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July 25, 2018
SPACE TRAVEL
NASA to Name Astronauts Assigned to First Boeing, SpaceX Flights



Washington DC (SPX) Jul 26, 2018
NASA will announce on Friday, Aug. 3, the astronauts assigned to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon, and begin a new era in American spaceflight. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will preside over the event, which will begin at 11 a.m. EDT on NASA Television and the agency's website. NASA will announce the crew assignments for the crew flight tests and the first post-certification mission for both Boeing and SpaceX. NASA partnered with ... read more

GPS NEWS
Arianespace orbits four more Galileo satellites, as Ariane 5 logs its 99th mission
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 26, 2018
Arianespace has successfully launched four more satellites in the Galileo constellation. Liftoff was at 8:25 a.m. (local time) July 25, 2018 from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in Kouro ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Russia's Khrunichev Center Develops Concept of Reusable Rocket
Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 25, 2018
Russia's Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center has finished the development of a blueprint for Russia's reusable launch vehicle and sent the relevant materials to Roscosmos' Central ... more
MISSILE NEWS
Russia Hunting Leaker of Hypersonic Missile Details to Western Agencies
Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 24, 2018
Russian intelligence officers have raided the offices of two missile development facilities of the Roscosmos Corporation in search of the person who leaked classified information on hypersonic missi ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Sky's no limit: Japan firm to fly wedding plaques into space
Tokyo (AFP) July 24, 2018
The sky is no longer the limit for lovers looking for unusual ways to commemorate their nuptials, with a Japanese company now offering to blast commemorative wedding plaques into space. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL
NASA Marshall Awards 43 New Small Innovation and Technology Research Proposals
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 25, 2018
NASA has selected 304 proposals from U.S. small businesses to advance research and technology in Phase I of its 2018 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and 44 proposals for the Small ... more
ROBO SPACE
If only AI had a brain
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jul 24, 2018
Digital computation has rendered nearly all forms of analog computation obsolete since as far back as the 1950s. However, there is one major exception that rivals the computational power of the most ... more
ENERGY TECH
Gold nanoparticles to find applications in hydrogen economy
Saint-Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Jul 19, 2018
The international team of scientist of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Leibniz University Hannover (Leibniz Universitat Hannover) and the Ioffe Institute found a way t ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Boeing's quest to take astronauts to space station hits snag
Washington (UPI) Jul 23, 2018
Boeing has acknowledged an anomaly occurred during a recent test of its Starliner spacecraft's launch abort system. ... more
MISSILE DEFENSE
Lockheed receives contract for THAAD field support
Washington (UPI) Jul 19, 2018
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control is to receive a $164 million contract modification for continued support of deployed Terminal High Altitude Area Defense systems. ... more
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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
DARPA, Lockheed Martin Demonstrate Technologies to Enable a Connected Warfighter Network
Fort Worth TX (SPX) Jul 18, 2018
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently performed a series of flight tests demonstrating how a system of systems (SoS) approach enables seaml ... more
MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
Asia is a huge growth market for government SATCOM
McLean VA (SPX) Jul 19, 2018
In a recent article in UAS magazine, global research and consulting firm Markets and Markets (MnM) forecasts an annual market growth rate in the U.S. of 13.2 percent for unmanned aerial vehicles (UA ... more
ENERGY TECH
Scientists uncover mechanism that stabilizes fusion plasmas
Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jul 19, 2018
Sawtooth swings - up-and-down ripples found in everything from stock prices on Wall Street to ocean waves - occur periodically in the temperature and density of the plasma that fuels fusion reaction ... more
MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
Why Ku-band HTS is superior for AISR
McLean VA (SPX) Jul 19, 2018
The commercial space industry is experiencing a new era in satellite performance. Over the past few years, multiple commercial satellite operators have deployed and activated next-generation high-th ... more
MISSILE NEWS
Russian Scientist Jailed as Moscow Probes Hypersonic Missile Secrets Leak
Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 25, 2018
A scientist at Russia's space organization Roscosmos, 74-year-old Viktor Kudryavtsev, has been imprisoned in a Moscow jail run by the Federal Security Service (FSB), which has been been investigatin ... more


Insitu awarded contract for RQ-21 unmanned aerial vehicles

ROBO SPACE
Russia Mulls Sending Two of Its FEDOR Humanoid Robots Into Space Next Year
Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 23, 2018
The ambitious FEDOR project has received a number of upgrades in recent years, with plans to make the robots self-learning and even to use them to create colonies on the moon and fly solo space miss ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE
Roscosmos' Research Center's Staff Suspected of Leaking Data Abroad
Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 23, 2018
mployees of Russia's Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TsNIIMash), a rocket and spacecraft scientific center at the Roscosmos space corporation, are main suspects in the high treason c ... more
MILTECH
US Army Looking Away From Counter-Insurgency Warfare to High-Tech Future Battles
Washington DC (Sputnik) Jul 24, 2018
On Saturday, US Army Secretary Mark Esper said that the military branch's renewed emphasis on technology - like killer robots, laser weapons and hypersonic missiles - is directly linked to competiti ... more
MISSILE DEFENSE
L-3 tapped for aircraft for imagery during missile defense tests
Washington (UPI) Jul 23, 2018
L-3 Communications Integrated Systems was awarded $73.2 million for work on systems used to collect data during tests of the ballistic missile defense system. ... more
MISSILE DEFENSE
Israel fires at Syrian missiles on Golan Heights: army
Jerusalem (AFP) July 23, 2018
Israel on Monday said its air defences fired at rockets that approached its territory from neighbouring Syria, where regime troops are advancing on opposition forces close to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. ... more
MISSILE NEWS
Raytheon receives $64.4 million contract for MK-31 missiles
Washington (UPI) Jul 23, 2018
Raytheon Missile Systems out of Tucson, Ariz., has received a $64.4 million contract for design and engineering services for the MK-31 missile. ... more
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SLAC's ultra-high-speed 'electron camera' catches molecules at a crossroads
Menlo Park CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2018
An extremely fast "electron camera" at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has produced the most detailed atomic movie of the decisive point where molecules hit by light can either stay intact or break apart. The results could lead to a better understanding of how molecules respond to light in processes that are crucial for life, like photosynthesis and vision, ... more
+ Researchers unravel more mysteries of metallic hydrogen
+ What's your idea to 3D print on the Moon
+ Why won't Parker Solar Probe melt
+ New application of blue light sees through fire
+ Material formed from crab shells and trees could replace flexible plastic packaging
+ Detecting damage in non-magnetic steel with the help of magnetism
+ Manipulating single atoms with an electron beam
Why Ku-band HTS is superior for AISR
McLean VA (SPX) Jul 19, 2018
The commercial space industry is experiencing a new era in satellite performance. Over the past few years, multiple commercial satellite operators have deployed and activated next-generation high-throughput satellite (HTS) constellations. These satellites are able to provide far more throughput than existing wideband satellites, with increases in throughput of up to 400 percent. These new ... more
+ Asia is a huge growth market for government SATCOM
+ DARPA, Lockheed Martin Demonstrate Technologies to Enable a Connected Warfighter Network
+ IntelsatOne FlexAir Coming This Summer for Government Aircraft Operations
+ Intelsat General Delivers Programming For American Forces Network
+ Altamira receives $25 million contract for radio frequency research
+ New Land Mobile Technology Driving The Need For Modern Satcom Capabilities
+ On-the-move communications system set to field this fall


Arianespace orbits four more Galileo satellites, as Ariane 5 logs its 99th mission
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 26, 2018
Arianespace has successfully launched four more satellites in the Galileo constellation. Liftoff was at 8:25 a.m. (local time) July 25, 2018 from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Today's launch was the 99th mission by the Ariane 5 heavy launcher. It was carried out on behalf of the European Commission as part of a contract with the European Space Agency ... more
+ Europe's next Galileo satellites in place atop Ariane 5
+ CTSi flight tests prototype navigation system to replace GPS in highly contested environments for US Navy
+ Love navigated by Beidou
+ Next four Galileo satellites fuelled for launch
+ NASA Tests Solar Sail for CubeSat that Will Study Near-Earth Asteroids
+ India's Domestic SatNav System Hits Major Roadblock Ahead of Commercial Release
+ Russia launches Soyuz-21b with Glonass-M navigation satellite
BAE wins $7.8 million contract for F-35 software
Washington (UPI) Jul 23, 2018
BAE Systems Electronic Systems in Nashua, N.H., has been awarded a $7.8 million modification to an existing contract for electronic warfare work on the F-35. The modification provides for technical validation and verification, representatives for services in the field and software development. The contract will be in support of the Electronic Warfare Test Station in association w ... more
+ Lockheed, Rafael sign agreement for precision bombs
+ Aero-Glen awarded $403M for F-16 refurbishment
+ KC-46 tanker aircraft completes flight tests ahead of first delivery
+ Boeing awarded $264M contract for MH-47 support
+ U.K. to stick with Eurofighter development in air combat strategy
+ U.S. Army contracts Boeing for four Chinook helicopters
+ Northrop Grumman contracted for F-18 targeting system repairs
Ytterbium: The quantum memory of tomorrow
Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 24, 2018
Quantum communication and cryptography are the future of high-security communication. But many challenges lie ahead before a worldwide quantum network can be set up, including propagating the quantum signal over long distances. One of the major challenges is to create memories with the capacity to store quantum information carried by light. Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), ... more
+ Research Teams Selected to Uncover Novel Materials and Approaches to Circuit Integration
+ Scientists unlock signal frequency control of precision atom qubits
+ A step closer to single-atom data storage
+ Electrical contact to molecules in semiconductor structures established for the first time
+ Writing the future of rewritable memory
+ Quantum dot white LEDs achieve record efficiency
+ Semiconductor quantum transistor points to photon-based computing


Preparing to fly the wind mission Aeolus
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 25, 2018
The launch of Aeolus - ESA's mission to map Earth's wind in real-time - is getting tantalisingly close, with the satellite due for lift-off on 21 August from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. With the wind in their sails, mission teams are busily preparing this unique satellite for its upcoming journey. Aeolus will carry a sophisticated atmospheric laser Doppler instrument, dubb ... more
+ Laser experiments lend insight into metal core at heart of the Earth
+ NASA Debuts Online Toolkit to Promote Commercial Use of Satellite Data
+ Abrupt cloud clearing events over southeast Atlantic Ocean are new piece in climate puzzle
+ Red Sea flushes faster from far flung volcanoes
+ Billion-year-old lake deposit yields clues to Earth's ancient biosphere
+ MetOp-C launch campaign kicks off
+ China to beef up CFC inspections as UN investigates illegal emissions
China steps up controls on maritime emissions
Washington (UPI) Jul 24, 2018
China's decision to regulate maritime fuels could have a significant impact on international efforts to lower emissions from shipping, analysis finds. Following its so-called Blue Sky initiative, the Chinese Ministry of Transport announced extensions to emission control areas along the coastline. Yujiao Lei, a regional consultant for Wood Mackenzie, said in an emailed report the latest ... more
+ Record 207 environmental activists killed last year
+ BHP vows to fight Australia Samarco mine disaster class action
+ Concrete weighs heavily on the Mediterranean coast
+ Morocco's litter-strewn beaches kick up a stink
+ Singapore rolling out thermal cameras to nab illegal smokers
+ Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling
+ Starbucks to phase out plastic straws by 2020


PRSS-1 Satellite in Good Condition
Jiuquan, China (SPX) Jul 23, 2018
China launched two satellites for Pakistan on a Long March-2C rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 11:56 a.m. Monday. The PRSS-1 is China's first optical remote sensing satellite sold to Pakistan and the 17th satellite developed by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) for an overseas buyer. After entering orbit, the PRSS-1 is in good condition ... more
+ China readying for space station era: Yang Liwei
+ China launches new space science program
+ China Rising as Major Space Power
+ China launches new-tech experiment twin satellites
+ China confirms reception of data from Gaofen-6 satellite
+ Experts Explain How China Is Opening International Space Cooperation
+ Beijing welcomes use of Chinese space station by all UN Nations
Lockheed receives contract for THAAD field support
Washington (UPI) Jul 19, 2018
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control is to receive a $164 million contract modification for continued support of deployed Terminal High Altitude Area Defense systems. The modification, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, increases the total value of the program $561 million to $725 million. Under the new deal, Lockheed will continue to provide logistics, in the ... more
+ L-3 tapped for aircraft for imagery during missile defense tests
+ Israel fires at Syrian missiles on Golan Heights: army
+ Saudi Arabia intercepts Yemen rebel missile: coalition
+ Lockheed, Raytheon, Thales to coordinate for NATO missile defense
+ HII launches guided-missile destroyer Frank E. Petersen Jr
+ Saudi Arabia intercepts Yemen rebel missile: coalition
+ US wants Turkey to buy Patriot missiles, not Russian system


Russia Hunting Leaker of Hypersonic Missile Details to Western Agencies
Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 24, 2018
Russian intelligence officers have raided the offices of two missile development facilities of the Roscosmos Corporation in search of the person who leaked classified information on hypersonic missiles to Western intelligence agencies. Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), a domestic intelligence agency, searched the premises of two Roscosmos facilities involved with the hypersonic miss ... more
+ Raytheon receives $7.5 million contract for Sea Sparrow missiles
+ Russian Scientist Jailed as Moscow Probes Hypersonic Missile Secrets Leak
+ Raytheon receives $64.4 million contract for MK-31 missiles
+ State Department approves sale of AMRAAM missiles to Denmark
+ Saudi Arabia says Yemen rebel missile intercepted
+ NATO successfully tests upgraded Sea Sparrow missile
+ Finnish navy to acquire Gabriel anti-ship missiles
A new 'periodic table' for nanomaterials
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Jul 24, 2018
The approach was developed by Daniel Packwood of Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and Taro Hitosugi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. It involves connecting the chemical properties of molecules with the nanostructures that form as a result of their interaction. A machine learning technique generates data that is then used to develop a diagram t ... more
+ Physicists uncover why nanomaterial loses superconductivity
+ Squeezing light at the nanoscale
+ A new way to measure energy in microscopic machines
+ AI-based method could speed development of specialized nanoparticles
+ Researchers use magnets to move tiny DNA-based nano-devices
+ Atomically thin nanowires convert heat to electricity more efficiently
+ Change the face of nanoparticles and you'll rule chemistry


If only AI had a brain
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jul 24, 2018
Digital computation has rendered nearly all forms of analog computation obsolete since as far back as the 1950s. However, there is one major exception that rivals the computational power of the most advanced digital devices: the human brain. The human brain is a dense network of neurons. Each neuron is connected to tens of thousands of others, and they use synapses to fire information back ... more
+ Russia Mulls Sending Two of Its FEDOR Humanoid Robots Into Space Next Year
+ Microbots capable of sensing environs could explore intestines, pipelines
+ Emotional robot lets you feel how it's 'feeling'
+ Cell-sized robots can sense their environment
+ Army researchers teaching robots to be more reliable teammates for soldiers
+ New creepy, crawly search and rescue robot developed at Ben-Gurion
+ In China, yellow robots deliver snacks to your home


Insitu awarded contract for RQ-21 unmanned aerial vehicles
Washington (UPI) Jul 24, 2018
Insitu has received an $8.9 million order for spare parts and maintenance services for an existing contract for RQ-21A unmanned aerial vehicles. Work on the contract, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in Bingen, Wash., and is expected to be completed by March 2019. Marine Corps fiscal 2017 procurement funds in the amount of $8.9 million will be obligated a ... more
+ Army picks Raytheon for counter-UAV drones
+ 'New India by 2022': New Delhi Expects Drone Industry to Boost State Development
+ Elbit Systems Rolls-out Hermes 900 StarLiner
+ Forget joysticks, use your torso to pilot drones
+ Northrop Grumman receives $41.2M contract for MQ-4C Triton UAV
+ SkyGuardian drone completes transatlantic flight from U.S. to U.K.
+ Israel Patriot missile intercepts unarmed drone from Syria: army
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