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October 31, 2013

NASA's Orion Spacecraft Comes to Life
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 31, 2013
NASA's first-ever deep space craft, Orion, has been powered on for the first time, marking a major milestone in the final year of preparations for flight. Orion's avionics system was installed on the crew module and powered up for a series of systems tests at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida last week. Preliminary data indicate Orion's vehicle management computer, as well as its innovative power and data distribution system - which use state-of-the-art networking capabilities - performed a ... read more

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				Russia, US to protect satellite navigation systems at UN level Russia and the United States, concerned about competition from navigation systems being developed by the European Union and China, intend to secure frequency spectrum and other positions for their G ... more		UNC neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain Dendrites, the branch-like projections of neurons, were once thought to be passive wiring in the brain. But now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have shown that these d ... more

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