Remote Troops Closer to Having High-Speed Wireless Networks Mounted on UAVs
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 08, 2014 -
Missions in remote, forward operating locations often suffer from a lack of connectivity to tactical operation centers and access to valuable intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) data. The assets needed for long-range, high-bandwidth communications capabilities are often unavailable to lower echelons due to theater-wide mission priorities.
DARPA's Mobile Hotspots program ai ...
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Intelsat and L-3 Test Protected Air Force Tactical Technology on Ku-band
Bethesda MD (SPX) Apr 08, 2014 -
Intelsat General Corp. and L-3 Communication Systems-West (L-3 CS-West) announced the successful demonstration of new U.S. Air Force Protected Tactical Waveform technology over Ku-band transponders on the Intelsat fleet.
The demonstrations and performance characterization were conducted at the Intelsat teleport in Ellenwood, GA, during the week of March 4th. Engineers conducting the tests ...
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LockMart and US Navy Demonstrate Airborne Autonomy Technology
National Harbor MD (SPX) Apr 08, 2014 -
As autonomous technologies continue to develop and grow within the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) successfully demonstrated the Lockheed Martin OPTIMUS mission system's ability to accomplish an autonomous approach and landing in an unprepared environment.
The system enhances the onboard intelligence of the vehicle and ...
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Northrop Grumman to Build Five More MQ-8C Fire Scouts for the US Navy
San Diego CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2014 -
Northrop Grumman will build five additional U.S. Navy MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopters, which allow ship commanders to extend their intelligence-gathering capabilities far beyond the horizon.
Final assembly of the aircraft will take place at the company's Unmanned Systems Center in Moss Point, Miss. The MQ-8C is based on a larger helicopter airframe that provides greater range, endura ...
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Russia warns Ukraine against missile technologies proliferation
Moscow (XNA) Apr 08, 2014 -
Russia on Monday drew Kiev's attention over media reports that a Ukrainian military-space enterprise had allegedly been negotiating with third countries on missile technology sale.
Referring to the Yuzhmash plant based in the city of Dnepropetrovsk in eastern Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry reminded that Ukraine is a participant of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) and a s ...
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Space superiority remains vital to national security
Washington DC (AFNS) Apr 08, 2014 -
Gen. William Shelton, the commander of Air Force Space Command, highlighted a successful satellite launch to the House Armed Services Committee's subcommittee on strategic forces during a budget hearing for national security space activities here, April 3.
"Just this morning, we had a very successful Defense Meteorological Satellite Program launch out of Vandenberg Air Force Base, (Calif.) ...
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CSU Researcher to Examine Health Impacts of Space Travel in NASA-Funded Twin Study
Fort Collins CO (SPX) Apr 09, 2014 -
When NASA sends an identical twin to the International Space Station next year, a Colorado State University researcher will be among just a few hand-picked scientists studying him and his brother to measure impacts of space travel on the human body.
Susan Bailey, an associate professor in CSU's Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, is heading one of only 10 projects ...
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Mars Exploration in a Deep Mine
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 09, 2014 -
This week, twenty European scientists will gather at Boulby mine in the UK to begin testing technologies for the exploration of Mars and hunting for deep subsurface life that will aid scientists in their search for extraterrestrial life.
The scientists are part of an exciting new European space exploration programme called MASE (Mars Analogues for Space Exploration) which will investigate ...
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Vanguard Space Technologies Antenna Reflectors on Amazonas Satellite Launch
San Diego CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2014 -
Vanguard Space Technologies, Inc. (Vanguard) today announced that it supplied mission-critical components to Orbital Sciences Corporation (ORB) for the Amazonas 4A telecommunications satellite that was recently launched aboard Arianespace's Ariane 5 ECA rocket from Kourou, French Guiana.
The Amazonas 4A spacecraft, which was designed, manufactured and tested by Orbital and built for Hispas ...
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Images From NASA Mars Rover Include Bright Spots
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 09, 2014 -
Images taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on April 2 and April 3 include bright spots, which might be due to the sun glinting off a rock or cosmic rays striking the camera's detector.
The rover took the image just after arriving at a waypoint called "the Kimberley." The bright spot appears on a horizon, in the same west-northwest direction from the rover as the afternoon sun.
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Russian Astronaut Misurkin Dreams of Going to the Moon, Mars
Mexico City (RIA Novosti) Apr 09, 2014 -
A Russian astronaut Alexander Misurkin thinks humankind should not stop at the exploration of near-Earth space but rather go further in the universe, the explorer told RIA Novosti Tuesday.
"I think, we shouldn't limit ourselves to exploring the Earth's orbit. I, personally, would be interested in going to the outer space, exploring the asteroids, the Moon, and Mars. It's a natural developm ...
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Russian Federal Space Agency is elaborating Moon exploration program
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Apr 09, 2014 -
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has created a team of specialists, which will elaborate the Moon program. The scientists plan to launch three spacecraft - two landing and one orbital - to the Moon to the end of this decade.
Roscosmos is about to begin creation of a carrier rocket that will be launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. The agency is also elaborating a carrier rock ...
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Lockheed Martin and NewSat Achieve Significant Program Milestone on Jabiru-1 Satellite
Denver CO (SPX) Apr 09, 2014 -
Lockheed Martin and NewSat Limited have completed a comprehensive technical review of Jabiru-1, Australia's first commercial Ka-band satellite. Jabiru-1 will deliver high-powered communications to meet the growing demand from oil, gas, mining, government and carrier-grade telecommunications customers in the world's emerging economies.
To achieve this milestone, Lockheed Martin completed th ...
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NASA's LRO Mission and North America to Experience Total Lunar Eclipse
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 09, 2014 -
When people in North America look up at the sky in the early morning hours of April 15, they can expect the moon to look a little different. A total lunar eclipse is expected at this time, a phenomenon that occurs when the Earth, moon and sun are in perfect alignment, blanketing the moon in the Earth's shadow.
Although lunar eclipses happen multiple times in a year during a full moon, this ...
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ESA to continue space cooperation with Russia unlike NASA
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Apr 09, 2014 -
The European Space Agency (ESA) has no intentions at all of reviewing its space cooperation with Russia, despite the latter's merger with Crimea and NASA's recent announcement of pulling out from joint projects with Moscow, SpaceNews.com weekly reported referring to ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain.
Last week, the US space agency posted on its Twitter and Facebook accounts a state ...
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Fifth Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Joins Global Positioning System
El Segundo, CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2014 -
The accuracy of the Global Positioning System (GPS) has been improved with the recent handover of a fifth Boeing GPS IIF satellite to the U.S. Air Force. The newest addition to the GPS constellation increases the precision of position, navigation and timing data sent to users around the world.
The satellite was launched Feb. 20. The Air Force, which operates the GPS system, and Boeing have ...
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NASA Seeks Proposals on Asteroid Redirect Mission Concepts Development
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 25, 2014 -
In support of NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission - a key part of the agency's stepping stone path to send humans to Mars - agency officials are seeking proposals for studies on advanced technology development.
Through a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), released Friday, NASA hopes to solicit proposals for concept studies in areas including asteroid capture systems, rendezvous sensors, adaptin ...
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Webb Telescope's Heart Complete, Final Instrument Installed
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 09, 2014 -
The last piece of the James Webb Space Telescope's heart was installed inside the world's largest clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
What looked like a massive black frame covered with wires and aluminum foil, the heart or Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) now contains all four of Webb's science instruments. Together, these instruments will help un ...
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NASA Mars Rover's Next Stop Has Sandstone Variations
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 25, 2014 -
Variations in the stuff that cements grains together in sandstone have shaped the landscape surrounding NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and could be a study topic at the mission's next science waypoint.
On a journey with many months yet to go toward prime destinations on the lower slope of Mount Sharp, Curiosity is approaching a site called "the Kimberley." Scientists on the team picked this l ...
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Searching High and Low for Dark Matter
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2014 -
There's more to the cosmos than meets the eye. In late February, dark matter hunters from around the world gathered at the University of California, Los Angeles for "Dark Matter 2014."
The annual conference is one of the largest of its kind aimed at discussing the latest progress in the quest to identify dark matter, the unknown stuff that makes up more than a quarter of the universe yet r ...
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Mars on Earth: vacuum chambers mimic the Red Planet
Washington (AFP) March 25, 2014 -
Scientists have built Mars here on Earth - at least within the walls of a simulation chamber that mimics conditions on the Red Planet down to its Martian dust, according to a paper out Tuesday.
The Spanish researchers built a vacuum chamber to reproduce conditions including temperature, pressure, gas composition and radiation on Mars, to help test gear designed for missions to the fourth pl ...
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Journey to Mars Only Possible With International Cooperation
Mexico City (RIA Novosti) Apr 09, 2014 -
Dmitry Znamensky - No single country has the resources to carry out an expedition to Mars, but together mankind does have the technological capability required to realize such an endeavor, according to Russian professor Vyacheslav Turyshev, speaking at Astronautics Week dedicated to the April 12 anniversary of Yury Gagarin's historic first manned spaceflight.
"These tasks cannot be tackled ...
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Mars-mimicking chamber explores habitability of other planets
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 26, 2014 -
A research team in Spain has the enviable job of testing out new electromechanical gear for potential use in future missions to the "Red Planet." They do it within their Mars environmental simulation chamber, which is specially designed to mimic conditions on the fourth planet from the sun - right down to its infamous Martian dust.
Mars is a key target for future space exploration, thanks ...
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India's mission to Mars crosses half-way mark
Bangalore, India (AFP) April 09, 2014 -
India's first mission to Mars successfully crossed the half-way mark on Wednesday, four months after leaving on an voyage to the Red Planet scheduled to take 11 months, the space agency said.
"The spacecraft crossed the half-way mark Wednesday at 9:50am on its journey to Mars," the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement from the southern city of Bangalore.
"The spa ...
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Mars One building simulated colony to vet potential colonists
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 26, 2014 -
Mars One is a a private, Netherlands-based push to realize a human colony on the red planet by 2025.
In an email statement to Popular Science Thursday, Mars One announced plans to build a simulated colony here on Earth to vet astronauts and make sure they can withstand the cramped and isolated conditions colonists will have to endure before awarding them their one-way ticket.
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