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  Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) June 6, 2018 A relatively inexperienced crew of two astronauts and a cosmonaut blasted off Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. German Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, NASA's Serena Aunon-Chancellor and Russian Sergei Prokopyev of Roscosmos shot into the sky in warm, dry conditions at 1112 GMT. They should dock at the space station on Friday. The trio only have a total of one mission between them - 42-year-old Ge ... read more |
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Russian Reusable Space Rocket Tests Scheduled for 2022Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 06, 2018 MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Tests of the first Russian reusable space rocket are scheduled for 2022, project team leader of Moscow-based Foundation for Advanced Research Projects (FPI) Boris Satovsky told Sp ... more 
NASA Narrows Scope for Proposed Astrophysics MissionsWashington DC (SPX) Jun 06, 2018 NASA Astrophysics has directed the teams working on the next potential 2020 Decadal Survey mission to narrow the scope of their proposed missions and cap costs at $3 billion to $5 billion. This new ... more  
Future robots need no motorsHong Kong (SPX) Jun 06, 2018 To develop micro- and biomimetic-robots, artificial muscles and medical devices, actuating materials that can reversibly change their volume under various stimuli are researched in the past thirty y ... more 
NanoRacks Complete Barrios Protein Crystal Growth Operations on Space StationHouston TX (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 Early last week, NanoRacks worked with International Space Station crew member Ricky Arnold to complete the first phase of the Barrios Protein Crystal Growth (Barrios PCG) experiment via NanoRacks' ... more |
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NASA selects US companies to advance space resource collectionWashington DC (SPX) Jun 01, 2018 NASA has selected 10 companies to conduct studies and advance technologies to collect, process and use space-based resources for missions to the Moon and Mars. NASA placed a special emphasis on enco ... more 
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano to be Space Station commander on his next flightParis (ESA) Jun 01, 2018 Next year ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is returning to the International Space Station for his second mission and he will be acting as commander of the weightless research outpost during the second ... more  
Northrop tapped for ballistic radar detection servicesWashington (UPI) Jun 4, 2018 Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense for ballistic missile radar detection services and support. ... more  
Experts Explain How China Is Opening International Space CooperationVienna (Sputnik) Jun 05, 2018 Experts commented on the new Chinese space exploration initiative announced by Shi Zhongjun, Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna. "China is a pioneer in inter ... more 
First Engine Assembled for DARPA and Boeing Reusable Experimental SpaceplaneStennis Space Center MS (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed assembly of its first AR-22 rocket engine built for Boeing as part of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Experimental Spaceplane program. Thi ... more |
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Army taps AM General for 300 HumveesWashington (UPI) Jun 1, 2018 The U.S. Army awarded a $44.1 million contract modification to AM General LLC to produce 300 expanded-capacity high-mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicles, commonly known as Humvees. ... more  |
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Rolls-Royce to deliver V-22 Osprey engines for U.S. militaryWashington (UPI) Jun 1, 2018 The U.S. Navy is exercising an option in its contract with Rolls-Royce, awarding the company $28.3 million for engines for the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. ... more 
Taiwan F-16 fighter jet crashes, killing pilotTaipei (AFP) June 4, 2018 Taiwan's air force said the pilot of an F-16 fighter jet was killed after his plane crashed on Monday in the mountains at the start of annual live-fire drills. ... more  
Saudi warns of military action if Qatar gets Russian missiles: reportParis (AFP) June 2, 2018 Saudi Arabia has threatened military action against Qatar if it goes ahead and acquires Russia's top of the range S-400 air defence missile system, Le Monde daily reported. ... more 
Arianespace and ISIS to launch small satellites on the Vega SSMS POC flightParis, France (SPX) Jun 01, 2018 Arianespace reports that ISIS - Innovative Solutions In Space - has joined the group of customers who have signed contracts to launch payloads on Vega's Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) Proof ... more 
Russian State Space Giant Roscosmos May Curb Space Program Due to Lack of FundsMoscow (Sputnik) May 31, 2018 The Russian federal space program might face cuts as the Roscosmos state corporation is likely to suffer funding shortages amounting to 150 billion rubles (almost $2.4 billion) in the next three yea ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 
The supercomputer Cray XC50, nicknamed NS-05 "ATERUI II," started operation on June 1, 2018. With a theoretical peak performance of 3.087 petaflops, ATERUI II is the world's fastest supercomputer for astrophysical simulations.
ATERUI II simulates a wide range of astronomical phenomena inaccessible to observational astronomy, allowing us to boldly go where no one has gone before, from the b ... 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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 Kent UK (SPX) May 17, 2018 
Peter B. Lloyd, a PhD student in the School of Computing, working alongside Dr Peter Rodgers in the same department, and Dr Maxwell J. Roberts, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Essex, is carrying out a series of studies on the New York City subway map. This is sometimes ranked as the most complex metro map in the world, but the results are expected to be applicable to other cities. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 1, 2018 
The U.S. Navy is exercising an option in its contract with Rolls-Royce, awarding the company $28.3 million for engines for the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft.
Rolls-Royce will deliver 15 production AE1107C engines, including seven for the Marine Corps, six for the Navy and two for the Air Force, the Defense Department said Thursday.
The AE1107C engines weigh 971 pounds each and d ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 01, 2018 
Nanoscientists at Northwestern University have developed a blueprint to fabricate new heterostructures from different types of 2-D materials. 2-D materials are single atom layers that can be stacked together like "nano-interlocking building blocks."
Materials scientists and physicists are excited about the properties of 2-D materials and their potential applications. The researchers descri ... more |
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 Champaign IL (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 
Using a new algorithm, University of Illinois researchers may have found the solution to an age-old dilemma plaguing satellite imagery - whether to sacrifice high spatial resolution in the interest of generating images more frequently, or vice versa. The team's new tool eliminates this trade-off by fusing high-resolution and high-frequency satellite data into one integrated product, and can gene ... more |
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 New Delhi (AFP) June 4, 2018 
A sea of plastic spreads through the New Delhi slum of Taimur Nagar, a symbol of the grime and waste that makes the Indian capital one of the world's most polluted cities.
The plastic bottles, bags, food wrappers and other detritus have gushed out of a drain that ends in the shanty, leaving stinking sewer water clogging the roads.
Stray dogs, goats and cows munch the plastic waste as tod ... 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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 Washington (UPI) Jun 4, 2018 
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense for ballistic missile radar detection services and support.
The deal, announced Friday by the Pentagon, enables Northrop Grumman to provide modifications and sustainment on radar systems that support multiple U.S. Air Force operated radar systems that provide for early warning and detection of incoming ballistic m ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 31, 2018 
Boeing has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense for cruise missiles.
The contract, from the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center and valued at more than $17.2 million, comes under the terms of a fixed-price, definitive contract that enables Boeing to provide "Conventional Air-Launched Cruise Missile/Air-Launched Cruise Missile Test Instrument Kit," according to the Pentagon. ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 04, 2018 
A new technique developed by MIT physicists could someday provide a way to custom-design multilayered nanoparticles with desired properties, potentially for use in displays, cloaking systems, or biomedical devices. It may also help physicists tackle a variety of thorny research problems, in ways that could in some cases be orders of magnitude faster than existing methods.
The innovation us ... more |
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 Hong Kong (SPX) Jun 06, 2018 
To develop micro- and biomimetic-robots, artificial muscles and medical devices, actuating materials that can reversibly change their volume under various stimuli are researched in the past thirty years to replace traditional bulky and heavy actuators including motors and pneumatic actuators.
A mechanical engineering team led by Professor Alfonso Ngan Hing-wan, Chair Professor in Materials ... more |
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 Leibniz, Germany (SPX) Jun 04, 2018 
Ny-Alesund (Spitsbergen). Investigations of the atmosphere by means of unmanned mini-airplanes can contribute significantly to the investigation of the causes of Arctic climate change, as they provide an insight into ground-level air layers that are not monitored by other measuring stations. This is the conclusion drawn by a German research team from current measurements that have just taken pla ... more |
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