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  Tokyo (AFP) Oct 18, 2018 Forget the flashy humanoids with their gymnastics skills: at the World Robot Summit in Tokyo, the focus was on down-to-earth robots that can deliver post, do the shopping and build a house. Introducing CarriRo, a delivery robot shaped a bit like a toy London bus with bright, friendly "eyes" on its front that can zip around the streets delivering packages at 6km/h (4 miles per hour). CarriRo "is designed to roll along the pavements and direct itself via GPS to an address within a two-kilometre ra ... read more |
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Scientists grow functioning human neural networks in 3D from stem cellsBoston MA (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 A team of Tufts University-led researchers has developed three-dimensional (3D) human tissue culture models for the central nervous system that mimic structural and functional features of the brain ... more  
3D-printed lithium-ion batteriesWashington DC (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 Electric vehicles and most electronic devices, such as cell phones and laptop computers, are powered by lithium-ion batteries. Until now, manufacturers have had to design their devices around the si ... more 
Pushing the extra cold frontiers of superconducting scienceAmes IA (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 Measuring the properties of superconducting materials in magnetic fields at close to absolute zero temperatures is difficult, but necessary to understand their quantum properties. How cold? Lo ... more  
Probe commission rules out sabotage as possible cause of Soyuz failureMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 22, 2018 The state commission investigating the Soyuz-FG booster failure has ruled out sabotage during the assembly of the rocket as a possible cause, a space industry source told Sputnik. "The Commiss ... more |
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US astronaut Hague 'amazed' by Russian rescue team's work after Soyuz failureMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2018 NASA astronaut Nick Hague told NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine that he was impressed by the teamwork of the rescue crew that helped him and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin to get out of the res ... more  
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  
US Air Force's X-37B space plane marks 400 days in orbitWashington DC (Sputnik) Oct 22, 2018 The US Air Force's unmanned X-37B space plane has passed its 400-day mark, inching its way toward setting a new flight duration record for the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) mission. The spacecraf ... more  
Navistar contracted by Army for MRAP tech supportWashington (UPI) Oct 19, 2018 Navistar Defense has been awarded a $19.7 million modification to an existing contract with the U.S. Army to provide technical support for in-production and out-of-production of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected, or MRAP, MaxxPro family of vehicles. ... more 
Launches of Russian Rokot-2 rocket may begin again in 2021Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2018 The launches of the Russian Rokot-2 light carrier rockets may begin again in 2021 which would allow achieving annual incomes of over 8 billion rubles ($120 million) if the decision to resume the pro ... more |
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US-Russia space cooperation to go on despite Soyuz launch mishapMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2018 According to NASA Administrator, Jim Bridenstine, the launch of manned Soyuz spacecraft will resume on schedule. The statement comes after last week's Soyuz spacecraft launch failure. Radio Sputnik ... more  |
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Scientists want to blast holes in clouds with laser to boost satellite communicationWashington DC (UPI) Oct 18, 2018 To improve the efficiency and security of long-range information transmission, scientists want to phase out radio communication satellites and introduce laser-powered technology. ... more 
Aerojet Rocketdyne powers 4th AEHF-4 to orbital positionCape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 Aerojet Rocketdyne propulsion continues to support the Air Force's protected communications satellite network, the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) system, with the successful launch of the ... more 
Roscosmos plans to restart Soyuz launches from late NovemberMoscow (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 cosmodr ... more  
LGS awarded contract to test special ops unmanned vehiclesWashington DC (UPI) Oct 18, 2018 LGS Innovations was awarded a contract on Wednesday from the U.S. Navy to perform services on unmanned vehicles used by it and the Special Operations Command. ... more  
Northrop contracted for electronics upgrades on Growler, ProwlerWashington DC (UPI) Oct 18, 2018 Northrop Grumman has received an award from the U.S. Navy and the Australian government to perform various systems upgrades to several aircraft. ... more |
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 Delft, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 
A quantum internet may very well be the first quantum information technology to become reality. Researchers at QuTech in Delft, The Netherlands, have published a comprehensive guide towards this goal in Science. It describes six phases, starting with simple networks of qubits that could already enable secure quantum communications - a phase that could be reality in the near future.
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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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 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 18, 2018 
Rockwell Collins Inc. has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy to repair aircraft navigation and communication items.
The two-year, $7.1 million contract, announced on Wednesday by the Department of Defense, will fund work on 22 items, including KC-130J, H-1, E-2C, P-3, common systems and other aircraft.
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 
For many years, quantum computers were not much more than an idea.
Today, companies, governments and intelligence agencies are investing in the development of quantum technology. Robert Konig, professor for the theory of complex quantum systems at the TUM, in collaboration with David Gosset from the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo and Sergey Bravyi from IBM, h ... more |
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 Cambridge, Canada (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 
exactEarth Ltd. reports the Government of Canada will make an investment of $7.2 million over three-years to support the development, management and expansion of exactView RT, the Company's real-time Satellite-AIS service.
The investment is being made through the GoC's Strategic Innovation Fund ("SIF"), a program designed to support businesses across all sectors of the economy by encouragi ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Oct 18, 2018 
Japan said Thursday it was facing a growing sea of plastic waste with limited capacity to process it after China stopped accepting foreign waste imports.
The environment ministry said about a quarter of major regional and municipal governments surveyed reported seeing accumulating plastic waste, sometimes going beyond sanitary standards.
The costs of processing waste plastic were rising, ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2018 
Many new companies have entered the commercial aerospace industry in China, supported by the government. Most of the CEOs come from government aerospace agencies or national scientific institutions. These companies still have a long way to go to catch up with Elon Musk's SpaceX.
The aerospace industry used to be a battleground for superpowers. Space agencies were all sponsored by governmen ... 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.
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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.
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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 (AFP) Oct 18, 2018 
Forget the flashy humanoids with their gymnastics skills: at the World Robot Summit in Tokyo, the focus was on down-to-earth robots that can deliver post, do the shopping and build a house.
Introducing CarriRo, a delivery robot shaped a bit like a toy London bus with bright, friendly "eyes" on its front that can zip around the streets delivering packages at 6km/h (4 miles per hour).
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Oct 22, 2018 
The US Air Force's unmanned X-37B space plane has passed its 400-day mark, inching its way toward setting a new flight duration record for the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) mission.
The spacecraft, the fifth of its kind, was initially rocketed into orbit on September 7, 2017, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, according to Space.com. All previous OTV missions established new flight records, wit ... more |
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