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India Space Budget Gets 35 Percent HikeNew Delhi, India (PTI) Mar 2, 2011 The budget for India's space program has been increased by more than 30 pecent compared to last year's allocation with the human space flight and Chandrayaan-II gaining the lion's share. The Human Space Flight programme of ISRO was allocated Rs 98.81 crore as against the token amount of Rs 14.71 crore last year, while the sequel to India's maiden moon mission got Rs 80 crore as against Rs 25 crore the previous year. The Department of Atomic Energy also saw the allocation made to it by Financ ... read more |
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  Astronauts install Italian-built module at space lab Astronauts at the orbiting International Space Station on Tuesday installed a permanent Italian-built storage module, while Russia nixed plans to fly around and take pictures of the crowded lab. ... more | .. |
  Russia cancels space lab flyabout A plan for Russia's Soyuz capsule to fly around the International Space Station and take pictures of the US shuttle Discovery and other global spacecraft was deemed too risky, NASA said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  X-37B Set For Launch The 45th Space Wing is set to launch an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex 41 on March 4, 2011. The rocket will carry an Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV). ... more | .. |
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 Virgin Galactic To Fly Scientists To Space Virgin Galactic has signed the first commercial contracts to fly scientists into space for the purpose of conducting research experiments. Virgin Galactic's signed contract with the Southwest Resear ... more | .. |
  How Severe Can Climate Change Become How severe can climate change become in a warming world? Worse than anything we've seen in written history, according to results of a study appearing this week in the journal Science. An internation ... more | .. |
 NASA Launches 2011 Nationwide Technology Space Competition A do-it-yourself technology space competition sponsored by NASA's Emerging Commercialization Space Office (ECSO) has kicked off. Make Magazine, a do-it-yourself publication for technology, is partne ... more | .. |
  Satellite Remote Sensing: Light Detection And Ranging The Next Big Thing The power of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is rising to new heights as a satellite remote sensing tool used to collect topographic data. LiDAR is emerging as the next big thing - allowing user ... 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
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 Leonardo Attached To Space Station After a flawless launch last Thursday and a textbook docking on Saturday, the Space Shuttle has delivered the European-built Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module to the International Space Station ... more | .. |
 SwRI Signs Up For 8 Reusable Suborbital Launches Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will send three scientists as payload specialists aboard eight suborbital flights - some to altitudes greater than 350,000 feet, above the internationally recogni ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
  Ukraine's Role In European Missile Defense Not Yet Discussed It is too early yet to speak of Ukraine's participation in building the European missile defense system, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told Ukraine's Channel 5. Kiev and NATO di ... more |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
Robotic arm breakdown adds spacewalk drama 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. ... 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 |
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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 | .. |
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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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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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 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 | .. |
  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 |
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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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 New metals are moldable like plastic New forms of metal can be turned into complex shapes easily and inexpensively like plastic but retain the metals' strength and durability, U.S. researchers say. ... more |
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