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  Washington (Sputnik) Jun 25, 2018 lon Musk's SpaceX just won a major $130 million contract to launch a US Air Force satellite into orbit, the military branch announced Friday. The contract, which is the fifth awarded under the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program, will put an Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)-52 satellite into orbit in fiscal year 2020, Los Angeles Air Force Base announced Thursday. Further details about the satellite remain classified. The Falcon Heavy rocket that will carry the payload will launch from ... read more |
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Air Force contracts SpaceX for satellite launchWashington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, will send a satellite into orbit atop its Falcon Heavy rocket in 2020, the U.S. Air Force announced on Thursday. ... more  
Hague, Ovchinin talk ISS mission during presserHouston TX (AFNS) Jun 25, 2018 Surrounded by media representatives and audience members, Col. Nick Hague, NASA astronaut, and Alexey Ovchinin, Russian Roscosmos cosmonaut, discussed their upcoming trip to space during a news conf ... more  
Lockheed tapped for Aegis combat system development, supportWashington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract for the Defense Department to exercise options to support Aegis combat system. ... more 
Japan says halting missile drills after Trump-Kim summitTokyo (AFP) June 22, 2018 Japan is suspending evacuation drills simulating a North Korean missile attack after historic talks between Washington and Pyongyang, its top government spokesman said Friday. ... more |
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Astronaut Sally Ride's legacy of encouraging young women to embrace science and engineeringCollege Station TX (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 On June 18, 1983, 35 years ago, Sally Ride became the first American woman to launch into space, riding the Space Shuttle STS-7 flight with four other crew members. Only five years earlier, in 1978, ... more 
Space tourism not far off, rocket maker saysBeijing (XNA) Jun 20, 2018 The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology is known as a prestigious developer of carrier rockets, but in the near future, it may acquire a new tag: China's first space tourism provider. E ... more 
ESA celebrates Unispace+50Vienna, Austria (ESA) Jun 19, 2018 Next week, ESA will join the international community at UNISPACE+50 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and h ... more 
Saudi says two Yemen rebel missiles intercepted over RiyadhRiyadh (AFP) June 24, 2018 Saudi air defences intercepted two missiles over Riyadh on Sunday that had been fired from rebel-held territory in neighbouring Yemen, state media reported, after multiple explosions were heard in the city. ... more  
Israel fires at drone from Syria, forces retreatJerusalem (AFP) June 24, 2018 The Israeli air force on Sunday fired a missile at a drone approaching its northern border from Syria, causing it to turn back, the army said. ... more |
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ASRC Federal subsidiary awarded $1B NASA contract for advanced computing servicesBeltsville MD (SPX) Jun 22, 2018 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded ASRC Federal subsidiary InuTeq LLC the NASA Advanced Computing Services (NACS) contract. The single award, hybrid contract has a ... more  |
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GXV-T advances radical technology for Future Combat VehiclesWashington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 DARPA's Ground X-Vehicle Technologies (GXV-T) program aims to improve mobility, survivability, safety, and effectiveness of future combat vehicles without piling on armor. Several Phase 2 contract a ... more  
Russia launches Soyuz-21b with Glonass-M navigation satelliteMoscow (Sputnik) Jun 19, 2018 Russia launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space center on Sunday to orbit a Glonass-M satellite, the Russian Defense Ministry said. "On Sunday, at 00:46 Moscow time [21:46 ... more 
S7 space mulls restoring production of heavy rocket engines in RussiaMoscow (Sputnik) Jun 20, 2018 Russia's S7 Space, part of the S7 Group, plans to build a plant in Samara to produce Soviet-designed NK-33 and NK-43 rocket engines for super heavy-lift launch vehicles and intends to purchase produ ... more 
Army contracts GenDyn for Stryker hull upgradesWashington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 The Defense Department has awarded General Dynamics a contract for upgrades on the Stryker armored combat vehicle. ... more  
Turkey gets first F-35 delivery from USWashington (AFP) June 21, 2018 The United States delivered Thursday its first shipment of F-35 stealth fighter jets to Turkey, despite tensions with the country and US lawmakers' opposition. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 
The magnetisation of nanometric square material is not fixed. It moves around in a helical motion. This is caused by the electron whose degree of freedom, referred to as spin, which follows a precession motion centred on the middle of a square nano-magnet. To study the magnetisation of such material, physicists can rely on two-dimensional arrays of square nanomagnets.
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 McLean VA (SPX) Jun 14, 2018 
Industrial revolutions leave no sector or industry untouched, and the fourth industrial revolution is no different. We are witnessing the rapid transformation that's blurring the line between the physical and digital worlds through artificial intelligence, machine to machine communications, and the Internet of Things-technologies that are touching every aspect of our lives. For the government an ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 19, 2018 
Russia launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space center on Sunday to orbit a Glonass-M satellite, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
"On Sunday, at 00:46 Moscow time [21:46 GMT]... the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces successfully launched a middle-class Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a navigation Glonass-M spacecraft," the ministry said in a statement. Hours later t ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 19, 2018 
The Department of Defense announced it has awarded a contract to MACRO Industries for hardware in support of the V-22 aircraft.
The contract award, from Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division and announced on Monday, is valued at more than $20.4 million under the terms of a fixed-price indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract. The deal enables MACRO Industries to provide 20 ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 
The smaller and smarter that phones and devices become, the greater the need to build smaller circuits. Forward-thinking scientists in the 1970s suggested that circuits could be built using molecules instead of wires, and over the past decades that technology has become reality.
The trouble is, some molecules have particularly complex interactions that make it hard to predict which of them ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 25, 2018 
This week marks 20 years since the manifesto was signed that gave rise to Europe's Copernicus environmental programme. With seven Sentinel satellites already in orbit delivering terabytes of data every day, Copernicus is the biggest provider of Earth observation data in the world.
To mark this 20-year milestone, reflect on the programme's achievements and to look to the future, EU commissi ... more |
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 Leeds UK (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 
Water samples from UK rivers contained significantly higher concentrations of microplastics downstream from wastewater treatment plants, according to one of the first studies to determine potential sources of microplastics pollution.
Scientists from the University of Leeds measured microplastics concentrations up and downstream of six wastewater treatment plants and found that all of the p ... 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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 Tokyo (AFP) June 22, 2018 
Japan is suspending evacuation drills simulating a North Korean missile attack after historic talks between Washington and Pyongyang, its top government spokesman said Friday.
The decision comes after US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un met last week in Singapore and signed a joint document calling for the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 
Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control has been awarded a contract for maintenance of Army tactical guided missiles and launch assembly service by the U.S. Army.
The $364 million firm-fixed-price domestic and foreign military sales contract was announced on Thursday by the Department of Defense. It also covers tactical missile sales to Romania.
The Army Tactical Missile System, ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new technique to squeeze infrared light into ultra-confined spaces, generating an intense, nanoscale antenna that could be used to detect single biomolecules.
The researchers harnessed the power of polaritons, particles that blur the distinction between light and matter. This ultra ... more |
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 New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Jun 22, 2018 
Rutgers researchers have created an automated blood drawing and testing device that provides rapid results, potentially improving the workflow in hospitals and other health-related institutions to allow health care practitioners to spend more time treating patients.
A study describing the fully automated device is published online in the journal TECHNOLOGY.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 
Researchers at MIT, who last year designed a tiny computer chip tailored to help honeybee-sized drones navigate, have now shrunk their chip design even further, in both size and power consumption.
The team, co-led by Vivienne Sze, associate professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and Sertac Karaman, the Class of 1948 Career Development Associate ... more |
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