Wednesday, June 19, 2013
 
 

By Irene Klotz

PARIS (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies is not among the 2,200 companies exhibiting at the Paris Airshow, but its cut-rate Falcon rocket, which has already shaken up the U.S. satellite launch industry, is raising eyebrows in Europe.

The privately owned, California-based firm, known as SpaceX, is preparing for the first of about 30 satellite launches, aiming to reverse a long decline in the U.S. commercial launch business.

U.S. companies had a monopoly in the field 30 years ago, but no longer. The low point came in 2011, when not a single satellite operator besides the U.S. government chose a U.S. company for a ride to space.

The business has largely been going to France-based Arianespace, a public-private European partnership that last year reported revenue of 1.3 billion euros. The company is projected to bri   [READ MORE]
 
 
 
By Deborah Zabarenko

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA called on backyard astronomers and other citizen-scientists on Tuesday to help track asteroids that could create havoc on Earth.

The U.S. space agency has already identified 95 percent of the potentially planet-killing ...   [READ MORE]
 
The new batch of astronauts will train for the first manned mission to an asteroid - and possibly Mars.   [READ MORE]
 
Researchers studied X-ray distortions from nearby stars to identify an unprecedented number of black holes in our neighboring galaxy.   [READ MORE]
 
The country is working to further its presence in outer space with goals of building its own fully functional space station.   [READ MORE]
By Deepa Seetharaman

DETROIT (Reuters) - Underwriters Laboratories, a 119-year-old U.S. company that develops product safety tests, is strengthening its lithium-ion battery standards after a string of high-profile battery failures that shed light on the technology's weak spots.

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(Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Chinese businessman to 12 years in prison for selling stolen software used in defense, space technology and engineering with a retail value of more than $100 million, prosecutors said.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District o...   [READ MORE]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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