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Wind delays Austrian's edge of space jump in US
Oct 05, 2012 (AFP)
US organizers of an Austrian daredevil's record-breaking attempt to jump from the edge of space have delayed the mission by a day due to forecast wind, they sai...
Brazil's vibrant high-tech industry urged to go global
Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)
Boosted by strong government incentives, Brazil's high-tech industry is showing solid domestic growth but experts say the country's startup entrepreneurs must g...
Uwingu's Crowdfunding Campaign Concludes
Oct 02, 2012 (SPX)
Commercial space start up Uwingu, LLC reports that its crowdfunding campaign at Indiegogo culminated successfully on September 24th, raising 107% of the $75,000...
SciTechTalk: NASA's planetary playbook
Sep 30, 2012 (UPI)
With the end of what was arguably NASA's marquee mission, the space shuttle program, the space agency is keen to maintain public interest in its remaining missi...
Bryan Campen joins XCOR as Director of Media and Public Relations
Sep 28, 2012 (SPX)
XCOR Aerospace reports that Bryan Campen has joined the company as its Director of Media and Public Relations. Members of the press and media are invited to upd...
B612 Wins Funding Support From Prominent Business Leadersy
Sep 24, 2012 (SPX)
The world's first privately funded deep space mission - SENTINEL - received major support this week from prominent members of the business and financial communi...
Cavenauts return to Earth
Sep 21, 2012 (ESA)
The international team of astronauts taking part in ESA's caving adventure have returned to Earth after spending six days underground. The voyage to the surface...
New Technology Being Stymied by Copyright Law
Sep 19, 2012 (SPX)
From Napster to iTunes to Pandora, the methods by which the public can obtain and share music have rapidly progressed. Future groundbreaking innovations may nee...
Brazil unveils tax incentives to boost tech innovation
Sep 18, 2012 (AFP)
President Dilma Rousseff has approved new tax incentives to boost innovation in the information technology and telecommunications sectors, the official agencia ...
Boeing Establishes Configuration of Commercial Crew Transportation
Sep 18, 2012 (SPX)
Boeing and NASA recently established the firm baseline configuration for the company's Commercial Crew Transportation System, achieving the first performance mi...
35 years on, Voyager 'dancing on edge' of outer space
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is nearing the outer boundary of the solar system and may already be "dancing on the edge" of outer space, the experts behin...
Africa needs own space agency: Sudan's Bashir
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
Africa needs its own space research agency, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir told a regional conference of communications ministers who met on Wednesday as the...
Mankind's messenger at the final frontier
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
It looks like a dustbin lid strapped to a cluster of fishing rods. Its computer is so puny it could not even start up your iPhone. And if E.T. wants to listen t...
Moles, crabs and Moon dust: DLR at the ILA Space Pavilion
Sep 04, 2012 (SPX)
Satellites with electric propulsion, a 'mole' for exploring the Martian subsurface, a mobile robot that moves sideways like a crab, a pinch of Moon dust and a h...
Space-age food served up with seeds of success
Sep 04, 2012 (XNA)
An eggplant the size of a basketball, and a cucumber half a meter long seem, at first glance, out of this world. They are, literally. Chinese scientists have cr...
Africa eyes joint space agency
Sep 04, 2012 (AFP)
African nations would work together in peaceful research under a proposal for a space agency being considered Wednesday at a meeting in Sudan of the continent's...
Top electronics fair embraces 'grey' gizmos
Sep 01, 2012 (AFP)
High-tech gadgets to make the lives of senior citizens simpler, safer and more fun are in the spotlight at the world's top showcase for consumer electronics and...
XCOR Announces AdamWorks as Lynx Mark I Cockpit Manufacturer
Aug 31, 2012 (SPX)
XCOR Aerospace has announced that the Lynx Mark I suborbital reusable launch vehicle (RLV) carbon fiber cockpit will be manufactured by AdamWorks of Centennial,...
Manned interplanetary missions on NASA's agenda
Aug 29, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
After dropping plans to return to the Moon, the American space agency NASA has set its sights on Mars. But before venturing there, it is going to test out its l...
Research and Technology Studies 2012
Aug 27, 2012 (SPX)
This week, NASA's Research And Technology Studies (RATS) team will convene at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) to begin their 15th mission. In the past, RATS miss...
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