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  Washington (Sputnik) Jan 28, 2018 The first flight of Falcon Heavy, the powerful rocket manufactured by the US Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) company, is planned for February 6, the company's founder and CEO Elon Musk said on Sunday. "Aiming for first flight of Falcon Heavy on Feb 6 from Apollo launchpad 39A at Cape Kennedy," Musk wrote on Twitter. On Thursday, SpaceX fired up all 27 engines on the rocket in its final test. Falcon Heavy is said by SpaceX to be the most powerful operational rocket, able to deliver 54 ... read more |
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Rocket Lab successfully circularizes orbit with new Electron kick stageAuckland, New Zealand (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 Rocket Lab, a US aerospace company with operations in New Zealand, has successfully tested a previously unannounced kick stage on the Still Testing Electron launch vehicle, using it to circularize t ... more 
Ariane 5 delivers SES-14 and Al Yah 3 to orbitKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jan 29, 2018 SES and Yahsat have confirmed that both satellites (SES-14 and Al Yah 3) have been acquired and are operating in orbit nominally, despite a trajectory deviation experienced during VA241 launch. ... more  
Microbes may help astronauts transform human waste into foodUniversity Park PA (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 Human waste may one day be a valuable resource for astronauts on deep-space missions. Now, a Penn State research team has shown that it is possible to rapidly break down solid and liquid waste to gr ... more 
ASU student payloads selected to fly on Blue Origin space vehicleTempe AZ (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 Three Arizona State University student-led payload projects have been selected to launch into space on Blue Origin's "New Shepard" space vehicle later this year. The projects were selected dur ... more |
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A new family of aerodynamic configurations of hypersonic airplanesBeijing, China (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 Hypersonic vehicles, which flight at Mach numbers lager than five (flight velocity more than 6000 km/h), will serve as a more convenient and efficient transport tool than present subsonic airplanes ... more 
Ariane 5 satellites in orbit but not in right location yetKourou, 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. ... more 
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 
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 |
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'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 
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 
Explorer 1: The Beginning of American Space SciencePasadena CA (JPL) Jan 24, 2018 Sixty years ago next week, the hopes of Cold War America soared into the night sky as a rocket lofted skyward above Cape Canaveral, a soon-to-be-famous barrier island off the Florida coast. Th ... 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 
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 |
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NIST's superconducting synapse may be missing piece for 'artificial brains'Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a superconducting switch that "learns" like a biological system and could connect processors and store memories in ... more  
Lockheed Martin Receives $459 Million THAAD Interceptor ContractDallas TX (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded Lockheed Martin a $459 million contract modification for production and delivery of interceptors for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weap ... more 
Let's make a deal: Could AI compromise better than humans?Provo, UT (SPX) Jan 23, 2018 Computers can play a pretty mean round of chess and keep up with the best of their human counterparts in other zero-sum games. But teaching them to cooperate and compromise instead of compete? ... more 
Backgrounder: China's six manned space missionsBeijing (XNA) Jan 23, 2018 Since the establishment of the Taikonaut Corps of the People's Liberation Army in 1998, Chinese taikonauts have completed six manned spaceflights, conducted over 100 scientific experiments and orbit ... more |
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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.
The twin satellites are coded as the 26th and 27th satelli ... more |
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 Provo, UT (SPX) Jan 23, 2018 
Computers can play a pretty mean round of chess and keep up with the best of their human counterparts in other zero-sum games. But teaching them to cooperate and compromise instead of compete?
With help from a new algorithm created by BYU computer science professors Jacob Crandall and Michael Goodrich, along with colleagues at MIT and other international universities, machine compromise an ... 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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