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Renewed Call For Competitive US Spaceflight MarketplaceWashington DC (SPX) Feb 10, 2011 The Competitive Space Task Force, a coalition of fiscal conservatives and free-market leaders, has unveiled its strategy for creating a free and competitive market for spaceflight and space services enabling the country to recapture the imagination and innovation of America's space program and foster a new entrepreneurial spirit in the emerging Space Economy. The Task Force unveiled its core strategy and principles today at a press conference in the hearing room of the Committee on Science, Space, and T ... read more |
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  Brown Kills Effort To Move Aeronautic Research Away From NASA An amendment supported by U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) preserving civil aeronautics research and development at NASA passed the Senate this morning as part of the Federal Aviation Administration ( ... more | .. |
 Rocket Team Hot Fire AJ26 Flight Engine For Taurus II Aerojet, a GenCorp company, along with NASA and Orbital Sciences Corporation, conducted the acceptance hot-fire test of the second AJ26 flight engine that will power the first stage of Orbital's Tau ... more | .. |
  NASA Spacecraft Closes In On Comet Tempel 1 NASA is about to discover how solar heat devours a comet. "For the first time, we'll see the same comet before and after its closest approach to the sun," explains Joe Veverka, principal investigato ... more | .. |
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  ISRO To Terminate Spectrum Deal With Devas As political attack mounted on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on yet another alleged spectrum scam, ISRO has announced that the process to terminate a suspect deal was underway. The space agenc ... more | .. |
 U.S. Electrodynamics Achieves DoD Highest Level Security Requirements U.S. Electrodynamics Incorporated (USEI) has announced that the company was recently rated compliant with the Department of Defense (DoD) Mission Assurance Category (MAC) I and Confidentiality Level ... more | .. |
 TIBA Extends Capacity Deal With SES WORLD SKIES Already home to Latin America's premier cable neighborhood, SES WORLD SKIES, has announced a capacity extension agreement with TIBA to enable the distribution of an expanding channel lineup across L ... more | .. |
  Medvedev Calls For Russian Space Exploration Program Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday Russia should develop its own space exploration program. "I believe this is a very important topic, even in terms of our scientific ambitions, ... more |
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SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
Space Systems Command activates System Delta 80 for assured space access
Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions to provide SAR reconnaissance data to German military | .. |
  KVH Doubles Mini-VSAT Broadband Capacity Across Three Key Regions To meet the demands of a growing international commercial subscriber base, KVH Industries has completed a major capacity increase across three key regions of the mini-VSAT BroadbandSM satellite comm ... more | .. |
  TerraSAR-X-Image Of The Month: Calving Icebergs On Queen Maud Land If the city of Bonn were located on the edge of the Fimbul Ice Shelf, in the Antarctic, its inhabitants would now be embarking on a journey through the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. An iceberg with ... more | .. |
 eSpace Seeks Entrepreneurial Space Companies For Incubator Program eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship, a non-profit business incubator and workforce development organization for aerospace start-up companies, has announced its third round call for new inc ... more | .. |
  NRL Researchers View The Sun In 3D Beginning on February 6, 2011, the two STEREO spacecraft are 180 degrees apart providing Naval Research Laboratory scientists with a 360-degree view of the Sun. NASA's STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Rela ... more |
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 Supernet Serves Growing VSAT Market In Pakistan SES WORLD SKIES has announced that it has signed an agreement with Supernet Limited, Pakistan's leading satellite service provider, for high powered Ku-band transponder capacity on the NSS-6 satelli ... more | .. |
  'Astonishing' Chinese patent growth marks world recovery Asia led a recovery in international patent applications last year, as "astonishing" growth in filings by innovative Chinese companies left US firms by the wayside, the UN patent agency said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Car-size asteroid nears Earth Wednesday A car-size asteroid will pass near Earth Wednesday, U.S. scientists said, while one bigger than two football fields might hit Earth in 18 years. ... more | .. |
  US Navy X-47B Unmanned Combat Aircraft Completes Historic First Flight The Northrop Grumman -built U.S. Navy X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D) aircraft has successfully completed its historic first flight at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), Calif. ... more |
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Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
Climate driven model explores Neanderthal and modern human overlap in Iberia
Economic losses from natural disasters down by a third in 2025: Swiss Re | .. |
  Surface Combat Systems Center Tests Aegis BMD Capabilities Surface Combat Systems Center tested the updated capabilities of the U.S. Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense(BMD), Jan. 22, launching a target vehicle from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility as ... more | .. |
  USAF Awards LockMart Space Fence Radar Contract The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $107 million follow-on contract for the next phase of Space Fence, a program that will increase space situational awareness and enhance safety for both m ... more | .. |
 US Navy Exercises Contract Option For LockMart To Build Fifth MUOS Satellite Lockheed Martin has received a $339.6-million contract option from the U.S. Navy for the fifth satellite in the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) constellation. MUOS will replace the current Ultra ... more | .. |
  Iran expands space capabilities Iran is expanding its operational capabilities in space. ... more |
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  U.S. wary of China space weapons Senior Pentagon officials are sounding concern over China's development of weapons designed to shoot down satellites or jam communication signals. ... more | .. |
  LRO Could Have Given Apollo 14 Crew Another Majestic View Although the Apollo 14 mission to the moon was filled with incredible sights and was completely successful - it met all its science goals - the crew experienced a bit of a disappointment at missing ... more | .. |
  NASA's "COSmIC" Simulator Helps Fingerprint Unknown Matter In Space Who are we? Where do we come from? These are questions that scientists hope to find clues to by better understanding the composition and evolution of the universe. NASA flies sophisticated spa ... more | .. |
 Astrobotic Technology Annouces Lunar Mission On SpaceX Falcon 9 Astrobotic Technology has announced it has signed a contract with SpaceX to launch Astrobotic's robotic payload to the Moon on a Falcon 9. The expedition will search for water and deliver payloads, ... more |
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The Quantum Age will be Powered by Fusion
Physicists map axion production paths inside deuterium tritium fusion reactors
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  Azorean Station To Track Ariane Launch When ATV Johannes Kepler is lofted into space on 15 February, an ESA tracking station on Portugal's Santa Maria island will watch closely, gathering crucial data as Ariane 5 streaks overhead. ... more | .. |
 Stardust Celebrates Twelve Years With Rocket Burn NASA's Stardust spacecraft marked its 12th anniversary in space on Monday, Feb. 7, with a rocket burn to further refine its path toward a Feb. 14 date with a comet. The half-minute trajectory ... more | .. |
 Euro-US partners eye 'low-cost' space launcher: report European technology firm Astrium is teaming up with US company Alliant to make a "low-cost" space rocket launcher that could one day take tourists into orbit, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Tool Makes Search For Martian Life Easier Finding life on Mars could get easier with a creative adaption to a common analytical tool that can be installed directly on the robotic arm of a space rover. In a recent paper published onlin ... more |
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 New Images Show Cloud Exploding From Sun Ripples Like Clouds On Earth Physicists, led by a researcher at the University of Warwick, studying new images of clouds of material exploding from the Sun have spotted instabilities forming in that exploding cloud that are sim ... more | .. |
 Opening Up The X-37B The US Air Force's X-37B spaceplane has generated a lot of attention and suspicion, even before the vehicle blasted off on its maiden voyage in April 2010. Conspiracy theorists would have us believe ... more | .. |
 Humankind Sees Sun As Never Before For the first time in history a stunning view of the whole Sun is visible to the world. The unique 360 degrees view of the Sun was unveiled on Sunday 6 February 2011 after NASA's two STEREO (Solar ... more | .. |
  First Stars In Universe Were Not Alone The first stars in the universe were not as solitary as previously thought. In fact, they could have formed alongside numerous companions when the gas disks that surrounded them broke up during form ... more |
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