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![]() Huntsville, AL (SPX) Nov 07, 2012 NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. is using a method called selective laser melting, or SLM, to create intricate metal parts for America's next heavy-lift rocket. Using this state-of-the-art technique will benefit the agency by saving millions in manufacturing costs. NASA is building the Space Launch System or SLS - a rocket managed at the Marshall Center and designed to take humans, equipment and experiments beyond low Earth orbit to nearby asteroids and eventually to M ... read more ![]() |
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![]() Tiangong 1 Parked And Waiting As Shenzhou 10 Mission Prep Continues Following the July-August period when controllers used Tiangong 1's thrusters for strict control of the orbit decay rate, things went quiet and Tiangong 1 settled down to a regime of orbit decay dic ... more | ![]() |
![]() Japan to develop missile-detecting drone: report Japan is planning to develop an unmanned drone that could help detect a North Korean nuclear missile attack and to counter China's military buildup, a report said Sunday. ... more | ![]() |
![]() Israel 'success' in new missile defence test The Israeli air force has successfully tested an upgraded version of its "Iron Dome" missile defence system, the defence ministry said on Sunday. ... more | ![]() |
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![]() Temporary storage for electrons: Natural method of producing hydrogen Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC) and the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB) have found through spectroscopic investigations on a hydrogen-producing enzyme t ... more | ![]() |
![]() Guided mortar rounds fired from small UAV General Dynamics and the U.S. Army have demonstrated the use of precision-guided mortar rounds from a small unmanned aerial vehicle. ... more | ![]() |
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![]() SLS Industry Day at Michoud Assembly Facility Todd May, Space Launch System Program manager, updates the progress of the rocket program to business representatives during "SLS Industry Day at MAF" on Oct. 24 at the Michoud Assembly Facility. ... more | ![]() |
![]() SpaceX Transitions to Third Commercial Crew Phase with NASA Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has completed its first three performance milestones for NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative, which is intended to lead to the av ... more | ![]() |
![]() UNH Space Scientists to Develop State-of-the-Art Radiation Detector Scientists from the Space Science Center (SSC) at the University of New Hampshire have been selected by NASA to develop a space radiation detector that possesses unprecedented performance capabiliti ... more | ![]() |
![]() Russian Proton Briz-M Launches Yamal Satellites Into Orbit Both Yamal satellites launched earlier have successfully reached orbit, Russia's space agency Roscosmos confirmed on Saturday morning. "The separation of the Yamal-300K from the Briz-M booster ... more |
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![]() Russia tries easier scheme of launching spaceships Russia's second attempt to dock the cargo spaceship "Progress" to the International Space Station according to a new simplified scheme was as successful as the first one. The new scheme suppos ... more | ![]() |
![]() MDA completes acquisition of Space Systems Loral MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd has completed and formally closed the previously announced acquisition of Space Systems/Loral, Inc. (SS/L). The combination of MDA and SS/L creates a le ... more | ![]() |
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![]() Qatar, UAE request $7.6 bn in missile defense: US Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have asked to buy more than $7.6 billion in US missile defense technology, the Pentagon said Tuesday. ... more | ![]() |
![]() Russian FM says Syria rebels have 50 Stingers Syrian rebels under increasing attack from regime warplanes have obtained 50 Stinger shoulder-launched missiles, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Amman Tuesday after talks with a top dissident. ... more | ![]() |
![]() Boeing Delivers Fifth Production P-8A Poseidon Aircraft to US Navy Boeing has delivered the fifth production P-8A Poseidon aircraft to the U.S. Navy. The P-8A is one of 24 low-rate initial production (LRIP) maritime patrol aircraft that Boeing is building for the N ... more | ![]() |
![]() Australia's Chief of Air Force Visits Northrop Grumman's F-35 Production Facility in Palmdale The Royal Australian Air Force's Chief of Air Force, Air Marshal Geoff Brown, met Northrop Grumman executives during a visit to the company's F-35 Lightning II production facility in Palmdale. As pa ... more |
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