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  Paris (ESA) May 30, 2018 In what the UN describes as the world's fastest growing refugee crisis, almost 700 000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar for neighbouring Bangladesh since August 2017. With the Bangladesh government proposing a vulnerable low-lying island as a relocation site for thousands, Sentinel-1 data have shown how unsuitable this site would be. While the Rohingya have faced decades of repression, this recent mass exodus is blamed on large-scale atrocities committed by the Myanmar military. Not only h ... read more |
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Zero 2 Infinity completed another successful launch from Europe's Stratoport, this time for AirbusBarcelona, Spain (SPX) May 31, 2018 On the afternoon of April 23rd, Zero 2 Infinity (Z2I) performed another successful flight to Near Spacefrom Europe's Stratoport. The aim of the launch was to test a equiplment Europe's leading ... more  
Gilmour Space prepares for suborbital hybrid rocket launchSingapore (SPX) May 31, 2018 Homegrown rocket company, Gilmour Space Technologies, has completed a longer duration test-fire of its proprietary hybrid rocket engine, bringing it one step closer to launching Australia and Singap ... more  
'Smart' material enables novel applications in autonomous driving and roboticsLuxembourg (SPX) May 30, 2018 Research led by scientists from the University of Luxembourg has shown the potential of liquid crystal shells as enabling material for a vast array of future applications, ranging from autonomous dr ... more  
Turning up the heat on thermoelectricsBoston MA (SPX) May 28, 2018 Imagine being able to power your car partly from the heat that its engine gives off. Or what if you could get a portion of your home's electricity from the heat that a power plant emits? Such energy ... more |
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NASA awards $43M to US Small Businesses for Tech ResearchGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 27, 2018 NASA has selected 304 proposals from U.S. small businesses to advance research and technology in Phase I of its 2018 SmallBusinessInnovationResearch (SBIR) program and 44 proposals for the Small Bus ... more 
Putin, Abe speak to ISS astronauts from KremlinMoscow (AFP) May 26, 2018 Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday spoke to astronauts on board the ISS via a live video link from the Kremlin. ... more  
China develops wireless systems for rocketsBeijing (XNA) May 29, 2018 China has developed and tested a wireless measuring system for rockets, the Science and Technology Daily reported on Monday. Developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), ... more 
China upgrades spacecraft reentry and descent technologyBeijing (XNA) May 28, 2018 China has successfully tested its new space program's reentry and descent technology, which makes landing heavier spacecraft possible. Current spacecraft landing methods such as parachute and ... more  
L3 tapped by Army for enhanced night vision gogglesWashington DC (UPI) May 17, 2018 L3 Technologies has been awarded a contract for enhanced night vision goggles. ... more |
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Yoyager's Golden Record may paint humans in a confusing wayMoscow (Sputnik) May 27, 2018 A historical record sent into outer space as a universal greeting card from humanity to alien life may in fact baffle any visitors and unintentionally create a hilarious image of humans. If the alie ... more  |
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NanoRacks Launches 15 CubeSats, New Commercial Customers, on Latest Space Station Cargo Resupply LaunchWallops Island, VA (SPX) May 30, 2018 Early this week Cygnus, the spacecraft from the ninth contracted resupply mission for Orbital ATK, berthed with the International Space Station carrying another satellite-filled NanoRacks mission. N ... more  
China to launch two BeiDou-2 backup satellitesHarbin (XNA) May 28, 2018 China will launch two backup satellites for BeiDou-2 in next two years to improve its performance. Backup satellites ensure the continuous stable operations of the system, said Ran Chengqi of ... more  
Surgical technique improves sensation, control of prosthetic limbBoston MA (SPX) May 31, 2018 Humans can accurately sense the position, speed and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception, allows humans to precisely control their body movements. De ... more 
Seismometer readings could offer debris flow early warningPasadena CA (SPX) May 31, 2018 First came the fire, then the rain - and finally, the devastating mud. In the wake of the largest wildfire in California's history, the December 2017 Thomas Fire, a powerful storm dumped about five ... more 
Now, you can hold a copy of your brain in the palm of your handBoston MA (SPX) May 31, 2018 What if you could hold a physical model of your own brain in your hands, accurate down to its every unique fold? That's just a normal part of life for Steven Keating, Ph.D., who had a baseball-sized ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 30, 2018 
Raytheon was awarded a contract by the Department of Defense on Tuesday for digital radar warning systems that will benefit Japan.
The contract, from the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, is valued $90 million under the terms of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, which is part of a foreign military sale of digital radar warning receiver systems to the gover ... more |
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 Sunnyvale CA (SPX) May 22, 2018 
Lockheed Martin recently put its fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-5) satellite through its paces in realistic simulations of its future launch experience. The satellite completed the tests successfully and is now in system-level testing in preparation for delivery to the U.S. Air Force in 2019.
For the 39 days of Thermal Vacuum Chamber (TVAC) testing, AEHF-5 was subjected to e ... more |
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 Harbin (XNA) May 28, 2018 
China will launch two backup satellites for BeiDou-2 in next two years to improve its performance.
Backup satellites ensure the continuous stable operations of the system, said Ran Chengqi of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, at the Ninth China Satellite Navigation Conference in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.
BeiDou-2 has been in use for five and a half ... more |
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 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) May 31, 2018 
On the afternoon of April 23rd, Zero 2 Infinity (Z2I) performed another successful flight to Near Spacefrom Europe's Stratoport.
The aim of the launch was to test a equiplment Europe's leading aerospace company: Airbus. The Z2I and Airbus teams worked as one on the pre-flight preparations during the month of April.
All the operations were performed from Europe's Stratoport, also know ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) May 30, 2018 
An Aalto University study has provided new evidence that time crystals can physically exist - a claim currently under hot debate.
A time crystal is a structure that does not repeat in space, like normal three-dimensional crystals such as snowflakes or diamonds, but in time. In practice this means that crystals constantly undergo spontaneous change, breaking the symmetry of time by achievin ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2018 
Encircling Earth are two enormous rings - called the Van Allen radiation belts - of highly energized ions and electrons. Various processes can accelerate these particles to relativistic speeds, which endanger spacecraft unlucky enough to enter these giant bands of damaging radiation. Scientists had previously identified certain factors that might cause particles in the belts to become highly ene ... more |
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 Oxford UK (SPX) May 31, 2018 
Changing our lifestyles and the way we travel could have as big - if not more of an impact on CO2 transport emissions, as electric vehicles and the transport technology revolution, according to new Oxford University research.
Published in Energy Efficiency, the study uses Scotland as an example and suggests that, radical lifestyle change can show quicker results than the gradual transition ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 30, 2018 
Beijing is open to other UN nations using the Chinese space station on an equal basis, Shi Zhongjun, China's ambassador to the United Nations and other international organizations in Vienna, said Monday.
"CSS belongs not only to China, but also to the world ... All [UN] countries, regardless of their size and level of development, can participate in the cooperation on an equal footing," Sh ... more |
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 Riyadh (AFP) May 25, 2018 
Saudi air defences on Friday intercepted a ballistic missile over the southern city of Najran after it was fired from rebel-held territory in neighbouring Yemen, a Saudi-led military coalition said.
Debris from the missile landed in residential areas of Najran without causing casualties, coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency.
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 Brussels (AFP) May 25, 2018 
The EU and NATO urged Russia on Friday to take responsiblity for the 2014 downing of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine after international investigators concluded that a missile which destroyed the plane came from a Russian military brigade.
The 28-nation European Union and the 29-country US-led military alliance issued statements on the shooting down of the Malaysia Airlines plane hours afte ... more |
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 Upton NY (SPX) May 29, 2018 
Scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) - a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory - have used an optoelectronic imaging technique to study the electronic behavior of atomically thin nanomaterials exposed to light.
Combined with nanoscale optical imaging, this scanning photocurrent microscopy technique provides ... more |
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 Luxembourg (SPX) May 30, 2018 
Research led by scientists from the University of Luxembourg has shown the potential of liquid crystal shells as enabling material for a vast array of future applications, ranging from autonomous driving to anti-counterfeiting technology and a new class of sensors.
Liquid Crystals, already widely used in flat-screen TVs, are materials that are in a state between solid and liquid. Prof Jan ... more |
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 Palmdale CA (SPX) May 23, 2018 
Lockheed Martin's Stalker eXtended Endurance (XE) unmanned aerial system (UAS) has been upgraded with a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capability. This new option gives users greater mission flexibility allowing them to operate the system in more austere locations.
The new VTOL option features a reduced logistics footprint and expands how and where the Stalker XE UAS may operate. Oth ... more |
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