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  Washington (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 For the first time in five decades, a NASA astronaut candidate has resigned from training, the US space agency said Tuesday. Robb Kulin resigned from NASA effective August 31 for personal reasons, spokeswoman Brandi Dean said, declining to provide further details. It's not an easy gig to get - some 18,000 people routinely seek the 12 spots that open each year. Kulin, who joined his class sounding upbeat, is the first would-be astronaut to leave training since a resignation in 1968. ... read more |
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US Marines test laser communication system to beat radio jammersWashington DC (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2018 One of the US Defense Department's top research agencies has been testing a new communication network that one researcher described as "basically fiber optic communications without the fiber." ... more  
US Air Force's first advanced GPS 3 satellite shipped to Cape CanaveralCape Canaveral FL (spx) Aug 28, 2018 The first of the U.S. Air Force's advanced new, higher-power, harder-to-jam GPS III satellites is making its way to the launch pad. On August 20, Lockheed Martin shipped the U.S. Air Force's f ... more  
Activists urge killer robot ban 'before it is too late'Geneva (AFP) Aug 27, 2018 Countries should quickly agree a treaty banning the use of so-called killer robots "before it is too late", activists said Monday as talks on the issue resumed at the UN. ... more  
This bright blue dye is found in fabric. Could it also power batteries?Buffalo NY (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 A sapphire-colored dye called methylene blue is a common ingredient in wastewater from textile mills. But University at Buffalo scientists think it may be possible to give this industrial poll ... more |
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Lockheed's first GPS III satellite shipped to Florida for launchWashington (UPI) Aug 27, 2018 The first of the U.S. Air Force's new advanced, high power GPS III satellites has shipped to Cape Canaveral for its projected launch in December. ... more 
Northrop Grumman, DARPA test 100 gigabit transmissionsWashington (UPI) Aug 23, 2018 Northrop Grumman Corporation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have developed a wireless transmission data link that can transmit 100 gigabits per second over more than 12 miles in a urban area. ... more  
Raytheon tapped for Tomahawk Block IV cruise missilesWashington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 Raytheon has received a $9.3 million order for certification and parts for Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles for the U.S. Navy. ... more 
Israel developing missiles to hit anywhere in Mideast: ministerJerusalem (AFP) Aug 27, 2018 Israel is working on a new missile system capable of hitting targets anywhere in the Middle East, Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday. ... more  
PeopleTec receives ballistic missile defense engineering contractWashington (UPI) Aug 28, 2018 PeopleTec has received a $33.6 million contract with a two-year value of $9 million for engineering advising services for the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System. ... more |
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 Largest US aircraft in history: civil usage or military purposes? 
China launches new twin BeiDou navigation satellitesXichang (XNA) Aug 27, 2018 China on Saturday successfully sent twin BeiDou navigation satellites into space on a single carrier rocket. The Long March-3B carrier rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in ... more  |
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Interns create dynamic visualization of NASA's space-to-ground communications resourcesGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 For the first time ever, people worldwide can get an inside look into what it takes to enable communications for nearly 40 NASA missions, thanks to a small team of college students. NASA's Nea ... more 
Heat shield install brings Orion spacecraft closer to spaceKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 During Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), an uncrewed Orion spacecraft will launch atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket and begin a three-week voyage in space, taking it about 40,000 miles beyond the M ... more  
General Atomics receives contract for MQ-9 drones for FranceWashington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has been awarded a contract for $123 million for the French 3rd/4th Systems MQ-9 Block 5 program. ... more 
Raytheon, Lockheed receive contract for Javelin missile upgradesWashington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 Raytheon and Lockheed Martin's Javelin joint venture company has received a $14 million contract modification for Javelin Weapon System modernization. ... more  
GEOStar-3 mission success enabled by Aerojet Rocketdyne XR-5 Hall Thruster SystemSacramento CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 Aerojet Rocketdyne and Northrop Grumman together recently achieved a significant milestone with the successful completion of electric propulsion orbit acquisition operations on the Al Yah 3 GEOStar- ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 
Researchers recently discovered that the strength of the magnetic field required to elicit a particular quantum mechanical process, such as photoluminescence and the ability to control spin states with electromagnetic (EM) fields, corresponds to the temperature of the material.
Based on this finding, scientists can determine a sample's temperature to a resolution of one cubic micron by mea ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2018 
One of the US Defense Department's top research agencies has been testing a new communication network that one researcher described as "basically fiber optic communications without the fiber."
In early 2017, the DoD awarded the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) $45 million to develop a system of sensors and hardware that would enable soldiers to communicate even if the enem ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral FL (spx) Aug 28, 2018 
The first of the U.S. Air Force's advanced new, higher-power, harder-to-jam GPS III satellites is making its way to the launch pad.
On August 20, Lockheed Martin shipped the U.S. Air Force's first GPS III space vehicle (GPS III SV01) to Cape Canaveral for its expected launch in December. Designed and built at Lockheed Martin's GPS III Processing Facility near Denver, the satellite was ship ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2018 
Uber and the US Army have taken a major step toward developing autonomous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft that can be used for shuffling people to and from work - or to and from the battlefield.
On August 9, the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and transportation company Uber Elevate - Uber's flying car division - christened their partnership at the University of Texas at Aus ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 
After their recent pioneering experiments to couple light and matter to an extreme degree, Rice University scientists decided to look for a similar effect in matter alone. They didn't expect to find it so soon.
Rice physicist Junichiro Kono, graduate student Xinwei Li and their international colleagues have discovered the first example of Dicke cooperativity in a matter-matter system, a re ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 
Next month, NASA will launch into space the most advanced laser instrument of its kind, beginning a mission to measure - in unprecedented detail - changes in the heights of Earth's polar ice.
NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) will measure the average annual elevation change of land ice covering Greenland and Antarctica to within the width of a pencil, capturing 60 ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 
By slashing food waste and improving waste management and recycling, 23 global cities and regions representing 150 million people pledged Tuesday to significantly cut the pollution-causing garbage they generate by 2030.
Places like New York, Tokyo, London, Paris and Sydney vowed to "cut the amount of waste generated by each citizen 15 percent by 2030," said a statement from C40 Cities, a glo ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 17, 2018 
China's moon lander and rover for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land on the far side of the moon this year, was unveiled Wednesday.
Images displayed at Wednesday's press conference showed the rover was a rectangular box with two foldable solar panels and six wheels. It is 1.5 meters long, 1 meter wide and 1.1 meters high.
Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China's lun ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2018 
PeopleTec has received a $33.6 million contract with a two-year value of $9 million for engineering advising services for the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System.
The contract covers engineering for international partners and the Ballistic Missile Defense System to defend against ballistic missile threats. Work will be performed in Huntsville, Ala., Fort Belvoir, Va., and Tel Aviv, Is ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 
Raytheon has received a $9.3 million order for certification and parts for Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles for the U.S. Navy.
The order, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, provides for the Tomahawk Block IV certification, an actuator control unit desiccant, and nitrile O-ring analysis.
Work will be performed in Walled Lake, Mich., Clearwater, Fla., Gainesville, Va ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 
Nanoparticle manufacturing, the production of material units less than 100 nanometers in size (100,000 times smaller than a marble), is proving the adage that "good things come in small packages."
Today's engineered nanoparticles are integral components of everything from the quantum dot nanocrystals coloring the brilliant displays of state-of-the-art televisions to the miniscule bits of s ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Aug 27, 2018  Countries should quickly agree a treaty banning the use of so-called killer robots "before it is too late", activists said Monday as talks on the issue resumed at the UN.
They say time is running out before weapons are deployed that use lethal force without a human making the final kill-order and have criticised the UN body hosting the talks - the Convention of Certain Conventional Weapons ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has been awarded a contract for $123 million for the French 3rd/4th Systems MQ-9 Block 5 program.
Work on the contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in Poway, Calif., and is expected to be completed by May 2020. The program falls under a foreign military sale to France.
The MQ-9 SkyGuardian, also known as ... more |
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