India to Provide Cost Incentives to Use Homemade Version of GPS
New Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 10, 2016 -
According to official sources, India's government is exploring several options, including reduced charges for air navigation services.
The Indian government may soon announce incentives to airline operators for installing the locally developed Aided Geo Augmented Navigation system (GAGAN). The aviation ministry, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and the Airports Authority of ...
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Undergraduates Build Star-Tracking Instrument for NASA Research Rockets
Rochester NY (SPX) Aug 12, 2016 -
Rochester Institute of Technology undergraduates are making a "compass" for rockets using a new kind of detector technology. The instrument will fly on a NASA technology demonstration mission later this year.
The student team is designing, building - and deploying - a telescope and camera that will orient the rocket payload based on the images of stars. RIT's Cryogenic Star Tracking Attitu ...
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Russia's Ray Guns: The Military Capability of Moscow's Secret Laser Weapons
Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 10, 2016 -
Russia's Defense Ministry has revealed that the military has commissioned several new types of laser weaponry, without further elaborating on any specifics of the systems. However, RIA Novosti spoke to a number of Russian military experts to find out what these advanced weapons may be capable of.
Russia seems to be breathing life into the development of "weapons based on new physical principles ...
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1400 km of optical fiber connect optical clocks in France and Germany
Braunschweig, Germany (SPX) Aug 10, 2016 -
In the past few years, optical atomic clocks have made spectacular progress, becoming 100 times more precise than the best caesium clocks. So far, their precision has been available only locally, since frequency transfer via satellite cannot provide sufficient resolution.
This has recently changed thanks to a new direct optical connection between France and Germany, established by joint wo ...
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NASA to hold Industry Day to discuss Universal Stage Adapter
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 15, 2016 -
NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland will host an industry day on Aug. 17 to share information about a Draft Request for Proposal for the Space Launch System's (SLS) Universal Stage Adapter (USA). Media are invited to attend a press conference and ask questions at 1 p.m.
peakers will include:
+ Janet Kavandi, center director, Glenn
+ Stephen Creech, acting director, Spacecraft ...
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Moscow, Russia (SPX) Aug 17, 2016 -
Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have found that the two-dimensional form of carbon, known as graphene, might be the ideal material for manufacturing plasmonic devices capable of detecting explosive materials, toxic chemicals, and other organic compounds based on a single molecule, says an article published in Physical Review B.
Scientists have long bee ...
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Seoul (AFP) Aug 15, 2016 -
South Korea's president Monday defended the proposed deployment of a US anti-missile system as an act of self-defence against North Korea, as hundreds of residents shaved their heads in protest at the plan.
Tensions have been running high on the divided Korean peninsula since the North carried out its fourth nuclear test in January and followed up with a series of missile tests.
South Ko ...
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