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Source: TheAge.com.au By: Darren Gray – November 7, 2011 At 2246 hectares, it is bigger than most farms in Victoria. It could, in fact, be divided into many farms, for it has a piggery, dairy, 5000 sheep, 600 hectares of … Continue reading →

Source: thestar.com By: Tyler Hamilton Mining companies operating in the most remote areas of Canada may want to take notice. Ditto for humanitarian groups looking for better ways to get life-saving medical supplies to hard-to-reach, disaster-stricken regions.

Source: Cosmiclog on msnbc.com By Alan Boyle NASA is working with a little-known Oregon company on a variety of trial balloons, ranging from suborbital near-spacecraft to a probe that would float through the smoggy atmosphere of a Saturnian moon. The launching … Continue reading →

Source: Flightglobal The Northrop Grumman/Hybrid Air Vehicles long-endurance multi-intelligence vehicle (LEMV) is now scheduled to fly in November after a three-month delay. The LEMV program is now running more than a month behind its scheduled first flight, which was revealed … Continue reading →

Source: Defense Update The 370-foot-long (123 m’), 1.4 million-cubic-foot (37,000 m3) blimp called ‘Blue devil 2′ is taking shape at a hangar in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. As the giant airship is being filled with helium, thus lighter than air, … Continue reading →