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Rocket Carrying U.S. Satellite Launched

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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. (AP) -- A rocket carrying a satellite used for communication by the United States Air Force lifted off Wednesday night.
Thursday 11 October, 2007 10:58 AM
 

BAE SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE BAR-ARMOR KITS FOR 215 U.S. ARMY ROUTE CLEARANCE VEHICLES

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 Bulk em up and get some protection around them thar trucks

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — BAE Systems will provide lightweight bar-armor kits for 215 U.S. Army Route Clearance Vehicles under a contract with a not-to-exceed value of $14.5 million.

Thursday 11 October, 2007 02:03 AM
 

Driverless cars ready for soldiers

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I'm sure that many of the vehicles I encounter in my normal driving (to and from work) have this feature

SITTING high in the cab of the hulking lime-green TerraMax truck , a driver can be excused for instinctively grabbing the steering wheel.
Wednesday 10 October, 2007 06:07 AM
 

Will we ever send humans to Mars?

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 First there needs to be a plan - any plan is better than no plan


In the summer of 1969, two weeks after Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon, rocket scientist Wernher von Braun delivered to Nasa a detailed, fully costed plan for landing humans on Mars .

 

Tuesday 9 October, 2007 08:08 PM
 

Congestion looms on the road to space

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 We had an article on a few days ago about the UK proposal for a space effort,  another 3 have hit the front page today and the engcom poll is focused on the subject as well - and there is a list of other countries queuing up - it's going to be very crowded up there soon -----

SCIENTISTS have called on the federal Government to provide $100 million over 10 years to help launch an Australian space program .

 Russia readies rocket for Malaysian's space launch

Japanese Lunar Mission Successfully Reaches Orbit
Tuesday 9 October, 2007 12:03 AM
 

Israel may have tricked Syria radars to conceal raid

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A cunning ploy seems to have worked - I wonder what else the "back room boys (and girls) are working on

 Israeli fighter planes reportedly may have managed to escape detection by Syrian radars during their September 6 raid by forcing the detection system to make a mistake.

Monday 8 October, 2007 10:08 AM
 

BAE loses out on massive MoD deal

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 I guess that you can not win them all - but you certainly would like to !!!

 French defence-electronics group Thales and America’s Boeing have been chosen by the Ministry of Defence to oversee a massive contract to design and build around 3,000 vehicles for the armed forces

French defence-electronics group Thales and America’s Boeing have been chosen by the Ministry of Defence to oversee a massive contract to design and build around 3,000 vehicles for the armed forces

Monday 8 October, 2007 08:02 AM
 

Sputnik Hype Launched One-Sided Space Race

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 It's all relative - not really that bothered - unless we are being beaten by the (old cold war) enemy - it's an ego thing 

Everything changed when Americans thought they were being beaten to space

 

Sunday 7 October, 2007 12:07 PM
 

NASA spacecraft to fly Russian equipment

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 Isn't it good to see that they have such a close working relationship - lets just hope that the engineering matches

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. and Russian space agencies announced an agreement Wednesday for NASA spacecraft to fly Russian instruments to the moon and Mars.

 

Saturday 6 October, 2007 04:03 PM
 

Oct. 4, 1957: Russ Puts Man-Made Moon in Orbit!

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A Soviet engineer displays a replica of Sputnik at a 1957 Moscow exhibition.
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1957: The Space Age dawns a little sooner than expected with the successful launch of Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union. It's a pivotal moment, the kind of event that -- five decades later -- still has people asking, "Do you remember where you were when …?"

 

Thursday 4 October, 2007 10:56 AM
 

Entrepreneurs rally for new space age

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 Up, up and away - opportunities galore - for the ones with deep pockets and good fortune

 It was no accident that aircraft designer Burt Rutan chose to make history on the anniversary of Sputnik .

Thursday 4 October, 2007 06:02 AM
 
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