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TRACE Spacecraft's New Slewing ProcedureGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 28, 2010 The fastest path between Point A and Point B is a straight line. Not so fast, says a team of scientists and engineers who recently disproved this commonly accepted notion using a NASA satellite that had not moved more than 15 degrees during its 12-year mission studying the Sun. In what may seem counterintuitive even to engineers, a team from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, Calif., Draper Laboratory in Houston, Texas, and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., prov ... read more |
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  Eutelsat's KA-SAT Satellite Lofted Into Orbit The KA-SAT satellite of Eutelsat Communications has been successfully lofted into orbit by a Proton Breeze M rocket supplied by ILS. Lift-off of Eutelsat's 6.1 tonne satellite took place on 26 Decem ... more | .. |
  Space Material Prevents Road Rash A French company has found business success by blending high-tech fibres used in an ESA space mission with old-fashioned denim to create comfortable, stylish protective gear for bikers. Like 7 ... more | .. |
  New molecule could mean better rocket fuel Swedish scientists say they've discovered a molecule that could lead to new rocket fuels that are 20 percent to 30 percent more efficient than now. ... more | .. |
 GSLV Failures Fuel Disappointment And Anxiety While disappointment haunts the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) about the two successive failures of the Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) missions, there is fear whether the ... more |
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  GOES-13 Satellite Captures Powerful Snowmaker Leaving New England Snows are finally winding down in New England as a powerful low pressure system brought blizzard conditions from northern New Jersey to Maine over Christmas weekend. The GOES-13 satellite captured a ... more | .. |
 Outer Space Issues 2011 - Upcoming Trends Forecast There are outstanding issues in the coming year that deserve increased attention in terms of global outer space activities - from tackling the growing problem of orbital space debris, enhancing Eart ... more | .. |
 J-2X Turbomachinery Complete NASA and Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne have successfully completed the heart of the J-2X upper stage rocket engine - the turbomachinery assemblies - for the first development engine off the productio ... more | .. |
 New Technology: Hybrid Ion Rocket Engine The greatest advancement to jet aviation since the first Heinkel He178 V1 took off was, of course, the afterburner. The greatest thing that could happen to the scientific community would be if it wa ... more |
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 TerraSAR-X Image Of The Month: Ice Flow Like Molten Metal From over 500 kilometres up, as TerraSAR-X looks down on its icy surface, the Antarctic's Nimrod Glacier looks like molten metal. During its flight over the Antarctic, the German Aerospace Centre's ... more | .. |
  NASA Seeks Proposals For Tech Flight Demos And Info About Suborbital Flight Services NASA is seeking proposals from researchers interested in testing new technologies during suborbital flights. The agency also is requesting information from commercial suborbital reusable launch vehi ... more | .. |
  Launch Of New Russian Navigation Satellite Postponed To Next Year The launch of Russia's new-generation Glonass-K satellite has been postponed until 2011, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. The satellite atop a Soyuz-2.1.b carrier rocket was to blast off ... more | .. |
 IBM offers glimpse into the future Air-powered batteries, 3-D cellphones that project holographs and personalized commutes are among the predictions of IBM scientists gazing into their crystal balls. ... more |
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 Russia puts European satellite Ka-Sat in orbit Russia on Monday put into orbit the European Ka-Sat satellite launched overnight by a Proton-M rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, space officials said. ... more | .. |
 Failed rocket launch threatens India's space ambitions The explosion of an Indian space rocket is likely to hit the country's efforts to push further into the global market for launching commercial satellites, experts warned Sunday. ... more | .. |
Indian satellite rocket explodes after lift-off An Indian space rocket carrying an advanced communications satellite was destroyed by mission control Saturday following a malfunction after lift-off, officials said. ... more | .. |
 'World's first' glasses-free 3D TV hits stores in Japan Toshiba on Wednesday launched in Japan what it calls the world's first television that allows viewers to see 3D images without having to wear special glasses, amid intensifying competition in the market. ... more |
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 New Zealand military releases UFO files The New Zealand military released hundreds of previously classified reports Wednesday detailing claims of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings and alien encounters. ... more | .. |
Indian And Russian Scientists Discuss Rocket Launch Delay Indian and Russian space scientists are discussing the remedial measures that need to be taken after a leak was detected in the cryogenic engine of a rocket that was to place an advanced communicati ... more | .. |
 Tablet computers come of age with iPad mania Yearning for an Internet-linked gadget bigger than a smartphone but smaller than a laptop merged with always-connected lifestyles to make tablet computing a defining trend for 2010. ... more | .. |
  S.Korea schools get robot English teachers Almost 30 robots have started teaching English to youngsters in a South Korean city, education officials said Tuesday, in a pilot project designed to nurture the nascent robot industry. ... more |
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Robot built to walk like senior citizens Robots have been made to run, jump and even dance, but they might be more useful if they could walk like a senior citizen, Japanese researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Motorola Mobility buys cloud storage firm Zecter Motorola Mobility said Wednesday that it has acquired Zecter, a startup that provides storage and streaming of digital media over the Internet. ... more | .. |
British eight-year-olds publish study in top science journal A group of British children aged between eight and 10 had their school project on bees published by the prestigious Royal Society in a world scientific first, the society said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  U.S. may cut Israel missile shield funds Israel's increasingly troubled missile defense shield has taken another knock with media reports that budgetary problems could force the U.S. administration to delay funding for the system still being developed by Israel's defense industry. ... more |
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