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  Tampa (AFP) April 4, 2018 SpaceX's unmanned Dragon cargo ship arrived Wednesday at the International Space Station, packed with food, gear and science experiments for the astronauts living in orbit. "We have capture confirmed," a NASA commentator said as the space station's robotic arm latched onto the gum-drop shaped spacecraft at 6:40 am (1040 GMT), at a moment when the spacecraft was over the southern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The spacecraft was bolted onto the orbiting outpost at 9 am (1300 GMT). ... read more |
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China's 'space dream': A Long March to the moonBeijing (AFP) April 2, 2018 The plunge back to Earth of a defunct Chinese space laboratory will not slow down Beijing's ambitious plans to send humans to the moon. ... more  
New research payloads heading to ISS on SpaceX Resupply MissionCape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 Astronauts aboard the International Space Station soon will receive a delivery of experiments dealing with how the human body, plants and materials behave in space following the 4:30 p.m. EDT launch ... more 
SpaceX launches cargo to space station using recycled rocket, spaceshipTampa (AFP) April 2, 2018 SpaceX blasted off a load of supplies Monday for the International Space Station aboard a rocket and a cargo ship that have both flown before, marking the second such flight for the California-based company. ... more 
Parachute Testing Lands Partners Closer to Crewed Flight TestsKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 Crew safety is paramount in the return of human spaceflight launches from Florida's Space Coast, and the latest round of parachute testing is providing valuable data to help industry partners Boeing ... more |
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US to sell European allies $4.7bn in military aircraftWashington (AFP) April 4, 2018 The United States on Wednesday approved $4.7 billion in deals for American firms to sell jet fighters to Slovakia, military helicopters to Spain and armed drones to Britain. ... more  
Russian delivery of S-400 missiles brought forward to July 2019Istanbul (AFP) April 4, 2018 Turkey and Russia have agreed to bring forward to July 2019 the delivery of S-400 air defence missile systems to Ankara, a Turkish official said, in a purchase that has raised eyebrows among NATO allies. ... more 
Rocket Lab 'Its Business Time' launch window to open 20 April 2018 NZTHuntington Beach CA (SPX) Apr 05, 2018 US orbital launch provider Rocket Lab has confirmed it will open a 14-day launch window this month to conduct the company's first fully commercial launch. The mission, named 'It's Business Time', in ... more 
Aerospace Tech Startups Get a Chance to Pitch at JPLPasadena 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 wit ... more 
No Space for Partnership: Analyst Predicts Dark Future for ISS Joint ProjectMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 05, 2018 Why the European nations don't cooperate with Russia in the space industry and manned spacecraft is a question which puzzles space industry expert Gerhard Kowalski. He told Sputnik in an interview w ... more |
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BAE delivers Armored Multipurpose Vehicles to Army for testingWashington (UPI) Apr 4, 2018 BAE Systems has delivered all five variants of its Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle to the U.S. Army for testing. ... more  |
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US F-16 crashes near Las Vegas, third crash in two daysWashington (AFP) April 4, 2018 An American F-16 fighter jet crashed on Wednesday near Las Vegas, the third US military aircraft crash in two days. ... 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 
Navy taps General Electric for F/A-18 enginesWashington (UPI) Apr 4, 2018 The U.S. Navy has exercised a contract option with Generic Electric for engines in its F/A-18 fighter aircraft. ... more 
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  
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 |
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 Nottingham UK (The Conversation) Apr 03, 2018 
From surviving take off to having to rely on oxygen tanks to breathe in orbit, space travel is incredibly risky. But a huge hazard that we sometimes overlook is high energy radiation from sources both inside and outside the solar system.
A new study, published in the journal Space Weather, has shown that radiation received from outside our solar system has been increasing steadily for the ... more |
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 New 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.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost communication with the GSAT-6A satellite as it prepared to undertake its third and final orbiting manoeuvre on Saturday.
"Efforts are underway to establish the link with the satellite," ISRO s ... 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.
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 Washington (AFP) April 4, 2018 
The United States on Wednesday approved $4.7 billion in deals for American firms to sell jet fighters to Slovakia, military helicopters to Spain and armed drones to Britain.
All three countries are NATO members, and the sale of F-16 fighters to Slovakia will enable it to retire its Russian-built MiG-29s and build a fleet to work with its Western allies.
US President Donald Trump has call ... more |
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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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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 05, 2018 
China Wednesday received the first package of data from the three high-resolution Gaofen-1 satellites launched on March 31, according to the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The package of data with a total size of 166.31 gigabytes was received by the remote sensing satellite ground station in Miyun on the outskirts of Beijing.
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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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 Istanbul (AFP) April 4, 2018 
Turkey and Russia have agreed to bring forward to July 2019 the delivery of S-400 air defence missile systems to Ankara, a Turkish official said, in a purchase that has raised eyebrows among NATO allies.
"We brought forward the delivery date in the contract signed with Russia for the acquisition of S-400 systems and got an earlier date of July 2019," Ismail Demir, Turkish Defence Industries ... 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) Apr 05, 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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 Jerusalem (AFP) March 31, 2018 
An Israeli drone has crashed in southern Lebanon due to a technical malfunction, the military said on Saturday, after Hezbollah media labelled it a "spy" device.
The Israeli military said that the drone crash in an open area on Friday night posed "no risk of leaked information." It provided no further details.
Hezbollah television station Al-Manar reported that the "spy drone" fell betwe ... more |
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