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NASA Selects Space Launch System Advanced Booster ProposalsWashington DC (SPX) Jul 20, 2012 NASA has selected six proposals to improve the affordability, reliability and performance of an advanced booster for the Space Launch System (SLS). The awardees will develop engineering demonstrations and risk reduction concepts for SLS, a heavy-lift rocket that will provide an entirely new capability for human exploration beyond low Earth orbit. "The initial SLS heavy-lift rocket begins with the proven hardware, technology and capabilities we have today and will evolve over time to a more capable ... read more |
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  The Spaceport maintains its mission cadence for Ariane 5 flights The two satellite passengers for Arianespace's next heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission are now undergoing final preparations at the Spaceport, while launcher components for the following flight have arrive ... more | .. |
 S. Korea plans fresh rocket launch in October South Korea will make a third attempt this October at a rocket launch aimed at placing a satellite into orbit, its science ministry said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  New York museum opens space shuttle Enterprise to public A New York aerospace museum opened the space shuttle Enterprise to the public Thursday. ... more | .. |
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  Looking Forward to Shenzhou 10 China's first expedition to a space laboratory was an outstanding success. The mission of the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft to the Tiangong 1 module has made headlines around the world and further cemented ... more | .. |
 Listening to the past and talking to the future ESA astronaut Tim Peake recently spent 12 days underwater with three other aquanauts to look at the best ways for astronauts to explore an asteroid. Behind the scenes, a large support team was learn ... more | .. |
 NASA and ATK Complete Space Act Agreement Alliant Techsystems has successfully completed its Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) partnership with NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Through CCDev2, NASA is spurring innovation and devel ... more | .. |
 NASA Completes Another Successful Orion Parachute Test NASA completed another successful test Wednesday of the Orion crew vehicle's parachutes high above the Arizona desert in preparation for the spacecraft's orbital flight test in 2014. Orion will carr ... more |
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New MachLab rocket test site launches UK into next phase of space engineering
Ukraine's anti-graft body says new bill restores independence
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  NRL Brings Inertia of Space to Robotics Research The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Spacecraft Engineering Department's space robotics research facility recently took possession of a one-of-a-kind 75,000 pound Gravity Offset Table (GOT) made from ... more | .. |
  Heat is Source of 'Pioneer Anomaly' The unexpected slowing of NASA's Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft - the so-called "Pioneer Anomaly" - turns out to be due to the slight, but detectable effect of heat pushing back on the spacecraft, acc ... more | .. |
 Ambitious ISRO enhancing India's space capabilities India is boot-strapping its space-based assets to meet the growing demand for enhanced services in communications, broadcasting remote-sensing and navigation, a top space agency official said Monday ... more | .. |
 NASA Selects Launch Services Contract for Jason-3 Mission NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, Calif., to launch the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Jason-3 spacecraft in December 2014 aboard a Fa ... more |
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 NASA Selects Launch Services Contract for Three Missions NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC of Englewood, Colo., to launch the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) ... more | .. |
 NASA Selects ULA's Workhorse Delta II Rocket for Three Future Missions NASA's Launch Services Program has announced that it selected United Launch Alliance's (ULA) proven Delta II launch vehicle for three future missions. The newly contracted missions include Orbiting ... more | .. |
 Inflatable Spacecraft Heat Shield Set to Launch NASA technicians and engineers are putting the finishing touches on a unique experiment designed to demonstrate that an inflatable aeroshell/heat shield could be used to protect spacecraft when ente ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Completes On-Orbit Testing of First US Navy MUOS Satellite Lockheed Martin has completed on-orbit testing of the first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite, designated MUOS-1, paving the way for the U.S. Navy's multi-service operational test and ev ... more |
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Australia's mammal megafauna face long-term decline from extinctions and invasive species
Alien life clues may emerge from deep sea volcanic vents on Earth
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  Boeing Demonstrates Multi-location Paint Capability for RAAF Boeing subsidiary Boeing Defence Australia (BDA) has delivered the first two of 65 repainted aircraft to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) from two separate facilities. The RAAF accepted a repai ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Completes First LRASM Captive Carriage Test Lockheed Martin's Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) sensor suite recently completed its first flight during a captive carry flight test off the coast of northwest Florida using a modified Sabreli ... more | .. |
  Raytheon BBN Technologies awarded DoD funding to develop a foreign-document translation system The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Raytheon BBN Technologies an additional $5.9 million in funding under the Multilingual Automatic Document Classification, Analysis a ... more | .. |
 Russia and Italy to jointly develop patrol aircraft Russian and Italian engineers will jointly develop a patrol aircraft with extraordinary technical characteristics. Under the project, intellectual systems of communication, navigation and identifica ... more |
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 Raytheon's ATFLIR surpasses one million flight hours on US Navy Super Hornet Raytheon's Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared pod, which delivers superior electro-optical/infrared imagery and target detection range for air-to-air and air-to-ground mission support, has ... more | .. |
 Boeing Receives First 10 New Fuselages Designed for AH-64D Apache Block III Boeing has received the first 10 new fuselages designed specifically for the AH-64D Apache Block III attack helicopter from long-time supplier Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI). This milestone paves ... more | .. |
  US building missile defense station in Qatar: report The Pentagon is building a missile defense radar station at a covert location in Qatar, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Researchers demonstrate 'spoofing' of UAVs A University of Texas at Austin research team successfully demonstrated for the first time that the GPS signals of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, can be commandeered by an outside sourc ... more |
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Sri Lanka orders Singapore shipowner to pay US$1 bn over marine disaster
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 Northrop Grumman's RC-12X Airborne Signals Intelligence System Completes 1,000th Mission Northrop Grumman's RC-12X Guardrail system recently completed its 1,000th mission since going into theater in 2011. The RC-12X provides operationally effective signals intelligence (SIGINT) capabili ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman, AUVSI Partner to Develop Unmanned Systems Engineers Northrop Grumman has taken on the prime sponsorship of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) student competitions for 2012. The competitions give high school and college ... more | .. |
  Raytheon technology to transform commercial cargo ships into cutting-edge humanitarian aid delivery platforms Raytheon has completed the preliminary design phase of the Tactically Expandable Maritime Platform (TEMP) program awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Through the TEMP p ... more | .. |
 Two China workers killed in Singapore tunnel accident Two Chinese workers were killed and eight others injured in Singapore Wednesday when scaffolding at a subway construction site collapsed, officials said. ... more |
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  Human Eye Inspires Clog-free Ink Jet Printer Invented Clogged printer nozzles waste time and money while reducing print quality. University of Missouri engineers recently invented a clog-preventing nozzle cover by mimicking the human eye. "The nozzle c ... more | .. |
 Carbon-Based Transistors Ramp Up Speed and Memory for Mobile Devices Though smartphones and tablets are hailed as the hardware of the future, their present-day incarnations have some flaws. Most notoriously, low RAM memory limits the number of applications that can b ... more | .. |
 Disentangling information from photons Theoretical physicist Filippo Miatto and colleagues from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, have found a new method of reliably assessing the information contained in photon pairs used for ... more | .. |
 New Notre Dame research raises questions about iris recognition systems Since the early days of iris recognition technologies, it has been assumed that the iris was a "stable" biometric over a person's lifetime - "one enrollment for life." However, new research from Uni ... more |
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