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  Washington DC (SPX) May 18, 2018 This weekend, when the next cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station lifts off from NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, it will be carrying among its supplies and experiments three cereal box-sized satellites that will be used to test and demonstrate the next generation of Earth-observing technology. NASA has been increasing its use of CubeSats - small satellites based on several configurations of approximately 4 x 4 x 4-inch cubes - to put new technologies in orbit where th ... read more |
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UAE Astronaut to Fly to ISS Instead of US Businessman - SourceMoscow (Sputnik) May 18, 2018 In April 2019, a professional cosmonaut from the United Arab Emirates may fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on board Russia's Soyuz spacecraft, instead of a US businessman who intended to ... more  
Russia May Help China Create International Cosmonauts Rehabilitation CenterMoscow (Sputnik) May 18, 2018 Russian scientific organizations are ready to assist China and its partners in creating an international rehabilitation center for cosmonauts, as well as other infrastructure needed for developing s ... more 
Privatize the International Space Station? Not so fast, Congress tells TrumpWashington (AFP) May 17, 2018 US President Donald Trump's controversial plan to privatize the International Space Station beginning in 2025 has met with strong opposition from lawmakers, including from some in the Republican majority. ... more  
Chinese private firm launches first space rocketBeijing (AFP) May 17, 2018 A suborbital rocket was launched into space Thursday by a start-up in China's burgeoning commercial aeronautics industry, as private firms snap at the heels of their dominant American rivals. ... more |
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NASA's emerging microgap cooling to be tested aboard New ShepardGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 16, 2018 An emerging technology for removing excessive, potentially damaging heat from small, tightly packed instrument electronics and other spaceflight gear will be demonstrated for the first time during a ... more  
Robot teaches itself how to dress peopleAtlanta GA (SPX) May 15, 2018 More than 1 million Americans require daily physical assistance to get dressed because of injury, disease and advanced age. Robots could potentially help, but cloth and the human body are complex. ... more 
Tiny Satellite's First Global Map of Ice CloudsGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 16, 2018 Looking at Earth from the International Space Station, astronauts see big, white clouds spreading across the planet. They cannot distinguish a gray rain cloud from a puffy white cloud. While satelli ... more 
Kenya Steps Into Space with First Satellite LaunchNairobi, Kenya (VOA) May 16, 2018 Kenya has taken its first step into space with the launch Friday of a nano-satellite made at the University of Nairobi. Engineers involved in creating the cube-shaped space capsule described it as K ... more 
Chinese rewrite record, live 370 days in self-contained moon labBeijing (XNA) May 16, 2018 Chinese volunteers have completed a one-year test living in a simulated space lab in Beijing, setting a new record for the longest stay in a self-contained cabin. Four students, two males and ... more |
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What Happens After Launch: Two NASA Educational CubeSatsBy Audrey Haar for GSFC News Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 15, 2018 A small group of students recently got to experience a rare, spaceflight thrill: seeing if the tiny satellite, called a CubeSat, they designed and built not only sur ... more  |
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Autonomous glider can fly like an albatross, cruise like a sailboatBoston MA (SPX) May 18, 2018 MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water's surface, riding the wind like an albatross while also surfing the waves like a sailboat. In regions of high wind, t ... more 
MIT researchers develop virtual-reality testing ground for dronesBoston MA (SPX) May 18, 2018 Training drones to fly fast, around even the simplest obstacles, is a crash-prone exercise that can have engineers repairing or replacing vehicles with frustrating regularity. Now MIT engineer ... more 
Vector marks 2 years working with DARPATucson AZ (SPX) May 17, 2018 Vector, a microsatellite launch company comprised of new-space and enterprise software industry veterans from SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Sea Launch and VMware, reports it ha ... more  
Missile Defense Agency contracts for Aegis 6.0 modeling supportWashington DC (UPI) May 16, 2018 Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract for services in support of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system. ... more  
Navy taps Raytheon for RAM missiles for foreign military salesWashington (UPI) May 11, 2018 (UPI) May 11, 2018 Raytheon Missile Systems has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for rolling airframe missiles. ... more |
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 Peterson AFB CO (SPX) May 18, 2018 
Space Situational Awareness has long been synonymous with detecting, tracking, and identifying all artificial objects in Earth orbit otherwise known as catalog maintenance. Today, space is more congested and contested than ever before, and threats against U.S. capabilities grow every day.
While catalog maintenance is a part of the SSA mission set, SSA enables the continuous preparation of ... more |
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 Germantown MD (SPX) May 14, 2018 
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite networks and services, announced it has been awarded a follow-on contract to continue the second phase of a pilot study program to assess the feasibility of interoperability across multiple satellite communication (SATCOM) systems for the Department of Defense (DoD).
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) May 15, 2018 
Swift Navigation, a San Francisco-based tech firm that is building centimeter-accurate GPS technology to power a world of autonomous vehicles, has announced the latest firmware upgrade to its flagship product Piksi Multi GNSS Module.
This marks the fifth major point release to Piksi Multi and is available free of charge to Swift customers. The firmware release also enhances Duro, the rugge ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 08, 2018 
There was a time when people and goods were moved through the crowded city on the ground, restricted to the busy street surfaces by necessity and gravity.
So, inspired visionaries considered new ways to get about town and dreamt of innovative flying machines that could safely transport passengers and ship cargo within the urban jungle by rising above the congestion below.
No, we're n ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) May 15, 2018 
Wireless microsensors have enabled new ways to monitor our environment by allowing users to measure spaces previously off limits to research, such as toxic areas, vehicle components, or remote areas in the human body.
Researchers, however, have been stymied by limited improvements in the quality of data and sensitivity of these devices stemming from challenges associated with the environme ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) May 17, 2018 
Cloud is a tracer for a variety of significant weather changes. Cloud images obtained from satellite remote sensing are of great help to weather forecasters in understanding the past and present weather processes in a macroscopic way. Forecasts directly made out of satellite cloud images are what meteorologists and forecasters dream about. Recent studies have shown that it has become possible to ... more |
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 Tampa (AFP) May 17, 2018 
Highways are being paved, oil is being drilled and entire cities are sprouting up inside many of the world's nature preserves, imperiling the very creatures they are meant to protect, researchers said Thursday.
The vast harm being wreaked by people inside protected areas that are home to endangered animals like the eastern black rhinoceros, Sumatran tiger and spectacled hare-wallaby was deta ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 18, 2018 
Russian scientific organizations are ready to assist China and its partners in creating an international rehabilitation center for cosmonauts, as well as other infrastructure needed for developing space medicine and biology, a spokesman for the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Science told Sputnik.
"The IMBP [Institute of Biomedical Problems] is ready along with t ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 16, 2018 
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract for services in support of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system.
The Missile Defense Agency contract was announced on Tuesday by the Defense Department and enables Lockheed Martin to provide "materials necessary to support Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense 6.0 modeling and simulation."
The contract is valued at more than $12.8 milli ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 11, 2018 (UPI) May 11, 2018 
Raytheon Missile Systems has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for rolling airframe missiles.
The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, for Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 guided missile round packs is valued at more than $242 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract for fiscal 2018 Navy and foreign military sales to Qatar, along with Egypt and T ... 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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 Atlanta GA (SPX) May 15, 2018 
More than 1 million Americans require daily physical assistance to get dressed because of injury, disease and advanced age. Robots could potentially help, but cloth and the human body are complex.
To help address this need, a robot at the Georgia Institute of Technology is successfully sliding hospital gowns on people's arms. The machine doesn't use its eyes as it pulls the cloth. Instead, ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) May 18, 2018 
MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water's surface, riding the wind like an albatross while also surfing the waves like a sailboat.
In regions of high wind, the robot is designed to stay aloft, much like its avian counterpart. Where there are calmer winds, the robot can dip a keel into the water to ride like a highly efficient sailboat instead.
The r ... more |
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