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US-Russia Venture Hopes to Sell More RD-180 Rocket Engines to US![]() Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2017 The United Launch Alliance (ULA) will receive 11 RD-180 rocket engines in 2017 through US-Russian venture RD Amross, with the latter hoping to sell more in the future, RD Amross CEO Michael Baker told Sputnik on the sidelines of the Space Symposium in Colorado. The ULA acquires the engines through RD Amross, which is a joint venture, involving RD-180 manufacturer, Russian company Energomash. "Right now we have 28 more engines to deliver, 11 this year, 11 next year and 6 in 2019," Baker said. ... read more  | 
 
Roscosmos hopes to continue cooperation with USMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 05, 2017 Russia's space corporation Roscosmos is hopeful to keep on cooperating with the United States on engine building under the new US administration, the corporation's head Igor Komarov told Sputnik fol ... more  
Russia, Europe, US Should Work Together on Space Exploration - German AgencyMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2017 Russia, Europe, the United States and other countries should cooperate on decoding how to proceed with international space exploration in the future, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Chairman Pascale E ... more  
Curtiss-Wright ships miniature network data system for OrionColorado Springs, CO (SPX) Apr 06, 2017 Curtiss-Wright's Defense Solutions division has successfully delivered eight of the nine data acquisition flight units that it is building for use on NASA's Orion spacecraft planned for use in Explo ... more  
Raytheon to supply Multi-Object Kill Vehicle technologyWashington (UPI) Apr 4, 2017 Raytheon received a $59 million contract to conduct further Multi-Object Kill Vehicle research for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. ... more  | 
 
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Electronic synapses that can learn: towards an artificial brain?Paris (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 Researchers from the CNRS, Thales, and the Universities of Bordeaux, Paris-Sud, and Evry have created an artificial synapse capable of learning autonomously. They were also able to model the device, ... more  
Birds hit by cars are, well, bird-brainedParis (AFP) March 29, 2017 What's the difference between birds that get killed by cars, and those that don't? ... more  
Space Station Crew Cultivates Crystals for Drug DevelopmentHouston TX (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 Crew members aboard the International Space Station will begin conducting research this week to improve the way we grow crystals on Earth. The information gained from the experiments could speed up ... more  
Super Pressure Balloon Flight Enables Pioneering Infrasound StudyGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 It's all about that bass and lots of it. Deep, deep base-sound at frequencies too low for the human ear to pick-up. It's called infrasound, low-frequency soundwaves formed by events as diverse as oc ... more  
NASA Robotic Refueling Mission Departs StationGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 The International Space Station serves as an orbiting test and demonstration laboratory for scientific experiments to be performed inside and outside the space station. The experiments are inherentl ... more  
United Launch Alliance Completes Crew Emergency Egress SystemCape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 The final test of the Emergency Egress System (EES) was conducted recently, signifying the completion of another United Launch Alliance (ULA) milestone supporting NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The ... more  | 
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Robot Fedor to Guide Russia's Federation Spacecraft in Maiden Flight - RoscosmosMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 03, 2017 First flight of the Russian next-generation Federation spacecraft will be unmanned, the space vehicle will be guided by a robot named Fedor, Russia's Roscosmos State Space Corporation said Friday. ... more  
Kremlin Believes Russia Can Compete With Private Firms Like SpaceX in SpaceMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 03, 2017 Russia believes it can compete in space with private companies including SpaceX, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday commenting on the firm's achievements. Peskov told reporters the Kr ... more  
Super Pressure Balloon Flight Enables Pioneering Infrasound StudyWashington DC (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 It's all about that bass and lots of it. Deep, deep base-sound at frequencies too low for the human ear to pick-up. It's called infrasound, low-frequency soundwaves formed by events as diverse as oc ... more  
CRESST Signs $87M Cooperative Agreement with NASA GoddardCollege Park MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 The Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology (CRESST II), a five-year, $87.5 million cooperative agreement with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, has been awarded to the ... more  | 

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The 7th European Conference on Space Debris, to be held 18-21 April at ESA's Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, will provide a unique
Space Debris User Portal 
The 7th European Conference on Space Debris, to be held 18-21 April at ESA's Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, will provide a unique forum for leading scientists, engineers, managers, space operators, indust ... more Luxembourg (SPX) Apr 06, 2017SES and Thales Unveil Next-Generation Capabilities Onboard SES-17  Rio De Janeiro (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2017Russia Opens 1st Ground Station to Monitor Orbital Debris in Brazil  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2017NASA laser communications to provide Orion faster connections  | 
 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 31, 2017  
If human ears could hear the electromagnetic spectrum, the noise levels these days would be overwhelming. The skyrocketing use of wireless devices in military and civilian domains has created a complicated and cacophonous environment, filled with signals of widely varying frequency and amplitude and a menagerie of modulations. 
For warfighters trying to maintain critical communications link ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 22, 2017Israel taps Elbit Systems for advanced radios  Washington (UPI) Mar 21, 2017Hensoldt, Leonardo offering Mode 5 IFF systems  Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 21, 20179th Wideband Global SATCOM satellite expands military communications capabilities of US and Allies  | 
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 26, 2016  
In the decade to come Russia will face strong competition from China for the commercial launch of satellites for developing countries, according to Ivan Moiseev, director of the Institute of Space Policy."China is trying to expand its space launching services, developing new boosters for different segments of the market," Moiseev told RIA Novosti. 
"It has constructed a new spacecraft launc ... more Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 27, 2016Vega And Gokturk-1A are present for next Arianespace lightweight mission  Bethesda MD (SPX) Oct 25, 2016Antares Rides Again  Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 21, 2016Four Galileo satellites are "topped off" for Arianespace's milestone Ariane 5 launch from the Spaceport  | 
 Beijing (XNA) Apr 04, 2017  
China's home-grown BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) will expand its cooperation to Thailand and Sri Lanka, and then to the entire Southeast Asia, in a bid to go global, the system's operator has said. 
Du Li, general manager of Wuhan Optics Valley BeiDou Holding Group Co., told Xinhua recently that his company will continue to explore models for international scientific and technica ... more New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 03, 2017ISRO Beams in Private Firm to Make Two Satellites for Navigation  London, UK (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Satnavs 'switch off' parts of the brain  London (UPI) Mar 13, 2017Technology can reduce GPS outages from Northern Lights, researchers say  | 
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 04, 2017  
It's all about that bass and lots of it. Deep, deep base-sound at frequencies too low for the human ear to pick-up. It's called infrasound, low-frequency soundwaves formed by events as diverse as ocean waves crashing together, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes to rocket launches. These soundwaves, capable of traveling around the world multiple times, have never been recorded from the stratosphe ... more Washington DC (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Super Pressure Balloon Flight Enables Pioneering Infrasound Study  Washington (UPI) Apr 3, 2017Hornet, Growler foreign customers to receive data updates  Washington (UPI) Apr 3, 2017Ukraine's AN-132D takes historic first flight  | 
 Washington (UPI) Apr 4, 2017  
 Scientists have developed a new way to produce printable electronics. Researchers combined 3D and ink-jet printing to create an immensely scalable production method. 
 The new memory device uses resistive memory. It's called ReRAM. 
 "In any kind of memory, the basic memory unit must be switchable between two states that represent one bit, or '0' or '1,'" Bernhard Huber, a doctoral s ... more Raleigh NC (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Advances make reduced graphene oxide electronics feasible  Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Apr 04, 2017'Virtual' interferometers may overcome scale issues for optical quantum computers  Durham NC (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Jumping droplets whisk away hotspots in electronics  | 
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 Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 04, 2017  
Aerosols are collections of fine particles, either biological or of other types, in suspension in a gaseous medium. They play a major role in cloud formation and therefore have a strong impact on climate models. They are however extremely hard to study due to the small size and immense variety of their constituent particles. 
But researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerlan ... more Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Monitoring pollen using an aircraft  Paris (AFP) April 4, 2017How Britain became an island  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 30, 2017NASA spacecraft investigate clues in radiation belts  | 
 London (AFP) April 4, 2017   Drivers of the most polluting cars will be charged to travel into the centre of London from 2019, Mayor Sadiq Khan said Tuesday, describing his city's air as "lethal". 
Khan hopes the move will halve harmful nitrogen oxide emissions in central London, where air pollution is thought to cost 9,000 premature deaths per year. 
Under the scheme, vehicles will be charged 12.50 Pounds  ... more Paris (AFP) April 3, 2017Surge in coal pollution led to smaller newborns: study  San Francisco CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2017'Peeling the onion' to get rid of odors near wastewater treatment plants  Buenos Aires (AFP) March 30, 2017Argentina suspends Canada's Barrick mining over spill  | 
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 Nanjing (XNA) Mar 31, 2017  Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017China Develops Spaceship Capable of Moon Landing  Wenchang, China (XNA) Mar 13, 2017Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft  Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 09, 2017China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes  | 
 Washington (UPI) Apr 4, 2017  
 Raytheon received a $59 million contract to conduct further Multi-Object Kill Vehicle research for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. 
 Under the terms of the competitively awarded contract, Raytheon will support the Kill Vehicle technology risk reduction effort, which seeks to improve performance and reduce risks. 
 Work will be performed at Raytheon's facility in Tucson, Ariz. The U. ... more Hatzor, Israel (AFP) April 2, 2017Israel's latest missile interceptor enters service  Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2017Always on Guard: All You Need to Know About Russia's Missile Defense  Washington (UPI) Mar 31, 2017Raytheon completes ballistic missile radar detection test  | 
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 5, 2017   Brazilian defense officials are revisiting the idea of purchasing Pantsir-S1 air defense and artillery systems from Russia, according to state media reports. 
 The Pantsir-S1, also referred to as the SA-22 Greyhound by NATO, is a short-range air defense platform designed to protect military and civilian infrastructures. The system is built to engage aerial targets such as planes, helicopt ... more Washington (AFP) April 5, 2017Latest NKorean missile was a Scud: US official  Washington (UPI) Apr 3, 2017U.S. Navy launches LRASM missile from Super Hornet  Washington (UPI) Apr 3, 2017Raytheon receives $199M for missile sales to U.S. Navy, allied armed forces  | 
 Groningen, Netherlands (SPX) Apr 06, 2017  
Carbon nanotubes can be used to make very small electronic devices, but they are difficult to handle. University of Groningen scientists, together with colleagues from the University of Wuppertal and IBM Zurich, have developed a method to select semiconducting nanotubes from a solution and make them self-assemble on a circuit of gold electrodes. The results were published in the journal Advanced ... more Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2017New Nano Devices Could Withstand Extreme Environments in Space  Hanover NH (SPX) Mar 23, 20173-D printing turns nanomachines into life-size workers  Krasnoyarsk, Russia (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Scientists created nanopowders for the synthesis of new aluminum alloys  | 
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 04, 2017  The International Space Station serves as an orbiting test and demonstration laboratory for scientific experiments to be performed inside and outside the space station. The experiments are inherently transient with typical life cycles of about one to five years. Once their test objectives are accomplished, they are removed to make way for new experiments. 
On Feb. 19, a NASA experiment - a  ... more Paris (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Electronic synapses that can learn: towards an artificial brain?  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 31, 2017NASA Tests Robotic Ice Tools for Use on Ocean Worlds  Washington (UPI) Mar 30, 2017AM General, Army to test autonomous vehicle system  | 
 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 10, 2016  
Access to space has long been an interest area of space agencies. In this domain, China became a force to be reckoned with as several Chinese space companies made great strides in the space race.For several years China's space program has been kept secret. 
But earlier this year China launched its Long March 7 rocket, developed by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, marking "a mome ... more | 
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 Chincoteague Island, VA (SPX) Oct 31, 2016  
This week, astronauts are unloading more than 5,000 pounds of cargo and crew supplies from the Cygnus spacecraft to support dozens of science and research investigations. However, this shipment has special significance. This shipment arrived via an Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's pad 0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. 
Rocket launches to the International Space  ... more Miami (AFP) Oct 23, 2016Orbital cargo ship arrives at space station  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2016New Instrument on ISS to Study Ultra-Cold Quantum Gases  Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 19, 2016Two Russians, one American blast off to ISS  | 
 Washington (UPI) Apr 5, 2017  
 The U.S. Navy recently completed a round of tests with an updated variant of the Northrop Grumman-built MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle. 
 According to the manufacturer, enhancements included software designed to improve the aircraft's autonomous operational capabilities. Testers say the trials enable the platform to enter Early Operational Capability for the U.S. armed forces in ear ... more Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 29, 2017A novel hybrid UAV that may change the way people operate drones  Washington (UPI) Mar 28, 2017General Atomics building ground control station for drones  Washington (UPI) Mar 27, 2017China to open first drone factory in Saudi Arabia  | 
 
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