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March 24, 2014

US more dependent on Russia in space, than Russia on US - NASA
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Mar 25, 2014
The United States in the space area is more dependent on Russia than Russia on the United States, John Logsdon, an American scientist, a member of the NASA Advisory Council, said in an interview to France Press in Washington, when asked whether astronauts would not be carried by Russian rockets to the International Space Station in connection with the current situation over Ukraine. The United States and Russia were mutually dependent to ensure the ISS functioning, Logsdon said. He believes the st ... read more

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Arianespace Launches ASTRA 5B and Amazonas 4A On Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 22:04 UTC,Arianespace carried out the 59th successful Ariane 5 launch in a row, orbiting two telecommunications satellites: ASTRA 5B for the Luxembourg-based operator ... more		Airbus Defence and Space to cooperate with Snecma on electric propulsion Airbus Defence and Space has signed a cooperation agreement with Snecma (Safran) for the use of Snecma's PPS5000 engine in Airbus Defence and Space's Eurostar satellites, for missions in which elect ... more		Advancing the Technology Readiness Of SLS Adaptive Controls Can a rocket maneuver like an airplane? And can an airplane act as a surrogate for a maneuvering rocket? NASA engineers demonstrated just that when they used a NASA F/A-18 aircraft recently to simul ... more
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'StratoBus' drone-satellite hybrid to provide new level of surveillance A new project of an autonomous airship - a hybrid between a drone and a satellite - has been developed in France. The 'StratoBus' dirigible drone will be able to carry out long endurance observation ... more		Europe's IXV atmospheric reentry demonstrator ready for final tests IXV (Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle), the European Space Agency's atmospheric reentry demonstrator developed by Thales Alenia Space, has finished development, and is now completing integration at ... more		Russia strikes Kyiv after first stage of major prisoner swap Growing Arctic military presence worries Finland's reindeer herders South Korea says concerned by China's 'no-sail zone' in overlapping waters		SpaceX Launch to the ISS Reset for March 30 SpaceX has confirmed it will target its next cargo mission launch to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, for 10:50 p.m. EDT, Sunday, March 30. NAS ... more
				Ariane 5 hardware arrives for next ATV mission Hardware for the Ariane 5 that will launch Europe's fifth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has been delivered to the Spaceport, where it will be readied to orbit the resupply craft on another of Ari ... more		Lockheed Martin's DAGR Missile Scores a Perfect 16 of 16 in Flight Tests for US Army Lockheed Martin recently demonstrated the ability of its DAGR missile to launch from an Apache AH-64D helicopter and repeatedly hit the target during a series of Air Worthiness Release (AWR) live fi ... more

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International Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures From Space Environment

Nuclear Supply Chain Summit - April 28-29 Greenville SC

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VTOL X-Plane Program Takes Off For generations, new designs for vertical takeoff and landing aircraft have remained unable to increase top speed without sacrificing range, efficiency or the ability to do useful work. DARPA's VTOL ... more		Northrop Grumman Delivers Global Hawk Early and On Cost Northrop Grumman delivered a Global Hawk Block 40 Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) to the U.S. Air Force at Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., ahead of schedule, Feb. 14. This is the second aircr ... more		Fears for crops as drought hits northern Europe Abrupt Soil Moisture Loss Drives Global Water Flow into Oceans, Raising Sea Levels Ancient Climate Shifts and Their Impact on North American Landscapes		Antimony nanocrystals for batteries Researchers from ETH Zurich and Empa have succeeded for the first time to produce uniform antimony nanocrystals. Tested as components of laboratory batteries, these are able to store a large number ... more
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Getting rid of bad vibrations

Cisco pushes into 'cloud' with $1 bn investment

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Mutualink Obtains Key NATO Certification

NGG Starts Integration Of High-Speed Downlink Antennas EHF Comms Payload

Catching signals from a speeding satellite

Arianespace Launches ASTRA 5B and Amazonas 4A

SpaceX Launch to the ISS Reset for March 30

Ariane 5 hardware arrives for next ATV mission

LockMart Taps General Dynamics For Network Element On GPS 3 Birds

Astro Aerospace Delivers Antennas For Next-Gen GPS III Satellites 3 through 6

Exelis completes transmitter assemblies for first GPS III satellite payload

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Trump signs orders to boost US nuclear energy

Anthropic's Claude AI gets smarter -- and mischievious

Suriname president vows oil bonanza won't hit carbon-negative status

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Philippines to spend $524mn on military aircraft		Boeing Phantom Swift Selected for DARPA X-Plane Competition		Fukushima operator restarts water decontamination system		108 reported unaccounted for in US landslide		Up to 18 unaccounted for in deadly US landslide

Could diamonds be a computer's best friend?

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Recovering valuable substances from wastewater

Pinterest pinning ads to digital bulletin board

Malaysia says missing jet crashed at sea

Singapore talks on Internet's future hear plea for freedom

Cisco pushes into 'cloud' with $1 bn investment

Cell phones catapult 'Shangri-La' Bhutan into modern age

Some debt defaults 'healthy' for China market: central bank

Malaysia says French satellite detects debris in plane search area

Online news attracts star power and big money

Australia 'clutching' at MH370 leads after new data

US moves to push global trade deal on green goods

TED turns 30 with new chapter of 'ideas worth spreading'

Taiwan protesters call for surrounding of ruling party offices

Lockheed Martin and Atlantis Resources: Harnessing the Power of Ocean Tides

Volvo Cars returns to profit on China sales, cost cuts

Control of Internet in spotlight at Singapore talks

US to seek licence for domestic production of Russia's RD-180 rocket engines

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