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  Washington DC (UPI) Apr 19, 2018 MacAulay-Brown Inc. has been awarded a contract by the Missile Defense Agency for development and services to support the Ballistic Missile Defense System. The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $67.8 million under a competitive cost-plus-fixed-fee level of effort contract. The contract enables to MacAulay-Brown Inc., out of Dayton, Ohio, to provide "agency advisory and analytical support in support of technical, engineering, advisory and manag ... read more |
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China strengthens international space cooperationBeijing (XNA) Apr 23, 2018 China will continue to strengthen international cooperation in peaceful exploration and utilization of outer space, said Li Guoping, a spokesman of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), Th ... more 
NASA Takes First 3-D Microscopic Image on the Space StationCleveland OH (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 Standard flat imagery of space science is a thing of the past for researchers at NASA's Glenn Research Center and Procter and Gamble Co. (P and G). Using the International Space Station's newly upgr ... more 
Raytheon tapped for Air and Missile Defense Radar ProgramWashington (UPI) Apr 20, 2018 Raytheon has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for services in support of the Air and Missile Defense Radar Program. ... more  
US to drop curbs on drone tech to boost arms salesWashington (AFP) April 20, 2018 The United States dropped some restrictions Thursday on sales of its advanced drones in order to reinforce the armies of its allies and compete with China on the world arms market. ... more |
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Inactivity bigger threat to muscles in space than low oxygen, study saysWashington DC (UPI) Apr 18, 2018 In experiments designed to measure the impacts of spaceflight on human muscle health and performance, researchers were surprised to find inactivity had a greater negative effect than hypoxia. ... more 
NASA's New Space 'Botanist' Arrives at Launch SitePasadena CA (JPL) Apr 18, 2018 A new instrument that will provide a unique, space-based measurement of how plants respond to changes in water availability has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin final prepa ... more  
China to launch Long March-5 Y3 rocket in late 2018Beijing (XNA) Apr 17, 2018 China plans to launch its heavy-lift carrier rocket, the Long March-5 Y3, in late 2018, after finding the cause of the failure of the Long March-5 Y2, according to the St ... more 
Syrian air defence shoots down missiles over Homs: state mediaDamascus, Syria (AFP) April 17, 2018 Syrian air defence shot down missiles over the central province of Homs, the state news agency said Tuesday, with the strikes reportedly targeting regime air bases. ... more 
4,000 UAE Citizens Applied to Become Country's First Astronauts - Space CentreMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 18, 2018 More than 4,000 United Arab Emirates (UAE) nationals applied for the program that aims to prepare the country's first astronaut corps for participation in space exploration missions, the Mohammed Bi ... more |
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European Space Agency Hopes Skripal Case Won't Affect Work With RussiaColorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 19, 2018 The European Space Agency (ESA) hopes that the Skripal case will not affect the agency's cooperation with Russia, ESA Director-General Jan Woerner told Sputnik. "In our case, our relation with ... more  |
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US Air Force awards nearly $1 bn for hypersonic missileWashington (AFP) April 19, 2018 The US Air Force is awarding almost $1 billion to Lockheed Martin to design and develop a hypersonic missile that can be launched from a warplane. ... more  
Open Geospatial Consortium announces the European Space Agency's upgrade to Strategic MembershipWashington DC (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce that the European Space Agency (ESA) has raised its membership level from Technical to Strategic - OGC's highest level of membership. As ... more 
Arianespace to launch BSAT-4b; marking the 10th satellite launch for B-SATEvry, France (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 Arianespace reports that it will launch BSAT-4b, under the term of a turnkey contract between B-SAT and Maxar's SSL. BSAT-4b will be launched by an Ariane 5 in 2020 from the Guiana Space Cente ... more 
New research seeks to optimize space travel efficiencyChicago IL (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 Sending a human into space and doing it efficiently presents a galaxy of challenges. Koki Ho, University of Illinois assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, and his graduate ... more 
New DARPA Challenge Seeks Flexible and Responsive Launch SolutionsWashington DC (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 DARPA announced the DARPA Launch Challenge, designed to promote rapid access to space within days, not years. Our nation's space architecture is currently built around a limited number of exquisite ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method for generating numbers guaranteed to be random by quantum mechanics. Described in the April 12 issue of Nature, the experimental technique surpasses all previous methods for ensuring the unpredictability of its random numbers and may enhance security and trust in cryptographic systems.
The new ... more |
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 Baikonur, Kazakhstan (Sputnik) Apr 19, 2018  A Russian carrier rocket with a military satellite blasted off early on Thursday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed.
"The Proton-M heavy-lift rocket with a payload commissioned by the Defense Ministry was successfully launched from Baikonur," a spokesperson for the ministry told reporters.
The launch took place at 1:12 a.m. Moscow time ... more |
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 Denver CO (SPX) Apr 18, 2018 
ockheed Martin has submitted a competitive and fully compliant proposal for the U.S. Air Force's GPS III Follow On (GPS IIIF) program, which will add enhanced capabilities to the most advanced GPS satellites ever designed. The GPS IIIF program intends to produce up to 22 next-generation satellites.
The Air Force's first 10 GPS III satellites, currently in full production at Lockheed Martin ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 17, 2018  Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for repairs on multiple E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft.
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $22.8 million under the terms of a ceiling-priced, undefinitized contract action delivery order contract, which is a modification to a previous agreement.
The contract awarded from Nav ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Apr 20, 2018  Two and a half years ago, a team of researchers led by groups at MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and Boston University announced a milestone: the fabrication of a working microprocessor, built using only existing manufacturing processes, that integrated electronic and optical components on the same chip.
The researchers' approach, however, required that the chip's electrical ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
Two thirds of Earth's surface are covered by water - and two thirds of Earth's atmosphere reside over the oceans, far from land and the traditional ways that people measure the gases and pollutants that cycle through the air and around the globe.
While satellites in space measuring the major gases can close some of that gap, it takes an aircraft to find out what's really happening in the c ... more |
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 Portsmouth UK (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
Scientists have engineered an enzyme which can digest some of our most commonly polluting plastics, providing a potential solution to one of the world's biggest environmental problems.
The discovery could result in a recycling solution for millions of tonnes of plastic bottles, made of polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, which currently persists for hundreds of years in the environment. ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 17, 2018  China plans to launch its heavy-lift carrier rocket, the Long March-5 Y3, in late 2018, after finding the cause of the failure of the Long March-5 Y2, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.
The Long March-5 Y2 rocket was launched from Wenchang Space Launch Center in the southern province of Hainan on July ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 20, 2018 
Raytheon has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for services in support of the Air and Missile Defense Radar Program.
The deal, announced by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $136.5 million under the terms of a fixed-price-incentive, firm target contract, which is a modification of a previous contract.
The contract from Naval Sea Systems Command enables Rayt ... more |
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 Colorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 18, 2018 
The States United has observed Russia and China operating hypersonic missiles, US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) commander Gen. John Hyten told reporters.
"We observed Russia and China operating hypersonic missiles," Hyten said on Tuesday. "We have observed both Russia and China testing hypersonic capabilities."
Earlier, Gen. John Hyten in his testimony before the US Senate Armed Servi ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
A current area of intense interest in nanotechnology is van der Waals heterostructures, which are assemblies of atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) crystalline materials that display attractive conduction properties for use in advanced electronic devices.
A representative 2D semiconductor is graphene, which consists of a honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms that is just one atom thick. The d ... more |
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 Columbus OH (SPX) Apr 23, 2018 
You can wear an exoskeleton, but it won't turn you into a superhero.
That's the finding of a study in which researchers tested a commercially available exoskeleton - a mechanical arm attached to a harness - that's typically worn by workers to help them carry heavy objects hands-free.
In the journal Applied Ergonomics, the researchers report that that the device relieved stress on the ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 20, 2018 
The United States dropped some restrictions Thursday on sales of its advanced drones in order to reinforce the armies of its allies and compete with China on the world arms market.
President Donald Trump's White House announced an update to its policy on arms transfers to promote US exports and jobs, and specifically to loosen the rules on selling unmanned warplanes.
Trump's chief trade ... more |
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