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  Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 FADA CATEC is supporting Zero 2 Infinity (Z2I) in the development of a new generation of rocket engines. This March, FADA CATEC has successfully 3D printed a combustion chamber for Zero 2 Infinity's Bloostar engine. 3D printing the engine entails a dramatic reduction in cost, environmental impact, production time, and mass. Z2I is thrilled to have the support of FADA-CATEC technologies' and its professionals and is looking forward to working closely with them. The plans of the companies include us ... read more |
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How accurate is your AIKyoto, Japan (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 As AI's role in society continues to expand, J B Brown of the Graduate School of Medicine reports on a new evaluation method for the type of AI that predicts yes/positive/true or no/negative/false a ... more  
Rooting for Answers: Simulating G-Force to Test Plant Gravity Perception in Mustard SeedlingsHouston TX (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 When plants on Earth search for nutrients and water, what drives their direction? Very simply, gravitational force helps them find the easiest path to the substances they need to grow and thrive. Wh ... more 
Inspired by ASU NASA mission, students create space artTempe AZ (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 Four years after NASA was established, administrator James Webb was so inspired by a portrait of an astronaut, he ordered the creation of an agency art program. The idea was to capture the emotion o ... more 
Make way for the mini flying machinesNew Orleans LA (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 Tiny floating robots could be useful in all kinds of ways, for example, to probe the human gut for disease or to search the environment for pollutants. In a step toward such devices, researchers des ... more |
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Tribal College and University Student Conference to host NASA competitionWashington DC (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 Thirty students representing six Native American colleges from around the nation have been selected to compete in a NASA Mars Rover competition at the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AI ... more  
Chirping is welcome in birds but not in fusion devicesPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 Birds do it and so do doughnut-shaped fusion facilities called "tokamaks." But tokamak chirping - a rapidly changing frequency wave that can be far above what the human ear can detect - is hardly we ... more 
Soyuz rocket rolled out for launchBaikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 A pair of U.S. astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut are just two days away from launching on a 50-hour, 34-orbit flight to the International Space Station. Flight Engineers Ricky Arnold and Drew Feu ... more 
Airbus delivers new life support system for the ISSFriedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 Airbus has delivered the ACLS (Advanced Closed Loop System), an advanced life support system to purify air and produce oxygen for the International Space Station (ISS). The system also produces wate ... more  
Mahathir raises 'remote takeover' theory in MH370 mysterySydney (AFP) March 23, 2018 Malaysia's veteran ex-leader Mahathir Mohamad said Friday that missing flight MH370 might have been taken over remotely in a bid to foil a hijack, reviving one of the many conspiracy theories surrounding its disappearance. ... more |
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 60 years in orbit for 'grapefruit satellite' - the oldest human object in space 
Two Americans, one Russian blast off for ISSBaikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) March 21, 2018 Two astronauts, a cosmonaut and a ball set to be used in the forthcoming football World Cup in Russia blasted off Wednesday for a two-day flight to the International Space Station. ... more  |
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Army orders night vision goggles, thermal weapons sights from BAEWashington (UPI) Mar 22, 2018 BAE Systems was tapped by the U.S. Army for night vision goggles and thermal weapon sights in an effort to bolster combat marksmanship during night operations. ... more 
Australia awards Rheinmetall $77.2M contract for artillery ammunition(UPI) Mar 21, 2018 The Australian government has awarded Rheinmetall of Germany a a contract worth roughly $77 million to supply ammunition, fuses and propelling charges. ... more 
Germany's Rheinmetall wins Australia combat vehicle contractSydney (AFP) March 14, 2018 German manufacturer Rheinmetall won a Aus$5.2 (US$4.1 billion) contract Wednesday to supply Australia with new armoured combat vehicles as Canberra boosts its defence capabilities. ... more 
Oshkosh to deliver tactical vehicles for Qatar, KuwaitWashington (UPI) Mar 19, 2018 Oshkosh Defense was awarded a contract from the U.S. Army to provide multiple tactical vehicles to the government of Qatar and Kuwait. ... more 
China to build 'world's fastest' wind tunnelBeijing (AFP) March 20, 2018 China has announced it is building the world's fastest wind tunnel to develop a new generation of super-fast airplanes, but it could also be used for hypersonic missile technology. ... more |
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Scientists have built the world's first continuous room-temperature solid-state maser.
Maser stands for "microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation." The device is the older sibling of the laser and operates at microwave frequencies. But while masers came first, the technology never caught on like the laser. That's mostly because masers require temperatures approaching ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 
Our first Intelsat EpicNG satellite has been in space a little over two years now, and we have launched four more since then. With five of these high-throughput satellites (HTS) in orbit and being used by our customers, we have gained quite a bit of both test data and real-world experience demonstrating the capabilities and versatility of the EpicNG technology.
We recently published a whit ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 15, 2018 
Indra has been awarded a contract for implementing four new Uplink Stations (ULS), thus expanding the ground segment of the European global positioning system, Galileo. Awarded by the company Thales Alenia Space (France), this contract also includes maintenance and upgrades for all Uplink stations.
The new stations will join the ten uplink stations that Indra has already put into service a ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Mar 16, 2018 
Sometimes ice can be good, like when it is cooling down a beverage on a hot day or when athletes are gliding over it at the Winter Olympics, but when it forms inside an aircraft engine, the results can be damaging.
In January, NASA's Glenn Research Center began testing an aircraft engine in a high-altitude ice crystal environment, to explore a relatively new phenomenon called ice crystal i ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 15, 2018  Intel Corp. said Thursday new computer chips designed to address vulnerabilities disclosed earlier this year would be shipped in the second half of 2018.
Chief executive Brian Krzanich said the new chips would guard against hardware flaws dubbed Meltdown and Spectre which could leave millions of computing device vulnerable to hackers.
Krzanich said the next-generation Intel Xeon Scalable ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 
Water on Earth runs deep - very deep. The oceans have been measured to a maximum depth of 7 miles, though water is known to exist well below the oceans. Just how deep this hidden water reaches, and how much of it exists, are the subjects of ongoing research.
Now a new study suggests that water may be more common than expected at extreme depths approaching 400 miles and possibly beyond - wi ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 
A new class of low-cost and sustainable hybrid materials could possibly displace activated carbon as the preferred choice for reducing wastewater and air pollution. The material, described in Frontiers in Chemistry, is synthesized inexpensively from solid wastes and a naturally abundant polymer - and can cut down pollutants in air and wastewater with more success than activated carbon, the curre ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 22, 2018 
The mission of Chang'e-4 lunar probe will proceed in two phases this year, and Chang'e-4 lunar probe will reach the far side of the Moon for the first time, said an official from China Academy of Space Technology (CAST).
"We plan to launch Chang'e-4 lunar probe in the second half of 2018. This will be the first time for a lunar probe to land on the far side of the Moon. Chang'e-4 lunar pro ... more |
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 Denver CO (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
The system of systems that enables the disparate elements of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) to function as a complete global defense network has been revolutionized.
The modernized Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) system significantly improves collaborative Ballistic Missile Defense planning and provides global and regional combatant commands with ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 
Lockheed Martin has tested a production-configuration Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) from a U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber. During the test, a B-1B from the 337th Test Squadron at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, launched a LRASM over the Sea Range at Point Mugu, Calif., successfully impacting the maritime target and meeting test objectives.
"LRASM has now proven itself in six consecutive fl ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
2D materials, which consist of a few layers of atoms, may well be the future of nanotechnology. They offer potential new applications and could be used in small, higher-performance and more energy-efficient devices. 2D materials were first discovered almost 15 years ago, but only a few dozen of them have been synthesized so far.
Now, thanks to an approach developed by researchers from EPFL ... more |
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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 
Man or woman, happy or sad. Sometimes a glance is enough to say it. Yet, the visual process that allows us to recognize the gender or emotional state of a person is very sophisticated. Until recently, only primates were deemed able to perform such complex operations as object recognition.
A new study from the International School for Advanced Studies - SISSA, published in the journal Curre ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 19, 2018 
AeroVironment Inc. has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to support a foreign military sale of unmanned aerial vehicles to Egypt.
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $9 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price foreign military sales contract.
The agreement between the U.S. Army and AeroVironment Inc., a small business out of ... more |
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