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December 13, 2013
LAUNCH PAD
Russian Official Plays Down Concerns on Future of Proton
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 12, 2013
A top Russian official overseeing the nation's defense sector said Wednesday that launches of the Proton rocket from Moscow-leased Baikonur cosmodrome are set to continue. Ties between Russia and Kazakhstan have been sorely tested by an explosion of the heavy-lift rocket in July that spread 600 tons of fiery toxic propellants in the vicinity of the launch site deep inside the vast Central Asian nation. Kazakhstan has demanded $89 million in compensation for that incident, but there has been ... read more
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MICROSAT BLITZ

Johns Hopkins APL Will Launch RAVAN Cubesat to Help Solve an Earth Science Mystery
A new, low-cost cubesat mission led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. will demonstrate technology needed to measure the absolute imbalance in the Earth's radiation budge ... more
DRAGON SPACE

Chang'e-3 probe moves closer to the moon
China's lunar probe Chang'e-3 entered an orbit closer to the moon on Tuesday night. Following an order from the Beijing Aerospace Control Center, the probe descended from the 100 km-high lunar ... more
SPACE TRAVEL

Quails in orbit: French cuisine aims for the stars
It's your 150th day in space, and life is starting to resemble the movie "Groundhog Day" - a repetitive daily routine interspersed with tugs of longing for life back on Earth. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Intense 2-color double X-ray laser pulses: a powerful tool to study ultrafast processes
A team working at the SACLA X-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL) in Japan has succeeded in generating ultra-bright, two-color X-ray laser pulses, for the first time in the hard X-ray region. These light ... more


TECH SPACE

Citrus fruit inspires a new energy-absorbing metal structure
It has been said that nature provides us with everything that we need. A new study appearing in Springer's Journal of Materials Science may lend credence to that claim. Researchers from the Fo ... more
The Year In Space
TECH SPACE

Highly insulating windows are very energy efficient, though expensive
Highly insulating triple-pane windows keep a house snug and cozy, but it takes two decades or more for the windows to pay off financially based on utility-bill savings, according to a report by ener ... more
ENERGY TECH

Added molecules allow metal-organic frameworks to conduct electricity
Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Sandia National Laboratories have added something new to a family of engineered, high-tech materials called metal-organi ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
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
TECH SPACE

Silver corrosion provides clues about performance in atmospheric conditions
Small test strips made of silver or other metals, called "coupons," are frequently used to assess and predict the speeds at which metals used in outdoor environments-pipelines, aircraft, bridges, as ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT

NASA Developing Natural Hazard Warning Systems
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have enhanced existing GPS technologies to develop new systems for Californi ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Engineers Crush Giant Fuel Tank To Improve Rocket Design
Think of it as high-tech can crushing. Only the can is enormous, as big as part of the largest rocket ever made. During a series of tests from Dec. 9-13 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Hun ... more
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TECH SPACE

First Boeing-built Inmarsat-5 Global Xpress Satellite Sends Initial On-Orbit Signals
The first Boeing Inmarsat-5 satellite has launched and sent signals from orbit, the initial step to establishing Global Xpress, the world's first globally available high-speed mobile broadband servi ... more
ROBO SPACE

NASA Developing Legs for ISS Robonaut 2
NASA engineers are developing climbing legs for the International Space Station's robotic crewmember Robonaut 2 (R2), marking another milestone in space humanoid robotics. The legless R2, curr ... more
24/7 News Coverage
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
TECH SPACE

Berkeley Lab Researchers Create a Nonlinear Light-generating Zero-Index MetaMaterial
The Information Age will get a major upgrade with the arrival of quantum processors many times faster and more powerful than today's supercomputers. For the benefits of this new Information Age 2.0 ... more
ENERGY TECH

New thermoelectronic generator
Through a process known as thermionic conversion, heat energy - such as light from the sun or heat from burned fossil fuels - can be converted into electricity with very high efficiency. Bec ... more
AEROSPACE

India's Tejas fighter passes air-to-air missile firing test
India's long-awaited light combat aircraft Tejas cleared a critical test point Saturday, accurately test-firing an infrared missile. ... more
AEROSPACE
Citrus fruit inspires a new energy-absorbing metal structure

Berkeley Lab Researchers Create a Nonlinear Light-generating Zero-Index MetaMaterial

First Boeing-built Inmarsat-5 Global Xpress Satellite Sends Initial On-Orbit Signals


AEROSPACE
US Navy Accepts MUOS-2 Satellite, Ground Stations After On-Orbit Testing

Boeing Tests Validate Performance of FAB-T Satellite Communications Program

Intelsat General To Provide Satellite Services To US Marines


AEROSPACE
Russian Official Plays Down Concerns on Future of Proton

Arianespace to launch GSAT-15 and GSAT-16 satellites for India

Kazakhstan to end Proton missions in 2025


AEROSPACE
'Smart' wig navigates by GPS, monitors brainwaves

CIA, Pentagon trying to hinder construction of GLONASS stations in US

GPS 3 Prototype Communicates With GPS Constellation

MILTECH

U.S. Army holds online development event
The U.S. Army has been holding a crowd-sourcing event this week to develop a mobile command post mounted on a lightweight tactical all-terrain vehicle. ... more
MILTECH

Financial groups pour billions into cluster bomb trade: NGO
Investment in cluster bomb producers fell this year after a US defence contractor stopped making the weapons, but major financial firms continued to back the trade, an NGO said Thursday. ... more
AEROSPACE

Iraq signs $1.1 bn deal to buy S. Korean fighters
Iraq signed a $1.1 billion deal on Thursday to buy 24 multi-role light fighters from South Korea, as it seeks to build its fledgling air force amid rising violence. ... more
AEROSPACE

End looms for US Air Force's 'Warthog' ground-attack jet
Long disliked by the US Air Force, the A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack jet may finally be heading for the chopping block due to budget constraints. ... more
24/7 Energy News Coverage
AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners
Ancient guano drove Chincha coastal power
UAH lands first DARPA award for biological sciences department
MISSILE DEFENSE

U.S. to boost Israel defense missile funding by $173M

MISSILE DEFENSE

Astrium, Raytheon team to compete for NATO ballistic missile defense work

MILTECH

Researchers Develop World's Highest Quantum Efficiency UV Photodetectors

MILTECH

Raytheon demonstrates unparalleled precision in live-fire testing of self-propelled howitzer

AEROSPACE

Forecast: Growth ahead in military helicopter market

DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Desperate Syrians find little comfort in new homes

DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Haiti quake destroyed or damaged 60 years of archives

ENERGY TECH

Negative resistivity leads to positive resistance in the presence of a magnetic field

ENERGY TECH

Can We Turn Unwanted Carbon Dioxide Into Electricity

INTERNET SPACE

YouTube forecast to rake in $5.6 billion from ads

Peugeot confirms in talks with Chinese carmaker, GM pulls out

Instagram unveils private video, photo messaging

Japan to spend $970 mn on nuclear soil store: report

Google opens first data centres in Asia

Myanmar businesses call for better deal from China

Polymers can be semimetals

A Stopwatch for Electron Flashes

Deep Carbon Observatory scientists discover quick recipe for producing hydrogen

CWRU researchers report nanoscale energy-efficient switching devices

Millions of hidden share trades to be revealed

New sensor tracks zinc in cells

Morphing material has mighty potential

Pioneering path to electrical conductivity in 'tinker toy' materials to appear in Science

New setback for Canadian gold mine plan

Multinationals boost Ireland but jobs go unfilled

Music lovers seek to pump up digital audio quality

Google hard at work bringing voice recognition to the mainstream

Australia eases foreign ownership limits on Chinese miner

China auto sales hit record high in November

China November industrial output growth slows to 10.0%

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