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  Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 28, 2018 Designed to infiltrate far into an enemy's territory, the new system will carry both guided and unguided munitions. Russia is working on a long-range unmanned strike system, Zvezda, the official television channel of the Russian Ministry of Defense, has learned. Speaking to the television channel, Alexander Nemov, deputy chief of the research department at the 30th Central Scientific Research Institute outside Moscow, confirmed that the large unmanned aircraft would appear sometime in the ne ... read more |
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Russia's Energomash tests RD-180 engine made for US Atlas rocketMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 01, 2018 Tests of a Russian RD-180 liquid-fuel rocket engine have been carried out in the Science and Test Complex of Russia's NPO Energomash, the company said Wednesday in a statement. "According to t ... more  
Robotic crystals that walk n' rollTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 Scientists at Waseda University may have come a step closer to innovating soft robots to care for people. Its material, however, is something you may have never expected. They have developed r ... more  
New computation help identify new solid oxide fuel cell materialsMadison WI (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 Using advanced computational methods, University of Wisconsin-Madison materials scientists have discovered new materials that could bring widespread commercial use of solid oxide fuel cells closer t ... more  
ISS Expedition 54 crew land safely in KazakhstanHouston TX (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 Three members of the Expedition 54 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS), including NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba, returned to Earth on Tuesday after months of performing ... more |
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Lockheed awarded $158M for support of U.S., foreign F-35 programsWashington (UPI) Feb 28, 2018 Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract for support of modification and retrofit activities for air systems for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. ... more  
Army taps Olin Corp. for $51.1M in small arms ammunitionWashington (UPI) Feb 28, 2018 The U.S. Army has awarded Olin Corp. a contract for several sizes of small arms ammunition. ... more 
Aerospace introduces new Senior Advisory Council for space policyEl Segundo CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 The Aerospace Corporation has established a new Senior Advisory Council for its Center for Space Policy and Strategy. These seven distinguished members will bring their deep insight and experience f ... more 
International team publishes roadmap to enhance radioresistance for space colonizationLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 22, 2018 An international team of researchers from NASA Ames Research Center, Environmental and Radiation Health Sciences Directorate at Health Canada, Oxford University, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Belgi ... more 
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 |
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 After Russian veto, US and allies condemn Iran over missiles to Yemen 
Putin signs new State Arms Program focused on cutting-edge weaponryMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 28, 2018 Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had signed the country's new state arms procurement program, which includes, among other things, robotics, ... more  |
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Alibaba sets up AI research centre in SingaporeSingapore (AFP) Feb 28, 2018 Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba on Wednesday opened an artificial intelligence research institute in Singapore in partnership with a local university, as the battle to develop AI technology heats up. ... more 
Trump, Boeing finalize cheaper deal for new Air Force OneWashington (UPI) Feb 27, 2018 President Donald Trump and Boeing have finalized an informal deal for two new Air Force One aircraft valued at $3.9 billion, the White House and Boeing said Tuesday. ... more 
Air Force awards contract for jet fighter training programsWashington (UPI) Feb 27, 2018 Alpha-Omega Change Engineering has been awarded a contract for training fighter jet aircrews and courseware development. ... more 
France to block Chinese group taking control of Toulouse airportParis (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 The French government will not sell a 10 percent stake in the Toulouse airport in southern France to a Chinese consortium, a deal that would have given it majority control of the fast-growing transport hub, a government source said Monday. ... more 
Millenium tapped for certification of Vulcan space launch systemsWashington (UPI) Feb 23, 2018 Millennium Engineering and Integration was awarded a contract for heavy payload launch vehicles and rockets. ... more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2018
On Feb. 22, 2018, the signal from IMAGE began to break up and has been silent since Feb. 24. The team continues to assess what may be the issue, but it is known that this episode does not mimic the sudden silence that occurred in 2005 when contact was originally lost with the spacecraft. The team continues to make preparations to attempt to bring the attitude dete ... more |
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 Portsmouth, United Kingdom (AFP) Feb 27, 2018 
British astronaut Tim Peake on Monday hailed a "groundbreaking" satellite being built by Airbus which its developers say will bring an unprecedented level of flexibility to space telecommunications.
The Eutelsat Quantum satellite is being put together by the multinational company in Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, where it was unveiled Monday ahead of transfer to France for testin ... 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.
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 27, 2018  Alpha-Omega Change Engineering has been awarded a contract for training fighter jet aircrews and courseware development.
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $8.4 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price modification to a previous award contract.
The agreement between the U.S. Air Force and Alpha-Omega Change Engineering calls for t ... more |
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 Mainz, Germany (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 
Within the emerging field of spin-based electronics, or spintronics, information is typically defined by the orientation of the magnetization of ferromagnets. Researchers have recently been also interested in the utilization of antiferromagnets, which are materials without macroscopic magnetization but with a staggered orientation of their microscopic magnetic moments. Here the information is en ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 
Once in orbit after it launches this fall, NASA's ICESat-2 satellite will travel at speeds faster than 15,000 miles per hour. Last week, the satellite's instrument began its journey toward space riding a truck from Maryland to Arizona, never exceeding 65 mph.
ICESat-2, or the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, is slated to launch in September to measure the height of Earth's surfac ... more |
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 Libreville (AFP) Feb 27, 2018 
Gabon on Tuesday accused Veolia of pollutingthe country as the government and the French company wage an increasingly bitter dispute in public over the cancellation of a contract for water and electricity distribution.
"There is considerable environmental damage at almost all of the sites exploited by SEEG," Communication Minister Alain-Claude Bilie By Nze told journalists, referring to the ... 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).
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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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 United Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 28, 2018 
The United States and three European allies condemned Iran on Tuesday after the United Nations found Tehran had violated the arms embargo on Yemen by failing to block supplies of missiles and drones to Huthi rebels.
Britain, France, Germany and the United States urged Iran to "immediately cease all activities that are inconsistent or would violate" the UN resolution that established the arms ... more |
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 Dallas TX (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 
A University of Texas at Dallas graduate student, his advisor and industry collaborators believe they have addressed a long-standing problem troubling scientists and engineers for more than 35 years: How to prevent the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope from crashing into the surface of a material during imaging or lithography.
Details of the group's solution appeared in the January is ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 
Scientists at Waseda University may have come a step closer to innovating soft robots to care for people. Its material, however, is something you may have never expected.
They have developed robotic crystals that walk slowly like an inchworm and roll 20,000 times faster than its walking speed. These autonomously moving, organic crystals have great potential as material for soft robots in t ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 28, 2018 
Designed to infiltrate far into an enemy's territory, the new system will carry both guided and unguided munitions.
Russia is working on a long-range unmanned strike system, Zvezda, the official television channel of the Russian Ministry of Defense, has learned.
Speaking to the television channel, Alexander Nemov, deputy chief of the research department at the 30th Central Scientific ... more |
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