Contracts Round-up: 5/8

Today, you can:

1. Build a new sensor for the NPOESS satellite constellation that has slightly higher odds of actually being affordable
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2. Play with model rockets
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3. Learn that somebody in the US Army wants to find out about Fischer-Tropsch technology. This is the same technology the air force is currently testing. It is a process for turning natural gas or coal into a sythentic fuel. Fighters and tanks both use the same kind of jet fuel. Hmmm ...
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4. Make the ingenius realization that a next-generation military helmet should be designed to protect a person's ENTIRE head
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5. Investigate the danger to critical infrastructure from an electromagentic pulse emission