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Russian satellites crash into Pacific: space officialMoscow (AFP) Dec 5, 2010 Three Russian navigation satellites crashed into the Pacific off the US state of Hawaii Sunday after the rocket carrying them failed to reach orbit, officials from the Russian space agency said. The capsule carrying the three Glonass satellites plummeted into the sea 1,500 kilometres (900 miles) off Honolulu, one official told Russia's RIA-Novosty news agency, adding that there had been no casualties. The failure is a setback for Russia's attempt to put a satellite navigation system in place to ... read more |
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  Malaysia To Train Experts For Aerospace Industry Malaysia will set up an institute next year to train people in the area of component manufacturing for the aerospace industry. Malaysian Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Maximus Ong ... more | .. |
  Boeing Completes Intersegment Testing Of FAB-T Satellite Comms System Boeing has announced that the company and the U.S. Air Force recently completed intersegment tests of communications between a Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminal (FAB-T) and an Advance ... more | .. |
  ASU Researcher Uses NASA Satellite To Explore Archaeological Site Remote sensing has been integral to the field of archaeology for many years, but Arizona State University archaeologist Stephen H. Savage is literally taking the use of that technology to new height ... more | .. |
 Federal Government Approves New German Space Strategy The German Federal Government adopted a new space strategy at its cabinet meeting on 30 November 2010. The paper defines the fundamentals of how the high-technology space sector is to develop over t ... more |
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 ISRO Hands Two Contracts To Arianespace Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has given an estimated Rs500 crore order to Arianespace and renewed the five-year contract with EADS Astrium for joint marketing of satellites, it was annou ... more | .. |
  SwRI Researchers Continue Starfighters Suborbital Space Flight Training As part of their suborbital spaceflight training, Southwest Research Institute researchers and suborbital payload specialists Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. Dan Durda have continued their spaceflight traini ... more | .. |
 Snow From Space Earth observation scientists at the University of Leicester have recorded stunning images of the UK's winter landscape by orbiting satellites. European Space Agency satellite instruments have ... more | .. |
 Aerojet Propulsion Raises Japan's First Quasi-Zenith Satellite MICHIBIKI Aerojet congratulates Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on the successful launch of the MICHIBIKI satellite aboard the H-2A launch vehicle out of the ... more |
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 X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Completes First Flight Boeing has announced the successful de-orbit and landing of the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), also known as the X-37B, for the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO). The X-37B landed at 1:16 ... more | .. |
 Website Hosts Space Transcripts Fred Haise first hailed Houston from Apollo 13, but it was Jim Lovell who spoke the now-iconic line. "Houston, we've had a problem. We've had a main B bus undervolt," Lovel said on the second ... more | .. |
 ULA Enters Fifth Year With 45 Launches In 48 Months of Operation As 2010 nears its end, United Launch Alliance (ULA) is proud to celebrate its fourth anniversary with 45 successful launches in the company's 48 months of operation. ULA closed out 2010 in impressiv ... more | .. |
  Blacker Than Black Black is black, right? Not so, according to a team of NASA engineers now developing a blacker-than pitch material that will help scientists gather hard-to-obtain scientific measurements or observe c ... more |
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 US private rocket readies key demonstration launch 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. ... more | .. |
  New Advanced Combat Radar Flies On F-16 Raytheon's Advanced Combat Radar, the latest Active Electronically Scanned Array radar, has successfully completed a series of flight trials on a U.S. Air Force F-16 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif ... more | .. |
 Phalanx Weapon System Completes Live-Fire Demonstration Raytheon and Oshkosh, partnering with the U.S. Army and Navy, proved the maneuverability, integration and performance of the Mobile Land-Based Phalanx Weapon System during a recent live-fire demonst ... more | .. |
  Raytheon To Relocate Patriot Training To Fort Sill Raytheon will relocate its Patriot New Equipment Training program to Fort Sill, Okla., beginning early next year. The move is in response to the U.S. Army's Base Realignment and Closure decisi ... more |
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  Critical Global Hawk Sensor Delivered To USAF Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) delivered the first production Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP-RTIP) sensor to Edwards Air Force Base for integration on the first U.S. ... more | .. |
 First European Missile Successfully Carries Out Ballistic Intercept MBDA is celebrating the total success of an Aster missile firing carried out on 18th October 2010 by the DGA EM (Direction Generale de l'Armement - Essais de Missiles) in the Landes region of France ... more | .. |
 Picatinny Invention Gives Soldiers 80 Degrees Of Firepower An invention developed by Team Picatinny was recently named a top 10 Army Greatest Invention of 2009. The Objective Weapon Elevation Kit, or OWEK, allows Soldiers to engage super-elevated targets, a ... more | .. |
 Last Harrier Jet Launch From HMS Ark Royal Harrier GR9 jets took off from HMS Ark Royal for the very last time, before both Joint Force Harrier and the Royal Navy's flagship are decommissioned next month. The iconic jets launched from the de ... more |
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  US suspected Yemen had portable missiles: cables US officials suspected Yemen had stocks of shoulder-fired missiles, a major concern if they fell in the wrong hands, while the Yemeni leader sought to use newfound leverage for US aid, secret memos said. ... more | .. |
  Landslide buries up to 200 in Colombia: Red Cross As many as 200 people may have been buried in a landslide Sunday that swept over 10 houses near Medellin, Colombia's second largest city, Red Cross relief workers said. ... more | .. |
  Taiwan to spend 100 million dollars on 'green' architecture Taiwan said Friday it will spend about 100 million US dollars to promote environmentally friendly buildings in a bid to cut carbon emissions and create jobs. ... more | .. |
  Land disputes hitting Indian infrastructure schemes Protests against a proposed Indian nuclear power plant this weekend highlight a growing problem facing developers, experts say, as the country tries to upgrade or build much-needed infrastructure. ... more |
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