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Russia Drafts New Space Exploration StrategyMoscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 16, 2012 Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos has submitted to the government a draft of a space exploration strategy until 2030, Kommersant business daily reported on Tuesday. The ambitious program prioritizes a step-by-step modernization of the space industry, development of new spacecraft including space shuttles, and active exploration of solar planets. "The goal of the strategy is to ensure that the Russian space industry maintains its world-level standards and solidifies its position among t ... read more |
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  Navigation devices in market woes Personal navigating device makers are shifting strategies as they face increasing competition from increasingly capable mobile apps, U.S. analysts say. ... more | .. |
  Santorini: The Ground is Moving Again in Paradise Do a Google image search for "Greece." Before you find pictures of the Parthenon or Acropolis, you'll see several beautiful photos of Santorini, the picturesque island in the Aegean Sea. The British ... more | .. |
  Poachers may wipe out rhinos in S. Africa, campaigner warns Rhinos will be wiped out from South Africa's wildlife parks by 2015 if poaching continues at its current rate, a campaigner fighting to save the beasts has warned. ... more | .. |
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  Investigation of Earth Catastrophes From the ISS: Uragan Program The Uragan program aboard the Russian segment of the International Space Station uses digital photography to study Earth's natural resources by monitoring catastrophes, both natural and human made. ... more | .. |
  China completes system to monitor Earth's crust China Friday completed a system designed to monitor the movement of the Earth's crust and predict earthquakes, officials said. Based on satellite navigation, the system involves a network of 2 ... more | .. |
 Iris: watch how satcoms help pilots ESA is set to unveil a new interactive display in Amsterdam demonstrating communications via satellite for pilots as part of its pioneering Iris air traffic management project. By 2020 Iris will all ... more | .. |
 Multi-Agency Satellite Begins Climate and Weather Studies NASA has completed commissioning of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite (NPP), which is now making global environmental observations. The satellite will provide scientists with c ... more |
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Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program
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 Greek volcanic island shows activity The Greek island of Santorini is showing increasing signs of volcanic activity, a U.S. researcher says. ... more | .. |
Smartphones can help track diseases Smartphones can improve disease surveillance in the developing world with more accurate, faster, cheaper gathering of disease information, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Proposed nuclear clock may keep time with the Universe A proposed new time-keeping system tied to the orbiting of a neutron around an atomic nucleus could have such unprecedented accuracy that it neither gains nor loses 1/20th of a second in 14 billion ... more | .. |
  Andrews Space Contracted to Deliver 100 Series Command and Data Handling System for GEO Application Andrews Space (Andrews) has been contracted to deliver three integrated avionics suites based on its 100-Series avionics architecture for a Geosynchronous spacecraft application. The contract ... more |
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  US should assume Iran seeks nukes: Kissinger Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said in an interview Sunday that the United States should assume that Iran is actively preparing to build nuclear weapons. ... more | .. |
  Storms from the Sun Space weather starts at the Sun. It begins with an eruption such as a huge burst of light and radiation called a solar flare or a gigantic cloud of solar material called a coronal mass ejection (CME ... more | .. |
Impact of solar storm less than feared A massive solar storm hitting Earth is having less impact on satellites, power grids and communications than some had feared, U.S. space weather experts say. ... more | .. |
 Age of warning satellite causes concern A U.S. satellite giving the only advance warning of incoming high-energy solar particles is getting old and is possibly on its last legs, researchers say. ... 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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Court ruling forces FBI to deactivate GPS to track suspects A recent US Supreme Court decision is hurting the ability of federal law enforcement agencies to monitor criminal suspects with global positioning satellites (GPS), according to FBI Director Robert Mueller. ... more | .. |
 Second Biggest Flare Of the Solar Cycle NASA models using data from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and the Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) have now provided more information about the two CMEs associated with t ... more | .. |
  Lunar lander firing up for touchdown Europe's ambition of touching down at the Moon's south pole by 2018 has been boosted by recent test firings of the craft's thrusters. The robot lander will prove new techniques for sending humans to ... more | .. |
 Earth braces for biggest space storm in five years A pair of scorching explosions on the Sun's surface is sparking the biggest radiation and geomagnetic storm the Earth has experienced in five years, space weather experts said Wednesday. ... more |
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  US robotic 'cheetah' breaks speed records The Pentagon's main research agency has created the fastest-ever land robot, named "Cheetah," which can gallop at a speed of 18 miles (29 kilometers) per hour, scientists said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  1000th AllSun Tracker Installed Just down the hill from the science center at Middlebury College, known nationally for its environmental mission and academic programs, AllEarth Renewables' 1,000th AllSun Tracker was installed this ... more | .. |
 Galileo to spearhead extension of worldwide search and rescue service The global reach of Europe's Galileo navigation system is being harnessed to pinpoint distress calls for rapid search and rescue. A major expansion of the humanitarian system will be tested over the ... more | .. |
 NASA Researchers on the Snow Patrol The sky is gray. It's cold. Three forecast models predicted snow. It's 9:20 pm. Gail Skofronick-Jackson looks out the window of the operations trailer where she and her colleagues are running the Gl ... more |
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AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners
Ancient guano drove Chincha coastal power
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 TerraSAR-X brings lively winter view into focus Ice and snow can be colourful - at least when seen through the 'eyes' of the German Aerospace Center's (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt - DLR) TerraSAR-X radar satellite. The radar signals ... more | .. |
 SOA gains control of China's oceanic surveying satellite Control of China's oceanic surveying satellite Haiyang-2 was handed over Friday to the State Oceanic Administration (SOA), by its manufacturer and launcher China Aerospace Science and Technology Cor ... more | .. |
 In Swiss city, 'augmented reality' is out of this world A pair of Swiss policemen cast a suspicious eye as a creature in a space helmet with a camera mounted on top and carrying an astronaut's backpack wanders around Basel's St. Johann Park. ... more | .. |
 Flying robots swoop and swarm as a team Tech-savvy TED-goers watched in wonder as flying robots darted through tossed hoops, worked together in swarms and even formed a band to play trademark "James Bond" film theme music. ... more |
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  Northrop Grumman to Upgrade Software for the LN-251 Navigation System on the CH-53K Helicopter Northrop Grumman has been awarded a Phase II contract by the U.S. Navy to modify existing software for the LN-251 embedded GPS/fiber-optic inertial navigation system (INS) on the new CH-53K Super St ... more | .. |
 China's advanced remote sensing satellite operating soundly China's first high-resolution remote sensing satellite ZY-1-02C has carried out orbit tests, and images delivered from it reach international levels, China Center for Resources Satellite Data and Ap ... more | .. |
 NASA Finds Sea Ice Driving Arctic Air Pollutants Drastic reductions in Arctic sea ice in the last decade may be intensifying the chemical release of bromine into the atmosphere, resulting in ground-level ozone depletion and the deposit of toxic me ... more | .. |
 Watching the planet breathe Scientists have come up with an entirely new way to monitor the health of Earth's plants from space. In work published in Geophysical Research Letters [1], researchers working at NASA's Jet Propulsi ... more |
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