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August 21, 2014

Flight Test Preparations Draw on Launch Services Program's Expertise
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 21, 2014
The upcoming flight test of NASA's Orion spacecraft will be a mission of firsts. This new crew vehicle, making its debut on Exploration Flight Test-1, will become the first of its kind in four decades to venture beyond low-Earth orbit. The mission also marks the first time a spacecraft designed to carry humans will be lofted to orbit by a modern-day expendable launch vehicle. Orion, built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, will fly aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket. NASA's ... read more

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SES Inks Satellite Exploitation Rights For Two Brazilian Orbital Positions SES subsidiary SES DTH do Brasil has signed with Anatel (the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency) the Satellite Exploitation rights terms for two Brazilian orbital positions (48 degrees Wes ... more		Ground X-Vehicle Program Aims to Break The "More Armor" Paradigm For the past 100 years of mechanized warfare, protection for ground-based armored fighting vehicles and their occupants has boiled down almost exclusively to a simple equation: More armor equals mor ... more		General Hyten takes control of AFSPC General John E. Hyten became the 16th commander of Air Force Space Command, in a change-of-command ceremony, replacing General William L. Shelton. General Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force Chief of Staff ... more
				Russia's First Exoskeleton to Help Physically Impaired A team of Russian exoskeleton designers said Monday they were looking for disabled patients who would agree to volunteer for human tests in the country's unique ExoAtlet Project, according to Izvest ... more		Exoskeleton technology set for Navy testing and evaluation Exoskeltons from Lockheed Martin that boost a person's strength and endurance are to be tested and evaluated for industrial use by the U.S. Navy. ... more

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Northrop Grumman Developing XS-1 Spaceplane For DARPA Northrop Grumman with Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic is developing a preliminary design and flight demonstration plan for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Experimental ... more		Belka and Strelka, the canine cosmonauts Space capsules with animals on board preceded manned space flights, with the first experiments on mammals in spacecraft taking place as early as 1948, leading, in time, to the flight of the two most ... more		Israel threatens Huthi leaders after striking Yemen ports Putin made 'mistake' sending 'low-level' team to Ukraine talks: NATO chief Enveil Secures DIU Contract to Advance Hybrid Space Architecture Data Capabilities		Arianespace Soyuz ready to launch European GPS satellites "Doresa" and "Milena" - the first two Galileo FOC (Full Operational Capability) satellites - are ready for their ride to orbit this week, as preparations for Arianespace's Soyuz Flight VS09 move int ... more
				Next gen satellite to be tested during Arctic Shield 2014 From studying the effects of solar activity to improve radio transmissions to enhancing the capabilities of Automated Identification Systems, the importance of having a reliable communications infra ... more		3 SOPS bids farewell to oldest DSCS satellite As a cadre of 3rd Space Operations Squadron members looked on, 3 SOPS Commander, Lt. Col. Chris Todd, shut down the final remaining components of a Defense Satellite Communications System satellite ... more

Robotic-assisted imaging will help in daily hospital practice While in Germany, Partho P. Sengupta, MD, of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai used a computer to perform a robot-assisted trans-Atlantic ultrasound examination on a person in Boston. In ... more		On the frontiers of cyborg science No longer just fantastical fodder for sci-fi buffs, cyborg technology is bringing us tangible progress toward real-life electronic skin, prosthetics and ultraflexible circuits. Now taking this human ... more		Orangutan Communication Reveals Surprising Complexity Once Thought Uniquely Human NASA Satellite Images Could Provide Early Volcano Warnings Earth's Core Waves Reveal New Paths for Planetary Exploration		China's first private rocket firm aims for market Hu Zhenyu, 21, founder of Link Space, China's first private rocket firm, does not want people to call him a "rocket scientist" but a rocket entrepreneur. Rocket launches have traditionally bee ... more
Twin Galileos meet, ready for Thursday's launch Final functional testing of Europe's twin Galileo navigation satellites has been completed at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, on track for launch this Thursday. The fuelling of the two satellit ... more		Can our computers continue to get smaller and more powerful? From their origins in the 1940s as sequestered, room-sized machines designed for military and scientific use, computers have made a rapid march into the mainstream, radically transforming industry, ... more		The Future of CubeSats To investigate climate change, scientists and engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center are developing the IceCube satellite, which will be no larger than a loaf of bread. In 2016, this satell ... more		Aerojet Rocketdyne Supports Fifth Successful Launch in Six Weeks Aerojet Rocketdyne supported the launch of the WorldView-3 commercial remote sensing satellite into orbit - the fifth launch in six weeks. The mission was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ... more

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Snoozing China air traffic controllers force jet to delay landing

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