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  New York NY (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 The world is at the beginning of a new era in commercial space exploration that one speaker at the Dawn of Private Space Science 2018 (DPSS18), a symposium held at Columbia University June 2-3, described as the Internet of tomorrow. Among the key points made by some 26 speakers from the United Nations, private industry and other organizations at the symposium: this new era could not only lead to important technological breakthroughs with many applications on Earth, but also impact global diplomacy ... read 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 
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  
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 |
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Lockheed Martin Wins Potential $928 Million Contract to Develop New Hypersonic Missile for the Air ForceHuntsville AL (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $928 million contract April 18 to develop a new missile that will travel more than five times faster than the speed of sound to overcome enemy defenses. ... 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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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  |
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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 
Flexible organic electronics mimic biological mechanosensory nervesSeoul, South Korea (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 Researchers at Seoul National University and Stanford University developed artificial mechanosensory nerves using flexible organic devices to emulate biological sensory afferent nerves. They used th ... more 
Cell-like nanorobots clear bacteria and toxins from bloodSan Diego CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed tiny ultrasound-powered robots that can swim through blood, removing harmful bacteria along with the toxins they produce. These pro ... more 
Scientists develop material that could regenerate dental enamelLondon, UK (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have developed a new way to grow mineralised materials which could regenerate hard tissues such as dental enamel and bone. Enamel, located on the ... 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 |
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 Toulouse, France (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 
Aeolus, the European Space Agency's wind sensing satellite, is now ready for its upcoming launch. It will be shipped across the Atlantic on the Airbus vessel "Ciudad de Cadiz" to Kourou, French Guiana, where a Vega launcher will send it to orbit on 21 August.
The instrument is so sensitive that it could be damaged by a sudden loss of pressure. For this reason, air transportation has to be ... 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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Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 04, 2018
Data from the first NASA satellite mission dedicated to measuring the water content of soils is now being used operationally by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to monitor global croplands and make commodity forecasts.
The Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, or SMAP, launched in 2015 and has helped map the amount of water in soils worldwide. Now, with to ... more |
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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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 Marseille, 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 of altering its profile during flight. To reduce its wingspan and navigate through tight spaces, it can reorient its arms, which are equipped with propellers that let it fly like a helicopter.
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