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  Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 11, 2018 The Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Biomedical Problems has initiated research on the influence of zero-G on the human body during flights to the Moon and back; around 20 people will engage in a two-year study, Elena Tomilovskaya, Head of the Laboratory of Gravitational Physiology of Sensory-Motor Systems, told Sputnik. "The research program is set to last over two years. For a long time, we've been conducting so-called dry immersions, since the seventies, but these were mainly short-ter ... read more |
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EU to be able to use Ariane 6 carrier rockets for manned space flightsParis (Sputnik) Oct 17, 2018 The new EU Ariane 6 carrier rocket will be able to fulfill various tasks including ensuring manned space flights, President of the Ariane Group Alain Charmeau said. "The United States is surpa ... more 
Russia understands Soyuz incident reasons says Head of MissionMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 16, 2018 Russian experts understand what caused the failure of a Soyuz rocket booster that aborted this Thursday's launch of a manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the head of the mission ... more 
Jeff Bezos to invest more than $1 bn in Blue Origin in 2019San Francisco (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 The world's richest man, billionaire entrepreneur and Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, said Monday that he is planning to boost his annual investment in Blue Origin, the aerospace company he launched in 2000. ... more 
Space Launch System Intertank completes functional testingNew Orleans LA (SPX) Oct 16, 2018 The intertank that will be flown on Exploration Mission-1 as part of NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, has completed its avionics functional testing, at the Michoud Assembly Center in New ... more |
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Bye Aerospace targeting on-demand charter services for Sun Flyer 4Denver CO (SPX) Oct 16, 2018 Bye Aerospace, the developer of the "Sun Flyer 2" and "Sun Flyer 4" family of electric aircraft, is having discussions with on-demand charter services about using its Sun Flyer 4 aircraft to provide ... more  
China launches twin BeiDou-3 satellitesXichang (XNA) Oct 16, 2018 China sent twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites into space on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, in Sichuan Province, at 12:23 p.m. Monday. The satellites ... more  
MASCOT completes first scientific 'stroll' across asteroid RyuguWashington (UPI) Oct 12, 2018 The German lander MASCOT has completed its first scientific "stroll" across the asteroid Ryugu. ... more 
Sky and Space Global (SAS) awarded EU grant, signs 5 agreements with telecom operatorsLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 Sky and Space Global Ltd reports it has reached a significant operational landmark by winning a Research and Development grant from the Polish government and the EU, and also recently signed five ne ... more  
DARPA seeks proposals for 3rd OFFSET Swarm Sprint, awards 2nd ContractsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) envisions swarms of 250 collaborative autonomous systems providing critical insights to small ground military units in urban areas where vertical str ... more |
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NASA continues fall series of RS-25 engine testsStennis Space Centre MS (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 The arrival of fall in south Mississippi means billowing clouds of steam exhaust is in the air as NASA continues a series of RS-25 engine tests at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis. A team of ... more  |
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Russian Space Corp gets telemetry data, video to probe Soyuz failureMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 14, 2018 Russia's Energia Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC Energia) has received telemetry data as well as materials from the video recorder from the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle, Russia's space agency Roscosmos ... more 
Soyuz-FG launch vehicle assembly suspended as part of MS-10 Mission probeMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 15, 2018 All works with the Soyuz-FG booster that has been prepared for the launch of the Progress MS-10 cargo spacecraft have been suspended because it may have the same defects as the Soyuz-FG that failed ... more  
Aborted launch astronauts to go to space next spring: RussiaMoscow (AFP) Oct 12, 2018 Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague are likely to go into space in the spring after their flight was suddenly aborted, the head of the Russian space agency said Friday. ... more 
The forgotten age of spaceWest Lafayette IND (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 In 1990, Michael Smith had been living in Moscow for four months, rooming with a Russian family and conducting research in the city's libraries and archives, when he witnessed the slow collapse of t ... more 
NASA photo shows International Space Station transiting the sunWashington (UPI) Oct 11, 2018 The International Space Station orbits the Earth once every 93 minutes. The satellite's orbital path regularly takes ISS across the face of the moon and sun. ... more |
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 Bremen, Germany (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
Luxembourg-based Kleos Space S.A. has signed a second Memorandum of Understanding with Airbus Defence and Space, as both companies investigate opportunities to collaborate for the manufacture In-Space of structural elements.
Kleos Space and parent Magna Parva (UK) have developed an In-Space manufacturing system that will provide a method of producing huge carbon composite 3D structures in ... more |
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 Toulouse, France (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 
SATConsult, a leading satellite engineering consultancy and member of Euroconsult Group, has been selected by ESA to lead a consortium, composed of RHEA Group, Airbus and Space Hellas, to help develop a secure, independent, and centralized digital platform for Pooling and Sharing (P and S) satellite communication resources.
ESA has identified an increasing demand for secure satellite commu ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Oct 16, 2018 
China sent twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites into space on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, in Sichuan Province, at 12:23 p.m. Monday.
The satellites are the 39th and 40th of the BeiDou navigation system, and the 15th and 16th of the BeiDou-3 family.
The launch was the 287th mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.
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 Denver CO (SPX) Oct 16, 2018 
Bye Aerospace, the developer of the "Sun Flyer 2" and "Sun Flyer 4" family of electric aircraft, is having discussions with on-demand charter services about using its Sun Flyer 4 aircraft to provide on-demand air taxi service.
"Given the level of interest in more-efficient and more-affordable short-range air taxi service, we are being contacted by proactive, forward-thinking companies," sa ... more |
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 Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Oct 16, 2018 
Targeting applications like neural networks for machine learning, a new discovery out of the University of Alberta and Quantum Silicon Inc. in Edmonton, Canada is paving the way for atomic ultra-efficient electronics, the need for which is increasingly critical in our data-driven society. The key to unlocking untold potential for the greenest electronics? Creating bespoke atomic patterns to in t ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
Over the southeast Atlantic Ocean, a 2,000-mile-long plume of smoke from African agricultural fires meets a near-permanent cloud bank offshore. Their meeting makes a natural laboratory for studying the interactions between cloud droplets and the tiny airborne smoke particles. This month, NASA's P-3 research aircraft and a team of scientists return on their third deployment to this region as part ... more |
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 New Delhi (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 
Delhi's biggest coal power plant was set to shut down Monday as a new emergency plan to improve air quality in one of the world's most polluted cities came into force, Indian officials said.
Under the new strategy, restrictions on construction sites and traffic will be imposed depending on the air quality in the megacity of some 20 million people.
When the air is classed as "poor", as it ... 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 DC (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 
Lockheed Martin has delivered the 300th interceptor for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, the only system in the world designed to intercept threats both inside and outside the atmosphere. The production maturity milestone comes as demand for the company's hit-to-kill missile defense system and interceptors continues to grow.
"The Missile Defense Agency, industry and ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 8, 2018 
Lockheed Martin has been tapped for Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile production, and test vehicles, for foreign military sales customers, though the Department of Defense did not specify what country was buying the missiles.
The $390 million deal, comes under a firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive-fee contract, announced Friday by the Pentagon.
Lockheed will provide 360 l ... more |
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 Newark DE (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 
From photonics to pharmaceuticals, materials made with polymer nanoparticles hold promise for products of the future. However, there are still gaps in understanding the properties of these tiny plastic-like particles.
Now, Hojin Kim, a graduate student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, together with a team of collaborating scientists at the Max Planck ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced plans Monday to create a new college of artificial intelligence with an initial $1 billion commitment for the program focusing on "responsible and ethical" uses of the technology.
The prestigious university said it would add 50 new faculty members and create an interdisciplinary hub for work in computer science, AI, data science, and relate ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) envisions swarms of 250 collaborative autonomous systems providing critical insights to small ground military units in urban areas where vertical structures, tight spaces, and limited sight lines constrain communications and mobility. DARPA is soliciting proposals for its third swarm sprint, which will focus on the topics of human-swarm teaming an ... more |
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