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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 previous space mission between them - ... read more |
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China confirms reception of data from Gaofen-6 satelliteBeijing (XNA) Jun 07, 2018 The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) confirmed that one of its institutes Monday successfully tracked and received imaging data from the newly-launched Earth observation satellite Gaofen-6. T ... more  
GMV competing to develop the Galileo Ground Control Segment in brand new premisesMadrid, Spain (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 The technology multinational GMV, provider of system integration, development and engineering in the sectors of aerospace, defense, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and ICTs, has decided to ... more  
ICE Cubes space research service open for businessParis (ESA) Jun 07, 2018 The first European facility for commercial research on the International Space Station was installed today in Europe's space laboratory Columbus. The International Commercial Experiments service - I ... more 
New crew blasts off for ISSBaikonur, 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. ... more |
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On-the-move communications system set to field this fallQuantico VA (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 Marine Corps Systems Command is improving the way Marines communicate with a reliable and convenient on-the-move system. The Mobile User Objective System, or MUOS, is a narrowband satellite co ... more  
F-35A weather shelter to be built on Alaska baseWashington DC (SPX) Jun 06, 2018 Eielson U.S. Air Force Base in Alaska is set to receive a new F-35A Lightning II weather shelter in a new Defense Department deal. ... more  
Aerial robot that can morph in flightMarseille, France (SPX) Jun 01, 2018 Marking a world first, researchers from the Etienne Jules Marey Institute of Movement Sciences (CNRS / Aix-Marseille Universite) have drawn inspiration from birds to design an aerial robot capable o ... more  
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 
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 |
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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  |
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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 
Commercial satellite launch service market to grow strongly through 2024Selbyville DE (SPX) Jun 01, 2018 According to a new research report by the market research and strategy consulting firm, Global Market Insights, Inc, the Commercial Satellite Launch Service Market to hit $7bn by 2024. Increas ... more 
Dolphin algorithm could lead to better medical ultrasoundsLund, Sweden (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 Millions of years of evolutionary fine-tuning have made dolphins phenomenally good at using echolocation to orient themselves, find food and communicate with one another. But how do they actually do ... more 
Synthetic 'tissues' build themselvesSan Francisco CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 How do complex biological structures - an eye, a hand, a brain - emerge from a single fertilized egg? This is the fundamental question of developmental biology, and a mystery still being grappled wi ... 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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 Quantico VA (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 
Marine Corps Systems Command is improving the way Marines communicate with a reliable and convenient on-the-move system.
The Mobile User Objective System, or MUOS, is a narrowband satellite communication system that uses commercial cell phone technology to increase access to voice and data communication while on the battlefield. The Marine Corps will be the first service to widely deploy t ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 
The technology multinational GMV, provider of system integration, development and engineering in the sectors of aerospace, defense, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and ICTs, has decided to enlarge its central site in the technology park called Parque Tecnologico de Madrid, acquiring 6500 m2 of office space in a 10,000-m plot to house 350 new employees.
In January 1991 the technolo ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 06, 2018  Eielson U.S. Air Force Base in Alaska is set to receive a new F-35A Lightning II weather shelter in a new Defense Department deal.
The contract, from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and announced on Tuesday, is valued at more than $82.1 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract that enables Watterson Construction Company to construct a weather shelter for the advanced airc ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Jun 07, 2018 
Before ESA's Aeolus satellite is packed up and shipped to French Guiana for liftoff in August, media representatives had the chance to see this wind measuring Earth Explorer satellite standing proud in the cleanroom.
Like all of the Earth Explorers, Aeolus was built to show how cutting-edge space technology can shed new light on the intricate workings of our planet.
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 Paris (AFP) June 7, 2018 
Joining the government of President Emmanuel Macron in May last year, celebrity environmental activist Nicolas Hulot made clear he was unsure whether he would have much of an impact.
The star, France's best-known environmentalist as the face of the Ushuaia TV programme, had hesitated about joining the ministerial team, having refused similar offers from previous French leaders.
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 07, 2018 
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) confirmed that one of its institutes Monday successfully tracked and received imaging data from the newly-launched Earth observation satellite Gaofen-6.
The Aerospace Information Research Institute said the Miyun station of China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station received the first batch of observation data from the Gaofen-6 satellite. There was ... more |
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 Riyadh (AFP) June 5, 2018  Saudi air defences on Tuesday intercepted a ballistic missile that targeted the western city of Yanbu after being fired from rebel-held territory in neighbouring Yemen, a Saudi-led military coalition said.
The missile fired at the coastal city did not cause any casualties, coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency.
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 Paris (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.
Citing information it had obtained, Le Monde said Friday that Riyadh had written to French President Emmanuel Macron asking him to intervene to prevent the deal going ahead and to help preserve regional stability.
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 Columbus OH (SPX) Jun 04, 2018 
Researchers have devised a magnetic control system to make tiny DNA-based robots move on demand - and much faster than recently possible. In the journal Nature Communications, Carlos Castro and Ratnasingham Sooryakumar and their colleagues from The Ohio State University report that the control system reduced the response time of prototype nano-robot components from several minutes to less than a ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 
The last decade has witnessed service robotics market traversing alongside a lucrative growth path - right from being a subject of science fiction debates to an almost niche vertical of the electronics space. The emergence of digital and high-tech technologies such as cloud computing, IoT, AI, and RaaS in recent times, has further added to the growing potential of robotics.
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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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