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March 15, 2013

US Newest Missile Warning Satellite Encapsulated in Launch Vehicle Payload Fairing
Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Mar 15, 2013
The second Lockheed Martin built Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO-2) spacecraft was encapsulated into its payload fairing March 4 in preparation for a March 19 liftoff aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. SBIRS GEO-2, the most technologically advanced infrared surveillance satellite, will enhance the nation's missile warning capabilities and simultaneously improve the missile defense, technical intelligence and battlespace awarenes ... read more

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Michoud Building LNG Tanks For Lockheed Martin NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, the agency's only large-scale advanced manufacturing facility, soon will be building liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanks with commercial applications o ... more		NSBRI Funds Cerebrotech to Accelerate Development of Brain Monitoring Device The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) has announced that Cerebrotech Medical Systems, Incorporated of Pleasanton, California is the recipient of the 2013 Space Medicine and Relate ... more		Google buys machine learning startup Google said Wednesday that it has bought a Canadian startup specializing in getting machines to understand what people are trying to say. ... more
				NIST mechanical micro-drum used as quantum memory One of the oldest forms of computer memory is back again-but in a 21st century microscopic device designed by physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for possible use ... more		New Technique Creates Stronger, Lightweight Magnesium Alloys Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating stronger, lightweight magnesium alloys that have potential structural applications in the automobile and ... more

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Breaking the final barrier: room-temperature electrically powered nanolasers A breakthrough in nanolaser technology has been made by Arizona State University researchers. Electrically powered nano-scale lasers have been able to operate effectively only in cold temperatures. ... more		Novel technique for chemical identification at the nanometer scale developed For more than 20 years, researchers have been using atomic force microscopy (AFM) to measure and characterize materials at the nanometer scale. However AFM-based measurements of chemistry and chemic ... more		Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm Top Chinese gaming companies continue to challenge		Biobatteries catch breath An air-breathing bio-battery has been constructed by researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The core element providing the new power source ... more
				Swiss firm aims for low-cost satellite service A new Swiss-based company said Thursday it would offer low-cost satellite launches which it claims could be a quarter of current market rates. ... more		Shenzhou 10 - Next Stop: Jiuquan In the past couple of weeks, Chinese news agencies and newspapers have carried a number of stories about the upcoming mission. The sources are official with the main one being the China Manned Space ... more

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Vega receives its upper stage as the next mission's two primary passengers land in French Guiana Both primary payloads for Vega's no. 2 flight have arrived at French Guiana, positioning them for integration on the light-lift launcher - which has marked another step in preparation for its missio ... more		Galileo fixes Europe's position in history Europe's new age of satellite navigation has passed a historic milestone - the very first determination of a ground location using the four Galileo satellites currently in orbit together with their ... more		Solar-driven ionosphere charges may nudge stressed faults toward rupture Stable black carbon in mangrove soils boosts coastal climate role Low crystallinity iron minerals show promise for chromium cleanup and carbon storage		Boeing Ships 5th WGS Satellite to Cape Canaveral for 2013 Launch Boeing recently shipped its fifth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite, which will provide the U.S. Air Force with faster transmission of airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance im ... more
				India aborts testing of new cruise missile: defence body The maiden flight of India's first domestically developed long-range cruise missile was aborted midway on Tuesday after it veered off course, defence scientists said. ... more		UAV Industry Will Create 70,000 Jobs Over Next 3 Years Today, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) unveiled a new study, which finds that the unmanned aircraft industry is poised to create more than 70,000 new American jobs ... more

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New US Treasury chief Lew to visit China

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