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Trial by vacuum brings next Galileo satellites closer to launchParis (ESA) Jun 20, 2012 The next two Galileo navigation satellites have now endured the harsh vacuum and temperature extremes of space on the way to their scheduled 28 September launch. The fourth satellite completed 20 days of thermal vacuum testing at Thales Alenia Space Italy's plant in Rome at the start of June. The third satellite completed the same tests the previous month. "These two satellites are almost identical to the first two Galileo satellites that were launched last 21 October," explained ESA's Nigel Watts ... read more |
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 Boeing Completes Fifth GPS IIF Satellite for USAF Boeing has completed the fifth of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites the company is building for the U.S. Air Force. The spacecraft was built at the Satellite Development Center in El ... more | .. |
  Anniversary in space - five years of TerraSAR-X Five years ago on 15 June 2007, the German TerraSAR-X radar satellite was launched from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This marked the beginning of a new era in satellite remote sensing ... more | .. |
  ESA tests self-steering rover in 'Mars' desert ESA assembled a top engineering team then challenged them to devise a way for rovers to navigate on alien planets. Six months later, a fully autonomous vehicle was charting its own course through Ch ... more | .. |
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 Embedded Educators: Teacher Research Experience in Greenland with Operation IceBridge In mid-April, scientists working in a remote corner of Greenland on NASA's Operation IceBridge gave five teachers a taste of what airborne polar science is like and in the process provided the educa ... more | .. |
  Instrument Integration Begins at Goddard on MMS Spacecraft The decks have arrived. Engineers working on NASA'S Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission have started integrating instruments on the first of four instrument decks in a newly fabricated cleanroom ... more | .. |
  China astronauts enter space module for first time Three Chinese astronauts on Monday entered an orbiting module for the first time, a key step towards the nation's first space station, in a move broadcast live on China's state television network. ... more | .. |
  Power-generating knee strap hints at end for batteries Battery-powered devices could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a group of UK researchers who have created a novel energy harvester to power some of the latest wearable gadgets. By strappi ... more |
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 Northrop Grumman, US Navy Complete Triton Unmanned Aircraft's First Flight Lockheed Martin Completes Milestone for Training Element of United States Ballistic Missile Defense System General Dynamics to Deliver U.S. Army's Newest Tactical Ground Station Intelligence System Lockheed Martin Conducts First EMD Flight Test of New GMLRS Warhead Defense Acquisition Board approves Standard Missile-6 full-rate production DARPA Seeks Technology to Radically Improve Dismounted Squad Situational Awareness, Communication Effectiveness | .. |
 Google launches cultural map of Brazil's Amazon tribe Google on Saturday unveiled a cultural map of Brazil' Surui indigenous people, a digital tool that will help the Amazonian tribe share their vast knowledge of the forest and fight illegal logging. ... more | .. |
  'Spectrum crunch' may slow US mobile revolution The United States is bracing for a data crunch from the surging use of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices as the explosion of Internet-ready devices eats up the radio spectrum allocated for mobile broadband. ... more | .. |
 GPS being used as weather forecast tool Australian scientists say the global positioning system can make weather forecasting more accurate by providing a new type of temperature observation. ... more | .. |
 Indra Incorporates Rapideye Satellite Capacity Into Its Earth Observation Service Indra has signed an agreement making it the only company in Spain to market images from RapidEye's constellation of five satellites. This will strengthen the Earth observation service it provides fo ... more |
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 Delving inside Earth from space ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers is running experiments on the International Space Station that are shedding light on conditions deep inside Earth. Orbiting some 400 km above us, Geoflow is offering insi ... more | .. |
 Satellite Sees Smoke from Siberian Fires Reach the U.S. Coast Fires burning in Siberia recently sent smoke across the Pacific Ocean and into the U.S. and Canada. Images of data taken by the nation's newest Earth-observing satellite tracked aerosols from the fi ... more | .. |
 NASA's Ocean Salinity Pathfinder Celebrates its First Year in Orbit It's been a busy first year in space for Aquarius, NASA's pioneering instrument to measure ocean surface salinity from orbit. Designed to advance our understanding of what changes in the saltiness o ... more | .. |
  US Marines fire Excalibur from record range in Afghanistan The U.S. Marine Corps successfully fired two Raytheon Excalibur 155mm precision-guided artillery projectiles from a range of 36 kilometers (22.3 statute miles) in theater. These shots mark the longe ... more |
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 Allosaurus fed more like a falcon than a crocodile Study reveals how fishing gear can cause slow death of whales Research offers promising new approach to treatment of lung cancer A Local Footprint's Global Footprint A Roadmap for the Future of Astrobiology Small but speedy: Short plants live in the evolutionary fast lane | .. |
 Apple fends off Android challenge with maps, Siri Apple said Monday it was revving up the software running its coveted gadgets, training its sights on the China market - and tossing Google Maps aside in the process. ... more | .. |
  Israel encrypts UAVs as cyberwar widens Israel's military is expected shortly to take delivery of an advanced model of the Skylark 1 unmanned aerial vehicle that will be equipped with electronic jammers that will block efforts to intercept surveillance data. ... more | .. |
 UH research team uses airborne LiDAR to unveil Honduran archaeological ruins A field team from the University of Houston and the National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) has mapped a remote region of Honduras that may contain the l ... more | .. |
  Teaching tree-thinking through touch A pair of new studies by computer scientists, biologists, and cognitive psychologists at Harvard, Northwestern, Wellesley, and Tufts suggest that collaborative touch-screen games have value beyond j ... more |
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  South Korean paper hit by major cyber attack A conservative South Korean newspaper said Monday it had been the victim of a major cyber attack, less than a week after North Korea threatened the paper and other Seoul media over their reports. ... more | .. |
Apple unveils maps program, challenging Google Apple unveiled its own mapping program Monday, challenging Google for the popular software application and opening up a new front in the war with the maker of the Android operating system. ... more | .. |
 Obama backs Philippines on sea freedom The United States and the Philippines on Friday called for freedom of navigation in the tense South China Sea as the White House offered a robust show of support for President Benigno Aquino. ... more | .. |
 Taking action for GMES Representatives from the areas of economy, health, energy, agriculture, climate change, disaster management and key decision makers gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark, this week to show their support f ... more |
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 Innovation could bring flexible solar cells, transistors, displays More emphasis needed on recycling and reuse of Li-ion batteries Israel eyes Syrian missile threat to gas fields Sempra U.S. Gas and Power, Consolidated Edison Development announce solar partnership Areva, world's 2nd uranium company heavily present in Niger Magnetic fingerprints of superfluid helium-3 | .. |
Revamped Google maps goes offline for mobile Google unveiled a revamped maps program Wednesday that allows mobile users to use the service without an Internet connection as the Internet giant geared up for a possible competing service. ... more | .. |
 Boeing, Raytheon and Harris to Pursue GPS Control Segment Sustainment Contract Boeing, Raytheon and Harris Corporation will work together to pursue future development and sustainment work on the Air Force GPS Control Segment Sustainment (GCSS) contract. The control segment is ... more | .. |
S. Korea military accuses North of stealing secrets South Korea's military security chief accused North Korea Thursday of training elite hackers to steal military secrets and stir up public disorder. ... more | .. |
 USAF Awards Lockheed Martin GPS III Flight Operations Contract The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $68 million contract to provide mission readiness, launch, early orbit checkout and on-orbit operations engineering support for the first two GPS III ... more |
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  James Cook and the Transit of Venus Every ~120 years a dark spot glides across the Sun. Small, inky-black, almost perfectly circular, it's no ordinary sunspot. Not everyone can see it, but some who do get the strangest feeling, of sta ... more | .. |
  What role will Russia play in the space century? As technology develops and private companies expand into intergalactic travel, vacationing and working in space seems to be less and less far-fetched. Elena Shipilova of Russia Beyond the Headlines ... more | .. |
 CryoSat goes to sea CryoSat was launched in 2010 to measure sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, but data from the Earth-observing satellite have also been exploited for other studies. High-resolution mapping of the topogr ... more | .. |
  Iran's Fajr 1 Delayed...... Again Fajr 1 was originally mentioned by Iran as "ready to launch" early in August 2010 when an Iranian government minister said the lift off was scheduled for the period Aug 24-30. Then, on Aug 16, came ... more |
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