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  Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 01, 2018 Students from universities and community colleges across the nation recently participated in third annual Swarmathon. The robotic programming competition took place at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Visitor Complex April 17-19. Their developments may lead to technology that could help astronauts find needed resources while exploring the Moon or Mars. In her welcoming remarks, Deputy Center Director Janet Petro noted that work is ongoing to prepare for NASA's new rocket that will send humans to deep s ... read more |
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China to launch advanced space cargo transport aircraft in 2019Wuhan (XNA) Apr 30, 2018 A new type of space cargo transport aircraft is under development and will complete its maiden flight in 2019, a space engineering company based in central China's Wuhan said Thursday. The air ... more  
Russia develops space sauna and washing machineMoscow (Sputnik) May 01, 2018 The international space station (ISS) may be equipped with sauna and shower units in the future, according to the Research and Design Institute of Chemical Engineering (NIICHIMMASH) in Moscow, Russi ... more  
China developing reusable space rocketBeijing (XNA) May 01, 2018 China aims to recover the first stage of the Long March-8 carrier rocket, which is still under development and is expected to make its maiden flight around 2021, according to a Chinese rocket expert ... more  
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 |
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NASA upgrades Space Station emergency communications ground stationsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 25, 2018 Since the launch of the International Space Station's first component in 1998, communications infrastructure has been critical to the station's success and crew safety. NASA is currently implementin ... more
Across China: Rocket launch brings back fortune to localsHaikou, China (XNA) Apr 23, 2018 Battery carts carry tourists around Wenchang space launch center on the Chinese island province of Hainan. A 130 yuan (20.7 U.S. dollars) ticket allows them to view the launch and operation control ... more 
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  
Navy taps Raytheon for Tomahawk missilesWashington (UPI) Apr 30, 2018 Raytheon has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for Tomahawk cruise missiles. ... more 
Lockheed Martin to supply rocket systems to 3 countriesWashington (UPI) Apr 30, 2018 Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army for guided multiple-launch rocket systems for various foreign countries. ... more |
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Marines tap Heckler and Koch for M27s, spare partsWashington (UPI) Apr 30, 2018 Heckler and Koch Defense has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Marine Corps for M27 Infantry Automatic Rifles. ... more  |
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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 
AI helps soldiers learn many times faster in combatAdelphi MD (SPX) Apr 30, 2018 New technology allows U.S. Soldiers to learn 13 times faster than conventional methods and Army researchers said this may help save lives. At the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, scientists are ... more |
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Apr 25, 2018  Imagine a home appliance that, at the push of a button, turns powdered ingredients into food that meets the individual nutrition requirements of each household member. Although it may seem like something from science fiction, new research aimed at using 3-D printing to create customized food could one day make this a reality.
Jin-Kyu Rhee, associate professor at Ewha Womans University in S ... more |
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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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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 25, 2018  The next generation of energy-efficient power electronics, high-frequency communication systems, and solid-state lighting rely on materials known as wide bandgap semiconductors. Circuits based on these materials can operate at much higher power densities and with lower power losses than silicon-based circuits. These materials have enabled a revolution in LED lighting, which led to the 2014 Nobel ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 01, 2018  Many Earth observation satellites make use of an added ingredient to ensure reliable, good quality environmental data: the Moon.
While the surface of the Earth is ever changing, the face of the Moon has stayed the same for millions of years, apart from occasional meteoroid impacts. This makes the light reflecting from the lunar surface an ideal calibration source for optical Earth-observin ... more |
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 Betare Oya, Cameroon (AFP) April 30, 2018 
For a time, the land around the village of Longa Mali in eastern Cameroon was one of the most prized in Africa, and powerful machines gnawed greedily into its soil to extract precious gold.
Today, abandoned with almost the same speed as it was coveted, the landscape is as dangerous as it is damaged, say campaigners.
Around 100 deep holes lie around the village. Many of them are filled wi ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 30, 2018 
Astronauts from home and abroad have expressed their expectations of more international cooperation on China's space station, scheduled to become fully operational around 2022.
"We would love to have more cooperation with countries and regions devoted to peacefully using outer space, and contribute more to humankind's space exploration," said Yang Liwei, director of the China Manned Space ... 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 30, 2018 
Raytheon has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for Tomahawk cruise missiles.
The contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $143.2 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract, which is a modification to a previous award.
The deal, from Naval Air Systems Command, enables the company to provide 100 full-rate production Lot 15 ... 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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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 01, 2018 
Students from universities and community colleges across the nation recently participated in third annual Swarmathon. The robotic programming competition took place at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Visitor Complex April 17-19. Their developments may lead to technology that could help astronauts find needed resources while exploring the Moon or Mars.
In her welcoming remarks, Deputy Center Di ... 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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