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  Tokyo (AFP) June 6, 2018 It's the hands-free experience you never knew you needed - a Japanese company has developed a drone-powered parasol it says can hover over users, protecting them from the sun. The drone-powered sunshade - being developed by Asahi Power Service - should be released next year, and will initially target those in need of a hands-free head covering wider than your average hat, like golfers. The potential headaches posed by crashes, and regulations governing autonomous aircraft, mean the company ex ... read more |
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What exclusion from Galileo could mean for UKMoscow (Sputnik) Jun 11, 2018 With the Brexit talks underway, the EU has recently announced its decision to exclude UK firms out of the Galileo satellite navigation system, citing legal issues about sharing sensitive information ... more  
New model sheds light on key physics of magnetic islands that halt fusion reactionsPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 Magnetic islands, bubble-like structures that form in fusion plasmas, can grow and disrupt the plasmas and damage the doughnut-shaped tokamak facilities that house fusion reactions. Recent research ... more 
Physicists use terahertz flashes to uncover state of matter hidden by superconductivityAmes IA (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 Using the physics equivalent of the strobe photography that captures every twitch of a cheetah in full sprint, researchers have used ultrafast spectroscopy to visualize electrons interacting as a hi ... more  
Second Space Station mission for Alexander Gerst beginsParis (ESA) Jun 08, 2018 ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst has arrived at the International Space Station together with NASA astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor and Roscosmos commander Sergei Prokopyev, marking the start of Alexa ... 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 
Kratos awarded unmanned $90M aerial target drone systems contractSan Diego CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc. reports its Kratos Defense and Rocket Support Services Division (DRSS) has been awarded a prime contract for the Aerial Target Systems 2 (ATS-2), Multiple ... more  
Navy taps Raytheon, Kongsberg for Naval Strike MissileWashington DC (SPX) Jun 06, 2018 The U.S. Navy has selected the Naval Strike Missile for its Over-the-Horizon program on littoral combat ships and future frigates. ... more 
Use of armed drones increasing under Trump: studyWashington (AFP) June 7, 2018 America's use of armed drones is increasing under President Donald Trump just as oversight of the lethal technology appears to be dwindling, a study released Thursday found. ... 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 |
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Lockheed awarded $735.7M for F-35 production supportWashington (UPI) Jun 11, 2018 The Pentagon announced a modification to a Lockheed Martin contract for materials and support for production of the F-35 Lightning II. ... more  |
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Saudi Arabia says new Yemen missile interceptedRiyadh (AFP) June 10, 2018 Saudi air defences on Sunday intercepted a ballistic missile over the southern city of Jizan after being fired from rebel-held territory in neighbouring Yemen, a Saudi-led military coalition said. ... more 
New hypersonic missiles guarantee parity with US: PutinMoscow (AFP) June 7, 2018 President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that a new hypersonic intercontinental missile would enter service next year and guarantee Russia maintains military parity with the United States. ... more 
US grounds B-1 bombers over safety concernsWashington (AFP) June 8, 2018 The US Air Force has temporarily grounded its entire fleet of B-1 heavy bombers over safety concerns, officials said Friday. ... 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 
US fighter jet crashes off Japan coastTokyo (AFP) June 11, 2018 A US F15 fighter jet crashed off the southern coast of Japan on Monday but the pilot ejected and was rescued by Japanese forces, Tokyo's defence minister said. ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 08, 2018 
This is the first entry in the JUICE Test Campaign Journal, a series of articles covering the main events during testing of the Thermal Development Model (TDM), the Engineering Model (EM) and the Proto-Flight Model (PFM) of the spacecraft. The mission is scheduled to launch in 2022 to investigate the Jupiter system.
One of the major challenges facing ESA's JUICE (JUpiter Icy Moon Explorer) ... 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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 Prague (AFP) June 10, 2018 
A young woman drowned and a man is missing after they were caught inside Prague's drain system by torrential rains while participating in a global GPS-based treasure hunt, police said Sunday.
They were among a group of four people "geocaching" - using their smartphone's GPS to search for little treasures hidden all over the world - when the rapidly rising water from the storm trapped them ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 11, 2018 
The Pentagon announced a modification to a Lockheed Martin contract for materials and support for production of the F-35 Lightning II.
The contract, from Naval Air Systems Command and announced on Friday, is valued at more than $735.7 million and enables Lockheed Martin to provide "long-lead time materials, parts, components, and effort," for F-35 programs within the U.S. Air Force, Nav ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
To mark World Ocean Day, Global Fishing Watch (GFW) has increased ocean transparency by releasing the first-ever 'live' global view of likely transshipping at sea - a practice that can mask illegal fishing activity, and imagery of night-time fishing and its location, exposing vessels often hidden from other monitoring systems.
Data released on GFW's map reveals in near real-time the locati ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) June 5, 2018  At a recycling plant outside Tokyo, workers in face masks pick through an unending torrent of plastic rubbish, fuelled by a national obsession with pristine packaging - and famously strict rules that ensure much of it is reclaimed and reused.
Some 10 tonnes of recyclable plastics are brought in every day to be processed at the Ichikawa Kankyo Engineering centre, where workers hover over con ... more |
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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 10, 2018 
Saudi air defences on Sunday intercepted a ballistic missile over the southern city of Jizan after being fired from rebel-held territory in neighbouring Yemen, a Saudi-led military coalition said.
Debris from the missile landed in residential areas of Jizan without causing casualties, the coalition said in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency.
Iran-backed Huthi rebels ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 06, 2018  The U.S. Navy has selected the Naval Strike Missile for its Over-the-Horizon program on littoral combat ships and future frigates.
The selection of the NSM, offered by Raytheon and Kongsberg Gruppen, comes after several other companies dropped out of bidding for the program in 2017.
The weapon is a long-range, precision missile for use against heavily defended land and sea target ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
What drives cells to live and engines to move? It all comes down to a quantity that scientists call "free energy," essentially the energy that can be extracted from any system to perform useful work. Without this available energy, a living organism would eventually die and a machine would lie idle.
In work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of M ... more |
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 Hong Kong (SPX) Jun 11, 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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 Tokyo (AFP) June 6, 2018 
It's the hands-free experience you never knew you needed - a Japanese company has developed a drone-powered parasol it says can hover over users, protecting them from the sun.
The drone-powered sunshade - being developed by Asahi Power Service - should be released next year, and will initially target those in need of a hands-free head covering wider than your average hat, like golfers. ... more |
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