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January 20, 2014

First mission for SSTL's new X50 platform will be for Kazakh customer
London, UK (SPX) Jan 20, 2014
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and Ghalam LLP (Kazakhstan) have agreed that SSTL's new X50 platform design will deliver KazSTSAT, a small satellite mission announced under a contract signed last year. KazSTSAT will be based on the SSTL-X50 Earthmapper variant and will carry an SSTL SLIM-6 imager, providing 22m resolution multispectral imagery with a swath width of more than 600km for global wide-area imaging. The new SSTL-X50 Earthmapper variant combines a large volume of data storag ... read more

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China confirms new hypersonic glide vehicle test-flight China confirmed conducting a test flight of a new hypersonic missile delivery vehicle capable of delivering nuclear warheads with record breaking speeds. The move is purely scientific and not target ... more		20th Anniversary of Initial Operational Capability of the GPS Constellation The Global Positioning System (GPS) Directorate celebrated the 20th Anniversary of achieving Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for GPS Dec. 8, 2013. In 1973, the Navstar Global Positioning ... more		Working Together to Build Tomorrow's STEM Workforce On January 13, NASA and the U.S. Department of Education marked the successful completion of a pilot program designed to engage more students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or ... more
				KVH Doubles Capacity of Global C-band Beams for Maritime VSAT Network KVH Industries is doubling the capacity for two of the three global C-band beams of its mini-VSAT Broadband network, further enhancing the world's most extensive C/Ku-band maritime VSAT network. ... more		2-proton bit controlled by a single copper atom Just a single foreign atom located in the vicinity of a molecule can change spatial arrangement of its atoms. In a spectacular experiment, an international team of researchers was able to change per ... more

Quantum physics could make secure, single-use computer memories possible Computer security systems may one day get a boost from quantum physics, as a result of recent research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Computer scientist Yi-Kai Liu h ... more		Potential Future Data Storage at Domain Boundaries Storing more and more in an ever-smaller space - what sounds impossible is in fact just part of the daily routine in information technology, where for decades, increasing amounts of data have been s ... more		'Aces up the sleeve': Ukraine drone attacks in Russia shake up conflict Trump says Iran 'slowwalking' as Khamenei opposes nuclear proposal US pressures NATO to seal deal on ramping up defence spending		New Technique for Probing Subsurface Electronic Structure "The interface is the device," Nobel laureate Herbert Kroemer famously observed, referring to the remarkable properties to be found at the junctures where layers of different materials meet. I ... more
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