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Robotic arm breakdown adds spacewalk dramaWashington (AFP) Feb 28, 2011 Two US astronauts on Monday wrapped up the first spacewalk of the Discovery shuttle mission at the International Space Station after a robotic arm breakdown left one of them stranded for almost 20 minutes. "How much longer?" asked veteran astronaut Steve Bowen after the Robotic Work Station in the ISS's Cupola, the central command post for robotic operations, shut down two hours into the walk. Robotic arm operators Scott Kelly and Mike Barratt hustled to another work station in the Destiny Lab a ... read more |
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  NASA To Offer Explanation Of The Missing Sunspots NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 3, to discuss the first computer model that explains the recent period of decreased solar activity during the Sun's 11-year cyc ... more | .. |
  In Historic First, Three Scientists To Fly On Commercial Spacecraft Three scientists, including a former NASA executive, will become some of the first scientists to fly on a commercial spacecraft - and they will fly multiple times - under the terms of two funded agr ... more | .. |
 Space Elevator: Science Fact Or Science Fiction A space elevator is a concept that promises to permit launching spacecraft into orbit without the use of a launch vehicle. In theory, it is a structure that can transport objects from the Earth's su ... more | .. |
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 XCOR Announces Global Network At the commencement of the 2011 Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC) being held in Orlando, Florida, XCOR Aerospace announced its initial team of suborbital payload integration s ... more | .. |
  U.K. scientists to search for alien life British scientists say they will lead a $650 million program searching for chemical signs of life on planets orbiting distant stars. ... more | .. |
  Deutsche Telekom And SES ASTRA Cooperate In Combined Satellite-DSL Offer SES ASTRA has announced a cooperation with Deutsche Telekom in Germany to combine ASTRA`s broad satellite free-TV offer including HD+ with Deutsche Telekom`s IPTV product Entertain. The offer ... more | .. |
 Aspiring Students Shoot For The Stars Three University of Central Florida undergraduate students are getting the opportunity of a lifetime - building an experiment that is scheduled to launch into space in late 2011 or 2012. "It w ... more |
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China shuns calls to enter nuclear talks after US-Russia treaty lapses
Why did Xi hold back-to-back calls with Putin, Trump?
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  Minister Attacks Russian Space Agency Over Failure To Build New Spacecraft Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov accused Russian space agency Roscosmos of failing to manufacture enough advanced spacecraft. "We failed to make progress in the construction of new spacecra ... more | .. |
  GLONASS System Starts Operation On Vladivostok Municipal Transport The GLONASS satellite communications system on Monday started operation on Vladivostok's municipal transport. The satellite equipment is installed in all 78 Vladivostok municipal buses, trolleybuses ... more | .. |
  Good Progress On Troubleshooting Orbital Sciences and NASA engineers are making good progress in troubleshooting the ground support equipment issue that caused the postponement of the Glory launch on Feb. 23. Launch will be no earl ... more | .. |
 Boiling Bubbles Are Cool In Space It may seem illogical, but boiling is a very efficient way to cool engineering components and systems used in the extreme environments of space. An experiment to gain a basic understanding of ... more |
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 Russia's Space Program Suffers Setback In 2010 Russia failed to develop its new space systems by timetable last year, but left more to be desired, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Monday. "We failed to change the s ... more | .. |
 US astronauts start spacewalk at orbiting lab Two American astronauts on Monday began the first of two spacewalks at the International Space Station in order to install a permanent module onto the orbiting lab, NASA said. ... more | .. |
 US astronauts to 'bottle' space for Japan Two American astronauts began on Monday the first of two spacewalks to install a permanent spare closet on the orbiting International Space Station and also to bottle some outer space for Japan. ... more | .. |
 Russia slams 'childish' space agency errors Russian space agency Roskosmos has committed "childish" errors and failed to build enough spacecraft, the government said Monday in an unprecedented rebuke to the Russian equivalent of NASA. ... more |
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Scaling rules for metamaterials promise better implants and safer devices
Experts warn of urgent need to address human reproduction risks in space
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Astronauts to stow bad pump in spacewalk The 6 1/2-hour spacewalk two U.S. astronauts are to make outside the International Space Station Monday includes the job of putting away a failed coolant pump. ... more | .. |
 Brazil, U.S. IT majors in joint venture U.S. technology leader Communications Test Design and Brazil's Network UNO are pooling their expertise and resources to explore the burgeoning communications and information technology markets in Latin America. ... more | .. |
  ONR Moves A Modular Space Communications Asset Into Unmanned Aircraft For Marines Successfully taking a small radio receiver intended for space applications and creating a full-featured radio frequency system, initially designed for a Marine Corps unmanned aircraft, would not hav ... more | .. |
  Russia To Probe Major Planets Before 2023 Russia will launch probes to several planets and their satellites, Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said Thursday. The probes are expected to study the moon and the Martian satellite ... more |
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  ISRO Tests Rocket Motor, Delays Satellite Launch After 16 successful launches of its workhorse rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in the last 17 years, the Indian space agency is now testing a key component to re-qualify its on-flight pe ... more | .. |
  PS1 Telescope Establishes Near-Earth Asteroid Discovery Record The Pan-STARRS PS1 telescope on Haleakala, Maui, discovered 19 near-Earth asteroids on the night of January 29, the most asteroids discovered by one telescope on a single night. "This record n ... more | .. |
 Mid East At Forefront Of $7.5 Billion Space Tourism Industry Space and satellite forum to highlight regional business opportunities for private and public sector investors - tourists will fly into space for $25,000 by 2030 The plethora of opportunities for p ... more | .. |
 Four Candidates Selected For ESA's Cosmic Vision Looking ahead to the next decade of scientific exploration, ESA selected Friday four candidates for a medium-class mission that will launch in the period 2020-22. The candidates cover very different ... more |
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Engineered substrates sharpen single nanoparticle plasmon spectra
Single molecule devices push past silicon limits
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 Staten Island Man Now Safe At Home Thanks To EmSeeQ Locator Device A 67-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease is now safely back at home with his wife after wandering outside in near-freezing temperatures thanks to the quick action of the New York Police Department ... more | .. |
 MatchMaker OCR Solution By APS Technology Receives Patent APS Technology Group has announced the US Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company a patent for the identification process surrounding its MatchMaker OCR solution for container terminal t ... more | .. |
 ZST Digital Networks Signs Agreement To Develop City-Wide GPS Platform ZST Digital Networks has announced that it has entered into an agreement with the Road Transportation Department of Shangqiu City, a city with over eight million residents in eastern Henan Province, ... more | .. |
 Retail Mobile Systems Easily Tricked Mobile retail check-in company Shopkick, which argued to retailers that only its mobile system could make sure that customers "are actually present within their store," is getting hit by fraudsters ... more |
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 400th Chop Shop In Southern California Foiled By LoJack Within three minutes of activation, Long Beach, CA Police Department officers and detectives began receiving a silent LoJack Stolen Vehicle Recovery System signal, which enabled them to track and re ... more | .. |
 Lynden Transport Expands Service To And From Oklahoma And North Dakota In response to customer and industry demand, Lynden Transport is offering new scheduled Less-than-Truckload (LTL) service to Oklahoma and North Dakota. Starting March 1, Lynden Transport trucks will ... more | .. |
 NASA chief tech says 'decade' for shuttle replacement Once the US space shuttle program closes, it will be about a decade before America can make a new vehicle for sending astronauts to space, NASA's chief technologist predicts. ... more | .. |
 Russia, Israel Eye Joint Development Of Communication Satellites Russia and Israel have set up a joint group that would focus on the development of communications satellites, local media reported Friday. "We will consider the options of making several commu ... more |
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