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  Washington (AFP) Feb 6, 2019 NASA announced Wednesday that SpaceX's no-load rocket test has been pushed back to March 2 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA has made SpaceX and Boeing responsible for transporting astronauts starting this year. SpaceX uses its Falcon 9 rocket, at the top of which is fixed a Dragon capsule specially designed to accommodate astronauts. This capsule is meant to take astronauts to the International Space Station. Before launching with humans aboard, however, SpaceX must perform a no-load ... read more |
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New photos show russia's first hypersonic space droneMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 05, 2019 Sputnik has obtained an image of the prototype of Russia's reusable single-engine unmanned spacecraft. The second image shows a diagram depicting how the drone will be put into orbit and retur ... more 
Arianespace orbits two telecommunications satellites on first Ariane 5 launch of 2019Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 05, 2019 Arianespace has successfully orbited two telecommunications satellites: the Saudi Geostationary Satellite 1/Hellas Sat 4 condosat for operators KACST and Hellas Sat; and GSAT-31 for the Indian Space ... more  
Hypergiant Galactic Systems launches to advance the space industry with AI-driven technologiesHouston TX (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 Hypergiant Industries has announced the launch of its Hypergiant Galactic Systems division, with the goal of helping mankind expand its horizon into the next frontier through orbital AI. Hypergiant ... more 
Launch of Unmanned US Dragon 2 Spacecraft to ISS Set for March 2Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 07, 2019 The new US spacecraft Dragon 2 will be launched for an unmanned mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 2, a source in the Russian space industry told Sputnik on Wednesday. " ... more |
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Over 10 Liters of Water Leaked From Space Toilet at US Segment at ISSMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 05, 2019 Over 10 liters of water leaked from the toilet at the US segment of the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday and had to be collected across the segment by the crew using towels, a source in t ... more 
Spotlight on Space Station scienceCologne, Germany (ESA) Feb 05, 2019 Though all ESA astronauts are back on Earth, European science on the International Space Station is ongoing. Explore a few experiments underway right now in celebration of science at ESA. Ever ... more 
India enlists France's Arianespace to replace dying satelliteNew Delhi (Sputnik) Feb 05, 2019 The replacement satellite, GSAT-31, will provide wide-beam coverage to facilitate communication over large oceanic regions including the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean using a w ... more  
Seed of moon's first sprout: Chinese scientists' endeavorBeijing (XNA) Feb 05, 2019 An experiment that saw the first-ever plant sprouting on the moon last month was born in a natural disaster that devastated China's cotton-industry almost three decades ago. Li Fuguang was one ... more 
ISRO Set To Launch Communication Satellite GSAT-31 On February 6Bengaluru (IANS) Feb 05, 2019 The Indian Space Research Organisation is all set to launch its 40th communication satellite GSAT-31 on Wednesday from the spaceport in French Guiana. The satellite with a mission life of 15 y ... more |
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 US Army to buy two Israeli Iron Dome air defense systems  
Intelligent Healing for Complex WoundsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 Blast injuries, burns, and other wounds experienced by warfighters often catastrophically damage their bones, skin, and nerves, resulting in months to years of recovery for the most severe injuries ... more  |
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Arianespace Rejects Russia Offer to Fix Seam Rupture in Fregat BoosterMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 05, 2019 Arianespace has not accepted the offer by the Russian Lavochkin Research and Production Association to "patch up" the rupture in the pipeline that supplies helium to fuel tanks of the Fregat booster ... more  
Navy awards $90M to Lockheed to cut cost of F-35 air systemWashington (UPI) Feb 6, 2019 Lockheed Martin was awarded a $90 million contract modification to reduce the cost of F-35 fighter aircraft, the U.S. Navy announced. ... more 
Brazil's Embraer sells 12 military aircraft to NigeriaRio De Janeiro (AFP) Feb 6, 2019 Brazil's aircraft maker Embraer said Wednesday it has finalized a contract to sell 12 light attack aircraft to Nigeria's air force, which is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram jihadists. ... more  
NOAA releases early update for World Magnetic ModelWashington (UPI) Feb 5, 2019 Scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information have released an early update for the World Magnetic Model that powers a variety of global navigational systems. ... more 
Last operational F-18 Hornet squadron flies into the sunsetWashington (UPI) Feb 5, 2019 During a sundown ceremony, the last operational F/A-18C Hornet squadron took flight over Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va., as the military transitions to new jets. ... more |
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 Santa Clara CA (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 
Momentus, provider of in-space transportation services, has announced that they are taking orders for their Vigoride and Vigoride Extended services (orbital repositioning for satellites with masses up to 250kg) and have signed their first customer: EXOLAUNCH, in a contract worth more than $6M. EXOLAUNCH (formerly ECM Launch Services), is a leading European launch services provider and cluster in ... more |
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 Annapolis Junction, MD (SPX) Jan 30, 2019 
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a Prototype Project Agreement through an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) with Consortium Management Group (CMG) on behalf of Consortium for Command, Control and Communications in Cyberspace (C5)valued at $18 million to design, develop and test a cyber/electronic warfare podded system for the "Air Large" component of the U.S. Army's Multi-Function Electronic War ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 5, 2019 
Scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information have released an early update for the World Magnetic Model that powers a variety of global navigational systems.
Over the last few years, Earth's magnetic field has been shifting rapidly. Most recently, the planet's north magnetic pole began lurching toward Siberia. The sudden and dramatic changes weren't anticipated by ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 5, 2019 
During a sundown ceremony, the last operational F/A-18C Hornet squadron took flight over Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va., as the military transitions to new jets.
The "Blue Blasters," the lone Hornet squadron that has not transitioned to Boeing's F/A-18E Super Hornet, took flight on Feb. 1, the Navy announced on Monday.
The Navy has flown the Hornet since 1978, in ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 
Spectrally pure lasers lie at the heart of precision high-end scientific and commercial applications, thanks to their ability to produce near-perfect single-color light. A laser's capacity to do so is measured in terms of its linewidth, or coherence, which is the ability to emit a constant frequency over a certain period of time before that frequency changes.
In practice, researchers go to ... more |
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 Athens, Greece (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 
Plexscape, developers of Plex.Earth, one of the most popular tools for AutoCAD for the acceleration of architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) projects, and Bird.i, a start-up that combines the latest satellite imagery and artificial intelligence technology to provide valuable business insights, are on a mission to change the way engineering projects are being designed by opening up ac ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 
Climate change is warming the ocean, but it's warming land faster and that's really bad news for air quality all over the world, says a new University of California, Riverside study.
The study, published February 4 in Nature Climate Change, shows that the contrast in warming between the continents and sea, called the land-sea warming contrast, drives an increased concentration of aerosols ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 05, 2019 
An experiment that saw the first-ever plant sprouting on the moon last month was born in a natural disaster that devastated China's cotton-industry almost three decades ago.
Li Fuguang was one of the Chinese agricultural scientists whose years of hard work might one day help lead to a base and long-term human residence on the moon.
He was on the team that developed the cotton seeds c ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 4, 2019 
Lockheed Martin Corp. and Raytheon Co. have been awarded separate U.S. Army contracts totaling nearly $45 million for foreign customers of Patriot missile systems.
The Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target Advanced Capability-3, or Patriot PAC-3, are used to defend against incoming threats, including tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and aircraft. The PAC-3 missi ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) Feb 2, 2019  Iran announced the "successful test" of a new cruise missile with a range of over 1,350 kilometres on Saturday, coinciding with celebrations for the country's 1979 Islamic revolution.
"The test of the Hoveizeh cruise missile was carried out successfully at a range of 1,200 kilometres (840 miles) and accurately hit the set target," Defence Minister Amir Hatami said, quoted on state television ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 
A ceramic that becomes more electrically conductive under elastic strain and less conductive under plastic strain could lead to a new generation of sensors embedded into structures like buildings, bridges and aircraft able to monitor their own health.
The electrical disparity fostered by the two types of strain was not obvious until Rice University's Rouzbeh Shahsavari, an assistant profes ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 
Mechanical systems, such as engines and motors, rely on two principal types of motions of stiff components: linear motion, which involves an object moving from one point to another in a straight line; and rotational motion, which involves an object rotating on an axis.
Nature has developed far more sophisticated forms of movement - or actuation - that can perform complex functions more dir ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 05, 2019 
German forces recently began a training course at the Tel Nof airbase in Rehovot, Israel, in an effort to learn the surveillance capabilities of the costly Heron TP unmanned surveillance drone.
The German officials, a pilot and sensor operator, began the eight-week training session in late January, according to the Jerusalem Post, which reported that the drone training is expected to conti ... more |
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