Space Business News
March 05, 2018
SPACE TRAVEL
Russia, China strike deal to jointly explore outer space



Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 03, 2018
Russian State Space Corporation Ros?osmos and the China National Space Administration signed on Saturday the agreement of intent for cooperation in the sphere of exploration of the Moon and the Outer space as well as on the creation of the Joint Data Center on the Lunar projects, the corporation said in a statement. According to the statement, the State Corporation Roscosmos and the China National Space Administration aim to cooperate in the sphere of exploration of the Moon and the Outer space as ... read more

SPACE TRAVEL
Knowledge matters for Year of Education on Station
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2018
Teachers are known for going above and beyond when it comes to their students. In the case of astronaut Joe Acaba, this notion can be taken quite literally. The former math and science teacher may h ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
GOES-S marks 100th launch of Rocketdyne AJ-60A solid rocket booster
Sacramento CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2018
The launch of the nation's newest weather satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket marks the flight of the 100th Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ-60A solid rocket booster (SRB), the large ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Action plan approved for next Ariane 5 launches
Paris (ESA) Mar 03, 2018
After the release of the conclusions of the Ariane VA241 Independent Enquiry Commission on 22 February, the findings and recommendations were formally presented to a Steering Board on 28 February. T ... more
MISSILE DEFENSE
America's missile-defense system not ready for hypersonic threats
Washington (AFP) March 1, 2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim to have developed a new generation of missile that is impervious to any Western shield has highlighted a gap in America's already imperfect missile-defense network. ... more
ADVERTISEMENT



ADVERTISEMENT

Commercial UAV Expo | Sept 2-4, 2025 | Las Vegas


Previous Issues Mar 03 Mar 02 Mar 01 Feb 28 Feb 27
ADVERTISEMENT



MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
Increasing Situational Awareness with Fortion TacticalC2
London, UK (SPX) Mar 02, 2018
The face of conflict is ever evolving - malicious activities, for example, don't only take place in open fields anymore, but increasingly in the midst of civilian population. Airbus' TacticalC2 prov ... more
MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
Airbus to provide near real-time access to its satellite data
London, UK (SPX) Mar 02, 2018
Airbus has launched near real-time satellite imagery capabilities together with its 24/7 Emergency Image Delivery Service to aid those facing emergency situations. By leveraging the Kongsberg Satell ... more
UAV NEWS
Lightweight hyperspectral imagers bring sophisticated imaging capability to drones
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 02, 2018
In a new study, researchers used 3D printing and low-cost parts to create an inexpensive hyperspectral imager that is light enough to use onboard drones. They offer a recipe for creating these image ... more
ENERGY TECH
Scientists take step toward safer batteries by trimming lithium branches
Matsumoto, Japan (SPX) Mar 01, 2018
A collaborative team of researchers from Shinshu University in Japan have found a new way to curb some of the potential dangers posed by lithium ion batteries. The team, led by Susumu Arai, a ... more
ENERGY TECH
A lithium battery that operates at -70 degrees Celsius, a record low
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 02, 2018
Researchers in China have developed a battery with organic compound electrodes that can function at -70 degrees Celsius - far colder than the temperature at which lithium-ion batteries lose most of ... more
24/7 Space News Coverage
24/7 Technology News Coverage
24/7 China News Coverage

ADVERTISEMENT


ADVERTISEMENT

SPACE TRAVEL
Jemison: 'If you want a seat at the table, you can have one'
Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 02, 2018
More than 1,200 guests-including bright-eyed elementary schoolers who aspire to be astronauts, inspired mid-career female scientists and fellow Star Trek fans-filed into Macky Auditorium Tuesday nig ... more
UAV NEWS
Russian military developing long-range supersonic missile-lobbing drone
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 offici ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
ISS Expedition 54 crew land safely in Kazakhstan
Houston 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
DRAGON SPACE
China plans rocket sea-launch
Beijing (XNA) Mar 02, 2018
China is planning its first sea-launch of satellites carried by a Long March rocket, according to an aerospace official. Yang Yiqiang, commander-in-chief of the Long March-11 rockets project o ... more
MISSILE DEFENSE
Will missile defense be feeble against hypersonic weapons
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 03, 2018
Russia's latest missiles and other new types of weaponry are unmatched anywhere in the world and capable of nullifying the effectiveness of the United States' global missile defense, which Washingto ... more


Boeing receives $73.2M to service F/A-18 jets

AEROSPACE
Lockheed awarded $155M on two contracts for F-35 work
Washington (UPI) Mar 1, 2018
Lockheed Martin has been awarded two contracts worth more than $155 million for work on the F-35 fighter fleets of the United States and foreign customers. ... more
Space News from SpaceDaily.com

ADVERTISEMENT



ROCKET SCIENCE
Arianespace Soyuz set to launch 4 more sats for SES O3b constellation
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 28, 2018
For Arianespace's second mission of 2018, the company will use a Soyuz launch vehicle to orbit four additional O3b MEO (Medium Earth Orbit) satellites in the constellation operated by SES Networks. ... more
MILTECH
Raytheon wins $77.3M Air Force contract for SDB II munitions
Washington (UPI) Feb 28, 2018
Raytheon has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force for Small Diameter Bomb II munitions, parts, support and related data. ... more
AEROSPACE
Lockheed awarded $158M for support of U.S., foreign F-35 programs
Washington (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
MILTECH
Army taps Olin Corp. for $51.1M in small arms ammunition
Washington (UPI) Feb 28, 2018
The U.S. Army has awarded Olin Corp. a contract for several sizes of small arms ammunition. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Aerospace introduces new Senior Advisory Council for space policy
El 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
24/7 Nuclear News Coverage
24/7 War News Coverage
24/7 War News Coverage

Latest updates from NASA on IMAGE Recovery
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 01, 2018
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
+ Radioactive cylinder found on Lebanon coast: authority
+ Researchers demonstrate promising method for improving quantum information processing
+ The fine-tuning of two-dimensional materials
+ Silk fibers could be high-tech 'natural metamaterials'
+ Squid skin could be the solution to camouflage material
+ Atomic structure of ultrasound material not what anyone expected
+ Sixty years of technology in space - what's changed?
Airbus to provide near real-time access to its satellite data
London, UK (SPX) Mar 02, 2018
Airbus has launched near real-time satellite imagery capabilities together with its 24/7 Emergency Image Delivery Service to aid those facing emergency situations. By leveraging the Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) polar ground station in Svalbard, Norway, Pleiades and SPOT constellation images are now retrieved at every orbit, resulting in ultra-fast image deliveries after collection, anywhe ... more
+ Increasing Situational Awareness with Fortion TacticalC2
+ British astronaut hails 'groundbreaking' Airbus satellite
+ Northrop Grumman gets production, support contracts for E-2D Hawkeye
+ Studies prove superior performance of HTS for Government customers
+ SatCom options meet demanding connectivity requirements for helicopters
+ Astrophysicists Warn Us Against Opening Malicious E.T. Messages
+ Northrop Grumman awarded $429M contract for Polar payloads


Why Russia is one step ahead of US Army's plans for future GPS
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
+ Europe claims 100 million users for Galileo satnav system
+ Airbus selected by ESA for EGNOS V3 program
+ Pentagon probes fitness-app use after map shows sensitive sites
+ China sends twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites into space
+ 18 satellites in exactEarth's real-time constellation now in service
+ 'Quantum radio' may aid communications and mapping indoors, underground and underwater
+ Raytheon to provide GPS-guided artillery shells
Lockheed awarded $155M on two contracts for F-35 work
Washington (UPI) Mar 1, 2018
Lockheed Martin has been awarded two contracts worth more than $155 million for work on the F-35 fighter fleets of the United States and foreign customers. The Department of Defense announced on Wednesday that it has awarded a $148.7 million contract for logistics services for all branches of the U.S. military and foreign customers, as well as $7.4 million for the sustainment of the U.S ... more
+ Lockheed awarded $158M for support of U.S., foreign F-35 programs
+ Boeing receives $73.2M to service F/A-18 jets
+ MH370 hunt likely to end mid-June: official
+ Air Force awards contract for jet fighter training programs
+ Trump, Boeing finalize cheaper deal for new Air Force One
+ France to block Chinese group taking control of Toulouse airport
+ United Technologies Aerospace Systems awarded $2.5B for spare parts
Memtransistor brings world closer to brain-like computing
Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 01, 2018
Computer algorithms might be performing brain-like functions, such as facial recognition and language translation, but the computers themselves have yet to operate like brains. "Computers have separate processing and memory storage units, whereas the brain uses neurons to perform both functions," said Northwestern University's Mark C. Hersam. "Neural networks can achieve complicated comput ... more
+ Microchip Technology buys rival for $8.3 bn
+ Qualcomm open to further takeover talks if Broadcom boosts price
+ Unconventional superconductor may be used to create quantum computers of the future
+ New technology standard could shape the future of electronics design
+ Antiferromagnets prove their potential for spin-based information technology
+ Shape-shifting organic crystals use memory to improve plastic electronics
+ UA researchers observe electrons zipping around in crystals


Lockheed Martin supports weather services with 2nd Series R weather satellite
Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Mar 03, 2018
A newly launched satellite will augment the GOES-16 weather satellite and provide broad coverage with powerful new weather monitoring technology for meteorologists to provide life and property-saving forecasts. On Thursday, at 5:02 p.m. ET, NOAA's GOES-S weather satellite was launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket and has successfully established communications. NOAA's ... more
+ US blasts off another satellite to boost weather forecasts
+ NASA joins international science team in exploring auroral cusp from Norway
+ How does GEOS-5-based planetary boundary layer height and humidity vary across China?
+ New data helps explain recent fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field
+ New partnership aids sustainable growth with earth observations
+ CloudSat Exits the 'A-Train'
+ Swarm trio becomes a quartet
Gabon accuses France's Veolia of pollution
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
+ Vietnam suspends steel firms after pollution protests
+ UK, EU spar over who will be greenest after Brexit
+ German nights get brighter - but not everywhere
+ The plastics industry is leaking huge amounts of microplastics
+ Thai junta under pressure to tackle pollution 'crisis'
+ EU court says Poland broke air quality laws
+ Enhanced education could help turn the tide on marine litter


China plans rocket sea-launch
Beijing (XNA) Mar 02, 2018
China is planning its first sea-launch of satellites carried by a Long March rocket, according to an aerospace official. Yang Yiqiang, commander-in-chief of the Long March-11 rockets project of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, said that 2018 would see five launches of Long March-11 rockets, with four missions for commercial payloads on land, and one at sea. "Th ... more
+ China speeds up research, commercialization of space shuttles
+ Long March rockets on ambitious mission in 2018
+ Chinese taikonauts maintain indomitable spirit in space exploration: senior officer
+ China launches first shared education satellite
+ China's first X-ray space telescope put into service after in-orbit tests
+ China's first successful lunar laser ranging accomplished
+ Yang Liwei looks back at China's first manned space mission
America's missile-defense system not ready for hypersonic threats
Washington (AFP) March 1, 2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim to have developed a new generation of missile that is impervious to any Western shield has highlighted a gap in America's already imperfect missile-defense network. In a national address Thursday, Putin described several advances in missile technology, including a hypersonic weapon that can fly at many times the speed of sound and evade existing missi ... more
+ Will missile defense be feeble against hypersonic weapons
+ U.S., Israel test Arrow 3 missile system
+ Israel, US Successfully Test Hetz 3 Exoatmospheric Anti-Missile System
+ China to Develop Sea-Based Missile Interceptors
+ Lockheed awarded $523M for Patriot missiles for Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Romania
+ Beijing holds successful missile defense test
+ Saudi says Yemen rebel ballistic missile shot down


After Russian veto, US and allies condemn Iran over missiles to Yemen
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
+ Raytheon, Lockheed to sell Javelins to multiple foreign customers
+ State Department approves potential $3.2B missile sale to Sweden
+ Pentagon looks to counter rivals' hypersonic missiles
+ Navy turns to General Dynamics for anti-missile protection
+ Raytheon awarded $12M for work on Standard Missile
+ Thales to provide rockets for Spanish, German helicopters
+ Russia, India may sign contract on S-400 air defense systems supplies soon
UT Dallas team's microscopic solution may save researchers big time
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
+ Researchers invent light-emitting nanoantennas
+ Nanomushroom sensors: One material, many applications
+ USTC realizes strong indirect coupling in distant nanomechanical resonators
+ Scalable and cost-effective manufacturing of thin film devices
+ Ultra-efficient removal of carbon monoxide using gold nanoparticles on a molecular support
+ Fast-spinning spheres show nanoscale systems' secrets
+ Scientists observe nanowires as they grow


Beware of replicating sexism in AI, experts warn
Barcelona (AFP) March 1, 2018
Artificial intelligence could emulate human bias, including sexism, if there is no oversight on data used to create it, experts at the world's largest mobile phone fair in Barcelona warned Thursday. "We're all very aware the machines will learn the same bias as those who coded them," Emma McGuiguan, in charge of technology at consultants Accenture, said at the Mobile World Congress. AI i ... more
+ Berkeley Lab 'minimalist machine learning' algorithms analyze images from very little data
+ Snake-inspired robot uses kirigami to move
+ Robotic crystals that walk n' roll
+ Robo-picker grasps and packs
+ Brothers look to harness artificial intelligence for greater good
+ Google Assistant adds more languages in global push
+ New stretchable electronic skin sensitive enough to feel ladybug footsteps


Lightweight hyperspectral imagers bring sophisticated imaging capability to drones
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 02, 2018
In a new study, researchers used 3D printing and low-cost parts to create an inexpensive hyperspectral imager that is light enough to use onboard drones. They offer a recipe for creating these imagers, which could make the traditionally expensive analytical technique more widely accessible. Hyperspectral imagers produce images like a traditional color camera but detect several hundred colo ... more
+ Russian military developing long-range supersonic missile-lobbing drone
+ TEOCO launches UAV Service Enablement Platform for Drones
+ Lockheed Martin Launches software to simultaneously control multiple UAV types anywhere on Earth
+ Orbital ATK contracted for testing of drone missile targets
+ General Atomics enlists Boeing for its MQ-25 Stingray proposal
+ Programming drones to fly in the face of uncertainty
+ Alleged Iranian UAV captured by Israel is 'copy' of US' Sentinel UAV
Daily Newsletters - Space - Military - Environment - Energy

Buy Advertising Media Advertising Kit Editorial & Other Enquiries Privacy statement
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2018 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement