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April 25, 2014

SpaceX sues US Air Force over satellite contracts
Washington (AFP) April 25, 2014
SpaceX on Friday filed suit against the US Air Force for awarding billions of dollars to a single company for national security launches, and said the contracts might even violate sanctions against Russia. The US military spends billions yearly with United Launch Alliance, a joint operation of aerospace giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin, to launch government satellites. The Atlas V and Delta IV rockets are powered by Russian engines, which has raised concern among some lawmakers that such relian ... read more

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Russia eyes building Glonass stations in 36 countries Russia plans to build 50 stations for the global navigation satellite system Glonass in dozens of countries, a senior official said Wednesday. "We will continue promoting Glonass technologies ... more		Turn your satnav ideas into business Propose a great satnav idea and win a prize with ESA support to create your own business. Previous winners are now running companies with systems for athlete tracking and indoor navigation, and many ... more		Russia's GLONASS Fully Restored After System Failure Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) has resumed normal operations after suffering an outage earlier this month caused by a malfunctioning satellite, the leading research institute ... more
				Thermoelectric generator on glass fabric for wearable electronic devices Wearable computers or devices have been hailed as the next generation of mobile electronic gadgets, from smart watches to smart glasses to smart pacemakers. For electronics to be worn by a user, the ... more		Device turns flat surface into spherical antenna By depositing an array of tiny, metallic, U-shaped structures onto a dielectric material, a team of researchers in China has created a new artificial surface that can bend and focus electromagnetic ... more

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LockMarts GMLRS Warhead Logs Successful Flight-Test Series Lockheed Martin has conducted the fifth and final Production Qualification Test (PQT) for the new Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Alternative Warhead recently at White Sands Missile Ran ... more		Berkeley Launches Building Energy Performance Research Project FLEXLAB, the Facility for Low Energy experiments in Buildings, run by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD), has partnered with construction firm ... 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		Information storage for the next generation of plastic computers Inexpensive computers, cell phones and other systems that substitute flexible plastic for silicon chips may be one step closer to reality, thanks to research published on April 16 in the journal Nat ... more
				Global scientific team 'visualizes' a new crystallization process Sometimes engineers invent something before they fully comprehend why it works. To understand the "why," they must often create new tools and techniques in a virtuous cycle that improves the origina ... more		Repeated Self-Healing Now Possible in Composite Materials Internal damage in fiber-reinforced composites, materials used in structures of modern airplanes and automobiles, is difficult to detect and nearly impossible to repair by conventional methods. A sm ... more

UAV Payloads 2014, 24 - 25 June - London, UK

International Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures From Space Environment

Nuclear Supply Chain Summit - April 28-29 Greenville SC

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

Russia to Keep Working With Astronauts From US, Europe, Japan Russian cosmonauts will continue to work with their colleagues from the US, Europe and Japan, despite a number of recent NASA statements about curtailing space cooperation, the head of the Yuri Gaga ... more		Russia to Boost Manpower on New Space Center Construction Site Russia will significantly boost the number of workers involved in the construction of its new Far Eastern Vostochny space launch center, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said at a meetin ... 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		Taylor Small Satellite Launched Following three launch delays, the Taylor University nanosatellite was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this afternoon from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The small satellite, which had been ... more
				NASA Selects Commercial Crew Program Manager NASA has selected Kathy Lueders as program manager for the agency's Commercial Crew Program (CCP). Lueders, who has served as acting program manager since October 2013, will help keep the nation's s ... more		SSL Selected To Provide Two Satellites To Sky Perfect JSAT Space Systems/Loral (SSL) has announced that it was selected to provide two communications satellites to SKY Perfect JSAT, a leading satellite operator based in Japan, with a fleet of 16 satellites. ... more

Information storage for the next generation of plastic computers

Global scientific team 'visualizes' a new crystallization process

Repeated Self-Healing Now Possible in Composite Materials

High Gain Amplifiers for Commercial and Military Radar Released by Pasternack

Harris supplying more communications terminals to Navy

iSYS LLC gets order for cellular wireless managed services

SpaceX sues US Air Force over satellite contracts

45th Space Wing supports third SpaceX Launch for ISS Resupply mission

Arianespace's Vega launcher receives its "upper composite" for this month's launch

Russia eyes building Glonass stations in 36 countries

Turn your satnav ideas into business

Russia's GLONASS Fully Restored After System Failure

	Some astronauts at risk for cognitive impairment, animal studies suggest Johns Hopkins scientists report that rats exposed to high-energy particles, simulating conditions astronauts would face on a long-term deep space mission, show lapses in attention and slower reactio ... more		NASA Names Six New Members to Advisory Council NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has announced the appointment of six new members to the NASA Advisory Council (NAC). The group advises NASA's senior leadership on challenges and solutions facing t ... more		Launcher build-up begins for Arianespace's fifth Ariane 5 mission to orbit an ATV The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's fifth flight to service the International Space Station is now being assembled in French Guiana, preparing the launcher for its 2014 mission with another European Auto ... more		NASA Innovative Advanced Concept Program Seeks Phase II Proposals NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program is seeking proposals for technologies that could be used on future exploration missions. The new proposals will build on the most promising ideas d ... more

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

Soviet space capsule up for sale in Belgium		Arianespace's Vega launcher receives its "upper composite" for this month's launch		45th Space Wing supports third SpaceX Launch for ISS Resupply mission		China issues first assessment on space activities		Robonaut from the ISS gets new legs for Easter
Raytheon touts ballistic missile defense weapon		US Navy deploys Standard Missile-3 Block IB for first time		High Gain Amplifiers for Commercial and Military Radar Released by Pasternack		International customer signs agreement with USG for Raytheon's TOW missiles		Australia to buy 58 US F-35s for $11.6bn

US Military hopes AI autopilot can replace flight crews

Lockheed Martin Demonstrates Enhanced Ground Control System and Software for Small Unmanned Aircraft

Raytheon awaits FMS order for TOW missiles

Lockheed touts improvements for SUAS operations

Northrop to start low-rate production of mission computers

Nexter, Chemring in deal over ammunition manufacturers

U.S. military contracts Rolls-Royce for engine maintenance

Patria vehicles getting Saab communications electronics

A-T Solutions continues counter-IED work

ThyssenKrupp Aerospace to handle supply chain of the Triumph Group

State Department okays helicopter deal for Mexico

Lockheed Martin Team's Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Tops 100,000 Testing Miles During EMD Phase

Harris supplying more communications terminals to Navy

China Considers Russian Satellite-Based Emergency Response System

Network evaluation tools to assess relief operations in disaster-struck regions

Guides, climbers prepare to leave Everest

Searchers face tough choices in hunt for MH370

Cancellations on Everest amid talks to save climbing season

Vacuum Ultraviolet Lamp of the Future Created in Japan

New design for mobile phone masts could cut carbon emissions

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