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  Redmond WA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 Aerojet Rocketdyne's NEXT-C ion propulsion engine has successfully cleared NASA's critical design review (CDR), confirming the technology achieved all program requirements and is ready for final production of the flight units. NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial (NEXT-C) was developed by NASA and is being commercialized by Aerojet Rocketdyne. NEXT-C has 7kW of maximum power and greater than 4100s specific impulse (Isp). Its high Isp and flexible operational capabilities make NEXT ideal f ... read more |
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Take it from me: I'm not signing up to become a space tourist just yetMelbourne, Australia (The Conversation) Apr 11, 2018 Elon Musk's SpaceX reportedly has two people signed up for a trip around the Moon (although these plans have been delayed slightly), and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has advanced plans to launc ... more  
Estonia calls for deployment of Patriot missiles and US troopsWashington (AFP) April 5, 2018 Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid called for US Patriot missiles and troops to be deployed to her small Baltic state Wednesday, telling AFP it was necessary to make deterrence "believable" for Russia. ... more  
NASA sends sperm into space for human reproduction studyWashington (UPI) Apr 10, 2018 Whether or not humans have ever had sex in space remains an open debate on the internet. NASA, however, is more interested in the hypothetical question of whether or not humans can conceive in space. ... more  
Overcoming a battery's fatal flawAustin TX (SPX) Apr 05, 2018 As renewable energy grows as a power source around the world, one key component still eludes the industry: large-scale, stable, efficient and affordable batteries. Lithium-ion batteries have p ... more |
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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 
Student Launch Teams Rendezvous in Huntsville for NASA CompetitionHuntsville AL (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 The public and media are invited as 54 student teams compete in NASA's 18th annual Student Launch, near the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Saturday, April 7. ... 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  
Air Force contracts with SRC for drone supplies, servicesWashington (UPI) Apr 10, 2018 SRC Inc. has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force for services in support of counter unmanned aerial systems. ... more  
Clashes as French police clear anti-airport protest campNotre-Dame-Des-Landes, France (AFP) April 9, 2018 French anti-capitalist activists clashed with riot police at burning barricades Monday during a huge security operation to clear a rural protest camp at the site of an abandoned airport project. ... more |
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Two soldiers killed in Kentucky copter crash: armyWashington (AFP) April 7, 2018 Two US soldiers with an airborne combat brigade died when their Apache helicopter crashed during a routine training mission at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, the army reported Saturday. ... more  |
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US agrees guided missiles for Qatar before Trump talksWashington (AFP) April 9, 2018 The United States approved a deal to sell Qatar $300 million in guided missiles Monday, on the eve of President Donald Trump's White House meeting with Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. ... more  
DT Research introduces new rugged tablet with scientific-grade GNSSSan Jose CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 DT Research, the leading designer and manufacturer of purpose-built computing solutions for vertical markets, has announced the DT301T Rugged RTK Tablet, a lightweight military-grade tablet that is ... more 
Deep Space Industries to provide Comet satellite propulsion for BlackSky, LeoStellaSeattle WA (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 Deep Space Industries (DSI) has signed a contract to provide its Comet water-based satellite propulsion systems for the BlackSky Earth observation constellation of smallsats. DSI will provide an ini ... more  
DARPA Announces First Annual Electronics Resurgence Initiative SummitWashington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 The microelectronics community is facing an array of long foreseen obstacles to Moore's Law, the transistor scaling that has allowed for 50 years of rapid progress in electronics. Current economic, ... more 
Ariane 5 launches two satellitesKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Apr 06, 2018 Arianespace has successfully launched two telecommunications satellites: DSN-1/Superbird-8 for the Japanese operator SKY Perfect JSAT; and HYLAS 4 for the British operator Avanti Communications. ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
IMAGE's signal remains too weak to achieve frame lock, which is necessary to retrieve data from the spacecraft. But important steps have been taken this week to be prepared in case of re-established contact.
Last week, the engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, successfully established network connections with both the antennas at NASA's Wallops Flight Faci ... 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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 San Jose CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 
DT Research, the leading designer and manufacturer of purpose-built computing solutions for vertical markets, has announced the DT301T Rugged RTK Tablet, a lightweight military-grade tablet that is purpose-built for GIS mapping applications with Real Time Kinematic (RTK) satellite navigation used to enhance the precision of position data derived from satellite-based positioning systems. This uni ... more |
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 Palmdale CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 
Supersonic commercial travel is on the horizon. NASA awarded Lockheed Martin Skunk Works a contract to design, build and flight test the Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator, an X-plane designed to make supersonic passenger air travel a reality.
"It is super exciting to be back designing and flying X-planes at this scale," said Jaiwon Shin, NASA's associate administrator for aeronautics. "Our long ... more |
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 Vienna, Australia (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 
Two novel materials, each composed of a single atomic layer and the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope - these are the ingredients to create a novel kind of a so-called "quantum dot".
These extremely small nanostructures allow delicate control of individual electrons by fine-tuning their energy levels directly. Such devices are key for modern quantum technologies.
The theoretical ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Apr 11, 2018 
The first group of China's Yaogan-31 remote sensing satellites were sent into space on Tuesday at 12:25 p.m. Beijing time from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China.
The satellites were carried by a Long March-4C rocket, the 271st mission for the Long March rocket family.
The mission also sent a micro nano technology experiment satellite into orbit.
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 Manila (AFP) April 6, 2018  The Philippine tourism industry scrambled Friday to manage the fallout from the temporary shutdown of its world-famous Boracay island, which threw into chaos trips planned by hundreds of thousands of tourists.
President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the once-idyllic white-sand resort closed to tourists for up to six months from April 26, after describing the country's top tourist attraction as a " ... more |
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 Beijing (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.
The Tiangong-1 space module, which crashed Monday, was intended to serve as a stepping stone to a manned station, but its problems highlight the difficulties of exploring outer space.
But China has come a long way in its race to catch up with the United ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) April 8, 2018 
On January 5, as Tokyo's commuters were struggling back to work after their long New Year break, blaring sirens from every phone pierced the sleepy atmosphere: "strong" earthquake coming.
The message delivered via the country's alert system, part of its much-hyped J-Alert mechanism, warned of a big one directly hitting the Japanese capital - potentially on the scale of the devastating 2011 ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 9, 2018 
The United States approved a deal to sell Qatar $300 million in guided missiles Monday, on the eve of President Donald Trump's White House meeting with Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
The Gulf emirate is a long-standing American military ally and host to the largest US air base in the Middle East, but ties have been clouded by a crisis with its Arab neighbors.
Led by US allies Saudi Arabi ... 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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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2018 
The new Russian manned spacecraft Federatsiya (Federation) is designed to deliver people and cargo to low earth orbit, as well as to the moon. The first such spaceship is expected to be commissioned by 2021.
It will be a modernized version of the humanoid robot FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) that is expected to be the first to fly to outer space on board the state ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 10, 2018 
SRC Inc. has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force for services in support of counter unmanned aerial systems.
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at $57.5 million under the terms of a undefinitized contract action.
The agreement enables SRC Inc., out of North Syracuse, N.Y., for counter unmanned aerial systems.
Work on the contract w ... more |
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