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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 03, 2018 Fifteen startup companies in the aerospace sector descended on NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on March 15 to pitch their ideas to a packed von Karman auditorium filled with JPL technologists, corporate and government agency leaders, and potential investors. The event, co-hosted by JPL and Starburst Accelerator, gave each presenter about 15 minutes to pitch their products and business plans in the hopes of bending the ears of investors, and raising awareness of the emerge ... read more |
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Anticipating the dangers of spaceAustin TX (SPX) Apr 04, 2018 Alongside the well-known hazards of space - freezing temperatures, crushing pressures, isolation - astronauts also face risks from radiation, which can cause illness or injure organs. Though n ... more  
NASA X-Plane construction set to beginWashington DC (SPX) Apr 04, 2018 NASA's aeronautical innovators are ready to take things supersonic, but with a quiet twist. For the first time in decades, NASA aeronautics is moving forward with the construction of a piloted ... more  
India Struggling to Establish Lost Link With Crucial Communication SatelliteNew Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2018 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has said it has not given up on the recently launched GSAT-6A that went missing ahead of the third and final course correction firing on April 1. ... more  
OFFSET "Sprinters" to Pursue State-of-the-art Solutions for Second Swarm SprintWashington DC (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program envisions future small-unit infantry forces using small unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) and/or small unmanned ground systems (UGSs) in swarm ... more |
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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  
Poland buys US Patriot anti-missile system for $4.8 bnWarsaw (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. ... more  
Earth-bound Chinese spacelab plunging to fiery endParis (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. ... more 
What the first American astronauts taught us about living in spaceHouston TX (SPX) Mar 28, 2018 NASA's Project Mercury was the United States' first human-in-space program. Between 1961 and 1963, six astronauts carried out successful one-person spaceflights that offered physicians and scientist ... more 
NASA accepting applications for mission control leadersWashington DC (SPX) Mar 28, 2018 How would you like to sit at the helm of human spaceflight, responsible for the success of missions and the highly trained teams of engineers and scientists that make them possible? NASA is hiring n ... more |
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Russia, Turkey agree to speed up delivery of S-400s: PutinAnkara (AFP) April 3, 2018 Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday said he had agreed with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to speed up the delivery of S-400 air defence missile systems to Ankara, a purchase that has alarmed Turkey's NATO partners. ... more  |
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China sends twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites into spaceXichang (XNA) Apr 03, 2018 China on Friday sent twin satellites into space with a single carrier rocket, adding two more members for its domestic BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). The Long March-3B carrier rocke ... more 
NASA hires Lockheed Martin to build quiet, supersonic planeWashington (AFP) April 3, 2018 NASA has inked a deal with Lockheed Martin to develop a supersonic "X-plane" that could break the sound barrier without a sonic boom, officials said Tuesday. ... more 
Navy taps Lockheed Martin for more F-35 supportWashington (UPI) Apr 3, 2018 Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for services in support of the F-35 Lightning II, a fifth-generation tactical fighter. ... more 
Pilot dies in Myanmar military plane crashYangon (AFP) April 3, 2018 A Myanmar pilot died on Tuesday after a "technical failure" caused his military jet fighter to plummet into a paddy field in the centre of the country, the army said. ... more
Indian scientists lose contact with satelliteNew Delhi (AFP) April 1, 2018 India's national space agency has lost contact with a satellite days after it was launched into orbit with much fanfare, authorities said Sunday. ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2018 
China's unresponsive Tiangong-1 space lab has come down over the South Pacific, it broke up while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere at 17,000 miles per hour according to Chinese reports. Sputnik discussed this with Dr. Alice Gorman, an internationally recognized leader in the field of space archaeology and Senior Lecturer at Flinders University.
Sputnik: How accurate can you say the predi ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2018 
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has said it has not given up on the recently launched GSAT-6A that went missing ahead of the third and final course correction firing on April 1.
The communication satellite was launched on March 29 this year from the spaceport Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
"The scientists completed the second orbit raising operation of GSAT-6A on Saturd ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Apr 03, 2018 
China on Friday sent twin satellites into space with a single carrier rocket, adding two more members for its domestic BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS).
The Long March-3B carrier rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 1:56 a.m. The launch was the 269th mission for the Long March rocket family.
The twin satellites are co ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 04, 2018 
NASA's aeronautical innovators are ready to take things supersonic, but with a quiet twist.
For the first time in decades, NASA aeronautics is moving forward with the construction of a piloted X-plane, designed from scratch to fly faster than sound with the latest in quiet supersonic technologies.
The new X-plane's mission: provide crucial data that could enable commercial supersonic ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 30, 2018 
China has issued new guidelines on transferring intellectual property rights from Chinese firms or individuals to foreign investors, as global tensions rise over technology theft.
The instructions made public by the State Council on Thursday stipulate that IP rights related to integrated circuits, computer software copyrights and new plant breeds will be reviewed by the government before any ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2018 
A 314-kilogram heavy observatory launched to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center is a culmination of almost 20 years of work by a Danish research team that cost close to $50 million. The project is expected to shed light on climate change and propel Denmark to a top slot in space exploration.
The Asim Space Observatory has been successfully launched into space and ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 3, 2018 
Donald Trump's environment chief came under mounting criticism Tuesday, including from within his own Republican Party, over renting a lobbyist's apartment and other damaging revelations, but he appeared to have the president's backing.
Amid speculation that Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, could be the latest of Trump's cabinet members to get the axe, congressional ... 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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 Ankara (AFP) April 3, 2018  Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday said he had agreed with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to speed up the delivery of S-400 air defence missile systems to Ankara, a purchase that has alarmed Turkey's NATO partners.
"We took the decision to speed up the timetable for the delivery of these highly effective Russian systems," Putin told reporters after talks with Erdogan in the ... 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 DC (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 
DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program envisions future small-unit infantry forces using small unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) and/or small unmanned ground systems (UGSs) in swarms of 250 robots or more to accomplish diverse missions in complex urban environments. By leveraging and combining emerging technologies in swarm autonomy and human-swarm teaming, the program seeks to ... more |
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