Japan plans more proactive role in Asian security
Singapore (AFP) May 30, 2014 -
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed Friday that his country would play a larger role in promoting peace in Asia, and called for the rule of law to be upheld in the region.
Laying out a vision of Tokyo as a counterweight to the growing might of China, Abe offered Japan's help to regional partners "to ensure security of the seas and skies".
He said Japan and the United States stood rea ...
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A First for NASA's IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 02, 2014 -
A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014, and NASA's newest solar observatory caught it in extraordinary detail.
This was the first CME observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, which launched in June 2013 to peer into the lowest levels of the sun's atmosphere with better resolution than ever before. Watch the movie to see how a c ...
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NASA Widens 2014 Hurricane Research Mission
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 01, 2014 -
During this year's Atlantic hurricane season, NASA is redoubling its efforts to probe the inner workings of hurricanes and tropical storms with two unmanned Global Hawk aircraft flying over storms and two new space-based missions. NASA's airborne Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel or HS3 mission, will revisit the Atlantic Ocean for the third year in a row.
HS3 is a collaborative effort th ...
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Russia preparing to launch Okno space surveillance system at full capacity
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jun 02, 2014 -
State tests of the Okno (Window) complex for tracking and monitoring man-made space objects in Tajikistan will take place during the summer months in the interests of the Russian aerospace defence troops. After that the facility will be put on duty, representative of the aerospace defence troops Colonel Alexey Zolotukhin told RIA Novosti.
According to open sources, the facility is part of ...
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Private Space Race Heats Up
Washington DC (VOA) Jun 02, 2014 -
Privately-funded, manned space exploration and tourism received two boosts on Thursday. SpaceX unveiled its Dragon V2 spacecraft, which the company hopes will one day take astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk presented the new spacecraft at a company facility in California. Dragon V2 could "land anywhere on Earth with the accuracy of a helicopter ...
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SpaceX founder unveils his 'future of space travel' capsule
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jun 02, 2014 -
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) presented its new space capsule, expected to carry up to seven astronauts into space and bring them back to Earth, with the capacity to land anywhere 'with the accuracy of a helicopter.'
The Dragon V2 (version two) was unveiled in Hawthorne, California on May 29 by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The sleek capsule is the company's first spacecraft ...
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Rush a light wave and you'll break its data
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 02, 2014 -
Quantum information can't break the cosmic speed limit, according to researchers* from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland's Joint Quantum Institute.
The scientists have shown how attempts to "push" part of a light beam past the speed of light results in the loss of the quantum data the light carries. The results could clarify how noise ...
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