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S. Korea suspends rocket launchSeoul (AFP) Oct 26, 2012 South Korea suspended its third attempt to send a satellite into orbit by at least three days Friday, after a helium leak was detected in the rocket just hours before scheduled launch time. With only a five-day launch window that ends October 30, any further delay could result in a much lengthier postponement, officials at the Naro Space Centre told reporters. After two previous failures in 2009 and 2010, the current launch is considered critical for South Korea's efforts to join an elite space ... read more |
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 First Space Launch System 'Pathfinder' Hardware Nearing Completion Engineers using a state-of-the-art vertical welding tool at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., move a "pathfinder" version of the adapter design that will be used on test flights ... more | .. |
  Pleiades 1B joins its launcher at the Spaceport for Arianespace's Soyuz mission in November Activities for Arianespace's fourth medium-lift Soyuz flight from the Spaceport is fully underway as the Pleiades 1B payload has now arrived in French Guiana - joining the mission's launcher, which ... more | .. |
 Orbital Awarded Contract by USAF For EAGLE Spacecraft Platform Orbital Sciences, one of the world's leading space technology companies, has announced that the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate has awarded the company a $32 mil ... more | .. |
  China to launch 11 meteorological satellites by 2020 China will launch 11 meteorological satellites before 2020 to boost the country's weather monitoring network, according to the country's meteorological satellite development plan (2011-2020) release ... more |
  
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 China makes progress in spaceflight research China has made breakthroughs in researching spaceflight dynamics, a top scientist said Wednesday. Progress has been made in spaceflight trajectory computation and analysis, orbital tracking, t ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Wins Contract To Increase Tactical Vehicle Safety With Autonomous Technology Lockheed Martin received an $11 million contract for the development, integration and testing of the Autonomous Mobility Applique System (AMAS). Work on the contract, which was awarded by the Depart ... more |
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Consortium plans global shift toward net negative carbon economy
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  Raytheon's Excalibur Ib demonstrates accuracy during flight tests Raytheon has fired eight precision-guided Excalibur Ib projectiles during qualification flight tests. All eight rounds landed within five meters of the target, meeting stringent test objectives. ... more | .. |
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 Northrop Grumman Employs FACE Standards to Bring Enhanced Avionics to the Warfighter As the one-year anniversary of The Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Consortium's publication of the FACE Technical Standard approaches, Northrop Grumman continues to leverage ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Matures Laser Threat Terminator Technology to Address Emerging Threats Northrop Grumman has matured the technology for enhancing the capabilities of its All Semiconductor Airborne Laser Threat Terminator (ASALTT) product line, developed to defeat both current and emerg ... more |
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 Lockheed Martin Adds Persistent Surveillance Option to Dragon ISR Configurations Ever increasing threats and the need for force protection by systems that provide constant situational awareness of one's surroundings prompted Lockheed Martin to add a persistent surveillance optio ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Demonstrates JAGM Dual-Mode Seeker in High-Speed Captive Flight Tests Lockheed Martin has tested its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) dual-mode seeker in high-speed captive flight tests, demonstrating its ability to track ground targets while flying at tactical spee ... more | .. |
 Syria rebels have US-made Stinger missiles: Russia Syrian rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad have shoulder-launched missile systems, including US-made Stingers, Russia's top general claimed Wednesday, prompting a strong denial from Washington. ... more | .. |
 Raytheon enhances Common Sensor Payload capabilities Raytheon has successfully demonstrated the enhanced capabilities of its new CSP HD turret, a high definition electro-optical and infrared version of its Common Sensor Payload (CSP). The initial CSP ... more |
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 Raytheon, Motion Reality demonstrate immersive tactical training systems Virtual immersion simulation technology from Raytheon and Motion Reality Inc. (MRI) made soldiers feel they were in the middle of the action during the U.S. Joint Staff's second annual Bold Quest ex ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Foliage-Penetrating Reconnaissance Radar Integrated with System to Detect Slow Moving Objects After multiple ground demonstrations in operational environments, a Lockheed Martin penetrating radar capability that can peer through trees to detect slowly moving troops and ground vehicles is rea ... more | .. |
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 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 |
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 A new take on the Midas touch - changing the colour of gold Red gold, green gold - a ground-breaking initiative has found a way of changing the colour of the world's most iconic precious metal. A University of Southampton team have discovered that by embossi ... more | .. |
 US DoE's Ames Laboratory improving process to recycle rare-earth materials Recycling keeps paper, plastics, and even jeans out of landfills. Could recycling rare-earth magnets do the same? Perhaps, if the recycling process can be improved. Scientists at the U.S. Department ... more | .. |
  New finding could pave way to faster, smaller electronics University of California, Davis, researchers for the first time have looked inside gallium manganese arsenide, a type of material known as a "dilute magnetic semiconductor" that could open up an ent ... more | .. |
 Droplet response to electric voltage in solids exposed For the first time, scientists have observed how droplets within solids deform and burst under high electric voltages. This is important, the Duke University engineers who made the observations said ... more |
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