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  Kourou, French Guiana (AFP) Jan 25, 2018 Two commercial satellites have been placed in orbit by an Ariane 5 rocket but have yet to reach their correct position, Arianespace said Thursday, after mission control briefly lost contact with the craft in a rare malfunction. The usually reliable European space workhorse blasted off at 7.20 pm (2220 GMT) from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana carrying satellites for Luxembourg's SES and the United Arab Emirate's Yahsat in the first launch of the year for Arianespace. For nearly 30 minutes mission controllers were left on tenterhooks when the rocket lost contact in what CEO Stephane Israel described as an "anomaly". ... read more |
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Space, the final frontier -- for nightclubsNew York (AFP) Jan 25, 2018 Bringing a new meaning to dancing on air, a nightclub operator is throwing a party in zero gravity, with top DJs playing in an aircraft used to train astronauts. ... more  
Drones learn to navigate autonomously by imitating cars and bicyclesZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 All today's commercial drones use GPS, which works fine above building roofs and in high alti-tudes. But what, when the drones have to navigate autonomously at low altitude among tall buildings or i ... more  
Using electricity to switch magnetismVienna, Austria (SPX) Jan 23, 2018 It's not exactly a new revelation that electricity and magnetism are closely linked. And yet, magnetic and electrical effects have been studied separately for some time now within the field of mater ... more 
A new approach to rechargeable batteriesBoston MA (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 A type of battery first invented nearly five decades ago could catapult to the forefront of energy storage technologies, thanks to a new finding by researchers at MIT and other institutions. The bat ... more |
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Orbital ATK joins DARPA to research hypersonic enginesWashington (UPI) Jan 24, 2018 Orbital ATK announced on Tuesday that it has been tapped by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to study the integration of turbine and hypersonic engine technologies for use in a new aircraft propulsion system. ... more 
Russia Working On Own, 100-Use, Environmentally Friendly RocketMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 24, 2018 According to designers, unlike Space X's Falcon 9, the KORONA is not just a rocket, but a spacecraft, capable of takeoff and landing, with its development effectively opening the path to interplanet ... more 
Texas firm completes "tie down test flight" of suborbital SARGE RocketSpaceport America NM (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 Spaceport America, America's first purpose-built commercial spaceport, and EXOS Aerospace Systems and Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of suborbital reusable space launch vehicles based in Ca ... more 
Falcon Heavy rocket ready for fueling, static fire testWashington (UPI) Jan 24, 2018 SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket - the self-proclaimed "most powerful rocked in the world" - is preparing to conduct a static fire test on Wednesday afternoon. ... more  
'Programmable droplets' could enable high-volume biology experimentsBoston MA (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 MIT researchers have developed hardware that uses electric fields to move droplets of chemical or biological solutions around a surface, mixing them in ways that could be used to test thousands of r ... more  
Alabama's PeopleTec awarded $33M for missile defenseWashington (UPI) Jan 17, 2018 Engineering and cybersecurity firm PeopleTec Inc. has been awarded a $33 million contract by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency for engineering and support of the agency's international programs. ... more 
Two US spacewalkers replace latching end of robotic armMiami (AFP) Jan 23, 2018 Two US astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Tuesday for a seven-hour, 24-minute spacewalk to repair the orbiting outpost's aging robotic arm, NASA said. ... more |
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Irish first as Elfordstown tracks and monitors Rocket Lab satellite deploymentElfordstown, Ireland (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 US space launch provider Rocket Lab successfully reached orbit this weekend with the test flight of its second Electron orbital launch vehicle 'Still Testing' deploying 3 client satellites safely in ... more  
No space for China's stay-at-home taikonautsBeijing (XNA) Jan 23, 2018 On an evening in November 2016, Deng Qingming went home to find his wife and his daughter had prepared a lavish spread of his favorite dishes and wine. He ran to the bathroom, turned on the faucet, ... more 
Looking up a century ago, a vision of the future of space explorationMelbourne, Australia (The Conversation) Jan 23, 2018 In the early years of the 20th century a Russian scientist - now known as the father of astronautics and rocketry - wrote a fable exploring what life in space might be like in the future. Kons ... more |
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Orion Spacecraft Recovery Rehearsal UnderwayKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jan 23, 2018 NASA's new deep space exploration systems will send crew 40,000 miles beyond the Moon, and return them safely home. After traveling through space at 25,000 miles per hour, the Orion spacecraft will ... more 
Italy's First Female Astronaut: 'No Room for Conflicts in Space'Rome (Sputnik) Jan 23, 2018 While Earth is seized by geopolitical tensions and friction, up in space there are endless possibilities to work together for more important common goals, such were the conclusions during a recent c ... more 
China Focus: The making of heroes - the women and men of China's space programBeijing (XNA) Jan 23, 2018 Taikonaut Zhang Xiaoguang prepared for 15 years to go into space. Zhang, one of the 14 pilots recruited as China's first batch of taikonauts, was 32 when he joined the Taikonaut Corps of Peopl ... more 
China to select astronauts for its space stationBeijing (XNA) Jan 23, 2018 China will begin selection for the next generation of astronauts who will train to work on the country's planned space station, according to Monday's China Daily. Yang Liwei, deputy director o ... more 
Space agency to pick those with the right stuffBeijing (XNA) Jan 23, 2018 China will begin its selection process this year for the next generation of astronauts who will train to work on the country's planned space station, a senior official said. Yang Liwei, deputy ... more 
Qatar in talks for Russian S-400 missile systemsMoscow (AFP) Jan 25, 2018 Qatar is finalising a deal to buy Russian S-400 air defence systems, the isolated Gulf state's ambassador to Moscow said Thursday. ... more 
Northrop Grumman tapped to service Army's Hunter dronesWashington (UPI) Jan 25, 2018 Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract for engineering services to the U.S. Army's Hunter unmanned aircraft systems. ... more |
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Yang Liwei looks back at China's first manned space missionBeijing (XNA) Jan 24, 2018 Yang Liwei felt everything vibrating violently. Experiencing acceleration of gravity at 8G, he thought his body was about to be torn apart. He couldn't move. He couldn't see. "I thought I'd di ... more  
Harper awarded $127.9M for F-35 hangar in San DiegoWashington (UPI) Jan 25, 2018 Harper Construction has been awarded a contract from the Navy to design and establish F-35 aircraft maintenance hangar and flight lines at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California. ... more  
DARPA Seeks to Improve Military Communications with Digital Phased-Arrays at Millimeter WaveWashington DC (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 There is increasing interest in making broader use of the millimeter wave frequency band for communications on small mobile platforms where narrow antenna beams from small radiating apertures provid ... more |
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 Xichang, China (XNA) Jan 15, 2018 
China on Friday sent twin satellites into space on a single carrier rocket to help its BeiDou system provide navigation and positioning services to countries along the Belt and Road by late 2018.
The Long March-3B carrier rocket took off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan at 7:18 a.m.
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 Delft, Netherlands (AFP) Jan 25, 2018 
It might be one small move for a robot, but it could prove an important step for Dutch cheesemakers. Moonlander, invented by students, is here to help take the hard work out of curds and whey.
At a display of creations by final-year robotics students at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Moonlander robot was one of the star attractions as it smoothly trundled 12-kilogramme (2 ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 
All today's commercial drones use GPS, which works fine above building roofs and in high alti-tudes. But what, when the drones have to navigate autonomously at low altitude among tall buildings or in the dense, unstructured city streets with cars, cyclists or pedestrians suddenly crossing their way? Until now, commercial drones are not able to quickly react to such unforeseen events.
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