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Now when Europe and specifically China openly contend the previous American and Russian space ‘monopoly’. Here we intercept news as published worldwide, chronologically, covering this specific subject.
 Mother Nature Network | Solar Eclipse Sunday Promises Spectacular Views from China to Texas Space.com by Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist Almost all of North America will undergo a weird and dramatic event late Sunday afternoon (May 20). A partial eclipse of the sun will be visible, and for most, it will coincide with sunset. Solar eclipse viewable in U.S., China, Japan 'Ring of Fire' Eclipse Visible From China to Texas Not for us, but 'Ring of Fire' eclipse this weekend |
What China Can Teach Facebook Wall Street Journal (blog) Facebook has a proven track record of dominating new markets, and it may still prove able to conquer China's crowded social-networking space if it ever opens up in the country. But as investors pop the champagne bottles Friday, it's worth taking a ... |
China's space women wait for blast-off Space Daily by Tony Quine China will definitely launch a female air force pilot into space, onboard the ambitious Shenzhou 9 rendezvous and docking mission, likely to launch in mid-June, according to a senior space programme official. Speaking at a ceremony, ... |
 AFP | Japan launches rocket with first foreign satellite Seattle Post Intelligencer JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. successfully launched a South Korean satellite into space aboard the rocket, local media said. JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE Photo: Kyodo News / AP ... Japan launches H-2A rocket carrying S. Korean satellite |
 Space Ref (press release) | US House Unanimously Approves Posey Commercial Space Legislation Space Ref (press release) "This Amendment will give commercial space companies an incentive to spend their money here and do business here in Florida and around the US instead of places like Russia and China, which have been siphoning off our commercial space business," said ... House endorses plan to let Pentagon work with space firms |
China is winning in the teleportation race io9 If the Space Race characterized the twentieth century, it's possible the Teleportation Race may characterize the twenty-first. Scientists all over the world are trying to perfect teleportation techniques, for a wide variety of applications including ... |
 Wall Street Journal | Hugo Boss Dresses Up Its China Efforts Wall Street Journal The German fashion label, with 86 stores in mainland China, plans to open about 60 more there. BEIJING—German high-end fashion label Hugo Boss AG is cooking up plans to make China one of its biggest markets—just as growth in the country's luxury ... |
 Washington Times | Report: Chinese military able to operate far afield Washington Times Described as “military operations other than war,” the missions include counter-piracy and counterterrorism operations, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, UN peacekeeping, protecting sea lanes and protecting space-based assets, ... Experts warn we're helpless as China masses fire power |
 AFP | What is the US strategy in the South China Sea? Coshocton Tribune To defend their claim to a smidgen of space in the GOP's ideological pup tent, the Log Cabin... What is the US strategy in the South China Sea? The US seems to be sending a mixed signal to Asia. On the one hand, the Obama administration has reassured ... Military's 'Pivot to Asia' Stuck in Neutral |
Flipping the script China Daily By Su Zhou and Lin Jing (China Daily European Weekly) Flipboard, the California-based company that produces the digital social magazine application, is currently hunting for office space in Beijing's Chaoyang district to set up its first base in China, ... |
 TG Daily | Star-filled galactic 'bridge' discovered TG Daily ESA's Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-filled filament connecting two clusters of galaxies. Along with a third cluster, say scientists, they're due to smash together in several billion years and give rise to one of the largest ... Herschel Space Observatory Finds Galaxy-packed Supercluster Herschel Reveals Giant Galaxy-Packed Filament Herschel Sees Intergalactic Bridge Aglow With Stars |
Amateur astronomers boost ESA's asteroid hunt Phys.Org A partnership with the UK's Faulkes Telescope Project promises to boost the Agency's space hazards research while helping students to discover potentially dangerous space rocks. ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme is keeping watch over ... |
 Moneycontrol.com | Only global poverty can save the planet, insists WWF - and the ESA! Register It's a remarkable document, not least for the fact that it is formally endorsed for the first time by the European Space Agency (ESA) - an organisation which would cease to exist in any meaningful form if the document's recommendations were to be ... Rising consumption, increased resource use by a growing population puts ... WWF Report Highlights Urgent Need to Shift Toward a Sustainable Way of Life We're using 50 per cent more resources than the Earth can provide: what will ... |
 RedOrbit | ESA Teaming Up With Amateur Astronomers To Spot Near Earth Objects RedOrbit Credits: ESA 2010 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA The European Space Agency (ESA) is reaching out to amateur astronomers, asking for their help in discovering potentially dangerous space rocks. ESA's Space Situational ... Amateur Astronomers Boost ESA's Asteroid Hunt Crowdsourcing the Hunt for Potentially Dangerous Asteroids |
 Spaceflight Now | ESA declares flagship Envisat observing satellite lost Spaceflight Now But despite success in observing Envisat from space and the ground, ESA has been unable to determine the definitive cause of the satellite's failure. Engineers believe one of two failure scenarios likely ended Envisat's mission. Dead Satellite: Envisat Declared Unresponsive By European Space Agency ESA declares end of mission for Envisat satellite Dead satellite may pose threat to spacecraft for 150 years |
 TechWeekEurope UK | NASA, ESA confirm hacks; The Unknowns says systems patched ZDNet (blog) By Emil Protalinski | May 4, 2012, 10:04am PDT Summary: NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have confirmed they were recently hacked. The hacking group The Unknowns says most of the 10 companies it attacked have patched their systems. NASA, ESA confirm they were hacked by 'The Unknowns' 'Unknowns' hack European Space Agency NASA and ESA confirm hacks by 'The Unknowns' |
 Space News | ESA declares huge Envisat satellite dead in space msnbc.com Envisat is the world's largest Earth-watching satellite for civilian use, with ESA officials touting its 10th anniversary in space earlier this year. The $2.9 billion satellite was originally designed to snap high-resolution photos of Earth for five ... Europe Writes Off Biggest Environment Satellite Europe's Envisat Satellite Declared Lost Envisat formally declared lost |
ESA seeks doctor for Antarctic spaceflight sim Register By Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor • Get more from this author The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to interview “doctors who are not afraid of the dark” for a spaceflight research gig at one of the coldest, darkest places on earth. |
 Space News | ExoMars Wins One-month Reprieve Space News By Peter B. de Selding PARIS — The ruling council of the European Space Agency (ESA) on May 16 agreed to keep the long-struggling ExoMars project on life support until June 14, when its supporting nations will be asked to decide to pursue it, an ESA ... Exomars programme on track for mission |
 AFP | Esa selects 1bn-euro Juice probe to Jupiter BBC News By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News The European Space Agency (Esa) is to mount a billion-euro mission to Jupiter and its icy moons. The probe, called Juice, has just been approved at a meeting of member state delegations in Paris. European Space Agency (ESA)... A JUICEy Prospect (Satellite) European Space Agency to explore Jupiter's moons (+video) ESA chooses Jupiter as destination for science probe |
Chile is going ahead with plans to build its own submarine and patrol boats as part of a program to develop the Latin American nation's defense manufacturing industry.
Brazil's international success with aviation and defense industrial development has inspired its neighbors to develop their own defense industries, both as a source of export revenue and as a response to growing domestic 
The Obama administration states that it is concerned about human rights infringements of foreign citizens but seems indifferent to its own people who have been arrested and imprisoned on trumped up charges abroad.
Compare the tough U.S. response to Yulia Tymoshenko's imprisonment in Ukraine with Washington's silence on U.S. citizen Zack Shahin who has languished in jail in Dubai, a memb
Ballistic missile defense for NATO countries will be a major topic of discussion at the NATO summit next week in Chicago.
U.S. Navy Adm. James G. Stavridis, NATO's supreme allied commander for Europe, said the United States will announce the interim operational capability of a system to protect members from missile attack.
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A team of investigators have shown evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in brain tissue from blast-exposed military service personnel. Laboratory experiments conducted at Boston University, New York Medical College (NYMC) and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System demonstrated that exposure to a single blast equivalent to a typical improvised explosive device (IED) results i
The twelfth Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II destined for the training fleet has arrived at the Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.
U.S. Marine Corps pilot Lt. Col. Fred Schenk piloted the aircraft, known as BF-11, which departed Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas at 10:02 a.m. CDT for an approximate 90-minute flight to Florida's Emerald Coast.
The F-35B short takeoff/ver
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin team successfully intercepted a ballistic missile target for the first time, using the second generation of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, known as Aegis BMD 4.0.1.
This second-generation system, which was certified in March, introduces the Aegis BMD signal processor to improve target identification capabili
The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon a $313.8 million contract for low-rate initial production of Standard Missile-6 all-up rounds.
SM-6 leverages the legacy Standard Missile airframe and propulsion elements, while incorporating the advanced signal processing and guidance control capabilities of Raytheon's Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile.
Work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz.; C
Researchers with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Weapons and Materials Research Directorate saw the product of their work toward a new generation of significantly improved materials for advanced Soldier head protection reach the milestone of commercial production on March 12 when Ceradyne, a commercial partner, announced it had received its first Enhanced Combat Helmet order.
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Boeing Super Hornet industry partner Northrop Grumman has signed Memorandums of Agreement (MOAs) with two Itajuba-based companies that could expand their precision-machining opportunities in the global aerospace and defense industries.
The MOAs with GNS Industry and Trade and RCS Precision Machining and Maintenance outline plans for each company to explore work packages with Northrop Grumm
The seizure of a ship off Lebanon carrying arms reportedly destined for rebel forces in neighboring Syria underlines how the 14-month-old conflict there is being increasingly militarized.
A recent spate of rebel attacks on President Bashar al-Assad's regime indicates that the Free Syrian Army, largely made up of Syrian military defectors, also points to a growing boldness in anti-regime
The EU's six closest former Soviet Union neighbors had a mixed record in implementing democratic reforms in 2011, European Commissioners said this week.
The six members of the EU's Eastern Partnership - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine - were assessed Tuesday as part of the EC's annual European Neighborhood Policy report, which also covered six of Europe's "
India's Defense Acquisition Council gave the go-ahead to buy 145 howitzers nearly 25 years after a procurement scandal derailed the purchase.
The deal will "exorcise" the "Bofors ghost" by inducting the army's first modern 155mm howitzers since the scandal in the mid-1980s, a report by The Times of India said.
The council, led by Defense Minister A. K. Antony, cleared the purchas
Iran rejects Western pressures over its nuclear activities and will never give up its rights, Tehran's chief nuclear negotiator said Thursday ahead of crunch talks with world powers in Baghdad next week.
"If we participate in the negotiations... it is because of our resistance (to Western powers). Thanks to our resistance, we have defended the rights of the Iranian people," Saeed Jalili said
Twenty-nine Chinese fishermen have been kidnapped at sea by unidentified North Koreans who have demanded 1.2 million yuan ($190,000) in ransom, fellow sailors and media said Thursday.
The men were fishing in three separate vessels on May 8 when gunmen boarded their boats and forcibly took them over, locking up those on board, said a boat owner surnamed Sun who has been in touch with the capt
The United States has a military option "ready" if diplomacy fails to halt Iran's controversial nuclear programme, the US envoy to Israel has said, an Israeli newspaper reported on Thursday.
"It would be preferable to resolve this diplomatically through the use of pressure than to use military force," right-wing nationalist daily Makor Rishon quoted Daniel Shapiro as telling an Israeli bar a
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