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  Washington DC (UPI) Sep 4, 2017 SpaceX has completed testing of all three first-stage cores on its Falcon Heavy rocket. The company is preparing for the rocket's first flight test, scheduled for early November. "Falcon Heavy's 3 first stage cores have all completed testing at our rocket development facility in McGregor, TX," the aerospace company announced on Twitter. Falcon Heavy's 3 first stage cores have all completed testing at our rocket development facility in McGregor, ... read more |
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ESA retrieves NASA astronauts with new procedure in wake of hurricaneParis (ESA) Sep 05, 2017 Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronauts Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson returned to Earth this morning after their stay on the International Space Station, landing in the steppes of K ... more 
Pentagon Will Have to Rely on Russian Rocket Engines Until Mid-2020sMoscow (Sputnik) Sep 05, 2017 The US Defense Department's technical and funding challenges will result in Pentagon using the Russian RD-180 rocket engines until mid-2020s which is longer than it had initially been expected, loca ... more  
NASA Invites CubeSat Launch Initiative ApplicationsWashington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 NASA has invited accredited education institutions, nonprofit organizations, and NASA centers to submit applications for the agency's CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI). Applicants must submit proposa ... more  
Airbus Perlan Mission II Soars Into History, Sets New World Record for Glider AltitudeEl Calafate, Argentina (SPX) Sep 05, 2017 Airbus Perlan Mission II, the world's first initiative to send an engineless aircraft to the edge of space, made history yesterday in the Patagonia region of Argentina by soaring to over 52,000 feet ... more |
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What's hot and what's not at Berlin's IFA tech fairBerlin (AFP) Sept 5, 2017 Berlin's IFA technology fair, Europe's largest and a bellwether for the Christmas season, draws to a close Wednesday. Here is a quick overview of what's hot and what's not in the aisles. ... more 
Kacific selects SpaceX to provide launch servicePort Vila, Vanuatu (SPX) Sep 05, 2017 Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific) has selected SpaceX as the launch provider for its Kacific-1 satellite, which is being built by The Boeing Company. Kacific-1 will be launched on a ... more  
S.Korea, US to deploy more anti-missile defences: SeoulSeoul (AFP) Sept 4, 2017 South Korea and the United States will deploy more of the anti-missile defences hated by China in response to Sunday's nuclear test by North Korea, Seoul's defence ministry said Monday. ... more 
Record-breaking NASA astronaut comes back to EarthWashington (AFP) Sept 3, 2017 A record-shattering NASA astronaut touched down to Earth on Sunday, finishing a 288-day mission that put her over the top as the American who has spent the most cumulative amount of time in space. ... more 
Voyager Spacecraft: 40 Years of Solar System DiscoveriesBoulder CO (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 In 1977, two NASA space probes destined to forever upend our view of the solar system launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The identical spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, took off in Augu ... more 
NASA Concludes Summer of Testing with Fifth Flight Controller Hot FireStennis Space Center MS (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 NASA engineers closed a summer of successful hot fire testing Aug. 30 for flight controllers on RS-25 engines that will help power the new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, being built to carry astr ... more |
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 Raytheon receives $614.5M for SM-3 Block IIA ballistic missile interceptors  
Roboteam receives orders for tactical robots(UPI) Aug 29, 2017 Maryland-headquartered Robot provider Roboteam Inc. reports it has received new orders for its Micro Tactical Ground Robot to support U.S. and international military missions. ... more  
Weightlessness affects health of cosmonauts at molecular levelMoscow, Russia (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 A team of scientists from Russia and Canada has analyzed the effect of space conditions on the protein composition in blood samples of 18 Russian cosmonauts. The results indicated many significant c ... more  
Trump, Moon agree to end limits on payload of S. Korean missilesSeoul (AFP) Sept 4, 2017 US President Donald Trump and South Korea's leader Moon Jae-In agreed Monday to remove limits on the payload of the South's missiles, Seoul's presidential office said, as the UN Security Council met to discuss a response to Pyongyang's sixth and most powerful nuclear test. ... more  
Air Force preparing to launch fifth Orbital Test Vehicle missionWashington (AFNS) Sep 01, 2017 The Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office is undergoing final launch preparations for the fifth mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. The OTV is scheduled to launch on Sept. 7, 2017, onboard a Sp ... more |
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  Menlo Park CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2017 
Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have for the first time shown that neural networks - a form of artificial intelligence - can accurately analyze the complex distortions in spacetime known as gravitational lenses 10 million times faster than traditional methods.
"Analyses that typically take weeks to months to complete, ... more Washington (UPI) Sep 1, 2017Europe's biggest X-ray laser begins operations  Halle, Germany (SPX) Sep 04, 2017Bit data goes anti-skyrmions  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 30, 2017Clamping down on causality by probing laser cavities |
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The U.S. Army's Global Response Force composed of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division successfully conducted an airborne exercise using the En route Mission Command tactical networking system.
The system, mounted on C-17 cargo planes, provided plane-to-plane and plane-to-ground audio, video, and data communications to the 1st Brigade's commander and subordinate commander ... more McLean, VA (SPX) Jul 14, 2017North Dakota UAS Training Center Depends on IGC Satellite Connectivity  Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2017Industry team demonstrates Low Cost Terminal for AEHF satellites  Washington (UPI) Aug 9, 2017Envistacom wins $10M Army communications contract |
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 Cambridge, Canada (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 
As of today, exactEarth, in partnership with Harris Corporation, is bringing five more satellites from our ever-growing real-time (RT) constellation into service. These additional satellites will raise the total to nine in our real-time system that have been successfully incorporated into exactEarth services.
Combined with our first-generation satellites, we are proud to be operating the l ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2017IAI, Honeywell Aerospace team for GPS anti-jam system  New Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2017India to launch satellite next week to fix malfunctioning navigation system  Tokyo (AFP) Aug 19, 2017Japan launches satellite for better GPS system |
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 El Calafate, Argentina (SPX) Sep 05, 2017 
Airbus Perlan Mission II, the world's first initiative to send an engineless aircraft to the edge of space, made history yesterday in the Patagonia region of Argentina by soaring to over 52,000 feet and setting a new world altitude record for gliding.
"We are celebrating an amazing victory for aerospace innovation and scientific discovery today, and we're so thankful to all the volunteers ... more (UPI) Aug 29, 2017Elbit upgrading F-5 fighters of unidentified country  Washington (UPI) Sep 1, 2017Australia seeks upgrade program for MH-60R helos  Washington (UPI) Sep 1, 2017Sikorsky Aircraft wins $304 million contract add-on for King Stallion helicopters |
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 Arusha, Tanzania (AFP) Aug 28, 2017 
Nigerian neuroscientist Oshiorenoya Agabi may have found a way to solve one of life's puzzling dilemmas: how to make air travel pleasant again.
What if you could skip tedious airport security lines, while a special device able to sniff out explosives works silently in the background?
This is only one of the possible uses of what Agabi says is the world's first neurotechnology device dev ... more University Park PA (SPX) Aug 28, 2017Conformal metasurface coating eliminates crosstalk and shrinks waveguides  Golden CO (SPX) Aug 30, 2017Researchers validate UV light's use in improving semiconductors  Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Aug 29, 2017Nagoya-led team flips the switch on ferroelectrics |
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eledyne e2v has been awarded a multimillion euro contract by OHB System AG to supply customised Charge Coupled Device (CCD) image sensors for the Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite mission, under a programme of and funded by the European Space Agency (ESA).
The FLEX mission, which is the eighth in ESA's Earth Explorer programme, is scheduled to launch in 2022. For the first time, it wi ... more Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 04, 2017Pinpointing the sources of trans-Pacific dust  Washington (UPI) Jul 13, 2017Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows  Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2017Russian scientists invent device allowing them to sense kilometers into Earth |
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 Colombo (AFP) Sept 1, 2017 
Sri Lanka banned plastic bags and other disposable products on Friday after the collapse of the island's biggest dump led to a rubbish disposal crisis.
Rotting garbage piled up in many parts of the capital after the giant rubbish tip collapsed in April, crushing dozens of homes and killing 32 people.
Many blamed the haphazard use of plastic, which was also cited in flash flooding in the ... more Phnom Penh (AFP) July 13, 2017Cambodia bans overseas exports of coastal sand  Bras�lia (AFP) Sept 1, 2017Brazil government freezes Amazon mining plans  Gaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP) Aug 26, 2017Gaza boy swimmer death puts spotlight on pollution crisis |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 31, 2017 
China and Russia plan to sign an agreement in October on joint space exploration from 2018 and 2022, which would benefit both nations particularly in manned and future missions to the moon, CGTN reported on Monday.
The bilateral agreement will cover five areas including lunar to deep space exploration, special materials development, collaborations in the area of satellite systems, Earth re ... more Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2017Kuaizhou-11 to send six satellites into space  Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017Russia, China May Sign 5-Year Agreement on Joint Space Exploration  Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017ESA and Chinese astronauts train together |
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 Seoul (AFP) Sept 4, 2017  South Korea and the United States will deploy more of the anti-missile defences hated by China in response to Sunday's nuclear test by North Korea, Seoul's defence ministry said Monday.
Two launchers of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system are already operational, but public concern about the possible environmental impact of the US system forced Seoul to suspend the install ... more Seoul (AFP) Sept 4, 2017S. Korea launches missile drill after North's nuclear test  Washington (AFP) Sept 4, 2017US cites its nuclear capabilities in defense against N.Korea  Sacramento CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2017Aerojet Rocketdyne Providing Propulsion System Support to Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Program |
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 (UPI) Aug 29, 2017 
Raytheon Missile Systems is being awarded a $614.5 million modification to an existing contract for the production of Standard Missile 3 Block IIA surface-to-air missiles, the Department of Defense announced on Monday.
The modification will also provide engineering support and missile containers. The production run will take place in Tucson, Ariz., and is expected to be finished by Marc ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2017GenDyn unit tapped for more Hydra-70 rockets Seoul (AFP) Sept 4, 2017Trump, Moon agree to end limits on payload of S. Korean missiles  Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2017Raytheon receives contract to develop anti-ship Tomahawk cruise missile |
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 Amherst MA (SPX) Aug 31, 2017 
When environmental and soil chemist Baoshan Xing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst began reading in 2014 that a new, two-dimensional material known as layered black phosphorous (BP) was gaining the attention of biomedical researchers for use in drug delivery systems and tumor photothermal therapy, he was both intrigued and concerned.
"I am not only a soil chemist, but an environme ... more Bethlehem PA (SPX) Aug 28, 2017A more complete picture of the nano world  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 28, 2017What the world's tiniest 'monster truck' reveals  Livermore CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2017Carbon nanotubes worth their salt |
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 (UPI) Aug 29, 2017 
Maryland-headquartered Robot provider Roboteam Inc. reports it has received new orders for its Micro Tactical Ground Robot to support U.S. and international military missions.
The third-generation robot is an all-terrain system used for explosive ordnance disposal, and in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear material missions and HAZMAT operations.
Roboteam said the two ... more Berlin (AFP) Sept 4, 2017Voice assistants promise a light-fingered future  Boston MA (SPX) Aug 31, 2017New robot rolls with the rules of pedestrian conduct  Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 28, 2017Illinois researchers develop origami-inspired robot |
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 Washington (AFNS) Sep 01, 2017  The Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office is undergoing final launch preparations for the fifth mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. The OTV is scheduled to launch on Sept. 7, 2017, onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
The fifth OTV mission continues to advance the X-37B's performance and flexibility as a space technology demonstrator and host platform for experimental payloads. ... more Arusha, Tanzania (AFP) Aug 31, 2017TED: Phones and drones transforming healthcare  Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2017Lockheed pairs drone with counter-UAS system  Boston MA (SPX) Aug 28, 2017Drones relay RFID signals for inventory control |
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