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India Lines Up Three PSLV Launches This YearBangalore (PTI) May 16, 2011 Indian Space Research Organisation is lining up three PSLV launches from Sriharikota spaceport by October this year, its Chairman K Radhakrishnan said Friday. He said PSLV-C17 would launch GSAT-12, equipped with 12 extended C-band transponders, in July. PSLV-C18 and PSLV-C19 would launch Megha-tropiques, an Indo-French joint mission, and microwave remote-sensing satellite, RISAT-1, with synthetic aperture radar during September-October this year. ISRO officials said India's GSAT-8 sate ... read more |
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  Israel plans big boost for spy satellites Israel has disclosed that a large, but unspecified, chunk of the funding for its upcoming multiyear defense plan will go to launching spy satellites to provide round-the-clock real-time surveillance of Iran and other "areas of interest." ... more | .. |
  CryoSat Greenland camp receives royal guest ESA's CryoSat team working on the Greenland ice sheet has been honoured with a visit from a Dutch delegation including HRH Prince of Orange. The visit is part of a tour to learn more about climate c ... more | .. |
  Science Highlights from Mercury's Orbit As the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury, MESSENGER has the opportunity to make many observations of the Solar System's innermost planet that had not previously been possible. Each of MES ... more | .. |
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  Boeing to Begin Maintenance Work on SBX Missile Defense Radar Boeing will begin maintenance and upgrade activities this week in Seattle for the Sea-based X-band Radar (SBX), which arrived in port on May 10, passing through Puget Sound and Elliott Bay. SB ... more | .. |
  NATO sees 'significant' gains against Kadhafi forces A NATO air offensive around key Libyan cities has significantly impacted Moamer Kadhafi's forces, halting the shelling of the rebel-held port of Misrata in the last 24 hours, the alliance said Friday. ... more | .. |
  TE MANA successfully test fires PHALANX CIWS HMNZS TE MANA has successfully test-fired her Close in Weapons System (CIWS) during exercises in the South China Sea. The CIWS (also known as a Phalanx) is a 6 barreled radar controlled 20mm m ... more | .. |
  Where is Ai Weiwei? There's still no sign of Chinese artist and regime critic Ai Weiwei, 39 days after his arrest by Chinese police, with the West unable to convince Beijing into releasing him. ... more |
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  NIST super-stable laser shines in minivan experiment In a step toward taking the most advanced atomic clocks on the road, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have designed and demonstrated a super-stable laser opera ... more | .. |
  Deepwater Horizon Spill Threatens More Species Than Legally Protected Marine species facing threats from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico far exceed those under legal protection in the United States, a new paper in the journal BioScience f ... more | .. |
  First test flight for biggest China drone China's unmanned helicopter, the Qingdao Haili V750, successfully completed a brief test flight at Weifang Tianxiang Aerospace Industry's factory in Shandong province. ... more | .. |
 Israel to spend $2B on missile defense Israel's announcement that it will spend $2 billion on building up its anti-missile defense system over the next few years, on top of whatever it can squeeze out of the Americans, underlines the military's deep concerns that the country faces a new kind of war. ... more |
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  Doppler effect found even at molecular level - 169 years after its discovery Whether they know it or not, anyone who's ever gotten a speeding ticket after zooming by a radar gun has experienced the Doppler effect - a measurable shift in the frequency of radiation based on th ... more | .. |
  All Eyes on the Shuttle Perhaps one of the most impressive images is that of a space shuttle lifting off the launch pad. But more than just an impressive sight, images play a critical role in shuttle flight safety. Each su ... more | .. |
 E. Timor rejected Chinese radar over spy fears: report East Timor rejected China's proposal to build a radar on its territory after concerns it would be used for intelligence purposes, according to WikiLeaks, a report said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  TRMM Maps a Wet Spring, 2011 for the Central U.S. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite has been keeping track of the drenching rainfall that has been occurring in the central U.S. this springtime, and a newly created rain map from t ... more |
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Keck backed team advances first graviton detector concept
Trump offers Egypt to mediate on Ethiopia dam
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  China launches rocket to monitor space environment China successfully launched a space environment-monitoring rocket Saturday morning from the southern island province of Hainan as part of the nation's key "Meridian Project." The rocket was se ... more | .. |
 Bats lend an ear to sonar engineering Researchers have mapped out the diversity of bat ears in a hope to inspire the design of new intuitive methods of manipulating waves with physical shapes, such as SONAR and RADAR. Published in ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Unveils Newest Intel Gathering Aircraft System Military users will be able to get real-time high-definition video, view infrared imagery, use radar and even listen in on communications signals - all at the same time - using a new intelligence-ga ... more | .. |
 Technology in US helicopter not so secret: expert Pakistan or other countries may not have much to learn from the wreckage of a "stealth" US helicopter used in the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, a defense analyst said Monday. ... more |
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  A Water Ocean on Titan Oddities in the rotation of Saturn's largest moon Titan might add to growing evidence that it harbors an underground ocean, researchers suggest. Titan, which is larger than Mercury, is the only worl ... more | .. |
 ESA expands its Earth-exploring service Since 2006 ESA has been making satellite images of Earth available to anyone wanting to explore the planet in near-real time. ESA has now added nearly 13 000 radar images to the service, bringing th ... more | .. |
 Internet satellite images available to all The European Space agency says it added 13,000 satellite radar images to almost 45,000 camera images on the Internet for anyone wanting to explore our planet. ... more | .. |
  Spacecraft Earth to Perform Asteroid 'Flyby' This Fall Since the dawn of the space age, humanity has sent 16 robotic emissaries to fly by some of the solar system's most intriguing and nomadic occupants - comets and asteroids. The data and imagery colle ... more |
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Cleaner ship fuel is reducing lightning in key shipping lanes, research finds
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  Bin Laden was 'on CIA radar for months' The killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. Navy SEALs culminated a clandestine operation that went into high gear earlier this year when the al-Qaida leader broke cover in northwest Pakistan, says a Pakistani Islamist expert with access to jihadist circles. ... more | .. |
Romania airbase to host US missile shield Bucharest said Tuesday US missile interceptors would be deployed in southern Romania, a key link in Europe for a defence shield, prompting Moscow to ask for "safeguards" from Washington. ... more | .. |
  The case for climate change NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the U.K. Meterological (Met) Office are combining forces - bringing together the expertise of observing Earth from space on the one hand, and the expertise of de ... more | .. |
 Researchers Find More Efficient Way To Steer Laser Beams For many practical applications involving lasers, it's important to be able to control the direction of the laser beams. Just ask Han Solo, or the captain of the Death Star. Researchers from North C ... more |
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  Navy SEALs shine in risky bin Laden strike US Navy SEALs, legendarily tough, secretive specialists, led the bold commando operation in Pakistan that took down the world's most wanted man: 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, US officials said. ... more | .. |
  TRMM Satellite sees massive thunderstorms in severe weather system The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite again flew over severe thunderstorms that were spawning tornadoes over the eastern United States on April 28 and detected massive thundersto ... more | .. |
Israel urged to buy U.S. rocket defenses Amid Israeli concerns of a new war with Hezbollah and other foes, there are doubts the anti-missile systems Israel's defense industry has produced or is developing will be adequate to defend the nation against sustained missile and rocket attack. ... more | .. |
  First Contact: Investigating Astrobiology The origins of my new book - "First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth" - lie more in journalism than in science. As a relatively recent convert to space and science ... more |
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