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  Webster TX (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 NanoRacks is pleased to announce that the Company will be pursuing International Space Station opportunities in cooperation with ALTEC and Thales Alenia Space, joint venture between Thales 67% and Leonardo 33%. To pursue these opportunities, NanoRacks will be staffing its first formal European-based office at ALTEC's facilities in Torino, Italy. The office will serve as a business development hub for European and Asian customers. International customers will enjoy NanoRacks end-to-end turnkey serv ... read more |
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Interview with a robot: AI revolution hits human resourcesParis (AFP) April 27, 2018 You have a telephone interview for your dream job, and you're feeling nervous. You make yourself a cup of tea as you wait for the phone to ring, and you count to three before picking up. ... more  
US judge orders GPS monitoring for house-bound CosbyNew York (AFP) April 27, 2018 Convicted sex offender Bill Cosby was ordered Friday to be fitted with a GPS monitor and undergo a violent sexual predators' assessment, allowed to leave home only for medical treatment or to meet his lawyers. ... more  
China outlines roadmap for deep space explorationHarbin, China (XNA) Apr 26, 2018 China is planning four deep space exploration missions before 2030, including probes to Mars, asteroids and Jupiter, says Pei Zhaoyu, deputy director of the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Cente ... more  
2020 Decadal Survey Missions: At a GlanceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 25, 2018 Any telescope that reaches the launch pad in the 2030s likely will look much different than the concepts four teams are currently studying to inform the 2020 Decadal Survey for Astrophysics, but the ... more |
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Silent Sentry: Protecting Space CommunicationsAl Udeid Air Base, Qatar (SPX) Apr 30, 2018 More than 20,000 above the Earth's surface, communication satellites orbit the planet, listening for a signal. Once they receive a signal, they repeat it and send it back down to the surface. ... more  
Saudi Arabia downs four Yemeni rebel missiles: coalitionRiyadh (AFP) April 28, 2018 Saudi Arabia on Saturday intercepted four ballistic missiles fired by Yemeni rebels, the Saudi-led coalition against the insurgents said, with a local official reporting one man had been killed in the attack. ... more  
Air Force contracts for Reaper drone servicesWashington (UPI) Apr 27, 2018 The U.S. Air Force has awarded General Atomics a contract for services in support of MQ-9 Reaper drones. ... more 
Pentagon cancels $89.4M X-Plane UAV programWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 30, 2018 The Pentagon's secret weapons maker has dustbinned its LightningStrike experimental drone project with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities. The Defense Advanced Research Projects ... more  
Ukraine offers to provide NATO with cargo aircraftKiev (AFP) April 27, 2018 Ukraine's state-run Antonov Airlines said Friday it is willing to provide more cargo planes to NATO after a Russian company said it would halt its contract with the transatlantic alliance at the end of the year. ... more |
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Airbus and Dassault to team up on combat fighterBerlin (AFP) April 25, 2018 Airbus and Dassault Aviation announced Wednesday they intend to team up on the development of a French-German combat fighter, a project Paris and Berlin unveiled last year. ... more  |
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Grumman awarded $209M for Large Aircraft Infrared CountermeasuresWashington DC (UPI) Apr 12, 2018 Northrop Grumman has been awarded a modification to a previous contract to provide the U.S. Air Force and foreign customers with Large Aircraft Infrared Counter Measure, or LAIRCM, equipment and support. ... more 
Harris awarded $14.9M for aircraft switch systemsWashington DC (UPI) Apr 12, 2018 The U.S. Navy awarded Harris Corp. a $14.9 million contract to procure 144 fiber channel network switch systems for several aircraft. ... more 
Lockheed Martin wins F-35 software sustainment contractWashington (UPI) Apr 25, 2018 Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for flight test software on the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter aircraft. ... more 
Lockheed contracted for F-35 support for Navy, ItalyWashington (UPI) Apr 26, 2018 Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for services in support of the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter. ... more  
Before the flood arrivesPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 30, 2018 River floods are one of the most common and devastating of Earth's natural disasters. In the past decade, deluges from rivers have killed thousands of people every year around the world and caused l ... more |
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 Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
A KAIST research team developed a technology to increase the stability of amine-containing adsorbents by fifty times, moving one step further toward commercializing stable adsorbents that last longer.
Professor Minkee Choi from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and his team succeeded in developing amine-containing adsorbents that show high oxidative stability.
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 Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar (SPX) Apr 30, 2018  More than 20,000 above the Earth's surface, communication satellites orbit the planet, listening for a signal. Once they receive a signal, they repeat it and send it back down to the surface.
The U.S. Air Force uses many types of satellite communications to transmit data all around the globe. With the encryption of data, the U.S. Air Force denies prying eyes the ability to read critical in ... more |
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 New York (AFP) April 27, 2018 
Convicted sex offender Bill Cosby was ordered Friday to be fitted with a GPS monitor and undergo a violent sexual predators' assessment, allowed to leave home only for medical treatment or to meet his lawyers.
Judge Steven O'Neill signed the order, clarifying the terms of the disgraced icon's $1 million bail, one day after a Pennsylvania jury found Cosby guilty on three counts of sexual assa ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 12, 2018 
The U.S. Navy awarded Harris Corp. a $14.9 million contract to procure 144 fiber channel network switch systems for several aircraft.
The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is a modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract.
The communications devices for the Navy, and the governments of Australia and Kuwait, are to be used on the F/A-18E ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
Over the past decades, computers have become faster and faster and hard disks and storage chips have reached enormous capacities. But this trend cannot continue forever: we are already running up against physical limits that will prevent silicon-based computer technology from attaining any impressive speed gains from this point on.
Researchers are particularly optimistic that the next era ... more |
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Apr 30, 2018 
China on Thursday sent five Zhuhai-1 remote sensing satellites into space on a single carrier rocket.
The Long March-11 carrier rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:42 p.m. The launch was the 272nd flight mission for the Long March series of carrier rockets.
Zhuhai-1 is a commercial remote sensing satellite constellation invested in by Zhuha ... more |
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 Bangkok (AFP) April 29, 2018 
Around 1,000 people rallied in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai on Sunday to protest the construction of homes for officials on forested land flanking a revered mountain, in one of the largest shows of dissent under junta rule.
Public frustration has been mounting over the project since aerial images of several dozen officials' homes - carved into the green foothills of Chiang Mai's Doi ... more |
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 Harbin, China (XNA) Apr 26, 2018 
China is planning four deep space exploration missions before 2030, including probes to Mars, asteroids and Jupiter, says Pei Zhaoyu, deputy director of the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
China would launch its first Mars probe in 2020, and it was expected to orbit around, land and put a rover on the Red Planet, Pei told a space confe ... more |
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 Riyadh (AFP) April 28, 2018 
Saudi Arabia on Saturday intercepted four ballistic missiles fired by Yemeni rebels, the Saudi-led coalition against the insurgents said, with a local official reporting one man had been killed in the attack.
The missiles were headed towards the city of Jizan in southern Saudi Arabia, according to a coalition statement.
While the coalition said the attack claimed no casualties, Jizan's ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 25, 2018 
Raytheon has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force for advanced medium range air-to-air missiles under foreign military sales.
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $12 million under the terms of a fixed-price-incentive contract, which is a modification to a previous award.
The contract from the Air Force Life Cycle Management ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
Nearly a hundred years ago, Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose predicted that quantum mechanics can force a large number of particles to behave in concert as if they were only a single particle. The phenomenon is called Bose-Einstein condensation, and it took until 1995 to create the first such condensate of a gas of alkali atoms.
Although Bose-Einstein condensation has been observed ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 27, 2018 
You have a telephone interview for your dream job, and you're feeling nervous. You make yourself a cup of tea as you wait for the phone to ring, and you count to three before picking up.
Now imagine that your interviewer is a robot named Vera.
Russian startup Stafory co-founder Alexei Kostarev says Robot Vera, which his company developed, is driven by artificial intelligence (AI) algorit ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 27, 2018 
The U.S. Air Force has awarded General Atomics a contract for services in support of MQ-9 Reaper drones.
The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $26.6 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract, which is a modification to a previous Pentagon award.
The agreement between the Air Force's Life Cycle Management Center and General ... more |
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