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August 03, 2011
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EADS acquires Vizada for its Astrium Division
Leiden, Holland (SPX) Aug 03, 2011
Astrium, has entered into an agreement to acquire Vizada from Apax France, a French Private Equity fund and the majority shareholder, for $ 960 million. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals. Vizada is a leading independent provider of global satellite-based mobility communication services, serving customers across sectors including maritime, aero, land, media, NGO (non-governmental organizations) and government/defence. Via all satellite network operators, it offers mobile ... read more

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IRON AND ICE

Another step closer to Vesta
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is another step closer to Vesta; only 5200 kilometres now separate the asteroid and its new 'neighbour', Dawn. The Framing Camera on board the spacecraft is imaging Vesta's su ... more
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VSAT NEWS

Raytheon to Provide Wisconsin County's First Interoperable Communications System
Raytheon has been awarded a contract to provide Rock County, Wis., with its first interoperable communications system, a 20-site conventional P25 digital land mobile radio system. It will provide se ... more
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TECH SPACE

Material created at Purdue lets electrons 'dance' and form new state
A team of Purdue University researchers is among a small group in the world that has successfully created ultrapure material that captures new states of matter and could have applications in high-sp ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

US shuttle debris surfaces amid Texas drought
A piece of the ill-fated space shuttle Columbia has surfaced in eastern Texas, where a severe drought has dried up a lake and exposed debris from the 2003 accident, NASA said Tuesday. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Invisibility cloak closer to reality
Scientists have devised an "invisibility cloak" material that can hide objects from detection using light that is visible to humans, a U.S. journal reports. ... more
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TECH SPACE

NPP Runs the Gauntlet of Environmental Testing
The NPP satellite sits surrounded by 144 rock concert speakers. They're stacked in a circle 16 feet high in a testing room at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado. As engineers set up for the e ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Unified Model For Active Galactic Nuclei Requires A Rethink
Scrutinising a large sample of Active Galactic Nuclei with INTEGRAL, astronomers have found that, unexpectedly, sources affected by stronger absorption at lower energies show an excess emission in t ... more
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SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions to provide SAR reconnaissance data to German military
RTX radar selected to support autonomous X 62A fighter testing
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SPACEMART

India to help Afghanistan in expanding media network
India will help Afghanistan to expand the mass media network and build communication infrastructure in the conflict-hit country, it was decided at a meeting of officials of the two countries here Mo ... more
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TECH SPACE

3D Printing Now Possible in Zero-Gravity Conditions
3D Systems Corporation reports that its affordable BfB( 3000 3D printer successfully completed two zero-gravity test flights in partnership with MADE IN SPACE, a start-up dedicated to providing solu ... more
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TECH SPACE

Kodak Imaging Technology Used To Explore Jupiter
When NASA's Juno spacecraft is launched this week to begin its five-year voyage to the planet Jupiter, image sensor technology from Eastman Kodak will be on board to help capture images of the gas g ... more
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AEROSPACE

Southampton engineers fly first printed aircraft
Engineers at the University of Southampton have designed and flown the world's first 'printed' aircraft, which could revolutionise the economics of aircraft design. The SULSA (Southampton Univ ... more
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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS

Raytheon Develops Miniature Antenna To Extend Millimeter Wave Friendly ID Technology
Raytheon has developed a miniaturized interrogation antenna capability to extend use of its Cooperative Target ID technology to soldiers and unmanned aircraft to help prevent fratricide. This ... more
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TECH SPACE

Discovery of a new magnetic order
Physicists at Forschungszentrum Julich and the universities of Kiel and Hamburg are the first to discover a regular lattice of stable magnetic skyrmions - radial spiral structures made up of atomic- ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Bionic microrobot mimics the 'water strider' and walks on water
Scientists are reporting development of a new aquatic microrobot that mimics the amazing water-walking abilities of the water strider - the long-legged insect that scoots across the surface of ponds ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Physicists show that quantum ignorance is hard to expose
No-one likes a know-it-all but we expect to be able to catch them out: someone who acts like they know everything but doesn't can always be tripped up with a well-chosen question. Can't they? Not so ... more
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Deep ocean quakes linked to Antarctic phytoplankton surges
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IRON AND ICE

Dawn Spacecraft Begins Science Orbits of Vesta
NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the first ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, is spiraling towards its first of four intensive science orbits. That initial orbit of the rocky world Vesta begi ... more
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JOVIAN DREAMS

Juno to Show Jupiter's Magnetic Field in High-Def
When it comes to magnetic fields, Jupiter is the ultimate muscle car. It's endowed with the biggest, brawniest field of any planet in the solar system, powered by a monster engine under the hood. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Inmarsat Selects ILS Proton For Inmarsat-5
Inmarsat reports that Inmarsat SA, one of its subsidiary companies, has signed a contract with International Launch Services (ILS) for the launch of three Inmarsat-5 satellites. The launches, schedu ... more
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TECH SPACE

SES selects Gilat for the delivery of Consumer Ka-band equipment for ASTRA2Connect
SES S.A. and Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. have announced that they have signed an agreement for the delivery of network equipment and Ka-band end user terminals for SES's satellite-based Internet s ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

India eyes manned space missions
India's space agency has plans to launch a manned space mission in the future, but a lot of work needs to be done before that to ensure such missions are failure-proof, a top scientist has said. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Satellite innovators launch smartphone Space App competition
Surrey experts in space technology have launched a Facebook competition challenging the British public to develop innovative applications that will run on its smartphone-powered satellite due for la ... more
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MICROSAT BLITZ

Russian Spacewalkers to Move Cargo Boom, Deploy Ham Radio Satellite
Two Russian cosmonauts will leave the confines of the International Space Station on Aug.3 to move a cargo boom from one airlock to another, install a prototype laser communications system and deplo ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

Atlantis Final Mission Included Successful Kennedy-Developed Plant Experiment
Atlantis carried many science and research experiments in its middeck during NASA's last shuttle flight, STS-135, in July. Among these was a plant experiment developed at Kennedy Space Center's Spac ... more
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Conventional photon entanglement reveals thousands of hidden topologies in high dimensions
Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
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JOVIAN DREAMS

CU-Boulder faculty part of Juno Mission to Jupiter
Several University of Colorado Boulder faculty and students are participating in NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter, now slated for launch Aug. 5 from Florida's Kennedy Space Center and which is expecte ... more
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SPACEMART

Commercial Space Industry Works With NASA and Creates Tech Jobs in Silicon Valley
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) reports that Lori Garver, Deputy Administrator of NASA, and John Celli, President of Space Systems/Loral, met on July 29 to discuss commercial space industry capabilities ... more
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STATION NEWS

The Orbital Perspective of Astronaut Ron Garan
"Hello from space!" greets astronaut Ron Garan as an opening to his recently published video blog. Garan's goal is to show how this orbital research facility can help improve life on Earth, while al ... more
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EARLY EARTH

The First True View of Global Erosion
Every mountain and hill shall be made low, declared the ancient prophet Isaiah. In other words: erosion happens. But for the modern geologist a vexing question remains: how fast does this erosion ha ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Heart Of Darkness Found
Astronomers using the 10-meter Keck II telescope in Hawaii have confirmed in a new paper that a troupe of about 1,000 small, dim stars just outside the Milky Way comprise the darkest known galaxy, a ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Taiwan's Foxconn to use one million robots by 2014
Taiwan IT giant Foxconn - hit by a spate of suicides at its Chinese plants - plans to replace 500,000 workers with robots in the next three years, state media reported Monday. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Reinventing Space
We have been using the space environment for the last 50+ years. Satellites have been placed in orbits that take advantage of natural perturbations while offering convenient geometries for various m ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

United Launch Alliance Saves Money with First Combined Atlas and Delta Shipments on Mariner
United Launch Alliance (ULA) completed Friday the first combined Atlas and Delta rocket shipment from its factory in Decatur, Ala., to the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on t ... more
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