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Toronto teens send Lego man into space: videoOttawa (AFP) Jan 25, 2012 A video posted on YouTube Wednesday appeared to show the amazing voyage of a Lego man sent into space on a homemade spacecraft by two Toronto students. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, used a weather balloon ordered online and a makeshift Styrofoam spacecraft to send the plastic astronaut 24 kilometers (15 miles) into the stratosphere, reports said. Their high school principal Lecourgos Papathanasakis confirmed the "amazing voyage" to AFP, but neither of the teens was immediately available ... read more |
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  Opening of UK site producing the heart of Galileo The first Galileo satellites are already in orbit, with more on the way. ESA's Director General and the UK's Universities and Science Minister have attended the grand opening of the facility where n ... more | .. |
 Boeing GPS IIF Satellites Assembled Using 'Pulse' Manufacturing Line Boeing has accelerated the assembly of its Global Positioning System (GPS IIF) satellites through the use of a pulse-line manufacturing approach adapted from the Boeing 737 airplane production line. ... more | .. |
 Old satellite teaching new lessons Since Jan. 13, the 2nd Space Operations Squadron here has been busy disposing of an old and trusted satellite. Squadron members could soon refer to the vehicle, known as SVN-30, as the satellite tha ... more | .. |
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  China's satellite navigation sector annual output predicted to reach 35 bln USD in 2015 The annual output value of China's satellite navigation industry is estimated to reach more than 225 billion yuan (35.64 billion U.S. dollars) in 2015, according to a latest research report on the c ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman to Supply Marine Navigation Equipment for Suez Canal Authority Northrop Grumman's Sperry Marine business unit has won orders to supply navigation equipment to the Suez Canal Authority for tugboats and other assorted workboats. The orders include radar upg ... more | .. |
  World's First Net-Enabled Weapon Completes Developmental Testing The Navy recently completed a milestone test phase for its network-enabled weapon that will give forces greater effectiveness at sea. Joint Stand-off Weapon (JSOW) C -1, DoD's first network-en ... more | .. |
 Boeing Receives Additional USAF JDAM Contract Boeing has received a $126 million contract from the U.S. Air Force on Nov. 30 for approximately 5,000 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kits. Deliveries will begin in June 2013 and continue ... more |
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Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program
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  Converteam Acquisition Launches GE into the $30 Billion Power Conversion Market Don Quixote in his madness tilted at windmills but wind turbines also exhibit their own kind of capricious behavior. In a wind gust they spin away, churning kilowatts of electricity. But in a breeze ... more | .. |
  Satellite observes spatiotemporal variations in mid-upper tropospheric methane over China Atmospheric methane (CH4), one of the main greenhouse gases, has increased dramatically worldwide since the pre-industrial era. However, much work is needed to build on intermittent and scattered ob ... more | .. |
  A big leap toward lowering the power consumption of microprocessors The first systematic power profiles of microprocessors could help lower the energy consumption of both small cell phones and giant data centers, report computer science professors from The Universit ... more | .. |
  Biggest solar storm since 2005 pummels Earth A potent solar flare has unleashed the biggest radiation storm since 2005 and could disrupt some satellite communications in the polar regions, US space weather monitors said Monday. ... more |
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 Warrant needed for GPS tracking: US Supreme Court The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday that police need a search warrant before tracking a suspect with a GPS device, in a case involving privacy and 21st century technology. ... more | .. |
 NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteo ... more | .. |
 China Plans to Launch 30 Satellites in 2012 China is planning to launch 21 carrier rockets with 30 satellites in 2012, the China Aerospace and Technology Corporation (CASC) said on Wednesday. The country's ambitious space program will s ... more | .. |
 NASA Sees Repeating La Nina Hitting its Peak La Nina, "the diva of drought," is peaking, increasing the odds that the Pacific Northwest will have more stormy weather this winter and spring, while the southwestern and southern United States wil ... more |
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Solar-driven ionosphere charges may nudge stressed faults toward rupture
Stable black carbon in mangrove soils boosts coastal climate role
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 Map project accuses Google users of edits The OpenStreetMap project, an open source mapping group competing with Google Maps, say user accounts in India linked to Google have tampered with its data. ... more | .. |
  Engineering team completes ambitious Antarctic expedition in the 'deep-field' A team of four British engineers has returned to the UK after completing a gruelling journey to one of the most remote and hostile locations on the planet to put in place equipment and supplies for ... more | .. |
 Half price DMCii 2011 country image pack in New Year sale Remote sensing solutions provider DMC International Imaging (DMCii) has launched its New Year sale during which customers can purchase its high quality, ready-to-use country image packs half price. ... more | .. |
 Raytheon to Develop Mission Critical Launch and Check Solution for Global Positioning System Raytheon has been awarded a $27.4 million contract by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center for development of a Global Positioning System (GPS) Launch and Checkout System (LCS), which ... more |
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 A step closer to mapping the Earth in 3D After a year in service, the German Earth observation satellite TanDEM-X, together with its twin satellite, TerraSAR-X, have completely mapped the entire land surface of Earth for the first time. Th ... more | .. |
  45th Space Wing: Looking Back at 2011 and Forward to 2012 Sharks! Let me be the first to welcome you back from what I hope was a relaxing and fun holiday. I know that we all welcomed the break after the recent launches, preparation for and ultimately execu ... more | .. |
 First Galileo satellite GIOVE-A outlives design life to reach sixth anniversary British satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is celebrating the sixth year of transmission of signals from its GIOVE-A satellite, which signalled the start of Europe's ambit ... more |
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 Ziyuan III satellite sends back hi-res images The Ziyuan III satellite has sent back its first set of visual data days after the orbiter was successfully launched on Jan. 9 to produce high-resolution imagery for civilian use. According to ... more | .. |
USAF Awards Contract to Lockheed Martin for GPS III Launch and Checkout Capability The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $21.5 million contract to provide a Launch and Checkout Capability (LCC) to command and control all GPS III satellites from launch through early on-o ... more | .. |
 ORBCOMM Announces Launch of VesselSat2 ORBCOMM has announced the successful launch of VesselSat2, an Automatic Identification Service (AIS) enabled satellite built by LuxSpace Sarl (LuxSpace), an affiliate of OHB System AG. VesselSat2 wa ... more | .. |
 NASA Radar to Study Most Active Volcano On Hawaii An airborne radar developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has returned to Hawaii to continue its study of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii's current most active volcano. The Un ... more |
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 Astro Aerospace Completes CDA of Reflector Boom Assembly for SMAP Mission Astro Aerospace, a strategic business unit of Northrop Grumman, has completed a major milestone in the development of the reflector boom assembly (RBA) for NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) ... more | .. |
 China's space ambitions ally glory with pragmatism As China pushes to become a global space power, experts say its ambitions go well beyond a symbolic moon landing, to satellite observation and a global positioning system to rival that of the United States. ... more | .. |
 Association of Old Crows Recognizes the Dangers of Persistent GPS Interference The November 2011 testing of LightSquared's wireless broadband service proposal found no significant interference to cellular phone text and voice capabilities but did find significant disruption of ... more | .. |
 Ice data at your fingertips Discover ESA's ice mission, track it in real time and obtain the latest measurements with the new CryoSat application. CryoSat is measuring the thickness of polar sea ice and monitoring changes in t ... more |
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