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Ariane 5 ECA orbits EchoStar XVII and MSG-3Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jul 06, 2012 On Thursday, July 5, Arianespace successfully launched two satellites: the dedicated Internet satellite EchoStar XVII for the American operator Hughes Network Systems, and the MSG-3 weather satellite for Eumetsat, the European Meteorological Satellite organization. The successful Ariane 5 launch once again proves the launcher's operational capabilities. Ariane 5 handles a complete range of missions, from commercial launches into geostationary orbit to launches into special orbits. This was the 63r ... read more |
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  Recognizing Telstar and the Birth of Global Communications Telstar, the satellite that made the world's first transmissions of live television possible in 1962, will be the subject of a program at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum July 12. The ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Receives DARPA ALASA Contract Award Lockheed Martin has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to receive a Phase I Airborne Launch Assist Space Access (ALASA) program study contract valued at about $6. ... more | .. |
 ATK Unveils Unique Liberty Capability ATK is pleased to announce an expanded crew and cargo capability. The extended cargo configuration will allow the Liberty spacecraft to take full advantage of the launch vehicle lift capacity to tra ... more | .. |
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 Running on empty When you consider the cost of launching a satellite, it's small wonder that ESA is looking to keep them working as long as possible. For satellites offering communications services that are bought a ... more | .. |
  ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti set for ISS in 2014 ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has been assigned to be launched on a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2014 for a long-duration mission aboard the International Space ... more | .. |
 Orion's First Test Flight Offers SLS a First Look at Hardware Operation, Integration When NASA conducts its first test launch of the Orion spacecraft in 2014, the crew module's designers will record invaluable data about its performance - from launch and flight, to re-entry and land ... more | .. |
 Gaia checks out of antenna testing Entombed by the distinctive foam pyramids typical of test chambers, the main antenna of the Gaia billion-star surveyor has been put through its paces ahead of launch next year. The antenna will send ... more |
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BlackSky to supply satellite imagery and analytics for Latin American security operations
GovSat selects Thales Alenia Space to build secure satellite for military communications
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 Avanti Announces Launch Date for HYLAS 2 Satellite Avanti Communications Group has announced that HYLAS 2, its second satellite, will launch at approximately 9.50pm UK-time on 2 August 2012 upon an Ariane 5 launch vehicle. HYLAS 2, which has a ... more | .. |
  Russia to Expand Commercial Space Services Russia will develop a special program to expand commercial space services and push the United States and EU out of that market, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday. Russia need ... more | .. |
  Mission accomplished for Galileo's pathfinder GIOVE-A With the initial satellites of the Galileo constellation working well in orbit, it has been decided to end the mission of ESA's pioneering GIOVE-A navigation satellite. Launched on 28 December 2005, ... more | .. |
 The Road to Space The road to space is a long and arduous path, a meandering trip that in many ways is more demanding than the Space Station mission itself. Training to fly into space is also the next best thing to a ... more |
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 ESA extends its navigation lab in readiness for Galileo testing With the next Galileo launch approaching, ESA has extended its Radio Navigation Laboratory to meet the testing needs of Europe's own satellite navigation system. Located at ESA's ESTEC technical cen ... more | .. |
  S-500 - a miracle of a weapon It is planned that in 2013, the Russian army will receive new air defense missile batteries. This was recently announced by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Forces Major General Victor Bond ... more | .. |
  EADS Group To Present New Technologies At Farnborough Airshow 2012 From commercial and military aircraft to satellites and secure communications systems, EADS and its Divisions - Airbus, Astrium, Cassidian and Eurocopter - will present a wide array of innovative pr ... more | .. |
 Czech army's CASA planes fail anti-missile tests The Czech army said Tuesday anti-missile systems for its four CASA C-295M military transport aircraft had failed testing and would require repairs before being deployed in missions abroad. ... more |
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One billion years of protein evolution reveals surprising design flexibility
MetOp Second Generation satellite fully fuelled ahead of August launch
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 Iran test-fires ballistic missile able to hit Israel: media Iran on Tuesday test-fired in its central desert a ballistic missile capable of striking Israel as part of war games designed to show its ability to retaliate if attacked, media said. ... more | .. |
  Israel-U.S. drill will boost missile plans The upcoming U.S.-Israeli missile defense exercise Austere Challenge 12 to be held in the Jewish state is designed to accelerate integration of their missile systems and will have a big impact on their defense industries. ... more | .. |
  Japan Diet to publish Fukushima disaster probe A Japanese parliament probe into the nuclear disaster at Fukushima is expected to say the then prime minister fanned chaos in the opening days of the crisis when it publishes its final report Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Jakarta, Canberra boost asylum cooperation Indonesia and Australia have agreed to closer cooperation to combat human trafficking, including faster response times to asylum seekers' boats in danger. ... more |
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  Most accurate robotic legs mimic human walking gait A group of US researchers has produced a robotic set of legs which they believe is the first to fully model walking in a biologically accurate manner. The biological accuracy of this robot, which ha ... more | .. |
  How do you turn 10 minutes of power into 200? Efficiency, efficiency, efficiency A robot that drives into an industrial disaster area and shuts off a valve leaking toxic steam might save lives. A robot that applies supervised autonomy to dexterously disarm a roadside bomb would ... more | .. |
 Muscle-like action allows camera to mimic human eye movement Using piezoelectric materials, researchers have replicated the muscle motion of the human eye to control camera systems in a way designed to improve the operation of robots. This new muscle-like act ... more | .. |
  Sharing data links in networks of cars Wi-Fi is coming to our cars. Ford Motor Co. has been equipping cars with Wi-Fi transmitters since 2010; according to an Agence France-Presse story last year, the company expects that by 2015, 80 per ... more |
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MicroCarb satellite launches to map global carbon dioxide emissions from space
Chemistry breakthroughs open new frontiers in industrial carbon capture
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 Feel-good glass for windows Daylight acts on our body clock and stimulates the brain. Fraunhofer researchers have made use of this knowledge and worked with industry partners to develop a coating for panes of glass that lets t ... more | .. |
 Boeing predicts $4.5 trillion market for 34,000 new airplanes Boeing projects a $4.5 trillion market for 34,000 new airplanes over the next 20 years as the current world fleet doubles in size, according to the Boeing 2012 Current Market Outlook (CMO). The comp ... more | .. |
 SACLA draws acclaim for unique XFEL design A detailed technical introduction to the SPring-8 Angstrom Compact free-electron Laser (SACLA) appeared online Sunday in Nature Photonics. The attention on the world's second XFEL facility com ... more | .. |
 BGI demonstrated genomic data transfer at nearly 10GB per second between US and China BGI has announced that a group of scientists and researchers successfully demonstrated genomic data transfer at a sustained rate of almost 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) over a new link connecting US ... more |
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 Falling lizards use tail for mid-air twist, inspiring lizard-like 'RightingBot' Lizards, just like cats, have a knack for turning right side up and landing on their feet when they fall. But how do they do it? Unlike cats, which twist and bend their torsos to turn upright, lizar ... more | .. |
  Geographer charts the 'next-generation digital Earth' The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since applications like Google Earth became mainstream, says UC Santa Barbara Professor of Geography Michael Goodchild. However, there is still a lon ... more | .. |
 Deep-sea rare earths found in Japan Japanese researchers have discovered significant amounts of rare earth deposits on the bottom of the ocean about 1,243 miles southeast of Tokyo. ... more | .. |
 Tablet PCs poised to take over PC market Tablet PCs will overtake PC notebook computers by 2016, U.S. market research firm NPD DisplaySearch predicted Tuesday. ... more |
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