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  Moscow (AFP) Oct 25, 2018 Russia on Thursday successfully launched a Soyuz rocket for the first time since the failure of a similar rocket aborted a manned take-off to the International Space Station (ISS) on October 11. "On Thursday at 03:15 (0015 GMT) a Soyuz-2.1B rocket was successfully launched carrying a satellite for the Russian military," the Russian defence ministry said in a statement. The satellite reached its orbit at the set time, according to the ministry. "This is the first launch of a rocket from the ... read more |
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Nuclear fusion: wrestling with burning questions on the control of 'burning plasmas'Bethlehem PA (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 What would it take to meet the world's energy needs, sustainably, far into the foreseeable future? Perhaps creating energy the way the sun does, through nuclear fusion. Fission and fusion are ... more  
Israel wins $777 mn Indian missile defence orderJerusalem (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) said Wednesday it had won a $777 million (680 million euro) order from India to buy defence systems for its navy. ... more  
Elephant trunks form joints to pick up small objectsRochester NY (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 Understanding how elephants use their trunks to pick up small objects could lead to robots designed with flexible hands or grippers, according to a new study that includes Rochester Institute of Tec ... more 
Small flying robots haul heavy loadsStanford CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 A closed door is just one of many obstacles that poses no barrier to a new type of flying, micro, tugging robot called a FlyCroTug. Outfitted with advanced gripping technologies and the ability to m ... more |
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Honeywell nabs $1B for aircraft support for Air ForceWashington (UPI) Oct 25, 2018 The Defense Logistics Agency awarded a $1.4 billion contract to Honeywell International Inc. for support on a variety of U.S. Air Force aircraft platforms. ... more 
Belgium to buy US F-35 fighters in blow to EU defenceBrussels (AFP) Oct 25, 2018 Belgium said Thursday it had chosen to buy US-made F-35 stealth warplanes over the Eurofighter Typhoon, which critics call a blow to the EU's bid to build its own defences. ... more  
Raytheon missiles destroy targets in test by South Korea's navyWashington (UPI) Oct 24, 2018 Raytheon-produced surface-to-air missiles beat back two aerial threats at sea during a testing exercise by the Republic of Korea's navy. ... more 
IAI receives $777 million contract from Indian navy for Barak 8 systemsWashington (UPI) Oct 24, 2018 Israel Aerospace Industries announced Wednesday it has received a $777 million contract to supply long range surface-to-air missile defense systems for seven ships in the Indian navy. ... more  
General Atomics awarded $193M for Gray Eagle logisticsWashington (UPI) Oct 24, 2018 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems received a $193 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to perform logistics services on the Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system, or drone. ... more |
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 Taxi tests for Paul Allen's Stratolaunch successfully reach 90 mph  
China's space programs open up to worldBeijing (XNA) Oct 24, 2018 When German scientists were conducting micro-gravity experiments on China's recoverable satellite in the 1980s, Chinese space engineer Tang Bochang was busy solving technical problems, while careful ... more  |
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China's commercial aerospace companies flourishingMoscow (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. ... more  
Don't choke on your coffee: US Air Force in hot water over $1,220 mugsWashington (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 The US Air Force has found itself in a brewing scandal after it emerged that the service has been spending more than $1,000 to replace high tech coffee cups with fragile handles. ... more 
MyDefence demonstrates drone swarm counter UAS jammerFredensborg, Denmark (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 On October 12, MyDefence co-hosted the event Electric Storm to demonstrate the capability of the latest MyDefence Counter UAS products for dismounted soldiers. The event featured a live demonstratio ... more 
Raytheon delivers first RAM launcher ever to Latin AmericaWashington (UPI) Oct 23, 2018 A new Rolling Airframe Missile, or RAM, launcher from Raytheon Company has arrived in Mexico today, marking the first RAM delivery to a Latin American country. ... 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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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 
By merging the ancient art of origami with 21st century technology, researchers have created a one-step approach to fabricating complex origami structures whose light weight, expandability, and strength could have applications in everything from biomedical devices to equipment used in space exploration. Until now, making such structures has involved multiple steps, more than one material, and as ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 25, 2018 
United Launch Services, a part of the United Launch Alliance, has received an award for $152.4 million to provide heavy launch services for the U.S. Air Force.
Under the terms of the firm-fixed-price contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, ULA will support the National Reconnaissance Office Launch Mission One launch of the Delta IV rocket.
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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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 Brussels (AFP) Oct 25, 2018 
Belgium said Thursday it had chosen to buy US-made F-35 stealth warplanes over the Eurofighter Typhoon, which critics call a blow to the EU's bid to build its own defences.
In a multi-billion-euro deal with Lockheed Martin, the Belgian government said it would buy 34 radar-evading F-35s to replace its ageing US-made F-16s, from 2023.
Critics called the decision "very bad news" for a more ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 
Spectrometers - devices that distinguish different wavelengths of light and are used to determine the chemical composition of everything from laboratory materials to distant stars - are large devices with six-figure price tags, and tend to be found in large university and industry labs or observatories.
A new advance by researchers at MIT could make it possible to produce tiny spectrometer ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 
Staff members from the Higher School of Economics and the Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia have proposed a new operative scheme for the short-range complex forecasting of wind and possible gusts, surface air temperature, and humidity. The results, i.e., estimates of average forecast errors at different lead times and their comparison with competitors' results, were published in the journal R ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) Oct 25, 2018 
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced his country's endorsement of a G7-led initiative to rid the oceans of plastics, during a visit to Ottawa on Thursday.
Britain, Canada, France, Germany and Italy, along with the European Union, signed the Ocean Plastics Charter at a leaders' summit in Canada's Charlevoix region in June, although neither the United States nor Japan put their names to a ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 24, 2018 
When German scientists were conducting micro-gravity experiments on China's recoverable satellite in the 1980s, Chinese space engineer Tang Bochang was busy solving technical problems, while carefully keeping Chinese secrets.
Tang joined the China Academy of Space Technology in 1970, the same year China launched its first satellite. He has participated in the development of returnable sate ... more |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) said Wednesday it had won a $777 million (680 million euro) order from India to buy defence systems for its navy.
The deal with India's state-owned Bharat Electronics Limited to supply the marine version of the Barak 8 air and missile defence system for seven more warships follows a $630 million (551 million euro) order placed last year.
State-owned IAI, ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 24, 2018 
Raytheon-produced surface-to-air missiles beat back two aerial threats at sea during a testing exercise by the Republic of Korea's navy.
South Korea's navy fired three SM-2 Block IIIB missiles to destroy simulated aerial threats, Raytheon announced on Wednesday. South Korea also successfully tested advanced semi-active radar seeker technology in two Block IIIA missiles
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 
An international team led by researchers from Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), University of Oviedo (Asturias, Spain), CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain), and Soochow University (Suzhou, China) discover squeezed light ('nanolight') in the nanoscale that propagates only in specific directions along thin slabs of molybdenum trioxide - a natural anisotropic 2D material -. Besides its uniq ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 
Understanding how elephants use their trunks to pick up small objects could lead to robots designed with flexible hands or grippers, according to a new study that includes Rochester Institute of Technology research.
RIT scientist Scott Franklin collaborated with David Hu at Georgia Institute of Technology to understand how elephants apply force with their trunk to manipulate different size ... more |
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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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