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  Paris (ESA) Feb 20, 2019 Pioneer partner Open Cosmos are taking mission development to a new dimension, using a virtual reality-like simulation that replicates life in orbit for space technologies. Through an innovative combination of a plug-and-play test platform and software, the UK Harwell-based SME is slashing the time it takes for space missions to be designed and qualified for launch. Their online 'beeApp' software helps define a full space mission from the ground up, including selection of launchers, ground s ... read more |
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Space behaviour focus of Expedition 58Paris (ESA) Feb 20, 2019 Europe's Columbus laboratory enters its eleventh year in space with steady operations, a few upgrades and several experiments in full swing. The physical behaviour of particles, liquids and ... more  
Can we trust scientific discoveries made using machine learning?Washington DC (SPX) Feb 18, 2019 Rice University statistician Genevera Allen says scientists must keep questioning the accuracy and reproducibility of scientific discoveries made by machine-learning techniques until researchers dev ... more 
Interactive space simulation for nanosatellitesParis (ESA) Feb 20, 2019 Pioneer partner Open Cosmos are taking mission development to a new dimension, using a virtual reality-like simulation that replicates life in orbit for space technologies. Through an innovati ... more 
Technology developed in Brazil will be part of ISSSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 A new version of equipment developed in Brazil - the Solar-T - will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) to measure solar flares. It is estimated that the Sun-THz, the name given to the ... more |
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BAE awarded $575M for Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle productionWashington (UPI) Feb 19, 2019 The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems two contracts worth $575 million for low-rate production of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle. ... more  
U.S., Australia, Britain conduct training aviation exercise in NevadaWashington (UPI) Feb 18, 2019 Air Force units from Australia and Britain wrapped up more than three weeks of joint training exercises with the U.S. Air Force and Navy at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. ... more 
Saab to supply U.S. Army with M4 weapon systemWashington (UPI) Feb 15, 2019 Saab signed a three-year contract with the U.S. Army to supply the Carl-Gustaf M4 weapon system. ... more 
Bell Boeing signs $10.7M contract for V-22 Osprey radar upgradesWashington (UPI) Feb 15, 2019 Bell Boeing was awarded a $10.7 million contract for upgrades to the V-22 Osprey helicopter. ... more  
Illegally drones pose an outsized risk for US aviation and the publicAlexandria VA (SPX) Feb 15, 2019 U.S. aviation is courting catastrophe by making drones so accessible to untrained, unskilled, less-than-serious "pilots" who treat them as toys, veteran LeClairRyan aviation attorney Mark A. Dombrof ... more |
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 Amid border wall debate, 'smart' tech raises questions too  
US states sue Trump over border wall emergencySan Francisco (AFP) Feb 19, 2019 Sixteen US states sued President Donald Trump's administration Monday over his decision to declare a national emergency to fund a wall on the southern border with Mexico, saying the move violated the constitution. ... more  |
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Mexico president to convert penal colony into cultural centerMexico City (AFP) Feb 18, 2019 Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced on Monday that an island penal colony housing 600 inmates will be converted into a cultural and scientific center. ... more 
Slashing roadkill numbers for small and medium-sized mammalsMontreal, Canada (SPX) Feb 18, 2019 Most motorists pay little attention to the amount of roadkill they drive over or past on the highway, except when swerving to avoid it. But odds are the number of dead animals they encounter is far ... more
How the US military could build Trump's border wallWashington (AFP) Feb 15, 2019 President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency to address what he called an "invasion" of drugs, gangs, human traffickers and undocumented migrants over the US border with Mexico. ... more 
Robots track moving objects with unprecedented precisionBoston MA (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 A novel system developed at MIT uses RFID tags to help robots home in on moving objects with unprecedented speed and accuracy. The system could enable greater collaboration and precision by robots w ... more 
NASA tests urban drone traffic management in Nevada, TexasMoffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 NASA has selected two organizations to host the final phase of its four-year series of increasingly complicated technical demonstrations involving small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), commonly kno ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 15, 2019 
A NASA technologist is taking miniaturization to the extreme. Mahmooda Sultana won funding to advance a potentially revolutionary, nanomaterial-based detector platform. The technology is capable of sensing everything from minute concentrations of gases and vapor, atmospheric pressure and temperature, and then transmitting that data via a wireless antenna - all from the same self-contained platfo ... more |
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Raytheon was awarded a four-year contract for hardware and support services for a radio system to be used by the U.S. Army for helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
The contract includes repair, logistical, engineering and technical support for the Army's AN/ARC-231 Multiple-Mode Aviation Radio Suite, the Department of Defense said Thursday.
Raytheon was the only bidder for the sy ... more |
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 Oslo (AFP) Feb 11, 2019 
Norway's foreign intelligence unit on Monday expressed renewed concerns that its GPS signals in the country's Far North were being jammed, as Oslo again blamed Russia for the "unacceptable" acts.
In its annual national risk assessment report, the intelligence service said that in repeated incidents since 2017, GPS signals have been blocked from Russian territory in Norwegian regions near the ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 15, 2019 
Bell Boeing was awarded a $10.7 million contract for upgrades to the V-22 Osprey helicopter.
The contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, exercises an option for 12 A-Kits to retrofit legacy aircraft with the AN/APR-39D(V)2, AN/AAQ-24B(V)27, and the ALE-47 Power Performance Computing systems to upgrade the MV-22 from Configuration A to Configuration C, the Navy announc ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 15, 2019 
Switching magnetic domains in magnetic memories requires normally magnetic fields which are generated by electrical currents, hence requiring large amounts of electrical power. Now, teams from France, Spain and Germany have demonstrated the feasibility of another approach at the nanoscale: "We can induce magnetic order on a small region of our sample by employing a small electric field instead o ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 
Two tough, resilient, NASA spacecraft have been orbiting Earth for the past six and a half years, flying repeatedly through a hazardous zone of charged particles around our planet called the Van Allen radiation belts.
The twin Van Allen Probes, launched in August 2012, have confirmed scientific theories and revealed new structures and processes at work in these dynamic regions. Now, they'r ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Feb 14, 2019 
The fashion industry generates tons of fabric waste each year, notably in New York - one of the world's shopping capitals and host twice a year to runway shows, a major contributor to the wider problem.
Enter Fabscrap, a non-profit organization dedicated to recycling and reusing textiles that are unsuitable for donation.
Every day, 3,000 pounds (some 1,350 kilos) of scraps arrive at the ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 12, 2019 
China announced Monday that it is developing the modified version of the Long March-6 rocket to add four solid boosters to increase its carrying capacity.
The improved medium-left carrier rocket will be sent into space by 2020, according to the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, which designed the rocket.
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 Warsaw (AFP) Feb 10, 2019 
Poland said Sunday it will buy mobile rocket launchers worth $414 million (365 million euros) from the United States, as Warsaw seeks closer ties with Washington amid concerns over a resurgent Russia.
The deal, due to be signed Wednesday, will "significantly increase the Polish army's capacities," Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak told journalists Sunday, adding that delivery was expected b ... more |
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 Abu Dhabi (AFP) Feb 18, 2019 
The United Arab Emirates announced Monday it had signed deals worth more than $1.6 billion for the purchase of Patriot missile launchers from US arms giant Raytheon, state media said.
The deals, inked on the second day of an international military exhibition in Abu Dhabi, come a day after the UAE announced it would buy $353 million worth of Patriot missiles from Raytheon.
Some $3.2 billi ... more |
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 Karlsruher, Germany (SPX) Feb 14, 2019 
Three-dimensional structures on the micrometer and nanometer scales have a great potential for many applications. An efficient and precise process to print such structures from different materials is now presented by researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Carl Zeiss AG in Science Advances: they integrated a microfluidic chamber into a 3D laser lithography device. Then, they u ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 18, 2019 
Rice University statistician Genevera Allen says scientists must keep questioning the accuracy and reproducibility of scientific discoveries made by machine-learning techniques until researchers develop new computational systems that can critique themselves.
Allen, associate professor of statistics, computer science and electrical and computer engineering at Rice and of pediatrics-neurolog ... more |
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 Alexandria VA (SPX) Feb 15, 2019 
U.S. aviation is courting catastrophe by making drones so accessible to untrained, unskilled, less-than-serious "pilots" who treat them as toys, veteran LeClairRyan aviation attorney Mark A. Dombroff warns in a new column at AviationPros.com.
"My fear is that, sooner or later, an illegally operated drone will cause a catastrophic aviation accident," writes Dombroff, an Alexandria-based mem ... more |
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