of the modern computer whose code-cracking is credited with shortening World War II. ... more | .. |
 Rocket Scientist Who 'Spied for China' Freed The former head of a Russian rocket technology firm who was jailed in 2007 for selling state secrets to China has been released on parole, Radio Liberty reported. Igor Reshetin, the former dir ... more | .. |
 Spanish group sells stake in satellite operator to China Spanish infrastructure group Abertis said on Friday it had sold a 7.0-percent stake in leading European satellite operator Eutelsat to China's sovereign wealth fund. ... more |
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First wildfire images reveal FireSat's unmatched detection capabilities
MetOp Second Generation satellite fully fuelled ahead of August launch
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  Trial by vacuum brings next Galileo satellites closer to launch The next two Galileo navigation satellites have now endured the harsh vacuum and temperature extremes of space on the way to their scheduled 28 September launch. The fourth satellite completed 20 da ... more | .. |
  US military launches new satellite into space The US military launched an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday carrying a top secret satellite into space, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Backup Plans for Tiangong So far, so good. The first crewed expedition to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory has been highly successful, with three astronauts travelling to the module and beginning work. In just a few days, ... more | .. |
 NASA technology-sharing portal announced NASA says it has launched an Internet portal to accelerate technology transfer from the space agency to U.S. businesses, industry and the public. ... more |
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  Drones: pros and cons Recently, US human rights organization called "American Civil Liberties Union" filed in a suit against President Obama's administration. This organization demands that the president's administration ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Joint Threat Emitter for NAS Whidbey Island Northrop Grumman reports the successful demonstration of the company's Joint Threat Emitter (JTE) in an electronic warfare (EW) range concept test that took place at the U.S. Naval Station Everett A ... more | .. |
 U.S. Navy, Northrop Grumman Complete X-47B Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base, Move Second Unmanned Aircraft to East Coast The first major phase of flight testing the X-47 B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator aircraft came to a successful conclusion on May 15 when Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy wrapped u ... more | .. |
 Germany orders new soldier systems The Rheinmetall Group is supplying the German army with state-of-the-art soldier systems, initially for troops deploying to Afghanistan. ... 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
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  2nd Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Successfully Completes 1st Flight Boeing reports the successful de-orbit and landing of the second X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) for the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office. The X-37B landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5 ... more | .. |
 Grand Finish For X-37B After a marathon 15-month mission in orbit, the second X-37B spaceplane has finally landed. Launched by the US Air Force on a semi-secret mission, the mission has apparently flown a successful missi ... more | .. |
 Portuguese armor vehicle to test in Brazil Portuguese manufacturer Pinhol plans to test its new four-wheel explosive-resistant armored vehicle in Brazil with a view to developing a long-term production and marketing partnership in the Caribbean and Latin American region. ... more | .. |
 X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle lands at Vandenberg The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), the Air Force's unmanned, reusable space plane, landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5:48 a.m. (PDT) June 16. OTV-2, which launched from Cape Canaveral ... more |
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  Two Russians convicted of treason over missile data Russia on Wednesday sentenced two professors from an engineering university to 12.5 and 12 years for handing over information about a new intercontinental missile to China, an official said. ... more | .. |
  Boeing FAB-T Demonstrates Communications with On-orbit AEHF Satellite Boeing has demonstrated end-to-end communication using a terminal from the Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) system and the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite ... more | .. |
  Population displacement during disasters predicted using mobile data Using data supplied by a mobile operator, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have shown that population movements after the 2010 Haiti earthquake followed regular patterns. This information can be ... more | .. |
  US military's role with petroleum is to assure security, not pioneer alternataive fuels Energy purchases made by the U.S. Department of Defense do not influence world oil prices, making cutting fuel use the only effective choice to reduce what the Pentagon spends on petroleum fuels, ac ... more |
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