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Maiden Test Flight For SpaceShipTwoLos Angeles (AFP) March 22, 2010 Virgin Galactic's experimental SpaceshipTwo (SS2), an aircraft designed to one day carry paying customers into space, had its maiden flight in the California desert Monday, company officials announced. The spacecraft, brainchild of British entrepreneur Richard Branson, took off nestled under the wing of its mothership White Knight Two (WK2). "Virgin Galactic announced that its commercial manned spaceship, VSS Enterprise, this morning successfully completed its first 'captive carry' test flight, ... read more |
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Lexington MA (SPX) Mar 18, 2010WinterGreen Research announces that it has a new study on first responder, law enforcement, and homeland security ground robots. The 2010 study has 460 pages, 165 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the first responder and homeland security ground robots are used globally. Growth comes as the border patrols and law enforcement agencies use robo ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2010New discoveries have a way of messing with old definitions. Take, for example, the concept of a habitable world. The standard definition of a "habitable world" is a world with liquid water at its surface; the "habitable zone" around a star is defined as that Goldilocks region - not too hot, not too cold - where a watery planet or moon can exist. And then there's Titan. Saturn's giant ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 19, 2010Moonwater. Look it up. You won't find it. It's not in the dictionary. That's because we thought, until recently, that the Moon was just about the driest place in the solar system. Then reports of moonwater started "pouring" in - starting with estimates of scant amounts on the lunar surface, then gallons in a single crater, and now 600 million metric tons distributed among 40 craters near the lun ... more |
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Capacity, Flexibility, Reliability All Key Factors In Winning OHO-1 LaunchParis, France (SPX) Mar 19, 2010 Arianespace's selection by new satellite services operator OverHorizon to orbit its first relay platform was based on criteria that included launch capacity, flexibility and a track record of reliability. Speaking at a formal contract signing ceremony during the Satellite 2010 conference in Maryland, OverHorizon CEO Per Wahlberg said the company conducted a "very rigorous" process that led to Arianespace's selection to launch the OHO-1 satellite in mid-2012. "In the end, Arianespace offered ... read more |
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