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  Washington (AFP) Feb 7, 2018 In successfully sending the world's most powerful rocket into space, SpaceX founder Elon Musk has pulled off yet another spectacular gamble. The question now is what's next for SpaceX and the space industry following the launch of Musk's Tesla roadster into space aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket? - Satellites - Falcon Heavy can launch far heavier payloads than other rockets - more than twice as much as its closest rival, the Delta IV Heavy rocket built by United Launch Alliance, the joint ventu ... read more |
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Improve European defence with new commercial space capabilitiesMcLean VA (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 Flexible and continuous connectivity, especially in contested environments, is a critical priority for defence forces around the world. No nation in Europe can go it alone, so secure, interoperable ... more  
Beijing holds successful missile defense testBeijing (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 China said Tuesday it successfully conducted a test of a ground-based missile defence system amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula. ... more 
World's biggest rocket soars toward Mars after perfect launchCape Canaveral (AFP) Feb 7, 2018 The world's most powerful rocket, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, blasted off Tuesday on its highly anticipated maiden test flight, carrying CEO Elon Musk's cherry red Tesla Roadster toward an orbit near Mars. ... more 
Elon Musk, visionary Tesla and SpaceX founderSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 From cars to rockets, Elon Musk dreams big. ... more |
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Cosmonauts position antennae wrong during record-long spacewalkWashington (UPI) Feb 5, 2018 A pair of Russian cosmonauts didn't set out to break the record for longest Russian spacewalk, but what seemed like a relatively straight forward mission turned out to be surprisingly complicated. ... more 
Celebrating 60 years of groundbreaking US space scienceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 On the evening of Friday, Jan. 31, 1958, Americans eagerly waited for news as the rocket carrying the Explorer 1 satellite was prepped for launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The stakes were high. ... more  
Model predicts scenarios for energy generation using nuclear fusionSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 Nuclear fusion, for the controlled and regular generation of electric power by converting hydrogen into helium and reproducing on a small scale what happens in our Sun (as well as other stars), is o ... more 
Lockheed awarded $523M for Patriot missiles for Qatar, Saudi Arabia, RomaniaWashington (UPI) Feb 7, 2018 Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract for upgraded Patriot missiles for domestic use, as well as the countries of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Romania. ... more  
Finland approved for Harpoon, SeaSparrow missile purchasesWashington (UPI) Feb 6, 2018 The State Department has approved the potential sale of variant missiles to Finland pending the approval of Congress, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Monday. ... more |
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Army turns to BAE Systems for vehicle productionWashington (UPI) Feb 1, 2018 BAE Systems has been awarded a contract in support of the latest Self-Propelled Howitzer and the latest version of the Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicle. ... more  |
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Lockheed contracted for design, development on Israeli F-35 programWashington (UPI) Feb 5, 2018 Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract to support development on Israel's F-35 Lightning II program. ... more 
Reading the body's history of threat exposureWashington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 Picture an intelligence officer in the field. She is trying to piece together a suspected threat, and has access to someone who may have a role in carrying it out. There may be traces of biological ... more 
China may be testing an Electromagnetic Railgun on naval shipMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 06, 2018 Pictures circulating on social media indicate that China's navy may have mounted an electromagnetic rail gun on a warship, a feat that has yet to be tested at sea. A photo of a huge gun barrel ... more  
The size of a cereal box: ESA's first satellite of 2018Paris (ESA) Feb 06, 2018 ESA's first mission of the year has been kicked off with the launch of the GomX-4B as the Agency's most advanced technology-tester yet, featuring a hyperspectral camera and tiny thrusters to manoeuv ... more  
Europe claims 100 million users for Galileo satnav systemParis (AFP) Feb 06, 2018 The Galileo satellite navigation system, Europe's rival to the United States' GPS, has nearly 100 million users after its first year of operation, the French space agency CNES said Thursday. ... more |
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 Singapore (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 
GomSpace together with The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited (ST Electronics) signed a research collaboration agreement on the sidelines of the Singapore Airshow this week, to conduct a design study on the implementation of space-based Very High Frequency (VHF) communications for air traffic management (ATM) in the Singapore Flight Inform ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 
Flexible and continuous connectivity, especially in contested environments, is a critical priority for defence forces around the world. No nation in Europe can go it alone, so secure, interoperable communications networks are mandatory considering today's geopolitical realities.
For these reasons, on 13 November 2017 ministers from 23 member states signed a joint notification on the Perman ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 06, 2018 
The Galileo satellite navigation system, Europe's rival to the United States' GPS, has nearly 100 million users after its first year of operation, the French space agency CNES said Thursday.
The system, seen as strategically important to Europe, went live in December 2016, having taken 17 years at more than triple the original budget to get there.
Initial services offered only a weak sig ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 31, 2018 
Bell-Boeing JPO was awarded a contract for upgrades to three MV-22 Osprey aircraft.
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $69.6 million and is a modification to a previously awarded undefinitized contract classified under the terms of a cost-plus-fixed fee, firm-fixed price contract.
The modified contract provides for the upgraded config ... more |
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 Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 
Nagoya University-led researchers produce 2D sheets of tin atoms predicted to have exotic uses in electronics.
Nagoya, Japan - Sometimes it pays to be two-dimensional. The merits of graphene, a 2D sheet of carbon atoms, are well established. In its wake have followed a host of "post-graphene materials" - structural analogues of graphene made of other elements like silicon or germanium.
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 Guildford UK (SPX) Feb 07, 2018 
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) signed a 25M pounds contract in Beijing yesterday with Twenty First Century Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd (21AT) to provide data from a new Earth Observation satellite (SSTL-S1) due for launch on PSLV in the middle of this year.
The contract was signed by Sir Martin Sweeting, Executive Chairman of SSTL, and Mme Wu Shuang, President and Chairman of 21A ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 
Tiny plastic particles also present a threat to creatures on land and may have damaging effects similar or even more problematic than in our oceans. Researchers from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and their Berlin colleagues warn: the impact of microplastics in soils, sediments and the freshwaters could have a long-term negative effect on terrestrial ecosy ... more |
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Feb 06, 2018 
China's first shared education satellite, Young Pioneer 1, carried by the Long March-2D rocket, was launched into space from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Friday afternoon.
The 3-kg CubeSat (100 * 100 * 340mm), Young Pioneer 1, enters an orbit of 502 km above the Earth. The rocket also carried Zhangheng 1, an electromagnetic satellite to study earthquake data, and five other miniaturized ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 
China said Tuesday it successfully conducted a test of a ground-based missile defence system amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula.
Concern over a potential conflict with nuclear-armed North Korea is growing following a series of bellicose statements between Washington and Pyongyang.
Monday's test of the mid-range missile system "achieved its anticipated goal" according to a brief ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 7, 2018 
Raytheon has been awarded a contract for research and development designs for multiple weapon systems owned by the company.
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $44.6 million under the terms of a cost-plus-fixed-fee, delivery order contract.
The agreement provides for "research and development design, development, studies, and technolog ... more |
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 Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 03, 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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 Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD (SPX) Feb 08, 2018  Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have developed new techniques for robots or computer programs to learn how to perform tasks by interacting with a human instructor. The findings of the study will be presented and published at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, Feb. 2-7.
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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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