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First-Stage Fuel Loaded; Launch Weather Forecast ImprovesCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 30, 2012 At Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex-41, loading of the RP-1 fuel aboard the United Launch Alliance Atlas V first stage was finished last night. Though it was completed late at 9:30 p.m. EDT due to weather conditions, launch preparations are on schedule this morning. The launch of NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes has been confirmed on the Eastern Range for Aug. 30 at 4:05 a.m. The terminal countdown to load the cryogenic liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen into the rocket will begi ... read more |
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  Russian Women Could Return to Space Russian women can be included into the country's cosmonauts team if they successfully complete all selection stages, Sergei Krikalev, head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, said on Tues ... more | .. |
  Robbers nabbed thanks to GPS phone in loot Two robbers who held up a post office in the Parisian suburbs Wednesday were caught 40 minutes later thanks to a GPS-enabled phone they snatched from one of the employees. ... more | .. |
  NASA builds satellites from smartphones NASA says it's using off-the-shelf technology - a smartphone - to make the most inexpensive, easiest-to-build satellites in the history of space exploration. ... more | .. |
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 ISRO to score 100 with a cooperative mission Sep 9 The 100th launch mission of the Indian space agency slated for Sep 9 will also showcase the cooperation between two global competitors, a growing trend in the space industry, said a senior official ... more | .. |
  Manned interplanetary missions on NASA's agenda After dropping plans to return to the Moon, the American space agency NASA has set its sights on Mars. But before venturing there, it is going to test out its latest interplanetary technologies duri ... more | .. |
  Space Launch System Giving Marshall, Langley Wind Tunnels a Workout Launching rockets is no easy or inexpensive task. Developers must consider the ground support infrastructure, fuel elements and flight hardware itself; not to mention the safety of everyone involved ... more | .. |
 Russia to reform cosmonaut recruitment Russia says it is making changes in the way it conducts its effort to recruit cosmonauts, with one official saying the current procedure is "impractical." ... more |
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Western aid cuts cede ground to China in Southeast Asia: study
Russia faces intense barrage of drones, shutting down Moscow airports
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 Dream Chaser Team Completes Milestone Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is pleased to announce that the company's Dream Chaser Space System has successfully completed its first milestone as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capabi ... more | .. |
 Super-heavy carrier rocket could be created jointly with Ukraine, Kazakhstan The space rocket corporation Energia, based in Korolyov near Moscow, has proposed a plan to create a super-heavy carrier rocket, Commonwealth, for long-distance space missions, jointly with Ukraine ... more | .. |
  'Frankenstein' computer program created U.S. computer scientists say they've created a "Frankenstein" software program to help develop defenses against new kinds of cyberattacks. ... more | .. |
  Drones, UAV: what is better? Recently Russia has celebrated 100th anniversary of establishing of Russian air force. While celebrating 100th anniversary I have noticed a very important statement which was made by our President M ... more |
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  US-China missile race The United States says it's planning to build new missile defence in Asia. White House officials say early warning radar systems could be placed on a remote Japanese island and possibly in the Phili ... more | .. |
  US Army Apache Fleet Surpasses 3.5 Million Flight Hours Boeing and Team Apache suppliers worldwide are applauding the news that the U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter fleet has surpassed 3.5 million flight hours. The Army's aviation program office said th ... more | .. |
  Study Explores Injury Risk in Military Humvee Crashes A new report by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy examines the risk factors for injuries to U.S. military personnel from crashes involving highly mobile multip ... more | .. |
 New era in camouflage makeup: Shielding soldiers from searing heat of bomb blasts Camouflage face makeup for warfare is undergoing one of the most fundamental changes in thousands of years, as scientists described a new face paint that both hides soldiers from the enemy and shiel ... more |
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ICJ to deliver landmark climate ruling
'No life without water': settler attacks threaten West Bank communities
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 Embraer awarded 1st phase of $6B cordon Brazilian aviation and defense manufacturer Embraer has won the contract for the first phase of 10,000-mile border security cordon aimed at beating organized crime, drug and people smuggling and poaching in the forests. ... more | .. |
 Two Qaeda suspects killed in Yemen drone attack Two suspected Al-Qaeda members were killed in a drone missile strike on their vehicle in Hadramawt province of eastern Yemen on Tuesday, security sources said. ... more | .. |
 Canada mulls new army mobile surveillance The Canadian army is considering acquisition of a new mobile, vehicle-mounted surveillance system amid revelations of shortcomings of its present assets. ... more | .. |
 Synchronized lasers measure how light changes matter Light changes matter in ways that shape our world. Photons trigger changes in proteins in the eye to enable vision; sunlight splits water into hydrogen and oxygen and creates chemicals through photo ... more |
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  Magnetic Vortex Reveals Key to Spintronic Speed Limit The evolution of digital electronics is a story of miniaturization - each generation of circuitry requires less space and energy to perform the same tasks. But even as high-speed processors move int ... more | .. |
 Russian scientists one step from creating AI? Russian scientists have created a computer analogue of a human mind, the possibilities of which lag behind that of a human brain only by 0.8%. At an international contest of similar computer program ... more | .. |
  No end for Brazil federal workers' strike Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's political standing is coming under threat from an unlikely quarter - more than 400,000 federal workers on a war path to push their pay claims. ... more | .. |
 Boeing Celebrates Delivery of First Aeroloft Installed on a BBJ 747-8 Boeing has celebrated the delivery of the first Aeroloft installed on a Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) 747-8. The Aeroloft, designed and built by Greenpoint Technologies of Kirkland, Wash., provides 393 ... more |
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US environment agency axes nearly a quarter of workforce
Japan sees bright future for ultra-thin, flexible solar panels
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 Germany's Merkel due in China for eurozone talks German leader Angela Merkel was due to hold top-level talks Thursday on her second visit to China this year, with Europe's debt crisis taking centre stage as it begins to drag on the two global powers. ... more | .. |
 Threat forces Air China flight back to Beijing An Air China plane bound for New York was forced to return to Beijing on Wednesday after receiving a "threatening message" but nothing unusual was found, the airline and state media said. ... more | .. |
  China's Dongfeng sees profits slide in first half Chinese carmaker Dongfeng Motor Group on Wednesday said its net profit in the first half of 2012 slipped 8.36 percent on the back of falling commercial vehicle sales and stiffer competition. ... more | .. |
 Modern lives in US are multi-screen: Google Google on Wednesday released research showing that lives in the United States have gone multi-screen, with people bouncing between smartphones, tablets, computers and televisions. ... more |
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 Merging the biological and the electronic Harvard scientists have, for the first, time created a type of "cyborg" tissue by embedding a three-dimensional network of functional, bio-compatible nanoscale wires into engineered human tissues. A ... more | .. |
  IBN Develops Superior Fuel Cell Material Using a mixture of gold, copper and platinum nanoparticles, IBN researchers have developed a more powerful and longer lasting fuel cell material. This breakthrough was published recently in leading ... more | .. |
 Addressing the need for microscopic speed Researchers at the University of Leicester have developed a new form of digital microscope which can create an image 100 times faster than regular equipment - without losing image quality. The team ... more | .. |
 Electronic Nose Prototype Developed Research by Nosang Myung, a professor at the University of California, Riverside, Bourns College of Engineering, has enabled a Riverside company to develop an "electronic nose" prototype that can de ... more |
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