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  Aalborg, Denmark (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 GOMX-4 is a demonstration mission which includes two 6Usatellites: The GOMX-4A mission involves north area monitoring and the GOMX-4B mission is for innovative payload demonstrations. It will monitor and demonstrate Satellite Communication between Nanosatellites, and the in-orbit results and experiences gained from the GOMX-4 experiences will provide knowledge, information and experience for scaling to more advanced communication schemes required by larger nanosatellite constellations. GOMX-4 are ... read more |
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PLD Space wins ESA backing for a Small Satellite Orbital LauncherParis (ESA) Feb 02, 2018 PLD Space (PR): The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded the project "Study on Launch Service Making Use of a Microlauncher" to the Spanish company PLD Space. The microlauncher study, a par ... more  
Russia to start offering spacewalks for touristsMoscow (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 Russia is planning to send paying tourists on the International Space Station out on spacewalks for the first time, an official from the country's space industry said Thursday. ... more  
NASA Twins Study confirms preliminary findingsHouston TX (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 The Twin Study propelled NASA into the genomics era of space travel. It was a ground-breaking study comparing what happened to astronaut Scott Kelly, in space, to his identical twin brother, Mark, w ... more 
Putin gives nod to creation of Russian super heavy-lift launch vehicleVostochny Cosmodrome (Sputnik) (Sputnik) Feb 02, 2018 Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on the creation of a new Russian super heavy-lift launch vehicle (SHLLV), which is supposed to be used for missions to the Moon and Mars, Roscosm ... 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 
Russia launches 11 space satellites 'without glitch'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. ... more 
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 |
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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  |
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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 
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 
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 |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 
After an amateur astronomer recorded observations of a satellite in high Earth orbit on Jan. 20, 2018, his initial research suggested it was the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) - a NASA mission launched into orbit around Earth on March 25, 2000.
Seeking to ascertain whether the signal indeed came from IMAGE, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Mary ... more |
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 Washington 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 provide enhanced communication security. Today's millimeter wave systems, however, are not user friendly and are designed to be platform specific, lacking interoperability and are thus reserved for only the ... 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.
Developed by ESA on behalf of the European Commission and the European GNSS Agency ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 24, 2018 
EFW Inc. has been awarded a contract for Apache Aviator Integrated Helmets and associated spare parts for the U.S. Army.
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $12.6 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract agreement.
The Apache Aviator Integrated Helmet is a critical piece of hardware for pilots of the AH-64 Apache helicopt ... more |
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 Groningen, Netherlands (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 
One of the big challenges in computer architecture is integrating storage, memory and processing in one unit. This would make computers faster and more energy efficient. University of Groningen physicists have taken a big step towards this goal by combining a niobium doped strontium titanate (SrTiO3) semiconductor with ferromagnetic cobalt.
At the interface, this creates a spin-memristor w ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 31, 2018 
A bread loaf-sized satellite has produced the world's first map of the global distribution of atmospheric ice in the 883-Gigahertz band, an important frequency in the submillimeter wavelength for studying cloud ice and its effect on Earth's climate.
IceCube - the diminutive spacecraft that deployed from the International Space Station in May 2017- has demonstrated-in-space a commercial 883 ... more |
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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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 Beijing (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-reflector planted by the U.S. manned mission Apollo 15, the applied astronomy group from the Yunnan Observatories measured the distance between the Apollo 15 retro-reflector and the Yunnan Observatories gro ... more |
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 Washington (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.
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $459.2 million under a modified fixed-price incentive-firm target contract for line item numbers.
Friday's award is the second ... more |
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 White 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 airframe and electronics - now common between MHTK's two configurations to drive affordability.
Friday's test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, was the first ever for MHTK's updated electron ... more |
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 Richland WA (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 
Materials scientists, led by a team at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, designed a tiny tube that rolls up and zips closed.
These hollow nanotubes are thousands of times smaller than a strand of human hair and could help with water filtration, tissue engineering and many other applications.
The tubes were inspired by protein structures called microtub ... 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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 Washington (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.
The new award, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is a modification to a previous contract, which is now valued at $120,753,92.
The modified contract is for 40 retrofit communications kits and simulator seats ... more |
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