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  Moscow (AFP) Oct 2, 2018 Russian investigators looking into the origin of a hole that caused an oxygen leak on the International Space Station have said it was caused deliberately, the space agency chief said. A first commission had delivered its report, Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, said in televised remarks late Monday. "It concluded that a manufacturing defect had been ruled out which is important to establish the truth." Rogozin said the commission's main line of inquiry was tha ... read more |
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Indian astronaut could ride Russian Soyuz to ISS in 2022Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 03, 2018 Russia may bring an Indian astronaut to the International Space Station on board a Soyuz spacecraft for a short training mission in 2022, a source in the Russian space industry told Sputnik. I ... more  
Price for F-35 drops to lowest level yetWashington (UPI) Oct 1, 2018 With an $11.5 billion agreement for the next round of F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter production, Lockheed Martin says the cost for all three variants of the aircraft have reached their lowest levels in the history of the program. ... more  
Raytheon receives $1.5B contract for Patriot systems for PolandWashington (UPI) Sep 26, 2018 Raytheon has received a $1.5 billion contract from the Department of Defense for foreign military sales of the Patriot Defense System to Poland. ... more  
SpaceX uses dumping to drive Russia out of space launch market claims RoscosmosMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 02, 2018 Elon Musk, the co-owner and CEO of the US aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, has been using dumping on the space launch market in order to crowd out Russia, head of Russia's State Space Corporation Rosc ... more |
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Brilliant, brash and volatile, Elon Musk faces new challengeWashington (AFP) Sept 27, 2018 He is looking to revolutionize transportation, colonize space and develop implantable brain-computer interfaces. ... more  
Airbus tests 4G 5G stratospheric balloons for defence commsParis, France (SPX) Sep 26, 2018 Airbus has successfully tested stratospheric 4G/5G defence applications with a high-altitude balloon demonstration. The technology tested, an Airbus LTE AirNode, represents a key part of Airbus' sec ... more 
DARPA invests in propellant-free rocket theoryWashington (UPI) Sep 26, 2018 Physicist Mike McCulloch plans to use a $1.3 million grant from the federal agency DARPA to prove his quantized inertia theory is more than just a spark plug for heady debates on online physics forums. ... more 
Vector Awarded Patent for Enhanced Liquid Oxygen-Propylene Rocket EngineTucson AZ (SPX) Sep 27, 2018 Vector a microsatellite launch company comprised of New Space and enterprise software industry veterans from SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Sea Launch and VMware, has announced ... more 
Japan firm signs with SpaceX for lunar missionsTokyo (AFP) Sept 26, 2018 A Japanese start-up is to send spacecraft to the moon in a deal signed with Elon Musk's SpaceX, the Tokyo-based firm said Wednesday. ... more |
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 NASA Unveils Sustainable Campaign to Return to Moon, on to Mars 
A decade of commercial space travel - what's next?Columbia SC (The Conversation) Oct 01, 2018 In many industries, a decade is barely enough time to cause dramatic change unless something disruptive comes along - a new technology, business model or service design. The space industry has recen ... more  |
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China launches Centispace-1-s1 satelliteJiuquan (XNA) Oct 01, 2018 China launched its Centispace-1-s1 satellite on a Kuaizhou-1A rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:13 p.m. Saturday. This is the second commercial launch by the ... more 
Europe's Ariane 5 rocket blasts off for 100th timeParis (AFP) Sept 26, 2018 A European-made rocket has blasted off from French Guiana for the 100th time, in a symbolic landmark for its manufacturer as it comes under increasing pressure from Elon Musk's SpaceX programme. ... more 
Nucleus completes successful first launchKirkenes, Norway (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 On Thursday 27 September Nammo successfully completed the first launch of Nucleus, a sounding rocket powered by its new hybrid rocket motor. Nucleus launched at 14:16: local time from Andoya S ... more 
Jeff Bezos space project lands big rocket partnershipSan Francisco (AFP) Sept 27, 2018 Jeff Bezos backed Blue Origin space exploration project on Thursday landed a major deal to provide engines for a next-generation rocket being built by a major US launch services contractor. ... more  
Lockheed awarded $1.4B for first GPS IIIF satellitesWashington (UPI) Sep 27, 2018 Lockheed Martin has received a contract for the first two GPS IIIF satellites, Space Vehicles 11 and 12, which are follow-ons to the initial 10-satellites of the new GPS III constellation. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 03, 2018 
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have appointed a board to investigate an instrument anomaly aboard the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) 17 weather satellite currently in orbit.
During postlaunch testing of the satellite's Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument, it was discovered that the instrument's infrared detectors cannot b ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Sep 26, 2018  Airbus has successfully tested stratospheric 4G/5G defence applications with a high-altitude balloon demonstration. The technology tested, an Airbus LTE AirNode, represents a key part of Airbus' secure networked airborne military communications project, Network for the Sky (NFTS).
With this new generation of long-range communications in the sky, high-altitude platforms such as Airbus' Zeph ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 27, 2018 
Lockheed Martin has received a contract for the first two GPS IIIF satellites, Space Vehicles 11 and 12, which are follow-ons to the initial 10-satellites of the new GPS III constellation.
The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defese, provides for engineering, space vehicle test bed and simulators, and production of GPS IIIF Space Vehicles 11 and 12. It also includes op ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2018 
With an $11.5 billion agreement for the next round of F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter production, Lockheed Martin says the cost for all three variants of the aircraft have reached their lowest levels in the history of the program.
The Department of Defense and Lockheed Martin on Friday announced the contract for Low-Rate Initial Production Lot 11, which covers a total of 141 of t ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Sept 25, 2018 
Qualcomm escalated a legal war with Apple, accusing the iPhone maker of stealing secrets and sharing them with mobile chip rival Intel, according to court documents.
The California mobile chipmaker on Monday added the sizzling accusation in an amendment to a lawsuit filed against Apple last year in California state court in Qualcomm's home city of San Diego.
The modified filing contends ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 25, 2018 
Just as an oven gives off more heat to the surrounding kitchen as its internal temperature rises, the Earth sheds more heat into space as its surface warms up. Since the 1950s, scientists have observed a surprisingly straightforward, linear relationship between the Earth's surface temperature and its outgoing heat.
But the Earth is an incredibly messy system, with many complicated, interac ... more |
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 Mumbai (AFP) Oct 2, 2018 
Wearing matching blue Nehru jackets, the dozen inspectors fan out across Mumbai's hectic Crawford Market, each scouring for violators of an ambitious plastic ban.
It doesn't take Mahindra Wayangankar long to find one: a dry fruits seller, wrapping his wares in plastic, is hit with a hefty 5,000-rupee ($69) fine.
Wayangankar, 50, is one of 311 officials dubbed the "blue squad" and tasked ... more |
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Oct 01, 2018 
China launched its Centispace-1-s1 satellite on a Kuaizhou-1A rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:13 p.m. Saturday.
This is the second commercial launch by the Kuaizhou-1A rocket. The first launch in January 2017 sent three satellites into space.
The Kuaizhou-1A was developed by a rocket technology company under the China Aerospace Science and Industr ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 26, 2018 
Raytheon has received a $1.5 billion contract from the Department of Defense for foreign military sales of the Patriot Defense System to Poland.
Work on the contract, announced Tuesday by the Pentagon, will be performed in Andover, Mass., White Sands Missile Range, N.M., and Merrimack, N.H., with an estimated completion date of December 2022.
Fiscal 2018 foreign military sales fu ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 25, 2018 
Lockheed Martin has received a $289.2 million contract modification for 24 M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems launchers and support.
The contract award, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, includes training, spare parts and product improvement upgrades. Work will be performed in Grand Prairie, Texas, with an estimated completion date of July 2022.
Army fiscal ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 
Researchers in Japan have found a way to create innovative materials by blending metals with precision control. Their approach, based on a concept called atom hybridization[1], opens up an unexplored area of chemistry that could lead to the development of advanced functional materials.
Multimetallic clusters - typically composed of three or more metals - are garnering attention as they exh ... more |
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 Seattle (AFP) Sept 21, 2018  From the kitchen to the car, Amazon on Thursday sought to make its Alexa digital assistant and online services a bigger part of people's lives with an array of new products and partnerships.
Updates to the internet giant's Alexa-infused Echo smart speakers will allow them to tend to microwave cooking and even have "hunches" regarding what users may want or have forgotten.
When Alexa is t ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2018 
General Atomics has received a $441.6 million contract for technical services for U.S. Army Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
Work locations and funding for the contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, will be based on each order, with an estimated completion date of September 2023.
The Gray Eagle is a derivative of the Predator unmanned aerial drone designed ... more |
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