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  Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 18, 2018 On October 11, the crew of the Soyuz MS-10 manned spacecraft made an emergency landing in Kazakhstan due to an accident that took place two minutes after the craft's launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome. The first launch since the accident may take place in Plesetsk starting from October 24 to 26, (it will be a) Soyuz-2 with a military satellite, according to reports citing sources. Three Soyuz rocket launches will be conducted before the next manned Soyuz flight, the Roscosmos executive dire ... read more |
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Plant hormone makes space farming a possibilityZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 With scarce nutrients and weak gravity, growing potatoes on the Moon or on other planets seems unimaginable. But the plant hormone strigolactone could make it possible, plant biologists from the Uni ... more 
Installing life support the hands-free wayParis (ESA) Oct 18, 2018 Last week saw the installation of ESA's next-generation life-support system on the International Space Station. The new facility recycles carbon dioxide in the air into water that can then be conver ... more  
Russian Scientists Start Research on Impact of Zero-Gravity on HumansMoscow (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 engag ... more 
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 |
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Russian cosmonaut reveals what ISS crew truly fearsMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 16, 2018 The cosmonaut also explained that cosmonauts and astronauts alike all hope that everything goes according to plan. Sergei Prokopyev, a Russian cosmonaut currently stationed aboard the Internat ... 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  
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 
NASA says will use Russia's Soyuz despite rocket failureMoscow (AFP) Oct 12, 2018 NASA chief Jim Bridenstine on Friday praised the Russian space programme and said he expected a new crew to go to the International Space Station in December despite a rocket failure. ... more  
Military communications satellite online in orbit following launchCape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 The fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) protected communication satellite, built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force, was successfully launched at 12:15 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Ai ... more |
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 China launches twin BeiDou-3 satellites 
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  |
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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 
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 
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  
US serviceman among two killed in Ukrainian fighter jet crashKiev (AFP) Oct 17, 2018 Ukraine's military and the US Air Force said Wednesday that a US serviceman was one of the two pilots killed in a fighter jet crash during military exercises. ... more 
Rolls-Royce contracted for propulsion technology developmentWashington (UPI) Oct 18, 2018 Rolls-Royce has been awarded a $100 million contract by the U.S. Air Force to develop, demonstrate and transition advanced propulsion technologies. ... more |
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 Bremen, Germany (SPX) Oct 18, 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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 Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
The fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) protected communication satellite, built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force, was successfully launched at 12:15 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocket. Lockheed Martin confirmed signal acquisition at 3:47 a.m. ET.
The AEHF system provides global, survivable, highly secure and p ... more |
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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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 Washington (UPI) Oct 18, 2018 
Rolls-Royce has been awarded a $100 million contract by the U.S. Air Force to develop, demonstrate and transition advanced propulsion technologies.
The contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, comes under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to cover phase one of the Advanced Turbine Technologies for Affordable Mission-Capability program.
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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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 Kirirom, Cambodia (AFP) Oct 12, 2018 
Sitting in a building made from used tyres, plastic bottles and old sneakers, Cambodian student Roeun Bunthon jots down notes during an English lesson at the "Rubbish School" where tuition is paid for with trash instead of cash.
In return, needy kids like Bunthon, a former street beggar, can take computer, mathematics and language classes - and learn the value of reducing waste in a notorio ... 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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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 
A NIMS research group has invented an ionic device, termed as ionic decision-maker, capable of quickly making its own decisions based on previous experience using changes in ionic/molecular concentrations. The group then succeeded in demonstrating its operation.
This device is capable of making decisions while efficiently adapting to changing situations by a means unrelated to the storage ... 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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