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  Buckley AFB CO (SPX) Jan 31, 2018 "Nobody does what we do; other organizations and nations perform missile warning to some degree, but only the 460th Operations Group does so on a global scale every second of every single day," said Capt. Ryan Griggs, 2nd Space Warning Squadron assistant director of operations. It's no secret that the U.S. Air Force and the 460th Space Wing remain superior in global missile warning surveillance. Watching for heat signatures anywhere on the planet, these Airmen are responsible for detecting missile ... read more |
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Launch Vehicle LingoBethesda MD (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 In order to understand many of the subtleties regarding launch vehicle design it is useful to understand many of the terms used in the engineering analysis and evaluation of these systems. Below are ... 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 
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  
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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NASA-JAXA Joint Statement on Space ExplorationTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 On January 24, 2018, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) met to exchange their views on space exploration. The agencies signed a jo ... more 
Space station spacewalk postponed until mid-FebruaryWashington (UPI) Jan 29, 2018 What was to be the second of January's two spacewalks was scrubbed Monday and postponed until mid-February. ... more  
China's first successful lunar laser ranging accomplishedBeijing (XNA) Jan 29, 2018 China has accomplished its first successful Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR), with a 1.2-meter telescope laser ranging system. Based on the signals of laser pulses reflected by the lunar retro-reflec ... more  
Jumping around for good healthParis (ESA) Jan 29, 2018 Simple yet efficient: intensive jumping might be a panacea for strong bones, muscles and hearts. A European study has confirmed the benefits of making giant leaps not only for astronauts, but also f ... 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 
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 |
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 Space, the final frontier -- for nightclubs 
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  
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 
'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  |
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Two US spacewalkers replace latching end of robotic arm Miami (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 
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 
Hawaii fires warning officer who sent missile alertWashington (AFP) Jan 30, 2018 The administrator of Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency has resigned and an officer with a track record of "poor performance" has been fired after triggering mass panic with a false alert of a ballistic missile headed for the Pacific islands, officials said Tuesday. ... more |
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 Raytheon to support Stinger weapon for U.S. and foreign countries 
L-3 awarded $8.2M for retrofits to Predator simulatorsWashington (UPI) Jan 30, 2018 The U.S. Air Force has awarded L-3 Link Simulation & Training an $8.2 million contract for retrofits on the Predator Mission Aircrew Training System simulators. ... more  
Netanyahu says Iran wants Lebanon to be 'giant missile site'Jerusalem (AFP) Jan 29, 2018 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of wanting "to turn Lebanon into one giant missile site" and warned of the consequences as he left Monday for talks in Moscow. ... more 
SpaceX CEO Sets Date for First Falcon Heavy Rocket LaunchWashington (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 ... 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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 Washington (AFP) Jan 29, 2018 
The US military is reviewing how troops use fitness trackers and other devices, the Pentagon said Monday after an exercise-logging company published a map revealing potentially sensitive information about US and allied forces in places including the Middle East.
The map, made by Strava Labs, shows the movements of its app users around the world, indicating the intensity of travel along a giv ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 26, 2018 
Raytheon Missiles Systems has been awarded a foreign and domestic contract for services in support of the Stinger weapon system.
The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $92 million under a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for both domestic use in the U.S. and to the benefit to both Poland and Taiwan under a foreign military sale agreement.
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 Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 
Physicists have developed a technique based on optical microscopy that can be used to create images of atoms on the nanoscale. In particular, the new method allows the imaging of quantum dots in a semiconductor chip. Together with colleagues from the University of Bochum, scientists from the University of Basel's Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute reported the findings in ... 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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