Today’s physics news: Monday, 15 November 2010

A round up of today’s physics news: Huge antenna launched into space, US loses status as a ‘colossus of science’ and fusion project looks for savings.

Huge antenna launched into space
A US satellite carrying the biggest commercial antenna reflector ever put in space has been launched successfully from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
BBC 
 
US loses status as a ‘colossus of science’
Report says countries in Asia are beginning to equal the US
Physics World 
 
Fusion project looks for savings
The world’s most expensive science experiment, ITER, is on the hunt for savings
Nature