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Space daredevil Baumgartner is 'officially retired'United Nations (AFP) Oct 23, 2012 Felix Baumgartner, the first man to break the sound barrier in freefall, says he is giving up being a daredevil but now aims to help others in trouble. "I am officially retired from the daredevil business now," the 43-year-old Austrian told UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in a meeting Tuesday to discuss his death-defying jump from the edge of space earlier this month. Ban told Baumgartner how he had joined the millions who watched live coverage of the jump from 24 miles (39 kilometers) above Ne ... read more |
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  50-year-old computer restored in Britain Two British computer enthusiasts say they have restored to working order a 50-year-old computer that once appeared as a prop in a James Bond movie. ... more | .. |
  GreenRoad Announces World's First Smartphone Fleet Driver Performance Management Service GreenRoad has announced the world's first smartphone-based driver performance solution for fleets. Encompassing several key technological and engineering breakthroughs, GreenRoad Smartphone Edition, ... more | .. |
 Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy to Develop Mobile Application for Parks The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy is developing a free mobile application to be used in Pittsburgh's parks. Funding is being provided by UPMC Health Plan and the app will be designed by the Pittsburg ... more | .. |
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 Runzheimer International Launches 2012 Total Employee Mobility Survey Runzheimer International has opened its eighth annual Total Employee Mobility Benchmarking Survey to participants. The survey was developed by Runzheimer in 2005 to help organizations understand the ... more | .. |
 New INRIX Traffic App for Android Provides Relief from Soaring Gas Prices As gas prices soar to record levels nationwide, INRIX, a leading international provider of traffic information and driver services, introduced a new INRIX Traffic app for Android that helps drivers ... more | .. |
 Trimble Adds Boom Height Control to its Field-IQ Crop Input Control System Trimble has introduced boom height control for self-propelled sprayers as the latest feature of its Field-IQ crop input control system. Farmers that use the Field-IQ solution with boom height contro ... more | .. |
  Brazil eyes closer space cooperation with Ukraine Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday expressed the wish to speed up her country's space cooperation with Ukraine. Speaking by phone earlier in the day, Rousseff and her Ukrainian count ... more |
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China launches international association to boost global access to deep space research
Planet secures 240 million euro satellite services contract with German government
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  Blue Origin Completes Pad Escape Test NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Blue Origin conducted a successful pad escape test Oct. 19 at the company's West Texas launch site in Van Horn, firing its pusher-escape motor and launch ... more | .. |
  Patience for Tiangong We are now several months beyond the first crewed expedition to Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory. If educated guesses are any guide, we are probably several months away from the next exped ... more | .. |
 S. Korea plans third rocket launch bid Friday South Korea plans to make its third attempt to join the exclusive club of countries capable of placing a satellite in space on Friday with a rocket launch from the Naro Space Center on the south coast. ... more | .. |
 Surrey Satellite Technology US Secures Contract for Space GPS Receivers Today Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC ("Surrey") announced a contract for the batch production of its industry-leading SGR-10 Space GPS Receiver. Surrey also announced the selection of Aeroflex's ... more |
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 DeLorme Releases XMap 8.0 with Enhanced GIS, GPS Connectivity and Data Collection Tools DeLorme, the innovation leader in professional mapping and navigation technology, disconnected GIS solutions, and personal satellite messaging, has announced the release of a significant upgrade to ... more | .. |
  All the news that's fit to beam Flooding in the UK. Forest fires in Spain. Headlines bombard us every day. As fast as we can pick up our smartphones or log on to our computers, we want the news and we want it now. And its delivery ... more | .. |
  NASA Seeks Student Experiments For 2013 High-Altitude Scientific Balloon Flight NASA is accepting applications from graduate and undergraduate university students to fly experiments to the edge of space on a scientific balloon next year. The balloon competition is a joint proje ... more | .. |
 Kennedy Supporting Effort to Develop Satellite Servicing Capabilities With satellites playing increasingly important roles in everyday life, NASA is developing the technology to build Earth-orbiting, roving "service stations" capable of extending the life of these spa ... more |
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Consortium plans global shift toward net negative carbon economy
Six satellites launched for ICEYE as constellation expansion gains momentum
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 Taiwan temple to launch 'divine advice' app A temple in southern Taiwan is to launch a smartphone app that allows the faithful to seek advice from the heavens while on the move, reports said Saturday. ... more | .. |
  Preventing infection on long flights The cabin of a spacecraft halfway to Mars would be the least convenient place - one cannot say "on earth" - for a Salmonella or Pneumococcus outbreak, but a wide-ranging new paper suggests that micr ... more | .. |
  US drone strike kills three in Pakistan: officials A US drone fired two missiles at a suspected militant compound in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing three people, security officials said. ... more | .. |
  Fire, explosions at Khartoum military factory: witnesses Fire raged and explosions tore through the night sky early Wednesday at the Yarmouk military factory in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, witnesses and state-linked media said. ... more |
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  Biggest anti-missile drill for Israel, U.S Amid rising tensions in the Persian Gulf and war in Syria, U.S. forces and Israeli's military have launched a joint exercise dubbed Austere Challenge 2012 that officials say is the largest missile-defense drill staged by the two allies. ... more | .. |
 Romney backs drones, aid conditions in Pakistan White House hopeful Mitt Romney said Monday he would maintain drone strikes in Pakistan if he defeats President Barack Obama and impose conditions on aid to the nuclear-armed nation. ... more | .. |
  ONR to Dial Up Faster Data for the Marines Office of Naval Research (ONR) officials announced a new program Oct. 22 to optimize tactical handheld technology for quick decision-making in the field. The Exchange of Actionable Information at th ... more | .. |
 Raytheon's BattleGuard demonstrates accuracy of target identification and engagement During a recent test at Fort Benning, Ga., Raytheon Company's BattleGuard modular weapon station struck targets with every burst of ammunition fired, proving its precision engagement capability unde ... more |
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Bezos-backed methane-tracking satellite lost in space
Blackout at refinery highlights Venezuela's oil industry crisis
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 MEADS Friend Or Foe Identification System Completes Certification Testing The tri-national Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) has successfully completed certification testing for its advanced Mode 5 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system at Pratica di Mare Air ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Introduces Advanced Air and Missile C2 System In response to the increasingly complex national and multi-national requirements for Integrated Air and Missile Defense, Lockheed Martin has developed a solution that deliver new levels of performan ... more | .. |
 New TOW missile achieves 100th direct hit in latest testing Raytheon Company and the U.S. Army achieved excellence in recent flight tests of the tube-launched, optically-tracked, wireless (TOW) missile. In September, the team scored its 100th TOW hit, which ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Unveils MAV-L Ground Mobility Vehicle for U.S. Special Forces Competition Northrop Grumman unveiled its offering for the U.S. Special Forces Command Ground Mobility Vehicle 1.1 competition today at the Association of the United States Army conference in Washington, D.C. T ... more |
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 Edwards F-35A Completes First AIM-120 AMRAAM Internal Weapons Release An F-35A test aircraft, flown by U.S. Air Force Maj. Matthew Phillips, completed the first aerial weapons release of an AIM-120 AMRAAM (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile) from a conventional ... more | .. |
 Better Together: Joint Flight a Success The first C-5M Super Galaxy production joint acceptance flight with Lockheed Martin and the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) occurred Oct. 17, here at the Lockheed Martin facilities. ... more | .. |
 Boeing Non-kinetic Missile Records First Operational Test Flight A recent weapons flight test in the Utah desert may change future warfare after the missile successfully defeated electronic targets with little to no collateral damage. Boeing and the U.S. Ai ... more | .. |
 Boeing EMARSS Risk Reduction Prototype Makes First Flight Boeing completed the first flight of the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS) Risk Reduction Prototype (ERRP) aircraft on Saturday, Oct. 6, a critical step requir ... more |
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