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US private rocket readies key demonstration launchWashington (AFP) Nov 30, 2010 American firm SpaceX readied Tuesday the first demonstration launch of its Falcon 9 rocket to low Earth orbit for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program next week. Dubbed COTS 1, the December 7 launch will also mark the first time a private firm attempts to have a spacecraft - SpaceX's Dragon capsule - re-enter Earth's atmosphere from orbit, a key step in developing commercial launchers to put people into space. It will be the first of three demonstration launches for Falcon ... read more |
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 NASA Sets Coverage For COTS 1 Launch The first SpaceX Falcon 9 demonstration launch for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program is targeted for liftoff on Tuesday, Dec. 7. Liftoff will occur from Launch Complex 40 at ... more | .. |
  Mapping Mangroves By Satellite Mangroves are among the most biologically important ecosystems on the planet, and a common feature of tropical and sub-tropical coastlines. But ground-based evidence suggests these vital coastal for ... more | .. |
  NATO mulls missile cooperation with Russia NATO leaders have snubbed suggestions by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to unite his country's missile system with that of the Western alliance. ... more | .. |
  Emirates, Bahrain seek U.S. rocket systems As concerns about Iran's military power among Arab states in the Persian Gulf mount, the United Arab Emirates and tiny Bahrain are acquiring U.S.-built long-range artillery rocket systems amid a major arms buildup to counter the Islamic Republic. ... more |
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  O3b Networks Secures Funding For Satellites O3b Networks has announced that it has secured its final funding round before service launch. O3b Networks is the developer of a new fiber-quality, satellite-based global internet backbone for Telec ... more | .. |
 Bridging Between Earth And Space TECHBREAK is a new foresight initiative led by the European Science Foundation to identify the technology areas that could benefit the space sector. It goes beyond space-related technologies to brin ... more | .. |
  World-Leading Spatial Experts Meet In Sydney Senior CSIRO scientists will this week host a meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in Sydney to discuss developing and implementing new standards for geospatial and location technology. ... more | .. |
  German scientist eyes gold mine in rare earths recycling Surrounded by smoking vats in his tumble-down factory in former Communist East Germany, Wolfram Palitzsch sees a golden future in recycling "rare earths," the metals crucial to must-have gadgets such as mobile phones and TVs. ... more |
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 Loral-Built Satellite For Intelsat Successfully Performs Post-Launch Maneuvers Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that a communications satellite that it designed and built for Intelsat, the world's largest satellite operator, is performing post-launch maneuvers accordin ... more | .. |
Estonia's rare earth break China's market grip High-tech firms across the globe have been hit hard by China's slashing of rare earth metals exports but it is turning out to be good news for Estonia's small Silmet factory. ... more | .. |
  U.S. builds supercomputer with game units The U.S. Air Force used 1,760 Sony Playstation 3 video game consoles to create a supercomputer at about a tenth the normal cost for such a setup, officials say. ... more | .. |
  Singapore drones to be deployed Six army units in Singapore will get mini spy planes locally manufactured by the end of the year, becoming fully incorporated into the country's arsenal by 2012, local media reported this week. ... more |
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  US deploys 'game-changer' weapon to Afghanistan It looks and acts like something best left in the hands of Sylvester Stallone's "Rambo," but this latest dream weapon is real - and the US Army sees it becoming the Taliban's worst nightmare. ... more | .. |
  Russia to deploy 'striking forces' if rejected on ABM: Putin Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Russia will build up its "striking forces" including nuclear weapons to ensure security if a joint decision on missile defence fails, CNN said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Two New Earth Observation Missions Chosen For Further Study As part of the procedure to realise ESA's series of Earth Explorers, two new mission proposals have been selected for further development. The missions, called FLEX and CarbonSat, now vying to be th ... more | .. |
 ESA Attending UN Climate Conference Representatives from 194 countries have gathered at the 2010 UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, to continue working towards tackling climate change. ESA is attending 'COP16' to up ... more |
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  Pakistan's flood aid 'unspent and mismanaged' Mismanagement and misuse of cash are hampering relief efforts for Pakistan's flood victims with nearly 60 million dollars in a prime minister's fund still unspent, officials say. ... more | .. |
  US: China rise a 'Sputnik moment' for clean energy A senior US official called China's growing innovation a "Sputnik moment" that should spur the United States to ramp up investment in clean energy, despite a shift in Washington on climate change. ... more | .. |
 SOFC Micro CHP Plants To Be Climate-Friendly Power Stations In Homes The generation of electricity and heat with no pollution and with considerably less emission of the greenhouse gas CO2 sounds too good to be true. However, it is possible with the so-called SO ... more | .. |
 Columbia Engineering Team Discovers Graphene Weakness In 2008, experiments at The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University established pure graphene, a single layer of graphite only one atom thick, as the strongest ... more |
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 New Way To Patch Holes in The Data Cloud Researchers from North Carolina State University and IBM have invented a way to update computer systems packaged in virtual machines in a computer "cloud" - even when those programs are offline. ... more | .. |
  Cinnamon Can Replace Harmful Chemicals Used To Create Nanoparticles Gold nanoparticles, tiny pieces of gold so small that they can't be seen by the naked eye, are used in electronics, healthcare products and as pharmaceuticals to fight cancer. Despite their positive ... more | .. |
 Measuring The Temperature Of Nanoparticles One of the holy grails of nanotechnology in medicine is to control individual structures and processes inside a cell. Nanoparticles are well suited for this purpose because of their small size; they ... more | .. |
  Manufacturing Made To Measure Atomic-Scale Electrodes Thanks to collaborative work between scientists in Donostia-San Sebastian and the University of Kiel (Germany) it has been shown that it is possible to determine and control the number of atoms in c ... more |
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