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  Oslo, Norway (SPX) Jan 07, 2019 Fresh food is so attractive to astronauts that they toasted with salad when they were able to cultivate a few lettuce heads on the International Space Station three years ago. In 2021, beans are on the menu to be grown in space, planted in high-tech planters developed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). "Astronauts like gardening and everything that reminds them of life on earth. They enjoy tending and watering the vegetables, and getting them to germinate," says Si ... read more |
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In space, the US sees a rival in ChinaWashington (AFP) Jan 6, 2019 During the Cold War, US eyes were riveted on the Soviet Union's rockets and satellites. But in recent years, it has been China's space programs that have most worried US strategists. ... more 
NASA reveals reason behind Roscosmos Head's cancelled visit: SputnikMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 07, 2019 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said he had rescinded an invitation to Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos, to visit the United States because he wanted to a ... more 
Roscosmos Expects NASA to Explain Position on Rogozin's Visit to USMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 06, 2019 The planned visit by Dmitry Rogozin, the director general of the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos, to the United States may not just be postponed but cancelled, a source in the rocket and s ... more 
Russia demands explanation over US snub to space chiefMoscow (AFP) Jan 5, 2019 Russia's space agency on Saturday demanded an explanation after NASA put off a planned visit to the United States by Russia's controversial space chief. ... more |
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Difficulties in Planned Soyuz Launches Preparation to Emerge in 2020 - SourceMoscow (Sputnik) Dec 31, 2018 The preparation and holding of planned launches of the Russian Soyuz-2 carrier rockets at Baikonur Cosmodrome will face technical difficulties in 2020, a source in the aerospace industry told Sputni ... more 
China launches telecommunication technology test satelliteXichang (XNA) Dec 31, 2018 China successfully launched the No. 3 telecommunication technology test satellite on Tuesday. The satellite was launched at 0:53 a.m. Beijing Time by a Long March-3C carrier rocket from the Xi ... more 
India Approves $1.4Bln for First Manned Spaceflight to be Launched in 2022New Delhi (Sputnik) Dec 31, 2018 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed and demonstrated most of the baseline technologies essential for undertaking a human spaceflight mission. Prior to the actual launch, two ... more 
India to send three-person crew on landmark space missionNew Delhi (AFP) Dec 28, 2018 India will send a three-member team into orbit for up to a week when it launches its first manned space mission expected in 2022, the government announced Friday. ... more 
China's first private rocket production base begins operationHangzhou (XNA) Dec 31, 2018 China's first private carrier rocket production base has started operation in Huzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, according to the Beijing-based rocket maker LandSpace. The company told Xi ... more |
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 China's BeiDou officially goes global 
2018's privatized space race reached for asteroids, MarsWashington (UPI) Dec 26, 2018 It was a big year for space flight and exploration, as private companies kicked a 21st century space race into full gear. SpaceX launched 21 missions as others watched new vessels undergo testing and some escaped the Earth's atmosphere for the first time. ... more  |
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What You Need to Know About Russia's Vostochny CosmodromeVostochny (Sputnik) Dec 28, 2018 The Soyuz-2.1a rocket with two Russian and 26 foreign satellites lifted off from the Vostochny space center in Russia's Far East on Thursday, which became the fourth launch from the cosmodrome. ... more 
Number of World's Space Launches in 2018 Exceeds 100, Space Industry Source SaysMoscow (Sputnik) Dec 27, 2018 In 2018, the number of space launches carried out throughout the world surpassed 100 for the first time since 1990, a source in the Russian rocket and space industry told Sputnik on Wednesday, addin ... more 
Russian Soyuz-2 1a Rocket With Satellites Blasts Off From Vostochny CosmodromeVostochny (Sputnik) Dec 28, 2018 The Russian Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying Russian Kanopus-V satellites number five and number six and foreign spacecraft successfully lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on Thursday, a Sputnik cor ... more  
Hughes India and Sterlite Tech enable Satcom connectivity for Indian navyNew Delhi, India (SPX) Jan 06, 2019 Hughes Communications India has been selected to provide a high-performance satellite broadband system for India's Naval Communication Network (NCN). Sterlite Tech, a global data network solut ... more  
China tests its own 'Mother of All Bombs'Beijing (AFP) Jan 4, 2019 China has tested its most powerful non-nuclear weapon, dubbed the "Mother of All Bombs" by official media in a reference to a US munition used in Afghanistan. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 4, 2019 
Raytheon has been awarded a contract to Elbit Systems of America for the Two Color Laser System, a surveillance system element onboard military aircraft.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed in a news release on Elbit Systems' website, but the U.S. subsidiary of the Israeli company said the contract would be carried out in 2019. The Two Color Laser System serves the Multi-Spec ... more |
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 New Delhi, India (SPX) Jan 06, 2019 
Hughes Communications India has been selected to provide a high-performance satellite broadband system for India's Naval Communication Network (NCN).
Sterlite Tech, a global data network solutions company, chose the Hughes system to deliver C- and Ku-band satellite services as part of its hybrid IP-MPLS (Internet Protocol - Multi Protocol Label Switching) network. Under the year-long contr ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 31, 2018 
China on Thursday announced that the primary system of BeiDou-3 has been established and started to provide global services, meaning its home-grown BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) officially went global.
The BDS has been performing well in the Asia-Pacific region and it goes global with cutting-edge technology and high-quality service.
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 3, 2019 
Raytheon secured an $81.2 million contract modification for configuration efforts on the U.S. Navy and Australia's F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft.
The contract modification calls for the procurement of 228 configuration components needed for the aircraft's Configuration D Retrofit Component engineering change proposals, the U.S. Defense Department said Wednesday.
The F/A-18E/F Sup ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 07, 2019 
They were the first to control exciton flows at room temperature. And now, the team of scientists from EPFL's Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES) has taken their technology one step further. They have found a way to control some of the properties of excitons and change the polarization of the light they generate.
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 Beer-Sheva, Israel (SPX) Jan 07, 2019 
Ben-Gurion University researchers have developed a new satellite imaging system that could revolutionize the economics and imagery available from space-based cameras and even earth-based telescopes.
"This is an invention that completely changes the costs of space exploration, astronomy, aerial photography, and more," says Angika Bulbul, a BGU Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Prof. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 4, 2019 
New research suggests trees alone aren't enough to keep roadside pollution out of adjacent environs. Hedges or a combination of hedges and trees offer a stronger buffer against vehicle pollution for roadside communities.
Scientists in Britain set up air quality monitors at several roadside test sites, each with different types of green infrastructure within a few feet of the road's edge ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 6, 2019 
During the Cold War, US eyes were riveted on the Soviet Union's rockets and satellites. But in recent years, it has been China's space programs that have most worried US strategists.
China, whose space effort is run by the People's Liberation Army, today launches more rockets into space than any other country - 39 last year, compared to 31 by the United States, 20 by Russia and eight by Eur ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Jan 3, 2019 
The US military will this year conduct its first ever missile drill around the Japanese island of Okinawa, according to a report Thursday, as Washington seeks to counter an increasingly assertive China.
The US military has told its Japanese counterpart it plans to deploy surface-to-ship missiles in the strategically important Okinawa this year for the first such drill by Japan's key ally, th ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 01, 2019 
Raytheon Missile Systems received a $434 million contract for tactical missile modifications, the Defense Department announced.
The contract covers 766 AIM-9X Block II and Block II Plus missiles, known as Sidewinders, as well as guidance units, optical target containers and training missiles. Forty-four percent of the modifications to missiles and equipment were ordered by the U.S. Navy ... more |
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 Upton NY (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
This holiday season, scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) - a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory - have wrapped a box of a different kind. Using a one-step chemical synthesis method, they engineered hollow metallic nanosized boxes with cube-shaped pores at the corners and demonstrated how these "nanowrappers" can be ... more |
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 Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 7, 2019 
The robot breadmaker came to Las Vegas this week, aiming to bring some freshness to a sector that may be ready for disruption.
Wilkinson Baking Company unveiled its BreadBot at the Consumer Electronics Show, a machine that mixes and bakes up to 235 loaves a day.
Chief executive Randall Wilkinson said the device can lower costs and produce fresher breads than are available in most America ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2018 
Insitu has won a $12 million contract for spare and sustainment parts for the Blackjack unmanned aircraft system, the Defense Department announced.
The company, a division of Boeing headquartered in Bergen, Wash., was awarded $12,167,690 for firm-fixed-price delivery against a previously issued basic ordering agreement for parts to maintain the Naval Supply Systems Command's RQ-21A Blac ... more |
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