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Year Of The DragonBethesda MD (SPX) Dec 15, 2010 A new era in spaceflight opened last Wednesday with the successful first flight of Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) Dragon capsule by a non-government entity. It demonstrated the ability to maneuver on orbit, deorbit, enter the atmosphere, deploy its parachutes, and be recovered intact. Had it had people on board, which it could have, with its rudimentary short-duration life support system, they would have had a "nice ride," according to SpaceX founder Elon Musk. That it didn't was d ... read more |
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  Virgin Galactic To Join NASA Submissions For Orbital Spaceflights Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has announced that it will be supporting Sierra Nevada Space Systems' (SNC) and Orbital Sciences Corporation's (OSC) work on commercial space vehicles. Fo ... more | .. |
  A2100 Commercial Satellite Fleet Achieves 300 Years In Orbit The Lockheed Martin A2100 commercial communications satellite fleet has achieved a major milestone by accumulating 300 years of successful in-orbit operations. The A2100 satellite series, desi ... more | .. |
  Solid 2010 Results For Aerospace With another solid financial performance in 2010, the aerospace industry has again demonstrated its vital importance to the U.S. economy. "Aerospace has produced solid results, including a new ... more | .. |
  Russian Rocket With Three Crew Blasts Off Into Space A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a crew of three to the International Space Station blasted off Wednesday from Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz TMA-20 rocket, with a ... more |
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 Paolo Nespoli Heads To ISS On MagISStra Mission 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 ... more | .. |
  Unstable Antarctica: What's Driving Ice Loss Scientists have previously shown that West Antarctica is losing ice, but how that ice is lost remained unclear. Now, using data from Earth observing satellites and airborne science missions, scienti ... 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 | .. |
  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 |
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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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 United Vision Logistics Selects New Technologies United Vision Logistics is pleased to announce its selection of McLeod Software for its enterprise transportation management solution and Qualcomm Transportation Services to provide its mobile commu ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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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  Cause of missile defense test failure unclear: US A top US general said Thursday it was unclear why an interceptor meant to knock out incoming ballistic missiles failed in a test for the second time in a row. ... more | .. |
  US drone missiles kill 16 in Pakistan A barrage of US missiles targeted Pakistan's Khyber district on Friday for a second consecutive day, killing 16 militants as Barack Obama urged Islamabad to do more to root out terror havens. ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Intelligence-Sharing System Begins Operations The U.S. Air Force successfully completed evaluation of Raytheon's new Distributed Common Ground System at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, enabling operational use of the upgraded intelligence, surveill ... more | .. |
 ITT Extends Counter-IED Leadership The U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command has exercised the third option of the Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (JCREW) 3.3 contract and has awarded ITT the de ... more |
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