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Fewer Risks If Space Science Missions Managed By One AgencyWashington DC (SPX) Nov 25, 2010 Earth and space science missions developed and implemented by federal agencies in collaboration typically result in additional complexity and cost and increased risks from divided responsibilities and accountability, says a new report from the National Research Council. Federal agencies should not partner in conducting space and earth science missions unless there is a compelling reason to do so and clear criteria are met in advance. "A common misperception among policymakers and individual ... read more |
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  VimpelCom Serves Growing Markets In Russia SES WORLD SKIES has announced VimpelCom has signed a capacity deal to meet the growing need for business communications capabilities throughout Russia. Utilizing 36MHz of C-band capacity and t ... more | .. |
  GOES-13 Looks At Thanksgiving Travel Conditions The GOES-13 satellite captured a look at the cloud cover and weather systems around the U.S. on Nov. 24 as Thanksgiving travelers make their way to their holiday celebrations. With six days left in ... more | .. |
 Europe Maintains Its Presence On The Final Frontier ESA has decided to extend the productive lives of 11 of its operating space science missions. This will enable ESA's world-class science missions to continue returning pioneering results until at le ... more | .. |
  Russia To Spend 2 Bln Dollars For Space Clean-Up Russia's Rocket and Space Corporation Energia announced Tuesday that it will build a special orbital pod designed for sweeping-up the near-Earth space from satellite debris. The system was est ... more |
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  Condition Of China's Lunar Probe To Determine Future Application The chief designer of China's second unmanned lunar probe, Chang'e-2, said on Tuesday that the probe's "fate" would depend on its actual condition when it finishes its mission about six months later ... more | .. |
 Should We Stay Or Should We Go Back in the late 1960s, the environmental movement was in a tizzy over predictions that overpopulation would soon cause mass human starvation and eventually kill the planet. But the Malthusian visio ... more | .. |
  KVH More Than Doubles Mini-VSAT Broadband Bandwidth A growing number of commercial and leisure operators are choosing KVH's TracPhone V7 and mini-VSAT BroadbandSM service, prompting KVH Industries to increase bandwidth in popular regions to meet cust ... more | .. |
 Sony eyes December launch of e-readers in Japan Sony, battling Amazon and Apple in the electronic book reader race, said on Thursday it would launch its latest devices in Japan in December along with a dedicated virtual library. ... more |
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  FAA issues private spacecraft permit The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration issued the first-ever license for a commercial spacecraft to re-enter Earth's atmosphere from orbit, officials say. ... more | .. |
  Russia To Start Work On Nuclear Space Engine Next Year Russia's Energia space corporation said on Tuesday it is planning to start working on standardized space modules with nuclear-powered propulsion systems next year. Energia director Vitaly Lopo ... more | .. |
  Putting The Squeeze On Fat Cells From fad diets to exercise programs, Americans continue to fight the battle of the bulge. Now they'll have help from recent Tel Aviv University research that has developed a new method to look at ho ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 Completes Key Flight Test Raytheon Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 completed the fourth of four controlled test vehicle flights designed to demonstrate the system's upgraded kinematic performance and stable airframe control ... more |
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 Boeing Offers New Surveillance Detection System Boeing has begun offering a Surveillance Detection System (SDS) capable of near real-time, 360-degree detection of optical threats. The system identifies when friendly forces are being monitored or ... more | .. |
 Russia 'gives Iran top new radar' Iran recently boasted it was greatly extending its radar capabilities, a vital component in its drive to use its own resources to strengthen its air defenses against U.S. or Israeli attack. ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Awarded US Navy Bomb Rack Contract The U.S. Navy's Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Raytheon a $32.4 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for engineering and manufacturing development of the BRU-69/A Multi-Purpose Bomb Rack ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin's JAGM Hits Target From 6 Kilometers Lockheed Martin scored a hit on a main battle tank at six kilometers in a company-funded, multiple-mission firing of its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM). The complex flight test, at White Sands M ... more |
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 LockMart Receives Contract To Produce Paveway II Enhanced Laser Guided Trainings Rounds Lockheed Martin received a $15.6 million contract to produce paveway II Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds (ELGTR) for the U.S. Navy. This award is for the first year of a planned three-year proc ... more | .. |
 Myanmar now the only active landmine user: campaigners Myanmar is now the only government still laying landmines after Russia stopped using such weapons, campaigners said Wednesday, noting that 2009 marked the lowest usage of the deadly explosives in a decade. ... more | .. |
 NASA Study Finds Earth's Lakes Are Warming In the first comprehensive global survey of temperature trends in major lakes, NASA researchers determined Earth's largest lakes have warmed during the past 25 years in response to climate change. ... more | .. |
 Express Map Delivery From Space Meeting the environmental needs of an ever-expanding Europe requires consistent and regularly updated information on its land cover and use. As part of ESA's GlobCorine project, a pan-European land ... more |
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 Imaging Science Offers New Opportunities For Interdisciplinary Collaboration More than 170 participants gathered this week for the eighth annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) conference in Irvine, Calif. This year's topic, imaging science, a field of stu ... more | .. |
  Violence grips Haiti ahead of elections Violence flared ahead of weekend elections in quake-hit Haiti amid a spiraling cholera epidemic that has already killed over 1,300 people, fueling debate over delaying the key polls. ... more | .. |
  Simple Oscillating Flexible Wings Viable For MAVs In the future, tiny air vehicles may be able to fly through cracks in concrete to search for earthquake victims, explore a contaminated building or conduct surveillance missions for the military. Bu ... more | .. |
  NERSC Supercomputing Center Breaks The Petaflops Barrier The Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), already one of the world's leading centers for scientific productivity, is now home to the fifth most powerfu ... more |
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