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  McLean VA (SPX) May 04, 2018 The recent Senate confirmation of Rep. Jim Bridenstine as NASA's 13th administrator bodes well for a fresh perspective that can benefit both the agency and commercial space industry. As the representative for Oklahoma's first congressional district, Bridenstine is the first elected official to head the nation's space agency. Since coming to congress in 2013, Bridenstine took a keen interest in shifting government policy more towards using commercial satellite technology, and that approach will likely gu ... read more |
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Fourth US Air Force SBIRS satellite sends first images back to EarthBuckley AFB CO (SPX) May 03, 2018 The U.S. Air Force's fourth Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite transmitted its first images back to Earth. The milestone, known as "first light," occurred in February when the SBIRS GEO F ... more  
NASA's swarmathon improves student skills in robotics, computer scienceKennedy 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 Vi ... more  
Arianespace to launch the first STRIVING small satellite for SITAEL on Vega's SSMS POC flightParis, France (SPX) May 04, 2018 Arianespace has been selected by SITAEL to launch the first small satellite for delivery of STRIVING services, to be conducted using a Vega as part of the launcher's Small Spacecraft Mission Service ... more 
X-ray navigation considered for possible CubeSat missionGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 04, 2018 Now that NASA has shown the viability of autonomous X-ray navigation in space, a team led by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory plans to include the technology on a proposed CubeSat mission t ... more |
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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  
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  
Studying DNA aboard the International Space StationHouston TX (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 What do astronauts, microbes, and plants all have in common? Each relies on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) - essentially a computer code for living things - to grow and thrive. Studying DNA in sp ... more 
Lockheed tapped for additional THAAD interceptorsWashington (UPI) May 3, 2018 Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract for anti-ballistic missile interceptors. ... more |
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Beijing 'installs missiles' on South China Sea islandsBeijing (AFP) May 3, 2018 Beijing reasserted its right Thursday to build "defence" facilities in the disputed South China Sea, but declined to confirm reports it had installed new missiles on artificial islands it has built in the region. ... more  |
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Arianespace and D-Orbit sign contract to launch ION Cubesat Carrier on Vega SSMS POC flightParis, France (SPX) May 03, 2018 Arianespace and D-Orbit have signed an agreement to offer InOrbit NOW launch and deployment service through the launch of D-Orbit's ION CubeSat Carrier on the Vega launch vehicle, as part of the Sma ... more  
ContiTech to provide Saudi Arabia, Kuwait with Abrams tank partsWashington (UPI) May 3, 2018 The governments of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will receive M1A2 Abrams tank hardware in a new U.S. government contract with ContiTech USA. ... more  
French, US navy pilots train in the skies over VirginiaOceana, United States (AFP) May 3, 2018 With a deafening roar, French Rafale fighter jets and US F-18s take to the skies over Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia. ... more 
U.K. to receive Apache helicopter hardware from LockheedWashington (UPI) May 3, 2018 The United Kingdom will receive AH-64 Apache hardware in deal between the U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin. ... more  
Brexit prompts UK to probe developing satellite navigation systemLondon (AFP) May 1, 2018 Britain will explore developing and launching its own satellite navigation system, Downing Street announced on Tuesday, amid doubt over its future inclusion in a key European project after Brexit. ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 
A Rice University group's innovative surfactant theory removes limitations of a 100-year-old model for interfacial behavior in enhanced oil recovery.
The lab of Rice chemical engineer Walter Chapman customized a well-worn model to analyze surfactant-containing fluids that are pumped into wells to coax as much oil possible out of rocks deep underground.
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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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 London (AFP) May 1, 2018  Britain will explore developing and launching its own satellite navigation system, Downing Street announced on Tuesday, amid doubt over its future inclusion in a key European project after Brexit.
Prime Minister Theresa May has created a taskforce of engineering and aerospace experts led by the UK Space Agency "to develop options for a British Global Navigation Satellite System that would gu ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 1, 2018 
Republic of Korea is set to receive 36 AH-64E Apache helicopters in a new agreement between the U.S. Army and Boeing.
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $96.3 million under the terms of a hybrid cost, cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price foreign military sale contract for the attack helicopters, the Pentagon said in a press release.
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 Boston MA (SPX) May 01, 2018 
Wi-Fi and cellular data traffic are increasing exponentially but, unless the capacity of wireless links can be increased, all that traffic is bound to lead to unacceptable bottlenecks.
Upcoming 5G networks are a temporary fix but not a long-term solution. For that, researchers have focused on terahertz frequencies, the submillimeter wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. Data traveli ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 03, 2018  While ESA's CryoSat continues to provide clear insight into how much sea ice is being lost and how the Antarctic and Greenlandic ice sheets are changing, the mission has again surpassed its original scope by revealing exactly how mountain glaciers are also succumbing to change.
Glaciers all over the globe are retreating - and for the last 15 years, glacial ice has been the main cause of se ... more |
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 Ulaanbaatar (AFP) May 1, 2018 
Fed up with the smog in Mongolia's capital, residents have resorted to sipping "lung" tea and "oxygen cocktails" in a desperate bid to protect themselves from pollution, despite health officials saying there is no evidence they work.
Ulaanbaatar topped New Delhi and Beijing as the world's most polluted capital in 2016, UNICEF said in a report warning of a health crisis that has put every chi ... more |
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 Wuhan (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 aircraft is being developed using technology such as space inflatable deployment, flexible heat shielding and composite materials, enabling it to have a high bearing ratio at a low cost, said Lyu Dongmin ... more |
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 Buckley AFB CO (SPX) May 03, 2018 
The U.S. Air Force's fourth Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite transmitted its first images back to Earth. The milestone, known as "first light," occurred in February when the SBIRS GEO Flight-4 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, turned on its powerful sensors for the first time during space vehicle checkout.
SBIRS GEO Flight-4 is the latest satellite to join the Air Force's o ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 3, 2018  Beijing reasserted its right Thursday to build "defence" facilities in the disputed South China Sea, but declined to confirm reports it had installed new missiles on artificial islands it has built in the region.
Washington warned that Beijing would face unspecified "consequences" over its militarisation of the South China Sea, and said it had raised the issue with China.
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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.
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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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 Denver CO (SPX) May 03, 2018 
Lockheed Martin's modular unmanned vehicle control software, which can simultaneously control dozens of unmanned vehicles at one time, now has its first U.S. customer. Aurora Flight Sciences, which is focused on accelerating the development of autonomous technology, has purchased the newest Vehicle Control Station (VCS) software product: VCSi.
"Aurora Flight Services has been flying with o ... more |
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