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Russia wants to charge more for rides to space: reportMoscow (AFP) Feb 9, 2010 Russia, which is set to hold a monopoly on flights to the international space station (ISS), wants to charge more for rides on its Soyuz rocket, the space agency head said Tuesday. "At a meeting of the space agency chiefs in Tokyo, I want to discuss the maintenance of transport to the station," Roskomos head Anatoly Perminov was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying. "We have an agreement until 2012 that Russia will be responsible for this. But after that? Excuse me but the prices should ... read more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Feb 08, 2010The Academician Fyodorov scientific research vessel has arrived at the Russian Antarctic outpost of Bellingshausen on a mission to set up a station for tracking the GLONASS navigation satellites, the Voice of Russia reported. Glonass - the Global Navigation Satellite System - is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, and is designed for both military and civi ... more  
Arlington VA (AFNS) Feb 09, 2010The program is a joint effort between DARPA's Tactical Technology Office (TTO) and the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Lab (MCWL). The program goal is to develop a walking quadruped platform that will augment squads by carrying traditional and new equipment autonomously. These platforms will be capable of managing complex terrain where tactical vehicles are not able to go-lightening the load ... more  
Wright-Patterson AFB OH (AFNS) Feb 09, 2010Thanks to Air Force Research Laboratory design and development expertise, an important new collaborative simulation capability--one facilitating coopera-tive unmanned air vehicle research--has emerged. The pursuit of a shared simulation capability for independent teams generated the AVTAS (Aerospace Vehicles Technology Assessment and Simulation) UAV toolset. The new technology levels the p ... more |
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Lasers Creates New Forms of Metal and Enhances Aircraft PerformanceArlington AFB VA (AFNS) Feb 09, 2010 Dr. Chunlei Guo and his team of Air Force Research Laboratory-funded researchers from the University of Rochester are using laser light technology that will help the military create new forms of metal that may guide, attract, and repel liquids and cool small electronic devices. The researchers discovered a way to transform a shiny piece of metal into one that is pitch black, not by paint, but by using incredibly intense bursts of laser light. Dr. Guo and his team have been working on creatin ... read more |
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