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  (UPI) Nov 24, 2018 NASA has set a Jan. 7 dated for an sending an unmmanned SpaceX capsule on its maiden voyage to the International Space Station. Crew Dragon's commercial flight will be known as Demo-1 or DM-1, NASA said in a news release earlier this week. Crew Dragon will lift off from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center's Complex 39A launchpad, where the Apollo 11 mission took off for the moon in 1969. SpaceX, which is owned by Elon Musk, now leases the launch pad. In an updated ... read more |
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ISS Toilet Swarmed By 'Space Bugs' That Could Infect Astronauts - ResearchHouston TX (Sputnik) Nov 27, 2018 Analysis has shown that all five strains of the mysterious bacterium found on the space station belonged to one species, called Enterobacter bugandensis. They resembled the genomes that infected new ... more 
Andre-Hubert Roussel Proposed CEO of ArianeGroupParis, France (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 oint shareholders Airbus SE and Safran have proposed to the Board of Directors of ArianeGroup Andre-Hubert Roussel, 53, currently Head of Operations at Airbus Defence and Space, to succeed Alain Cha ... more  
The shape of things to come: Flexible, foldable supercapacitors for energy storageLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 A team of researchers from the Plasma Physics Research Centre, Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University in Tehran, Iran, have discovered a way of making paper supercapacitors for elect ... more  
Supersonic commercial travel begins to take shape at Lockheed Martin Skunk WorksPalmdale CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 Lockheed Martin Skunk Works began manufacturing the first part for the X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft, marking a milestone to bring supersonic commercial travel over land one step closer ... more |
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Robotic arm links cargo craft to International Space StationWashington (UPI) Nov 19, 2018 A robotic arm successfully docked the Cygnus cargo craft to the International Space Station on Monday, the second shipment of supplies in less than 24 hours. ... more 
Probing the PlumeWashington DC (SPX) Nov 21, 2018 Mounted on a rotating arm in a space simulation vacuum chamber, two probes collect data from the exhaust plume of a Hall Effect Thruster that will be operated for over 5,000 hours. Wrapped in ... more 
Japan mulling purchase of 100 US stealth fighters: reportTokyo (AFP) Nov 27, 2018 Japan is considering buying up to 100 F-35 stealth fighters from the US for more than $8.8 billion as it seeks to counter China's growing military presence in the region, a newspaper reported Tuesday. ... more 
Focus on Vega developmentsParis (ESA) Nov 26, 2018 Vega is proving its reliability. Based on this heritage, ESA and European industry are building new elements that will increase Vega's performance, capabilities and flexibility from mid-2019. ... more 
Russia space agency targeted over "stolen" billionsMoscow (AFP) Nov 25, 2018 The Russian space agency Roscosmos, whose reputation has already been hit by the failure of a Soyuz rocket last month, was on Sunday targeted by the country's audit court over financial irregularities including "stolen" billions. ... more |
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 GMV leads an ambitious campaign of space robotics trials 
RUAG Space signs MOA with Australian rocket company Gilmour SpaceZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 Australia's leading rocket company, Gilmour Space Technologies, has signed a long-term collaboration and supply agreement with global launch industry supplier, RUAG Space. The memorandum of ag ... more  |
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China expands use of BeiDou navigation system in transportationBeijing (XNA) Nov 26, 2018 China will expand the application of its home-grown BeiDou navigation system to cover all transportation fields, according to an official from the Ministry of Transport (MOT). Over the past fe ... more 
Four soldiers dead in Turkish helicopter crashAnkara (AFP) Nov 26, 2018 Four Turkish soldiers were killed on Monday when a military helicopter crashed in a residential area of Istanbul, the province's governor said. ... more 
Boeing taps Lockheed for F/A-18E/F Super Hornet IRST sensorsWashington DC (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 Lockheed Martin has received a contract for the second phase of development and testing for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Block II Infrared Search and Track program for the U.S. Navy. ... more  
Special Operations Command awards Insitu $18M for continued drone operationsWashington (UPI) Nov 23, 2018 U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded Insitu $18 million for mid-endurance intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance under the MEUAS 1.5B program. ... more  
USS Abraham Lincoln CSG surface combatants conduct live fire SM-2 missile exerciseWashington (UPI) Nov 23, 2018 Surface combatants from the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, including a cruiser and three destroyers, participated in a Live Fire With a Purpose exercise Sunday with SM-2 Block III surface-to-air missiles. ... more |
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 Backnang, Germany (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 
Sentinel-1C will be ESA's 8th satellite of its Copernicus program. Despite monitoring arctic sea-ice, mapping and surveilling marine environment, Sentinel-1C will support in monitoring and mapping land-surface as well as forest, water and soil and support humanitarian aid in crisis situations.
As well as its predecessors, Sentinel 1A and B and 2A and B, it will also be equipped with a stan ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 19, 2018 
A U.S. Navy ultra-high frequency nanosatellite designed for polar communications scheduled for launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base was delayed Monday for further inspection, SpaceX said.
The delayed launch is part of the Integrated Communications Extension Capability program under the Navy's Program Executive Office Space Systems and the Space and Naval Warfare Command Systems Center ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 26, 2018 
China will expand the application of its home-grown BeiDou navigation system to cover all transportation fields, according to an official from the Ministry of Transport (MOT).
Over the past few years, over 6.17 million domestic vehicles nationwide and 35,000 vehicles of postal services or courier companies have installed or become compatible with the BeiDou navigation system, according to ... more |
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 Palmdale CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works began manufacturing the first part for the X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft, marking a milestone to bring supersonic commercial travel over land one step closer to reality.
"The start of manufacturing on the project marks a great leap forward for the X-59 and the future of quiet supersonic commercial travel," said Peter Iosifidis, Low Boom Flight Demons ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Nov 20, 2018 
As new methods have become available for understanding and manipulating matter at its most fundamental levels, researchers working in the interdisciplinary field of materials science have been increasingly successful in synthesizing new kinds of materials.
Often the goal of researchers in the field is to design materials that incorporate properties that can be useful for performing specifi ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Nov 23, 2018 
Dust storms, raging bushfires, gale-force winds, heatwaves, thunder and snow, flash flooding and driving rain - Australia is enduring a bout of wild weather that's hit all parts of the vast continent in recent days.
Varied weather is not uncommon during spring in the southern hemisphere nation as summer beckons.
But rare and dramatic scenes of red dust storms shrouding towns and thunder ... more |
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 Halle, Germany (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 
Advances in environmental technology: You don't need complex filters and laser systems to destroy persistent pollutants in water. Chemists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have developed a new process that works using mere sunlight. The process is so simple that it can even be conducted outdoors under the most basic conditions. The chemists present their research in the journal ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 23, 2018  According to Euroconsult's latest report, China Space Industry 2018, the China space value chain had an estimated size of more than $16 billion in 2017, with the downstream market accounting for just over 85%. Satellite Navigation, one of the key satellite applications in China, was the main revenue generator in 2017, ahead of Satellite Communications and Earth Observation.
This premier ed ... 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 23, 2018  Surface combatants from the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, including a cruiser and three destroyers, participated in a Live Fire With a Purpose exercise Sunday with SM-2 Block III surface-to-air missiles.
The Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Leyte Gulf and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS Bainbridge, USS Mason and USS Nitze all engaged in the LFWAP, which is more intensive and ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 20, 2018 
In a recent test series at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, DARPA's Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) program demonstrated the ability of CODE-equipped Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) to adapt and respond to unexpected threats in an anti-access area denial (A2AD) environment.
The UASs efficiently shared information, cooperatively planned and allocated mission objectives, ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 20, 2018  DARPA has conducted a demonstration test series at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., showcasing its Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment program for autonomous drone operations in the face of enemy jamming and area-denial efforts.
In the test, deployed CODE-equipped unmanned aerial systems adapted to unexpected threats in an anti-access area denial environment. The drones shared inf ... more |
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