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December 19, 2012

Beating Heart of J-2X Engine Finishes Year of Testing
Huntiville AL (SPX) Dec 19, 2012
NASA on Thursday took another step toward human exploration of new destinations in the solar system. At the agency's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, engineers conducted the final test-firing of the J-2X powerpack assembly, an important component of America's next heavy-lift rocket. The J-2X engine is the first human-rated liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen engine developed in the United States in decades. Designed and built by NASA and industry partner Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne of Canoga Pa ... read more

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CU-Boulder team develops swarm of pingpong ball-sized robots University of Colorado Boulder Assistant Professor Nikolaus Correll likes to think in multiples. If one robot can accomplish a singular task, think how much more could be accomplished if you had hun ... more		Payload integration complete for final 2012 Ariane 5 mission The Skynet 5D satellite has joined its Mexsat Bicentenario co-passenger on Ariane 5, marking a new milestone in preparations for Arianespace's seventh and final heavy-lift flight of 2012 from the Sp ... more		Loral Continues Corporate Office Restructuring Loral Space and Communications Inc. reports that its board of directors has named Avi Katz, 53, to the role of president of the company. Mr. Katz, who replaces Michael Targoff, was formerly the comp ... more
				ESA's powerful new tracking station ready for service A new satellite tracking station at Malargue, Argentina, will be formally inaugurated on Tuesday, completing the trio of deep-space stations and confirming ESA as one of the world's most technologic ... more		Spatial FOG Released Advanced Navigation and KVH Industries have announced their new Spatial FOG GNSS/INS. Spatial FOG is a ruggedized GNSS aided inertial navigation system and AHRS that provides accurate position, velo ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Lights to combat astronaut insomnia NASA says it will use lighting technology to help astronauts on the International Space Station sleep better during their "nights" in orbit. ... more		AEHF Team Completes Major Integration Milestone Ahead Of Schedule The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin have integrated the system module for the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite six months ahead of schedule. The milestone marks the ... more		Airbus to develop advanced PAZ-2 radar satellites for Spanish defence and civil operations Rocket Lab partners with Bollinger Shipyards to transform Neutron sea recovery platform Russia fires 136 drones at Ukraine ahead of Trump-NATO head meeting		U.S. seeks double Israel missile funding Israel's defense industry got two big boosts this week. ... more
				N. Korea satellite appears dead: scientist A satellite launched with fanfare last week by a defiant North Korea appears to be dead as no signal can be detected, a US-based astrophysicist who monitors spaceflights said Monday. ... more		Operation to "rescue" Yamal-402 a success Experts of the Thales Alenia Space company have completed a unique operation to "rescue" Yamal-402 satellite. On December 9 the Breeze-M upper stage of Russia's Proton heavy-lift rocket failed ... more

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KAIST announced a major breakthrough in indoor positioning research Cell phones are getting ever smarter today, savvy enough to tell you where to go and what to buy in shopping centers or department stores. Although still in nascent stages, indoor positioning and na ... more		Grains Gang Up to Bear Brunt of Missile and Meteorite Impacts High-speed video of projectiles slamming into a bed of disks has given scientists a new microscopic picture of the way a meteorite or missile transfers the energy of its impact to sand and dirt grai ... more		ICEYE satellite data accelerates flood relief in southern Brazil Massive Boulders Ejected During DART Mission Complicate Future Asteroid Deflection Efforts Peatland restoration shows measurable climate benefits in under a decade		Arctic town eyes future as Europe's gateway to space Sweden's small Arctic town of Kiruna has a surprisingly international airport with regular flights to London and Tokyo, but it has even bigger plans: to offer commercial space flights. ... more
				NASA Progressing Toward First Launch of Orion Spacecraft Recent engineering advances by NASA and its industry partners across the country show important progress toward Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), the next step to launching humans to deep space. ... more		New member of the exclusive space club The successful launch of North Korea's Unha-3 rocket on December 12, 2012 became the top news in the world of cosmonautics. Even the previous day's story of the United States launching, for the thir ... more

Operation to "rescue" Yamal-402 a success

Grains Gang Up to Bear Brunt of Missile and Meteorite Impacts

X-ray Laser Takes Aim at Cosmic Mystery

N. Korea satellite appears dead: scientist

AEHF Team Completes Major Integration Milestone Ahead Of Schedule

US Air Force selects Raytheon to develop future Protected SATCOM System

Arctic town eyes future as Europe's gateway to space

Payload integration complete for final 2012 Ariane 5 mission

ISRO planning 10 space missions in 2013

KAIST announced a major breakthrough in indoor positioning research

Third Boeing GPS IIF Begins Operation After Early Handover to USAF

Putin Urges CIS Countries to Join Glonass

	Compact 40W P1db BUC provides higher output power with less energy Gilat Satellite Networks has announced the immediate availability of the Wavestream Ku-band Matchbox Mini Block Upconverter. The Matchbox Mini incorporates Wavestream's next generation Spatial advan ... more		X-ray Laser Takes Aim at Cosmic Mystery Scientists have used powerful X-rays from the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to study and measure, in atomic detail, ... more		Research: Tiny robots may think as a group A U.S. researcher says a swarm of tiny robots could be a better solution to accomplishing tasks than one big one and has made "ping-pong" ball-sized examples. ... more		Tracking station going online in Argentina The European Space Agency says a satellite tracking station in Argentina will help track missions voyaging hundreds of millions of miles into our solar system. ... more

Tens of millions of tons of nanoplastics detected adrift in North Atlantic

Drone swarm explores turbulent airflows near wind turbines

Robot autonomously completes complex surgery guided by voice and video

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Brazil, S. Africa collaborate on missile		NATO chief denounces Iran's allegations on Patriots		Britain's Charles shown Tata's new military-grade steel		China opens disaster research laboratory		Doomsday cult arrests surpass 400 in China

Signs of evolving US gun debate after school tragedy

US gun lobby silent on social media after shooting

China cracks down on doomsday rumours: state media

Avalanche kills six Indian troops on Siachen glacier

Head-mounted cameras could help robots understand social interactions

Bubble study could improve industrial splash control

Instagram yields to user outrage over policy change

Australia unveils carbon capture plant

Fresh Myanmar protest against Chinese mine

Volvo Cars says avoiding loss this year 'very difficult'

Taiwan's China Airlines to lease four Boeing planes

EU, Google to seek anti-trust accord

Samsung is top 2012 phone brand, ousting Nokia

Foreign investment in China falls again in November

AIG raises $6.45 bn in final stake sale of insurer AIA

China says more cities record home price rises

Apple losses bid for US ban on Samsung smartphones

Stretchable electronics

New Factor could Limit the Life of Hybrid and Electric Car Batteries

Rice uses light to remotely trigger biochemical reactions

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