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Embry-Riddle, Florida Tech Collaborate on Spaceflight Research![]() Daytona Beach FL (SPX) Nov 08, 2018 With the common goal of improving human performance inside spacecraft, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Florida Institute of Technology have announced a year-long collaboration on research involving spaceflight. The joint effort involves Embry-Riddle's S.U.I.T. (Spacesuit Utilization of Innovative Technology) Lab at Embry-Riddle's Daytona Beach Campus and principal investigator Dr. Ryan Kobrick, assistant professor of Spaceflight Operations, along with Florida Tech's Human Spaceflight or H ... read more |
From Quantum Optics to Increased Risk Posture: Student Innovations at NASAGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 08, 2018 Throughout space, hundreds of satellites are orbiting Earth and other celestial planets, continuously collecting data about the vast universe. Communicating with these satellites is a complex and ev ... more
Lockheed Martin integrates advanced radar system with unmanned aerostatAkron OH (SPX) Nov 07, 2018 Lockheed Martin completed the successful integration of a Telephonics RDR-1700B radar onto a 74K aerostat for land and sea missions. This latest milestone follows Lockheed Martin's successful integr ... more
A faster, cheaper path to fusion energyPortland OR (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 Scientists are working to dramatically speed up the development of fusion energy in an effort to deliver power to the electric grid soon enough to help mitigate impacts of climate change. The arriva ... more
General Atomics awarded Reaper strike drone production contractWashington DC (UPI) Nov 06, 2018 The U.S. Air Force has awarded General Atomics Aeronautical Systems a $263.4 million contract for production of the MQ-9 Reaper surveillance and strike drone. ... more |
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'Dust up' on International Space Station hints at sources of structurePortland OR (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 Imagine looking under your couch and instead of finding fluffy dust bunnies, you see the dust is arranged in straight lines - you might wonder what caused this order. Scientists are experiencing tha ... more
Russia to hold 2 new space launches in wake of Soyuz failureWashington (UPI) Nov 2, 2018 Russia approved two new space launches for 2018 after it scrapped the launch of Soyuz-FG that forced a U.S. astronaut and Russian cosmonaut to eject from their spacecraft. ... more
Boeing braces for trade war headwinds in ChinaZhuhai, China (AFP) Nov 7, 2018 At China's biggest air show, a top Boeing executive voiced hope that the US and China would resume trade talks. He has reason to worry: The US aerospace giant could fly into turbulence in a protracted commercial conflict. ... more
NSA certifies Harris AN/PRC-163 radio for top secret intelligenceWashington (UPI) Nov 7, 2018 The National Security Agency has granted Harris Corporation Type-1 certification for its AN/PRC-163 handheld networked encrypted radio approved for transmitting top secret classified information. ... more
Russia plans to carry out 17 space launches in 2018Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 05, 2018 Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos will carry out 17 space launches in 2018 and over 35 launches in 2019, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin told Sputnik. "If this year we have only 17 laun ... more |
![]() Army looks to DRS for Joint Assault Bridge armored bridging units Washington DC (UPI) Nov 06, 2018 Pointing a special laser from Earth could act as a beacon light to aliens in space, a recent study said. ... more |
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Verdego Aero to provide hybrid-electric power propulsion option for Transcend Air VY 400 VTOLDaytona Beach, FL (SPX) Nov 07, 2018 VerdeGo Aero has announced that it is teaming with Transcend Air to apply VerdeGo's IDEP (Integrated Distributed Electric Propulsion) systems to future versions of Transcend's Vy 400 aircraft. This ... more
Air Force awards $350M contract for support of JASSM missiles(UPI) Nov 6, 2018 The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $350 million contract for production support of Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile low-observable long range cruise missiles and all of its variants. ... more
Fregat Upper Stage Separates From Soyuz Carrier Bringing Satellite to OrbitMoscow (Sputnik) Nov 06, 2018 Fregat upper stage rocket carrying Glonass-M satellite has separated normally from the third stage of the Russian Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Friday nig ... more
Small rockets are taking offNew York (AFP) Nov 2, 2018 In mid-November, a company called Rocket Lab will try to send six small satellites into orbit around Earth - a fairly banal undertaking, save for the size of the launch rocket. ... more
China launches BeiDou-3 navigation satellite into highest orbit yetXichang (XNA) Nov 05, 2018 China's home-grown global satellite navigation system came a step closer to completion Thursday with the launch of another BeiDou-3 satellite at 11:57 p.m. from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, ... more |
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Physicists name and codify new field in nanotechnology: 'electron quantum metamaterials' Riverside CA (SPX) Nov 06, 2018
When two atomically thin two-dimensional layers are stacked on top of each other and one layer is made to rotate against the second layer, they begin to produce patterns - the familiar moire patterns - that neither layer can generate on its own and that facilitate the passage of light and electrons, allowing for materials that exhibit unusual phenomena. For example, when two graphene layers are ... more |
Raytheon tapped by DARPA for high frequency digital communications research Washington DC (UPI) Nov 06, 2018
Raytheon has been awarded an $11.5 million contract for development work on the Millimeter-Wave Digital Arrays program, an effort by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Activity program to enhance military communication security.
The contract, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, will see Raytheon focus on digital tile architecture and scalable apertures with transmit and r ... more |
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China launches BeiDou-3 navigation satellite into highest orbit yet Xichang (XNA) Nov 05, 2018
China's home-grown global satellite navigation system came a step closer to completion Thursday with the launch of another BeiDou-3 satellite at 11:57 p.m. from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, in the southwestern Sichuan Province.
Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, it is the 41st of the BeiDou navigation system, and will work with 16 other Beidou-3 satellites already in orbit ... more |
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Verdego Aero to provide hybrid-electric power propulsion option for Transcend Air VY 400 VTOL Daytona Beach, FL (SPX) Nov 07, 2018
VerdeGo Aero has announced that it is teaming with Transcend Air to apply VerdeGo's IDEP (Integrated Distributed Electric Propulsion) systems to future versions of Transcend's Vy 400 aircraft. This will allow Transcend Air to take advantage of developing electric power options, while also benefiting from already-available, traditional turbine power plants.
VerdeGo Aero's IDEP systems are a ... more |
Bringing photonic signaling to digital microelectronics Washington DC (SPX) Nov 05, 2018
Parallelism - or the act of several processors simultaneously executing on an application or computation - has been increasingly embraced by the microelectronics industry as a way of sustaining demand for increased system performance.
Today, parallel computing architectures have become pervasive across all application domains and system scales - from multicore processing units in consumer ... more |
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Ozone hole in northern hemisphere to recover completely by 2030 Washington (UPI) Nov 5, 2018
Scientists expect the Northern hemisphere and mid-latitude ozone holes to be completely repaired some time in the 2030s, according to the first assessment of the ozone hole since 2014.
The study, "Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018," published Monday by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization, highlighted the decrease of ozone-depleting substances as the ... more |
Polluted Delhi air akin to death sentence, say doctors New Delhi (AFP) Nov 5, 2018
Yogesh Kumar wheezes after life-saving surgery to remove a diseased lung, but his doctors wonder how long he can last outside hospital breathing some of the world's dirtiest air.
Smog is blamed for the deaths of more than one million Indians every year and Delhi - which on Monday had emergency pollution levels more than 35 times the World Health Organization safe limit - has the worst air ... more |
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China unveils new 'Heavenly Palace' space station as ISS days numbered Zhuhai, China (AFP) Nov 6, 2018 China unveiled on Tuesday a replica of its first permanently crewed space station, which would replace the international community's orbiting laboratory and symbolises the country's major ambitions beyond Earth.
The 17-metre (55-foot) core module was a star attraction at the biennial Airshow China in the southern coastal city of Zhuhai, the country's main aerospace industry exhibition.
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Raytheon to supply Romania with Patriot missile defense systems Washington (UPI) Nov 2, 2018
U.S. Army has signed a deal to supply the Romanian government with three Raytheon defense systems.
Romania will use the new Patriot Air and Missile Defense Systems - the country's second order of the systems in the last two years - to deter any any threats to its borders.
The Patriot is a surface-to-air missile provides the "backbone" to the missile defense capabilities used by ... more |
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Air Force awards $350M contract for support of JASSM missiles (UPI) Nov 6, 2018
The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $350 million contract for production support of Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile low-observable long range cruise missiles and all of its variants.
Lockheed Martin will provide lifecycle support related to the JASSM, the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile JASSM-Extended Range variants and any JASSM support concerning upgrades, production and logistics, ac ... more |
Penn engineers develop ultrathin, ultralight nanocardboard Philadelphia PA (SPX) Nov 07, 2018
When choosing materials to make something, trade-offs need to be made between a host of properties, such as thickness, stiffness and weight. Depending on the application in question, finding just the right balance is the difference between success and failure
Now, a team of Penn Engineers has demonstrated a new material they call "nanocardboard," an ultrathin equivalent of corrugated paper ... more |
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Artificial sensor mimics human sense of touch Daegu, South Korea (SPX) Nov 08, 2018
A team of researchers have developed an artificial tactile sensor that mimics the ability of human skin to detect surface information, such as shapes, patterns and structures. This may be one step closer to making electronic devices and robots that can perceive sensations such as roughness and smoothness.
"Mimicking the human senses is one of the most popular areas of engineering, but the ... more |
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General Atomics awarded Reaper strike drone production contract Washington DC (UPI) Nov 06, 2018
The U.S. Air Force has awarded General Atomics Aeronautical Systems a $263.4 million contract for production of the MQ-9 Reaper surveillance and strike drone.
Production on the contract, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, will consist of the fiscal 2018 production configuration Reaper, with Air Force fiscal 2017 and 2018 aircraft procurement funding in the full amount being ... more |
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