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  Beijing (AFP) March 30, 2018 A defunct space laboratory that will plunge back to Earth in the coming days is unlikely to cause any damage, Chinese authorities say, but will offer instead a "splendid" show akin to a meteor shower. China's space agency said Thursday that the roughly eight-tonne Tiangong-1 will re-enter the atmosphere some time between Saturday and Monday. The European Space Agency on Friday gave smaller window between Saturday night and late Sunday evening GMT. But there is "no need for people to worry", the ... read more |
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Coming down in flames: Fiery endings for spacecraftBeijing (AFP) March 30, 2018 China's defunct Tiangong-1 space lab is expected to make a fiery re-entry into the earth's atmosphere in the coming days and disintegrate in what Chinese authorities promise will be a "splendid" show. ... more 
Tiangong-1 expected to burn up on reentering atmosphereBeijing (XNA) Mar 28, 2018 Tiangong-1, China's first space lab, should be fully burnt as it reenters the Earth's atmosphere, according to China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) on Monday. Analysis from Beijing Ae ... more 
Out of this world: Inside Japan's space colony centreTokyo (AFP) March 30, 2018 A newly created Space Colony Research centre led by Japan's first female astronaut is bringing cutting-edge technology to bear on one of mankind's greatest questions: Can we live in space? ... more 
US astronauts make spacewalk to perform ISS repairsWashington (AFP) March 29, 2018 Two American astronauts on Thursday completed a lengthy spacewalk to replace old hoses on the the International Space Station's cooling system and make other equipment upgrades, footage from the US space agency NASA showed. ... more |
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Fifty years on, Yuri Gagarin's death still shrouded in mysteryMoscow (AFP) March 27, 2018 Yuri Gagarin, feted as a Soviet national hero for being the first man in space, was killed in a plane crash 50 years ago but the details of his death remain shrouded in mystery. ... more  
Russia slams Poland's 'militarisation' after Patriot missile dealMoscow (AFP) March 29, 2018 Russia on Thursday condemned what it called Poland's "progressive militarisation" after Warsaw said last week it had signed a deal on buying a US Patriot anti-missile system. ... more  
Funds shortage pulls the brakes on India's crucial space programsNew Delhi (Sputnik) Mar 29, 2018 India's four strategically important space programs, including one of the world's most successful PSLV mission, are reportedly facing a severe fund shortage which may force the space scientists of t ... more  
Insitu tapped to manage ScanEagle UAS in AfghanistanWashington (UPI) Mar 29, 2018 Insitu Inc. has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for eight ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems. ... more  
General Dynamics awarded $61M contract for Abrams tank supportWashington (UPI) Mar 29, 2018 General Dynamics has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army for Abrams systems technical support. ... more |
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Fearing worst, French 'preppers' gear up for the Day AfterParis (AFP) March 23, 2018 When the end comes, ex-army signaller Daniel will calmly fire up the generator, flip on the water purifier, gather eggs from his chickens and watch in serene self-sufficiency as society tears itself apart. ... more  |
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Raytheon awarded contract for parts on Navy's H-60 helicoptersWashington (UPI) Mar 28, 2018 Raytheon received a contract from the Defense Logistics Agency for parts on variations of the Navy's H-60 helicopters, which include the Black Hawk and Seahawk. ... more 
Navy taps Boeing for services on Hornet, Growler aircraftWashington (UPI) Mar 28, 2018 Boeing has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for services in support of the the F/A-18A-F and EA-18G fighter jets for the U.S. and foreign countries. ... more 
Boeing tapped for F-15 radar upgradesWashington (UPI) Mar 30, 2018 The U.S. Air Force has awarded a contract to Boeing for the company's work on radar upgrades to F-15 aircraft. ... more  
UN council condemns Yemen missile attacks on Saudi ArabiaUnited Nations, United States (AFP) March 28, 2018 The UN Security Council on Wednesday condemned "in the strongest possible terms" multiple missile attacks launched by Yemen's Huthi rebels on Saudi Arabia, saying they posed a threat to regional security. ... more 
RUAG Aviation wins $25M Sidewinder missile support contractWashington (UPI) Mar 28, 2018 RUAG Aviation was awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force for guidance and control systems on Sidewinder missiles for the Northrop-manufactured F-5 aircraft. ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 30, 2018  One place China's Earth-bound and out-of-control spacelab, Tiangong-1, will probably not hit on Sunday is the forlorn spot in the southern Pacific Ocean where it was supposed to crash.
Officially called an "ocean point of inaccessibility," this watery graveyard for titanium fuel tanks and other high-tech space debris is better known to space junkies as Point Nemo, in honour of Jules Verne's ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Mar 29, 2018 
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is set to launch a high power S-band communication satellite GSAT-6A on Thursday at the behest of the country's armed forces. The 2,000 kg satellite will provide mobile connectivity anywhere in India using multi-beam coverage.
It will complement the GSAT-6, which has been orbiting since August 2015 at a longitude of 83 degrees East; its planned ... 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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 Washington (UPI) Mar 28, 2018 
Boeing has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for services in support of the the F/A-18A-F and EA-18G fighter jets for the U.S. and foreign countries.
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $34.4 million under the terms of a previously issued firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 30, 2018 
Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables crisscross the globe and package everything from financial data to cat videos into light. But when the signal arrives at your local data center, it runs into a silicon bottleneck. Instead of light, computers run on electrons moving through silicon-based chips - which, despite huge advances, are still less efficient than photonics.
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 27, 2018 
Lightning triggers powerful electrical bursts in Earth's atmosphere almost every second. The inner workings of these magnificent forces of nature are still unknown, but a rare observation by an ESA astronaut gave a boost to the science community. A European detector will take on the challenge of hunting for thunderstorms from space next week.
As he flew over India at 28 800 km/h on the Int ... more |
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 London (AFP) March 27, 2018 
Britain on Wednesday announced plans for consumers to pay a deposit on plastic bottles as part of a broader push to tackle pollution.
The government will introduce a charge on plastic, glass and metal single use drinks containers sold in England, the environment ministry said.
The move is aimed at cutting the amount of waste produced in Britain - including an estimated 13 billion plasti ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 27, 2018 
An uncontrolled Chinese space station weighing at least seven tonnes is set to break up as it hurtles to Earth on or around April 1, the European Space Agency has forecast.
"It will mostly burn up due to the extreme heat generated by its high-speed passage through the atmosphere," it said in a statement.
Some debris from the Tiangong-1 - or "Heavenly Palace" - spacelab will likely fal ... more |
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 Warsaw (AFP) March 28, 2018 
Poland signed on Wednesday a $4.75 billion (3.8-billion-euro) contract to purchase a US-made Patriot anti-missile system, a move that is likely to irk Russia as East-West tensions rise.
The weapons deal is the largest-ever by NATO-member Poland. The first deliveries are expected in 2022 with the system due to become operational a year later.
The Patriot is a mobile air-defence system mad ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 26, 2018 
Raytheon was awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force for advanced medium range air to air missiles, also known as AMRAAMs.
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $523.1 million under the terms of a fixed-price incentive contract, which is a modification to a previous award.
The agreement enables Raytheon to to provide AMRAAMs, along wit ... 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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 Kyoto, 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 answers.
Brown's paper, published in Molecular Informatics, deconstructs the utilization of AI and analyzes the nature of the statistics used to report an AI program's ability. The new technique ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 29, 2018 
Insitu Inc. has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for eight ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems.
The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $47 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price delivery order contract, which is a modification to a previous basic order agreement, the Pentagon said.
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