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Republicans could scale back US science budgetsWashington (AFP) Nov 10, 2010 Budgets for scientific research in the United States could be scaled back with the return of a Republican-majority in Congress as conservatives aim to slash spending to reduce the ballooning deficit. The Republican electoral platform, the "Pledge to America," details the party's ideals of smaller government, lower taxes and robust national defense, and vows to "stop out-of-control spending." "There is a risk that we may have a significant reduction in the science budget," said Patrick Clemins, d ... read more |
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 SAS Announces Inaugural Commercial Human Spaceflight Technical Forum Special Aerospace Services will host its first Commercial Human Spaceflight Technical Forum on January 12-14. The forum is being held in Boulder, Colorado, and will present a focused and conce ... more | .. |
  Vizada Networks Inks Capacity Deal With SES WORLD SKIES Committed to connectivity anywhere, SES WORLD SKIES has announced it has signed a capacity agreement with Vizada Networks for reliable telecommunications network backup across Africa's Sub Saharan r ... more | .. |
  GPS IIF-1 Introduces A Host Of New Capabilities For Users There's no satellite system that touches so many lives in so many ways around the world like the Global Positioning System. From finance to farming, from ATMs to UAVs, from rescue missions to shoppi ... more | .. |
  Tiangong Space Lab Spurs China Space PR Blitz In 2011, China will launch Tiangong 1, its first space laboratory. The flight of Tiangong has been openly discussed for years, and we have even seen video of the actual spacecraft being assembled. ... more |
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 China leads Asian thrust in research: UN Asia, led by China, is fast challenging America, Europe and Japan in spending on scientific research and development but still lags on key criteria of inventiveness, according to a UN report to be published on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Mystery missile vapor trail stumps Pentagon The US military said Tuesday it has detected no launch of a foreign military missile off the coast of California and offered assurances that whatever happened there posed no threat to the United States. ... more | .. |
APEC host Japan shows high-tech face amid rare earths fears As it hosts an Asia-Pacific summit, Japan is showing off robots, green cars and space probes to prove its high-tech credentials despite slow growth and threats to crucial rare earth supplies. ... more | .. |
 Iran to test own S-300 missiles despite Russia: commander Iran is to test its own homemade S-300 ground-to-air missiles, built in defiance of ally Russia which backed out of a deal to supply the device, a top Iranian military commander said on Wednesday. ... more |
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 UAE Missile Deal Worth 140 Million Announced The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress November 3 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of the United Arab Emirates of 100 Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) a ... more | .. |
  DSP Satellite System Celebrates 40 Years Tomorrow the 460th Space Wing at Buckley Air Force Base will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first launch of the Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite. It was the beginnings of a satellite c ... more | .. |
  Kestrel Supports Project NANKEEN In Afghanistan Sentient has announced that Kestrel Land MTI, its computer vision system for electro-optical (EO) and infrared (IR) sensors, is actively deployed in support of the Heron Unmanned Ariel Systems (UAS) ... more | .. |
  Japanese Troops Successful In Patriot Test Firings The Japanese Air Self Defense Forces (JASDF) successfully concluded its annual training exercise at Fort Bliss, Texas. The exercise included target engagement and successful test firings of th ... more |
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  Boeing Receives Small Diameter Bomb Contract Extension Boeing has received a $106 million contract extension from the U.S. Air Force for nearly 2,700 Small Diameter Bomb Increment I (SDB I) munitions and approximately 380 BRU-61 carriages. Boeing ... more | .. |
 Eye In The Sky Has The Sniper On Target The last 28th Bomb Wing B-1B Lancer received the necessary modifications to operate the Sniper advanced targeting pod Oct. 18. The advanced targeting pod acts as a long-range camera, which can pinpo ... more | .. |
 Snecma Signs Partnership Agreement With French Military Aircraft MRO Arm Snecma has signed a five-year partnership agreement with the Service Industriel de l'Aeronautique (SIAe), the maintenance, repair and overhaul arm for aircraft deployed by French armed forces, cover ... more | .. |
 Pentagon says vapor trail from an aircraft, not a missile The Pentagon said Wednesday it is satisfied an aircraft - and not a missile - was the source of a vapor trail off Los Angeles this week that sparked fears of a mystery missile launch. ... more |
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  NASA Study Quantifies Role Of Melt In Loss Of Old Arctic Sea Ice Since the start of the satellite record in 1979, scientists have observed the continued disappearance of older "multiyear" sea ice that survives more than one summer melt season. Some scientists sus ... more | .. |
 Go For Getz And A South Pole Flyover On Nov. 4, 2010, the DC-8 flew over South Pole Station, a research station at Earth's geographic South Pole, before heading back to IceBridge's mission base in Punta Arenas, Chile. Credit: Digital M ... more | .. |
  Pakistan taxes own citizens to raise money for flood relief Pakistan increased income tax on the relatively well off Wednesday to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for the victims of the country's devastating floods. ... more | .. |
 Natural disasters in Africa hamper millennium goals Climate change disasters on the African continent have raised the need for an humanitarian response as poverty continues to plague communities, the Red Cross director for Africa said on Wednesday. ... more |
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  New Highly Stable Fuel-Cell Catalyst Gets Strength from its Nano Core Stop-and-go driving can wear on your nerves, but it really does a number on the precious platinum that drives reactions in automotive fuel cells. Before large fleets of fuel-cell-powered vehicles ca ... more | .. |
  China trade surplus adds to pressure over yuan ahead of G20 China's trade surplus grew in October as both exports and imports rose on-year, the government said Wednesday, adding to pressure on Beijing ahead of the G20 summit to let its currency appreciate. ... more | .. |
  China rating house downgrades US credit rating A Chinese credit rating agency whose bid to enter the US market was turned down has downgraded the rating of the United States over the Federal Reserve's stimulus plan, state media said. ... more | .. |
 US trade deficit eases but China tensions remain The US trade deficit edged off record levels in September but a huge gap with China spelled continued tensions between the two superpowers on the eve of a G20 summit. ... more |
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