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  Moscow (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 Russia on Thursday successfully launched 11 satellites from its Vostochny cosmodrome, in the third rocket liftoff from the new spaceport, the space agency said. The country's first orbital launch of 2018 came after a similar liftoff from the cosmodrome in eastern Russia ended in embarrassment, with officials losing contact with a weather satellite last November. Lifting off as scheduled early Thursday, the Soyuz rocket carried two Russian Earth monitoring satellites as its primary payload and ni ... read more |
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Putting down roots in spaceHouston TX (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 Plants grow just about everywhere on Earth, and are able to adapt to extreme conditions ranging from drought to disease. Spaceflight, however, exposes plants to stresses not found anywhere on their ... more 
Spinoff 2018 Highlights Space Technology Improving Life on EarthGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 The 2018 edition of NASA's annual Spinoff publication, released Tuesday, features 49 technologies the agency helped create that are used in almost every facet of modern life. These include innovatio ... more  
SpaceX blasts off Luxembourg government satelliteMiami (AFP) Jan 31, 2018 SpaceX on Wednesday blasted off a four-ton secure military communications satellite called GovSat-1, a partnership between the government of Luxembourg and the satellite operator SES. ... more  
Artificial intelligence sparks hope -- and fear, US poll showsWashington (AFP) Jan 31, 2018 Americans are torn over the promise of artificial intelligence, a new poll showed Wednesday, expressing broad optimism about the emerging technologies but also fearing their negative impacts - including job losses, a poll showed Wednesday. ... more |
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Lockheed tapped by Army for 10 more THAAD interceptorsWashington (UPI) Jan 29, 2018 The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for 10 additional Lot 10 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, interceptors for the U.S. Army. ... more  
China's first X-ray space telescope put into service after in-orbit testsBeijing (XNA) Feb 01, 2018 China's first X-ray astronomical satellite, launched in June last year, is put into service for scientific research on Tuesday after finishing in-orbit tests. It embodies a new phase of China' ... more  
Scientists design bacteria to reflect 'sonar' signals for ultrasound imagingPasadena CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2018 In the 1966 science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, a submarine is shrunken down and injected into a scientist's body to repair a blood clot in his brain. While the movie may be still be fiction, res ... more 
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 
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 |
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 DARPA Seeks to Improve Military Communications with Digital Phased-Arrays at Millimeter Wave 
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  |
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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 
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 
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 |
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Lockheed Martin Miniature Hit-to-Kill Missile Demonstrates Increased Agility and AffordabilityWhite Sands Missile Range NM (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 Lockheed Martin's Miniature Hit-to-Kill (MHTK) missile successfully conducted a controlled flight test to demonstrate the interceptor's increased agility, and to validate the performance of its airf ... more 
Raytheon awarded $2.3B to support Patriot missile systemWashington (UPI) Jan 31, 2018 Raytheon has been awarded a contract for engineering services to support the Phased Array Tracking Radar Intercept on Target, or PATRIOT, system of systems. ... more 
America's premier space wing completes SBIRS baseline constellationBuckley 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 ... more  
Airbus selected by ESA for EGNOS V3 programParis, France (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as the prime contractor to develop EGNOS V3, the next generation of the European Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) planned to pro ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 
Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as the prime contractor to develop EGNOS V3, the next generation of the European Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) planned to provide the aviation community with advanced Safety of Life services and new services to Maritime and Land users.
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 College Park MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 
Tiny airborne particles can have a stronger influence on powerful storms than scientists previously predicted, according to a new study co-authored by University of Maryland researchers. The findings, published in the January 26, 2018 issue of the journal Science, describe the effects of aerosols, which can come from urban and industrial air pollution, wildfires and other sources.
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 Halle, Germany (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
High concentrations of heavy metals, like copper and gold, are toxic for most living creatures. This is not the case for the bacterium C. metallidurans, which has found a way to extract valuable trace elements from a compound of heavy metals without poisoning itself. One interesting side-effect: the formation of tiny gold nuggets.
A team of researchers from Martin Luther University Halle-W ... 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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