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  Dubai (AFP) Feb 25, 2019 The United Arab Emirates announced Monday that the first astronaut from the Gulf country will blast off on a mission to the International Space Station on September 25. The oil-rich state has two astronauts in training, selected from more than 4,000 applicants, as it looks to get an ambitious space programme aimed at exploring Mars off the ground. The authorities said a decision on which of the two astronauts would take off on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft for the eight-day mission will be made i ... read more |
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Firefly Aerospace Announces Mass Production Facility and Cape Canaveral Launch SiteExploration Park FL (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 Firefly Aerospace, Inc. (Firefly) has announced the execution of a binding term sheet with Space Florida, under which Firefly will establish business operations at Cape Canaveral Spaceport, includin ... more 
Company's 10th cargo supply mission featured expanded commercial capabilities for Cygnus spacecraftDulles, VA (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 Northrop Grumman reports that the company successfully completed its 10th cargo supply mission to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) contract. During ... more 
Russian rocket launches Egyptian telecom satelliteMoscow (AFP) Feb 21, 2019 Russia successfully launched an Egyptian telecommunications satellite on Thursday, the Russian space agency Roskosmos announced. ... more  
Superconduction: Why does it have to be so cold?Vienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 Why does it always have to be so cold? We now know of a whole range of materials that - under certain conditions - conduct electrical current entirely without resistance. We call this phenomenon sup ... more |
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SpaceX releases Israeli moon lander, pair of satellites into orbitWashington (UPI) Feb 21, 2019 SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket Thursday evening with a pair of satellites and an Israeli moon lander aboard. All three were successfully released into orbit. ... 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 
Russia Completes Engine Tests of Soyuz Rocket's 2nd Stage Using New FuelBengaluru, India (Sputnik) Feb 21, 2019 The engine for the second stage of the Soyuz-2 rocket using the new naphthyl rocket fuel instead of kerosene was successfully tested, a spokesperson for the United Engine Corporation told Sputnik on ... 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 
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 |
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 Raytheon and General Dynamics to operate Reagan Ballistic Missile Test Site  
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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Lockheed awarded $33.4M for cost reduction work on LRASMWashington (UPI) Feb 22, 2019 Lockheed Martin was awarded a $33.4 million contract as part of a cost reduction initiative in support of the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile for the U.S. Navy. ... more  
Army to test lighter body armor vest as part of total protection systemWashington (UPI) Feb 22, 2019 The U.S. Army plans to begin testing a lighter-weight body armor vests between April and June, and test the full protection system by this fall. ... more  
Boeing tapped for F-15E warning system development, testingWashington (UPI) Feb 22, 2019 Boeing Co. was awarded a $24.1 million contract modification for development and testing of F-15 fighter plane warning systems, the Defense Department announced. ... more 
ArianeGroup and CNES launch ArianeWorks acceleration platformParis, France (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 Thursday 21 February in Paris, in the presence of Frederique Vidal, the French Minister for Higher Education, Research and Innovation, ArianeGroup CEO Andre-Hubert Roussel and CNES President Jean-Yv ... more 
Honeywell awarded $150M for advanced turbine propulsion developmentw/llWashington (UPI) Feb 22, 2019 Honeywell Aerospace was awarded a contract for work on the Advanced Turbine Technologies for Affordable Mission, or ATTAM, Capability Phase I program, the Defense Department announced on Thursday. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
When vacationers buy a stake in a beachfront timeshare, they decide in advance who gets to use the property when. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is helping the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) institute a similar plan for when commercial wireless providers and the U.S. Navy attempt to share a desirable 150-megahertz (MHz)-wide section of the radio frequency (RF) ... more |
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 (UPI) Feb 8, 2019 
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 22, 2019  Harris Corp. was awarded a $168.8 million modification to a contract to build onboard jammer systems for the Navy's F/A-18 fighter planes.
The contract was announced by the Department of Defense on Thursday. It calls for the procurement of 78 AN/ALQ-214 A(V)4/5 Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures Onboard Jammers for use on the F/A-18C/D/E/F models.
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 Sendai, Japan (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 
Deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (DUV-LEDs) made from aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) efficiently transfer electrical energy to optical energy due to the growth of one of its bottom layers in a step-like fashion. This finding, published in the journal Applied Physics Letters, can lead to the development of even more efficient LEDs.
AlGaN-based DUV-LEDs are receiving much research a ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 
KBR, Inc. reports that its global government services business, KBRwyle, has been awarded a $19 million contract by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to support flight operations for its satellite.
The Landsat 7 satellite is part of the Landsat program, a joint initiative of the USGS and NASA. Landsat satellites provide space-based images of the Earth's land surface, collecting valuable ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
Low density polyethylene film (LDPE) microplastic fragments, successfully degraded in water using visible-light-excited heterogeneous ZnO photocatalysts.
The innovative nanocoating technology was developed by a research team from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and was further investigated together with PP Polymer, Sweden, as part of the EU Horizon 2020 funded project CLAIM: Clea ... 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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 Dulles VA (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 
RGNext, a joint venture between Raytheon's Intelligence, Information and Services business and General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), will operate the U.S. Army's Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, safely managing space vehicle and ballistic missile launches and missile defense tests conducted from islands in the 750,000-square-mile Pacific Ocean range.
Under the $ ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 22, 2019 
Lockheed Martin was awarded a $33.4 million contract as part of a cost reduction initiative in support of the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile for the U.S. Navy.
The contract includes the redesign, integration and test of radio frequency sensors, the Department of Defense announced Thursday.
The LRASM, based somewhat on the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile Extended Range, or JAS ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
Nanowires have the potential to revolutionize the technology around us. Measuring just 5-100 nanometers in diameter (a nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter), these tiny, needle-shaped crystalline structures can alter how electricity or light passes through them.
They can emit, concentrate and absorb light and could therefore be used to add optical functionalities to electronic chips. T ... more |
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 Rome, Italy (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
Over three centuries ago, microscopy pioneer Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was marvelled by the tiny creatures he found in a drop of water from a nearby pond. He was particularly struck by the behaviour of Euglena cells. These unicellular organisms spend most of their time doing what most of their peers do: swim by beating their flagellum.
However, on occasions, Euglena perform harmoniously coord ... more |
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 Moffett 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 known as drones.
The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems in Las Vegas and the Lone Star UAS Center for Excellence and Innovation in Corpus Christi, Texas, will host demonstrations to confirm NA ... more |
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