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May 14, 2015

Russia races to replace Sarah Brightman as space tourist
Moscow (AFP) May 14, 2015
Russia's space officials on Thursday rushed to find a replacement for British singer Sarah Brightman after she pulled out as the next space tourist four months ahead of her planned trip. The singer known for roles in West End musicals such as "Phantom of the Opera" said Wednesday she was suspending her plans to fly to the International Space Station for "family reasons", reportedly her mother's poor health. Brightman, 54, had paid $52 million (48 million euros) to fly to the ISS, and hoped to be ... read more

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Russia to Launch US Comms Satellite Into Space Russia will launch a US communications satellite from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan this year, the government said in a statement on Monday. The Intelsat DLA-2 satellite, also known ... more		High-tech Analysis of Orion Heat Shield Underway Engineers from three NASA field centers are partnering this month at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to remove and analyze some 180 small squares of an ablative material ... more		Russia, China Agree on Joint Exploitation of Glonass Navigation Systems The heads of Russia's Federal Space Agency and China's Satellite Navigation Office signed on Friday a joint statement on the joint exploitation of the Chinese BeiDou system with Russia's Glonass nav ... more
				Getting the LDSD Vehicle to Test Altitude In June NASA will conduct the second flight of the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) test vehicle from the U.S. Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) located on the Island of Kauai, Haw ... more		NASA Selects Advanced Space Technology Concepts NASA has selected 15 proposals, including one from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a program that aim ... more

Space Tech Expo - Design - Build - Test - Long Beach CA - May 19-21, 2015

The World's Largest Commercial Drone Conference and Expo - Sept 9 - Las Vegas

Next Generation Integrated ISR 2015 - Washington DC - July 27-29

An important step in artificial intelligence In what marks a significant step forward for artificial intelligence, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have demonstrated the functionality of a simple artificial neural circuit. For the first time, a ... more		Will a soft robot be first to explore Europa's oceans? Long intrigued by Europa's icy, water-logged environs, researchers around the world are trying figure out the best way to explore the alien world up close. ... more		Trump, Putin agree to meet next week in Alaska Iran will not allow Trump-backed corridor linking Azerbaijan to exclave; Russia cautious Trump says Armenia, Azerbaijan commit to end fighting 'forever'		Controlling swarms of robots with a finger Using a smart tablet and a red beam of light, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have created a system that allows people to control a fleet of robots with the swipe of a finger. A person t ... more
				Device could greatly improve speech and image recognition Researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering and the Russian Academy of Sciences have successfully demonstrated pattern recognition using a magnonic holograph ... more		NASA: Hang on a Minute, We're NOT Working on Warp-Drive Technology After overly excitable media outlets reported the creation of "warp-drive" technology, NASA has had to come out and set the record straight about what recent reports about an electromagnetic drive t ... more

Army Network Modernization 2015 - Washington DC June 23-25

Fifth Vega takes shape for its flight with Sentinel-2A The fifth Vega launcher continues its integration process in French Guiana for a mission this summer to orbit Europe's Sentinel-2A Earth observation satellite. During activity at the Spaceport ... more		Space Launch System Program Moving Forward with Critical Design Review NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) Program is kicking off its critical design review May 11 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This new rocket will be the most powerful lau ... more		Early Earth may have had active plate tectonics far sooner than thought Comet debris signs found in Baffin Bay sediments linked to Younger Dryas cooling Lioness present in northeast C.Africa for first time in years; New species teem in Cambodia's threatened karst		SMC awards 7.8 million dollar contract to Georgia Tech Research Institute Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, has been awarded a $7,857,568.00 contract, for combustion stability modeling and design tool development. This contract provides for the deve ... more
FINDER Search and Rescue Technology Helped Save Lives in Nepal In the wreckage of a collapsed textile factory and another building in the Nepalese village of Chautara, four men were rescued, thanks to a NASA technology that was able to find their heartbeats. ... more		Watch a simple tablet control robot swarm Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have programmed a fleet of robots to respond to a basic set of commands issued via a tablet device. ... more		Next X-37B Mission Set To Begin Soon The fourth flight of the X-37B robot spaceplane will soon begin. This mission is groundbreaking! It's hardly the first launch, but it's the first time that we have been openly told about the payload ... more		Welding Begins on Orion Pathfinder On May 7, engineers at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans began welding together the first pieces of the structure of the Orion crew module pathfinder. This pathfinder is a full-scale v ... more

	US Missile Defense System Beset by Delays The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has advanced in developing an anti-ballistic missile defense system but continues to be beset by testing delays and acquisition problems, the US Government Accoun ... more		Proba-V maps world air traffic from space As ESA's Proba-V works quietly on its main task of monitoring vegetation growth across Earth, the minisatellite is also picking up something from a little higher: signals from thousands of aircraft. ... more

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U.S. increases bounty to $50M for Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro

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Russia establishes satellite ground station on US doorstep

Romania, Thailand receiving Lockheed Martin sensor system

Robot pets to rise in an overpopulated world

Search and Rescue Tool Pinpoints Buried Victims

Rescuers battle to reach survivors of new Nepal quake

Migrants in Indonesia could spend months in Aceh camps: IOM

MH370 search finds uncharted shipwreck

Australia to commit extra $63 million to MH370 search

Iran should send aid ship to Djibouti, not Yemen: US

U.S. deploying V-22 squadron to Japan

Red Cross, Nepal firm launch emergency texting service

NY nuclear plant spills oil into Hudson

China April economic data at multi-year lows

Indian PM Modi leaves for China with trade on mind

Japan current account surplus surges in March

HSBC subsidiary announces sale of 10% stake in Chinese bank

Chinese Premier Li to visit South America: Beijing

IBM's Watson strives to be jack of all trades

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