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  Huntington Beach CA (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 US orbital launch provider, Rocket Lab, has closed a Series E financing round of $140 million (USD). The funding round closed last month, prior to the launch of the successful mission 'It's Business Time,' and was led by existing investor Future Fund, with strong participation from current investors including Greenspring Associates, Khosla Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, DCVC (Data Collective), Promus Ventures and K1W1. New investor ACC also contributed to the round. The Series E round close ... read more |
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Cygnus cargo ship launches to ISSWallops Flight Facility, United States (AFP) Nov 17, 2018 An unmanned Cygnus cargo ship blasted off Saturday toward the International Space Station, marking the second supply mission in 24 hours destined to carry food and supplies to the astronauts living in space. ... more 
Russia's Cargo Craft Blasts Off to Station for Sunday DeliveryBaikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 Carrying almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the International Space Station crew, the unpiloted Russian Progress 71 cargo spacecraft launched at 1:14 p.m. EST (12:14 a.m. Saturday, Nov ... more  
Poor weather delays US space cargo launch to SaturdayWashington (AFP) Nov 15, 2018 Windy weather pushed back until Saturday the planned launch of a US cargo ship loaded with supplies for astronauts living at the International Space Station, NASA said Thursday. ... more  
KazSTSat and VESTA due to lift-off on Spaceflight's SSO-A SmallSat Express MissionGuildford, UK (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 KazSTSat and VESTA, two small satellites designed and manufactured at Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), are due to launch on Spaceflight's SSO-A SmallSat Express Mission on board a SpaceX Falc ... more |
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Russia blocked GPS data during NATO exercises: NorwayOslo (AFP) Nov 13, 2018 Oslo on Tuesday pointed a finger squarely at Russia, accusing it of jamming GPS signals in Norway's Far North when it hosted NATO's massive exercises in October and early November. ... more
First supply trip to space since Soyuz failure poised to launchWashington (AFP) Nov 14, 2018 A US spaceship loaded with supplies for the International Space Station is poised to launch Thursday, marking the first such trip since a Soyuz rocket carrying two people failed last month. ... more 
New horizon for space transportation servicesParis (ESA) Nov 14, 2018 ESA reaches out to encourage open innovation and offer support. A global response to ESA's call for ideas on new space transportation services has resulted in 79 proposals of which 41 were considere ... more 
Canadian voice of Hal in '2001: A Space Odyssey' diesOttawa (AFP) Nov 12, 2018 Douglas Rain, the Canadian actor who voiced vengeful supercomputer HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," a precursor of artificial intelligence in smartphones, has died. He was 90. ... more 
SPARC Research awarded contract for hypersonic airbreathing weapon propulsionWarrenton, VA (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 SPARC Research has announced that they have received a contract from Draper to provide propulsion design and analysis support for a future hypersonic interceptor weapon. The concept is based o ... more |
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 Northrop Grumman tapped for South Korean drone support 
India launches GSLV-3 carrying GSAT-29Sriharikota, India (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 GSLV MkIII-D2, the second developmental flight of GSLV MkIII successfully launched GSAT-29, a high throughput communication satellite at 5.08 pm IST on November 14, 2018 from the Second Launch Pad(S ... more  |
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Navy to purchase 8 MH-60R helicopters from Lockheed MartinWashington (UPI) Nov 15, 2018 Lockheed Martin will receive $382 million for the production and delivery of eight MH-60R Seahawk helicopters with associated engineering and program support. ... more 
Lockheed Martin awarded $22.7B for next round of F-35sWashington (UPI) Nov 15, 2018 Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $22.7 billion contract for the next round of F-35 Lightning II stealth aircraft production for the United States and partner nations. ... more 
China Southern airline to exit SkyTeam allianceParis (AFP) Nov 15, 2018 China Southern, Asia's biggest carrier, is to exit the SkyTeam airline alliance founded by Air France and Delta, both the company and the grouping announced on Thursday. ... more  
Foreign troops pour into PNG capital for APEC meetPort Moresby (AFP) Nov 12, 2018 Papua New Guinea has deployed a multi-national force of warships, fighter jets and elite counter-terrorism troops to protect world leaders attending a major summit in its crime-plagued capital this week. ... more  
China releases smart solution for verifying reliability of space equipment componentsBeijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2018 The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a smart solution for verifying the operational reliability of space equipment compone ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 17, 2018 
Imagine an airport where thousands of planes, empty of fuel, are left abandoned on the tarmac. That is what has been happening for decades with satellites that circle the Earth.
When satellites run out of fuel, they can no longer maintain their precise orbit, rendering them useless even if their hardware is still intact.
"It's literally throwing away hundreds of millions of dollars," Al ... more |
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 Washington (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.
The certification, announced Tuesday by Harris, permits the radio to transmit voice and data including full motion video up to top secret level on both channels for VHF/UHF line of sight, SATCO ... more |
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 Oslo (AFP) Nov 13, 2018 
Oslo on Tuesday pointed a finger squarely at Russia, accusing it of jamming GPS signals in Norway's Far North when it hosted NATO's massive exercises in October and early November.
"We know that jamming was observed between October 19 and November 7, originating from Russian ground forces in (the) Kola" peninsula, a region of northwestern Russia close to Norway, the Norwegian defence ministr ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Nov 14, 2018 
The top two executives at Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific on Wednesday apologised for the firm's handling of the world's biggest airline hack that saw millions of customers' data breached but denied trying to cover it up.
The CEO and chairman also said the crisis "was one of the most serious" in the embattled firm's history and would act differently in a similar situation in future.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
A new approach to controlling magnetism in a microchip could open the doors to memory, computing, and sensing devices that consume drastically less power than existing versions. The approach could also overcome some of the inherent physical limitations that have been slowing progress in this area until now.
Researchers at MIT and at Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated that the ... more |
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 Nanjing, China (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 
The assimilation of aerosol optical depth (AOD) observational data from the Chinese satellite Fengyun-3A (FY-3A) can significantly improve the ability to model aerosol mass, according to Prof. Jinzhong MIN, Vice President at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology.
Prof. MIN and his team - a group of researchers from the Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of the Min ... more |
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 New Delhi (AFP) Nov 13, 2018 
A pair of artificial lungs put up in New Delhi to demonstrate the lethal effects of smog have turned a sickly dark brown within 10 days of their installation, underscoring the city's pollution crisis.
Delhi, the world's most polluted major city, has been covered in a toxic grey haze since the onset of winter last month, with pollution levels several times higher than the World Health Organiz ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2018 
The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a smart solution for verifying the operational reliability of space equipment components on Friday.
The selection of space equipment components involves reliability verification, data collection, transmission and comparison.
The smart solution will help shorten the time to ... more |
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 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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 Washington (UPI) Nov 13, 2018 
MBDA is offering a naval version of it's 5th generation MMP ground combat missile at the Euronaval 2018 technology conference following successful testing of the weapon.
The evaluations were carried out last summer by the French armed forces in Djibouti to test the reliability and effectiveness of the MMP in a hot environment from the ground and rigid hulled inflatable boats operating a ... more |
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 Dresden, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 
A team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with researchers from Monash University Australia, has succeeded in significantly increasing the stability and biocompatibility of special light-transducing nanoparticles.
The team has developed the so-called "upconverting" nanoparticles that not only convert infrared light into UV-visible light, bu ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 
With machine learning systems now being used to determine everything from stock prices to medical diagnoses, it's never been more important to look at how they arrive at decisions.
A new approach out of MIT demonstrates that the main culprit is not just the algorithms themselves, but how the data itself is collected.
"Computer scientists are often quick to say that the way to make th ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 15, 2018 
Northrop Grumman signed a contract with the Republic of Korea to provide logistical support to ROK's high-altitude RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle fleet.
The contract includes site activation for launching and ground control, training, and support personnel for four RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles set for delivery over the next year, the company announced on Wednesday ... more |
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