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NASA sub-scale solid-rocket motor tests material for Space Launch System

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A sub-scale solid rocket motor designed to mimic NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, booster design successfully was tested by engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

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Chang’e-2 outperforms design; construction of successor starts

March 15th, 2012 by

China’s Chang’e-2 moon orbiter has more than achieved the goals set for it, said Hu Hao, deputy commander-in-chief of the lunar exploration centre under the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry of National Defense.

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Astrium has ‘no plans’ to buy DigitalGlobe or GeoEye

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Astrium said it has “absolutely no plans” for a possible acquisition of one of two U.S. digital imagery providers, GeoEye Inc or DigitalGlobe Inc.

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Orbcomm Inc. results 2011

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Orbcomm Inc. announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ending 31 December 2011.

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DISH Introduces True Whole-Home DVR With the Hopper and Joey

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Have you ever wanted to watch a (HD) High Definition recording in the bedroom but you weren’t able to because your (DVR) Digital Video Recorder is in the Living room? Now you can watch your show on a High Definition DVR (HD/DVR) in both rooms with DISH Network’s New Hopper and Joey. That’s right, watch that same (HD) High Definition recording in another room with High Definition and have full functionality of the DVR. The Hopper and Joey hands down can’t be beat, as DISH Network is the only pay TV provider that will have HD and Full DVR functionality in every room without any additional DVR equipment.
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