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Hypersonic vehicle fails flight test: US Air ForceWashington (AFP) Aug 15, 2012 A flight test of an experimental unmanned vehicle designed to fly at hypersonic speeds has ended in failure, the US Air Force said Wednesday. The X-51A Waverider was dropped from a B-52 bomber Tuesday and launched by a rocket booster as planned but the flight was over in seconds after a control fin malfunctioned, the Air Force said in a statement. The faulty control fin meant that the vehicle's flight ended before a specially-designed "Scramjet" engine could be ignited, it said. "It is unfor ... read more |
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  10-year plan for space physics put forward U.S. scientists have released a report recommending research for the next decade on the sun, sun-Earth connections and the origins of "space weather." ... more | .. |
  Second Flight Instrument Delivered for James Webb Space Telescope The second of four main instruments to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has been delivered to NASA. The Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) will enable the telescope to accurately and prec ... more | .. |
  Proba-1 microsat snaps Olympic neighbourhood This Olympics has been watched from all over the world - and beyond. Benefiting from a cloudless sky, this view of London's Olympic Park was captured by the smallest imager aboard ESA's smallest mis ... more | .. |
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 New system could predict solar flares, give advance warning Researchers may have discovered a new method to predict solar flares more than a day before they occur, providing advance warning to help protect satellites, power grids and astronauts from potentia ... more | .. |
 NASA STEREO observes 1 of the fastest CMEs on record On July 23, 2012, a massive cloud of solar material erupted off the sun's right side, zooming out into space, passing one of NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft along ... more | .. |
  Ball Aerospace Incorporates Enhanced Data Communication for JPSS-1 Satellite Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. will incorporate essential data communication enhancements for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1), currently under development for an early 2017 launch. ... more | .. |
  Autonomous robotic plane flies indoors For decades, academic and industry researchers have been working on control algorithms for autonomous helicopters - robotic helicopters that pilot themselves, rather than requiring remote human guid ... more |
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A French-UK nuclear umbrella for Europe? Not likely, say analysts
EU, India eye defence and security deal; France wants defense excluded from EU budget rules
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 First Flight of the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle Northrop Grumman and Hybrid Air Vehicles Limited announce the successful completion of the first flight of the U.S. Army's Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) in historic Lakehurst, N.J ... more | .. |
  STSS Demonstration Satellites Participate in Test of Next-Gen Aegis BMD Weapon System The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites participated in a test of the next generation of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) weapon system, designated FTM-16 ... more | .. |
  Gilat Announces Major Milestone in NBN Interim Satellite Service in Australia Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd has successfully completed the deployment of the first 10,000 VSATs (Very Small Aperture Terminals) with Optus as part of NBN Co's Interim Satellite Service. The j ... more | .. |
 MEADS Multifunction Fire Control Radar Finishes Integration and Test Events At Italian Test Range The first Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) Multifunction Fire Control Radar (MFCR) has been integrated with a MEADS battle manager and launcher at Pratica di Mare Air Force Base near Rome, ... more |
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 US Army certifies soldiers ready to defend battlespace with JLENS Combatant commanders moved one step closer to being able to detect, track and engage threats such as swarming boats and incoming cruise missiles, around the clock, from hundreds of miles away. In Ju ... more | .. |
 Hinode scientists' stellar effort keeps Sun mission 'burning bright' Whilst the most powerful earthquake since records began hit Japan in 2011, triggering a massive tsunami which devastated much of the country, space scientists involved in one of the 'brightest' inte ... more | .. |
  Meteor Smoke Makes Strange Clouds Anyone who's ever seen a noctilucent cloud or "NLC" would agree: They look alien. The electric-blue ripples and pale tendrils of NLCs reaching across the night sky resemble something from another wo ... more | .. |
  NASA Historic Test Stands Make Way for New Reusable Robotic Lander Neig The landscape around two historic test stands at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has changed and now features a free-flying robotic lander that will demonstrate automated re ... more |
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Sudan cholera outbreak kills 70 in a week: officials
Over 500,000 Afghans displaced due to climate disasters in 2024: IOM
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 New atmospheric compound tied to climate change and human health An international research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Helsinki has discovered a surprising new chemical compound in Earth's atmosphere that reacts with sulfu ... more | .. |
  India to launch Mars mission: PM India plans to launch a space probe that will orbit Mars, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh confirmed on Wednesday after press reports that the mission was scheduled to begin late next year. ... more | .. |
 Orbiter Views New Mars Rover In Color The first color image taken from orbit showing NASA's rover Curiosity on Mars includes details of the layered bedrock on the floor of Gale Crater that the rover is beginning to investigate. Operator ... more | .. |
  Closing in on the Border Between Primordial Plasma and Ordinary Matter Scientists taking advantage of the versatility and new capabilities of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, ... more |
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 Heliophysics Nugget: Seeing Sprites High above the clouds during thunderstorms, some 50 miles above Earth a different kind of lightning dances. Bursts of red and blue light, known as "sprites," flash for a scant one thousandth of a se ... more | .. |
  NASA Announces Next Opportunity for CubeSat Space Missions NASA is seeking proposals for small satellite payloads to fly on rockets planned to launch between 2013 and 2016. These miniature spacecraft, known as CubeSats, could be auxiliary payloads on previo ... more | .. |
 Contact established with wayward Russian satellite Contact had been established with one of two off-course telecom satellites but it would not be possible to direct it to the designated orbit, its manufacturer said Monday. Telemetric data show ... more | .. |
  NASA's 'Mighty Eagle' Robotic Prototype Lander Flies Again at Marshall The "Mighty Eagle," a NASA robotic prototype lander, is soaring high again for a series of tests being conducted at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Since its last round ... more |
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  Dawn Engineers Assess Reaction Wheel Engineers working on NASA's Dawn spacecraft are assessing the status of a reaction wheel - part of a system that helps the spacecraft point precisely - after onboard software powered it off on Aug. ... more | .. |
  Gamma rays from galactic center could be evidence of dark matter Gamma-ray photons seen emanating from the center of the Milky Way galaxy are consistent with the intriguing possibility that dark-matter particles are annihilating each other in space, according to ... more | .. |
 LHC experiments bring new insight Experiments using heavy ions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are advancing understanding of the primordial universe. The ALICE, ATLAS and CMS collaborations have made new measurements of the k ... more | .. |
  Pre launch verifications are underway for next Soyuz mission Europe's Galileo Flight Model #3 (FM3) satellite is undergoing checkout at the Spaceport in preparation for launch along with its "sister" FM4 co-passenger on Arianespace's next Soyuz mission from F ... more |
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  ISS crew to embark on two spacewalks in August Four International Space Station crew members will embark on two spacewalks to install new equipment and replace defective installations, the US space agency NASA said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 US military to test hypersonic vehicle over Pacific The US military plans to launch a hypersonic unmanned vehicle in a test flight Tuesday over the Pacific, with the X-51A due to reach mind-boggling speeds of Mach 6, a spokesman said. ... more | .. |
 Evidence further suggests extra-terrestrial origin of quasicrystals Results from an expedition to far eastern Russia that set out to find the origin of naturally occurring quasicrystals have provided convincing evidence that they arrived on Earth from outer space. ... more | .. |
 Sparse microwave imaging: A new concept in microwave imaging technology Sparse microwave imaging is a novel concept in microwave imaging that is intended to deal with the problems of increasing microwave imaging system complexity caused by the requirements of the system ... more |
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