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  Washington (UPI) Feb 23, 2018 Millennium Engineering and Integration was awarded a contract for heavy payload launch vehicles and rockets. The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $9.9 million under the terms of a cost-plus-fixed-fee task order contract. The agreement taps Millennium Engineering and Integration of Arlington, Va., to provide certification support for the Vulcan launch systems and Next Generation Launcher launch systems. The Vulcan launch system and Next ... read more |
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SLS Intertank loaded for shipment, structural testingNew Orleans LA (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 A structural test version of the intertank for NASA's new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System, is loaded onto the barge Pegasus Feb. 22, at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. ... more  
China speeds up research, commercialization of space shuttlesBeijing (XNA) Feb 26, 2018 China will accelerate research and commercial use of rocket upper stages, a carrier rocket official said on Friday. "The Yuanzheng rocket upper stage family will have a new member, Yuanzheng-1 ... more  
SatCom options meet demanding connectivity requirements for helicoptersMcLean VA (SPX) Feb 23, 2018 Recognizing the unique capabilities of helicopters for a wide range of missions, U.S. and foreign governments are actively procuring new aircraft or refreshing their existing fleets. As they rely on ... more 
Studies prove superior performance of HTS for Government customersMcLean VA (SPX) Feb 23, 2018 High-throughput satellite (HTS) constellations have quickly become transformative technology for satellite communications, far surpassing the bandwidth speed and throughput possible with existing sa ... more |
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NASA Wants Ideas from University Teams for Future Human Space MissionsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 22, 2018 Teams at U.S. colleges and universities have an opportunity to potentially help NASA with innovative design ideas to meet the challenges of space exploration. The 2019 eXploration Systems and Habita ... more  
U.S., Israel test Arrow 3 missile systemWashington (UPI) Feb 20, 2018 The United States and Israel successfully tested the Arrow 3 weapons system to defend against ballistic missiles. ... more 
Space-X lobs Spanish military satellite into orbitWashington (AFP) Feb 22, 2018 Elon Musk's Space-X sent a Spanish military satellite into orbit Thursday in a hitch-less liftoff from California, extending the private space company's record of successful launches. ... more  
Raytheon, Lockheed to sell Javelins to multiple foreign customersWashington (UPI) Feb 23, 2018 Raytheon and Lockheed Martin were awarded a contract under a foreign military sale for the delivery of Javelin weapon systems. ... more 
Northrop Grumman gets production, support contracts for E-2D HawkeyeWashington (UPI) Feb 23, 2018 Northrop Grumman has been awarded two contracts for production and support on the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye program. ... more |
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 United Technologies Aerospace Systems awarded $2.5B for spare parts 
Russia jails four for embezzling millions from cosmodrome projectMoscow (AFP) Feb 21, 2018 Russia on Wednesday jailed three men and a woman for up to 8 years for embezzling state funding worth millions of dollars while working as contractors on the construction of the country's showpiece Vostochny cosmodrome. ... more  |
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RS-25 Engine Throttles Up for Deep Space ExplorationStennis Space Center, MS (SPX) Feb 22, 2018 With an eye toward future deep space missions, Aerojet Rocketdyne and NASA have powered up the RS-25 main engine for the agency's powerful heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) to its highest thrust ... more  
Russia tested 'over 200 new weapons' in Syria: MPMoscow (AFP) Feb 22, 2018 Russia has tested over 200 new types of arms in Syria during its campaign in support of President Bashar al-Assad, a senior lawmaker said Thursday, as Moscow was accused of taking part in air strikes against rebel-held Eastern Ghouta. ... more 
Vice President Pence Hosts National Space Council at NASA's Kennedy Space CenterKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Feb 22, 2018 Vice President Mike Pence returned to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 20, this time to chair a meeting of the recently re-established National Space Council. During his first trip to ... more  
Air Force replaces T-38C with T-X for pilot trainingWashington (UPI) Feb 22, 2018 On Tuesday, the U.S. Air Force said that the Advanced Pilot Trainer, or T-X, aircraft would replace the T-38C Talon aircraft at existing undergraduate pilot training bases. ... more 
Canada to accept bid from Boeing for new fighter jetsOttawa (AFP) Feb 23, 2018 Canada said Thursday it was allowing Boeing to submit a bid to replace the country's aging F-18 fleet, after an earlier trade dispute between the American manufacturer and Ottawa. ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 
New research has demonstrated how the nano-architecture of a silkworm's fiber causes "Anderson localization of light," a discovery that could lead to various innovations and a better understanding of light transport and heat transfer.
The discovery also could help create synthetic materials and structures that realize the phenomenon, named after Nobel laureate Philip Anderson, whose theory ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Feb 23, 2018 
High-throughput satellite (HTS) constellations have quickly become transformative technology for satellite communications, far surpassing the bandwidth speed and throughput possible with existing satellite communications.
Earlier this month SatCom Frontier published a story explaining the difference between open vs. closed HTS architecture. Open architecture systems give government end use ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 12, 2018 
The Pentagon and Israel's Defense Ministry have launched 'Urban Navigation Challenge', a startup competition to create advanced 'counter-terror' navigation systems which don't use GPS. The project makes no mention of officially designated US "rivals" like Russia or China, but according to Russian experts, it would make no difference even if it did.
The project, officially dubbed the Combat ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) Feb 23, 2018  Canada said Thursday it was allowing Boeing to submit a bid to replace the country's aging F-18 fleet, after an earlier trade dispute between the American manufacturer and Ottawa.
The announcement came a month after the US International Trade Commission rejected a complaint filed by Boeing against its Canadian rival Bombardier, demanding nearly 300 percent anti-dumping duties on the C Series ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 
Physicists at the University of Sydney have found a 'quantum hack' that should allow for enormous efficiency gains in quantum computing technologies.
As scientists at IBM, Google, Microsoft and universities across the world seek to scale-up quantum technology to make a practical quantum computer, finding ways to do computations within an acceptable error threshold is a big technological pr ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 23, 2018 
With the aim of making the best possible use of existing satellites, ESA and Canada have made a deal that turns Swarm into a four-satellite mission to shed even more light on space weather and features such as the aurora borealis.
In orbit since 2013, ESA's three identical Swarm satellites have been returning a wealth of information about how our magnetic field is generated and how it prot ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 
The nights in the German federal states ("Bundeslander") have been getting brighter and brighter - but not everywhere at the same rate and with one peculiar exemption: light emissions from Thuringia decreased between 2012 and 2017. This is the result of a recent study by scientists Chris Kyba and Theres Kuster from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences together with Helga Kuechly from " ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 26, 2018 
China will accelerate research and commercial use of rocket upper stages, a carrier rocket official said on Friday.
"The Yuanzheng rocket upper stage family will have a new member, Yuanzheng-1S, this year, serving launches for low and medium Earth orbit satellites," said Wang Mingzhe, an upper stage architect of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
Upper stages are ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 20, 2018 
The United States and Israel successfully tested the Arrow 3 weapons system to defend against ballistic missiles.
Israel Aerospace Industries, in collaboration with the Israeli air force and the United States' Missile Defense Agency, conducted the test at 2:30 a.m. Monday at an unidentified site in central Israel, the U.S. Defense Department said in a release.
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 22, 2018 
The U.S. State Department on Wednesday said it has approved a possible foreign military sale to Sweden of Patriot Configuration-3 Modernized Fire Units.
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of the possible $3.2 billion sale, for which Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are the primary contractors.
The possible foreign military sale would provide Sweden with four Pa ... more |
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 Onna, Japan (SPX) Feb 26, 2018  A small rectangle of pink glass, about the size of a postage stamp, sits on Professor Amy Shen's desk. Despite its outwardly modest appearance, this little glass slide has the potential to revolutionize a wide range of processes, from monitoring food quality to diagnosing diseases.
The slide is made of a 'nanoplasmonic' material - its surface is coated in millions of gold nanostructures, e ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Feb 23, 2018  Google said Friday its digital assistant software would be available in more than 30 languages by the end of the years as it steps up its artificial intelligence efforts against Amazon and others.
Google Assistant, the artificial intelligence software which is available on its connected speakers, Android smartphones and other devices, will also include multilingual capacity "so families or i ... more |
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 Calgary, Canada (SPX) Feb 21, 2018 
Lockheed Martin software has been simultaneously flying, on average, at least six unmanned aircraft during every hour of the last 25 years, completing missions as diverse as reconnaisance, inspection, mapping and targeting. Today, Lockheed Martin is launching VCSi, a new vehicle control software, as the culmination of more than two decades of experience and 1.5 million hours of operational use. ... more |
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