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Paolo Nespoli Heads To ISS On MagISStra MissionParis, France (ESA) Dec 16, 2010 ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli is on his way to the International Space Station with crewmates Dmitri Kondratyev and Catherine Coleman aboard their Soyuz spacecraft following liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 20:09:25 CET today. Twenty main rocket nozzles beneath the venerable Soyuz launcher came to life at 01:09:25 local time at the cosmodrome and Soyuz TMA-20 rose into sky. About nine minutes later, the spacecraft and its three passengers were in space, antennas and solar panels ... read more |
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  Air Force Flight Control Improvements Flying insects' altitude control mechanisms are the focus of research being conducted in a Caltech laboratory under an Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant that may lead to technology that ... more | .. |
  ESA And Canada Renew Partnership In Space Science And Technology Today, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of ESA, and Steve MacLean, President of the Canadian Space Agency, signed a new Cooperation Agreement between ESA and Canada that will extend their part ... more | .. |
  Israel general drops missile defense bombshell Maj. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, commander of Israel's northern front, has dropped a bombshell by disclosing that the anti-missile systems the defense industry has developed are intended to protect the country's military installations, not its cities and civilian population. ... more | .. |
  Western Military District Gets First Iskander Tactical Missile System The first Iskander tactical surface-to-surface ballistic missile system has entered service with the Russian Army's Western Military District, regional commander Arkady Bakhin said on Tuesday. ... more |
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 Antenova Launches M10372 GPS RADIONOVA with CSR's SiRFstarIV Architecture Antenova has announced M10372 GPS RADIONOVA - a planar mount GPS Radio Antenna Module incorporating CSR's market leading SiRFstarIV GPS chipset with Antenova's high performing patented antenna techn ... more | .. |
 Universal Address And GPS Enhanced Google Maps For iPhones NAC Geographic Products Inc. announced the release of NACMaps for iPhones - a suite of three tools: NAC Locator, NAC Searcher and NAC Router. NACMaps is a feature enriched Universal Addresses and GP ... more | .. |
 New GeoGroups App Reinvents Geo-Social Experience GeoGroups has launched its geo-social mobile app that helps families, friends, like-minded individuals and professionals interact via separate public or private groups on a single personalized map. ... more |
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 NAVTEQ Expands Global R And D Capabilities NAVTEQ has announced the company's expansion of designated R and D Global Development Centers (GDC) to include operations in Mumbai, India. The center will employ 150 R and D team members and ... more | .. |
 Officials Complete GPS Software Upgrade Ahead Of Schedule Officials with the 2nd Space Operations Squadron at Schriever AFB, Colo., have completed their sustainment software release for the GPS operational control segment ground system ahead of schedule. ... more | .. |
 Clarion Voice-Activated Navigation System The Clarion-supplied, factory-installed Voice-Activated Navigation System, available in the Ford Fusion, ranks "Highest Satisfaction," according to J.D. Power and Associates 2010 Navigation Usage an ... more | .. |
 Trimble Introduces SiteFID Gas Monitoring Solution Trimble has introduced the SiteFID Gas Monitoring solution for the environmental services market. The solution, specifically designed for environmental consultants and landfill operations mana ... more |
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  How Hard Are We Pushing The Land We may be becoming an ever more technologically advanced society, but we remain as dependent as ever - if not more and more so - on the natural world that surrounds us. That is one takeaway fr ... more | .. |
 Satellite Data Provide A New Way To Monitor Groundwater In Agricultural Regions When you dive into that salad full of lettuce grown in the American West, there's a good chance you are enjoying the product of irrigation from an underground water source. These hidden groundwater ... more | .. |
 Satellites Pinpoint Drivers Of Urban Heat Islands In The Northeast Cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Boston are prominent centers of political power. Less known: Their size, background ecology, and development patterns also combine to make them unusually w ... more | .. |
  LockMart Successfully Tests First GMLRS+ Rocket Lockheed Martin has successfully launched a Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System Plus (GMLRS+) rocket recently in a test at White Sands Missile Range, NM. The GMLRS+ rocket, which is equipped ... more |
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 Portugal Marks Ten Years In ESA Celebrating the tenth anniversary of Portugal joining ESA as a Member State, Jose Mariano Gago, Portuguese Minister of Science and Higher Education, and Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA's Director General, ... more | .. |
 Bolivia, China ink deal to build telecoms satellite Bolivia and China have signed a deal to build a 300-million-dollar communications satellite to be launched into space within three years, officials here said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Raytheon's SLAMRAAM Completes Second Test Firing from New Platform Raytheon's SLAMRAAM (Surface Launched Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile) system successfully participated in a second ballistic test vehicle firing at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. This is the s ... more | .. |
 'Out of this world' Most Successful Exhibition Of Ruhr 2010 Project The exhibition 'Out of this World - Wonders of the Solar System' will end on 30 December 2010. It has been the most successful exhibition held at the Gasometer in Oberhausen by far. The exhibi ... more |
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 SBIRS Completes Major Testing Milestone The U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin-led Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) team has successfully completed the Final Integrated System Test (FIST) of the first geosynchronous (GEO-1) satellite, a ma ... more | .. |
  Fire-X Vertical Unmanned Aircraft Completes First Flight Fire-X, a vertical unmanned air system (VUAS) developed by Northrop Grumman and Bell Helicoptercompleted its first fully autonomous flight Dec. 10 at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., less than one year a ... more | .. |
 DARPA Awards Contract To Produce Laser Enhanced Sniper Systems Lockheed Martin was awarded a $6.9 million contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for multiple One Shot laser-based sniper systems that improve accuracy and reduce the pos ... more | .. |
 Fire Scout Ready For Unrestricted Flights Off USS Halyburton In preparation for deployment early next year, Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have verified that the MQ-8B Fire Scout vertical unmanned aircraft system is functionally compatible with communicat ... more |
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