QinetiQ North America announced today that its Foster-Miller, Inc. subsidiary is introducing a totally new, ‘transformer-like’ robotic platform at AUSA, the US Army’s annual meeting and exhibition

 The engineering for the experiment is the first challenge to overcome

In a subterranean laboratory at the centre of Cambridge, PhD student Juan Vilatela crouches beneath a furnace that is raging at a temperature of 1,300C.

Always exiting - and sure not to disapoint this time around the space engineers will be totally focused

Entrepreneurial companies are determined to reshape the commercial space industry in the years ahead with ventures designed to reduce the cost of access to space. 

 Its going to be an exiting time for the Engineers and Scientists who will be in seventh heaven over this event

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The NASA official who presided over Columbia's doomed re-entry — and who will make the final call about whether Discovery should launch scheduled for Tuesday — said he is confident this will be a safe flight despite lingering questions about wing imperfections.

Space Shuttle Discovery launches on Tuesday on a mission that will mark the beginning of an intense period of space activity for Europe.

The run-up to the launch of China's first lunar orbiter later this month has caught the country's imagination, with more than two thirds of the nation hoping to see the launch live on TV, a survey has found. 

 Back to basics with this type of engineering - how long before we see the carbon fibres appear

This time the little green men will be replaced by big men in green - 

 Researchers in England have developed their own flying saucer — and it might be going to work for the U.S. and British militaries.

 Then the magnetism was over and it just fell down

 A Chinese satellite plunged into the Earth's atmosphere and destroyed itself this week to end an extended mission studying the planet's magnetic field.

 And why not,  everyone else is up there - lets all get on the band wagon - space for everyone

Europe is on the cusp of a renaissance in space , with its first permanently tended orbital laboratory, a cargo transporter and other gear about to make their debuts.
 

And both seem to be having their share of troubles with the flag ship products or should that be flag plane

But what do we do if we actually find some alien life ? - sell them Microsoft products of course - hmmmm

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust - now where have I heard that before ?

Now you see it - now you don't - It must be the stealth fighter ---

Aluminum maker Alcoa Inc . has been awarded a $360 million contract by the defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. to supply parts for new stealth fighter jets that will replace aging military planes. 

 Bulk em up and get some protection around them thar trucks

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — BAE Systems will provide lightweight bar-armor kits for 215 U.S. Army Route Clearance Vehicles under a contract with a not-to-exceed value of $14.5 million.

I'm sure that many of the vehicles I encounter in my normal driving (to and from work) have this feature

 First there needs to be a plan - any plan is better than no plan

 We had an article on a few days ago about the UK proposal for a space effort,  another 3 have hit the front page today and the engcom poll is focused on the subject as well - and there is a list of other countries queuing up - it's going to be very crowded up there soon -----

 Russia readies rocket for Malaysian's space launch

A cunning ploy seems to have worked - I wonder what else the "back room boys (and girls) are working on

 Israeli fighter planes reportedly may have managed to escape detection by Syrian radars during their September 6 raid by forcing the detection system to make a mistake.