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Iran to launch new satellites soon: defence minister Tehran (AFP) Nov 21, 2010 Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Sunday that Tehran would soon launch into space a number of its newly designed satellites, Mehr news agency reported. "Currently, we are building new satellites and soon, in the near future, some of them will be launched into space," Vahidi told the agency in the western city of Khoramabad. Vahidi did not specify when the launches would take place. Iran had planned a launch for its second home-made satellite, Rasad 1 (Observation), in late August ... read more |
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Stanford Students Fly In Zero Gravity To Protect Satellites From Tiny Meteoroids Stanford researchers have completed the first successful tests in zero gravity of a canopy for CubeSats - the tiny satellites that hitch rides on rockets sending larger satellites into orbit. The go ... more | .. |
China To Launch First Female Astronauts After the Opening Ceremony, Yang Liwei, the Deputy Director of the Chinese Manned Space Flight Project, as well as the nation's first astronaut to travel into space, says a second crew of astronauts ... more | .. |
Ball Aerospace STPSat-2 Satellite Launches Aboard STP-S26 Mission The STPSat-2 satellite, built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies for the U.S. Air Force STP-S26 launch, lifted off successfully from the Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, at 4:25 p.m. local time (6:25 ... more | .. |
Climate Change On The Go GeoOptics has just released a new Climate Mobile app that is free to all. The app allows users to access worldwide climate information, from space satellites and surface instruments (which provide v ... more |
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Thales Alenia Space And OHB-System Sign MTG Contract With ESA Thales Alenia Space, the Prime Contractor, and its partner OHB-System, have announced the signature of an Authorization To Proceed (ATP) with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Meteosat Third G ... more | .. |
Development Of Meteosat Third Generation To Start Marking a significant milestone for Europe's next fleet of meteorological satellites, ESA has given the go-ahead to Thales Alenia Space in France to start work on developing the Meteosat Third Gener ... more | .. |
New Simulator Offers Ability To Record And Replay GLONASS And GPS Responding to the increasing need for developers of GNSS devices to be able to test GLONASS enabled systems, Racelogic have launched LabSat 2: a dual channel unit capable of recording, replaying, an ... more | .. |
NASA Nanosatellite Studies Life In Space NASA is preparing to fly a small satellite about the size of a loaf of bread that could help answer astrobiologys fundamental questions about the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the u ... more |
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Ukraine Delivers Taurus II Launch Vehicle's First Stage To US Ukraine has delivered the first stage of the Taurus II launch vehicle to the United States, a step forward in a NASA- funded Taurus II program, the design company said Wednesday. "The assembly ... more | .. |
KLM Announces Suborbital Flight Relationship With Space Experience Curacao KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has announced to the Netherlands press that they were embarking upon a new relationship with Space Experience Curacao (SXC). KLM will be supporting future suborbital f ... more | .. |
Japan to develop cheap satellite for emerging markets Japan is developing a low-cost surveillance satellite to aid disaster relief and other purposes as it looks to expand its reach into emerging markets, government and corporate officials said Friday. ... more | .. |
Israel Unveils Newest Anti-Missile System While intelligence assessments consistently paint a grim portrait of thousands of missiles and rockets showering down on Israel's civilian population and infrastructure in the future, the Jewish sta ... more |
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Hawkei Prototype Unveiled At Land Warfare Conference Thales Australia has unveiled its ground-breaking Hawkei prototype at the Land Warfare Conference in Brisbane. With over 20,000km of testing complete, the Hawkei's rapid development from drawing boa ... more | .. |
DARPA Concludes Review Of Falcon HTV-2 Flight Anomaly Following an extensive six-month review, the independent Engineering Review Board (ERB) chartered to examine data collected during the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle's (HTV-2) first flight has ... more | .. |
BAE Team Delivers Enhanced Protection JLTV Prototype BAE Systems along with partners ArvinMeritor and Navistar Defense have delivered an Enhanced Protection configuration of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) prototype to the U.S. Army and U.S. M ... more | .. |
New MRAP Ambulance Prototypes Many Improvements A Pentagon team is working with the Army Medical Command and BAE Systems to build a new Caiman Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected Ambulance that offers a host of technological innovations. The ne ... more |
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NATO agrees on Europe-wide missile defence system US President Barack Obama and his NATO allies agreed on Friday to shield Europe's peoples from rogue rocket attacks with a screen of interceptor missiles, and to invite Russia to take part. ... more | .. |
BAE Systems IMX-101 Explosive Named A TIME Magazine Invention Of The Year The U.S. Army's explosive IMX-101, developed by BAE Systems, has been named one of "The 50 Best Inventions of 2010" by TIME Magazine. The Army team at Picatinny Arsenal earlier this year approved IM ... more | .. |
JASSM-ER Test Flights Highlight Outstanding Development Effort Lockheed Martin's Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile - Extended Range (JASSM-ER) recently flew two successful test flights at White Sands Missile Range, NM, increasing the program's success rate ... more | .. |
Development Of Humanoid Robot To Test Warfighter Protection Equipment Midwest Research Institute (MRI) has been authorized to proceed with the Phase IIa of the Individual Protection Ensemble Mannequin System (IPEMS). This JPEO-CBD, Joint Project Manager for Nucl ... more |
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US Socially Responsible Investing Thrives In Recession Despite the recent economic downturn, sustainable and socially responsible investing (SRI) in the United States is continuing to grow at a faster pace than the total universe of investment assets un ... more | .. |
Redrawing Our Borders What are borders these days? When travel was local, borders and communities were easy to define, but now our connectivity is more complex. It's time to think of borders differently, according to Nor ... more | .. |
Art on planetary scale shines spotlight on climate change The first global art show on climate change kicked off this weekend, launching several symbolic performances seen from space that bring people and planet together to highlight the hazards of global warming. ... more | .. |
Chinese worker saved after 80 hours in underwater pipe Chinese rescuers on Sunday freed a man working on an offshore platform after a three-day ordeal trapped in a twisted steel pipe beneath the sea, state media reported. ... more |
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