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  Cape Canaveral (AFP) Mar 02, 2019 NASA and SpaceX celebrated the successful launch Saturday of a new astronaut capsule on a week-long round trip to the International Space Station - a key step towards resuming manned space flights from US soil after an eight-year break. This time around, the only occupant on board SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule was a dummy named Ripley - but NASA plans to put two astronauts aboard later this year. The new capsule blasted off aboard the Falcon 9 rocket built by SpaceX - run by billionaire Elon Musk - at 2:49 am (0749 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, lighting up the coastline. ... read more |
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NASA, Roscosmos reach consensus on Dragon unmanned flight to ISSMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 02, 2019 NASA has received the concurrence of Russian space agency Roscosmos on the planned first unmanned test flight of the US Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station (ISS), Joel Montalbano, ... more  
Lockheed Martin awarded $830M for THAAD system developmentWashington (UPI) Mar 1, 2019 Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded an $850 million modification to an existing contract for element development and support services for a key part of the military's ballistic missile defense system the Missile Defense Agency. ... more 
Lockheed awarded $680M for PAC-3 missiles for foreign militariesWashington (UPI) Mar 1, 2019 The U.S. Defense Department this week awarded separate contracts to Lockheed Martin and Raytheon for Patriot missile support for several ally nations. ... more 
Arianespace Reveals Launch Date of O3b Satellites Atop Russia's Soyuz RocketMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 01, 2019 The next launch of the Russian Soyuz carrier rocket from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou is scheduled for 29 March, Arianespace launch service provider's CEO Stephane Israel said, adding that the ... more |
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Lockheed awarded $846M for Navy's Conventional Prompt Strike missileWashington (UPI) Feb 27, 2019 Lockheed Martin Space has received an $846 million contract to design, develop and construct the Intermediate Range Conventional Prompt Strike Weapon System for the U.S. Navy., the Defense Department said. ... more 
McDermott awarded EPC Contract for largest hydrogen cryogenic sphere ever built for NASAHouston TX (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 McDermott International, Inc. reports it was awarded a sizeable* contract by Precision Mechanical, Inc. for a double wall liquid hydrogen sphere at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral ... more 
Minister Pedro Duque opens up PLD Space facilities at the Teruel AirportTeruel, Spain (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 The Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Mr. Pedro Duque Duque, the first astronaut in the history of Spain, has unveiled the PLD Space Propulsion facilities located at Teruel Airport. ... more  
Boeing unveils fighter jet-sized drone designed for AustraliaWashington (UPI) Feb 28, 2019 During the Australian International Airshow, Boeing unveiled its newest unmanned drone, the Boeing Airpower Teaming System. ... more 
Global Space Propulsion System Market forecast to exceed $10 billion by 2023Fremont CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 According to a new market intelligence report by BIS Research titled "Global Space Propulsion System Market - Analysis and Forecast (2018-2023)", the global space propulsion system market is expecte ... more |
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 Russia Completes Engine Tests of Soyuz Rocket's 2nd Stage Using New Fuel 
Morpheus Space qualifies the world's smallest satellite propulsion system in orbitDresden, Germany (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 After 7 years of tireless development at the tu dresden, the spin-off, Morpheus Space has successfully ignited the world's smallest ion beam thruster on the "UWE-4" nano-satellite. Four of the thumb ... more  |
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U.S. Navy declares F-35C ready for combatWashington (UPI) Mar 1, 2019 The U.S. Navy has declared the F-35C Joint Strike Fighter combat-ready - the last of the three military branches to reach the status for the single-seat jet. ... more 
Singapore to buy four F-35s, with option for eight moreSingapore (AFP) March 1, 2019 Singapore plans to buy four US-made F-35 jet fighters - one of the most advanced warplanes ever built - to update its ageing current fleet, the defence minister said Friday. ... more 
Boeing awarded $428M for modifications to P-8A PoseidonWashington (UPI) Mar 1, 2019 Boeing Co. has received a $428 million contract to support long-lead material and activities for 16 P-8A aircraft for three countries. ... more 
Boeing temporarily grounds new KC-46 tankers after manufacturing problemsWashington (UPI) Mar 1, 2019 Boeing grounded the Air Force's KC-46 tankers, a version of the 767, for one week after the military branch said it found loose tools and other foreign object debris inside the completed airplanes. ... more 
Air Force conducts first F-35A forward refueling operation in exerciseWashington (UPI) Mar 1, 2019 The U.S. Air Force undertook a training exercise, for the first time, involving rapid refueling of an F-35A fighter plane, it announced. ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 
A team of University of Central Florida researchers has overcome a long-standing problem in laser science, and the findings could have applications in surgery, drilling and 3D laser mapping.
Using the principle of supersymmetry, they have developed the first supersymmetric laser array. Their findings were published recently in the journal Science.
Supersymmetry is a conjecture in phy ... 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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 Portsmouth, UK (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 
Global leader in emergency readiness and response, Orolia, is pleased to announce that its McMurdo FastFind 220 and Kannad SafeLink Solo Personal Location Beacons now operate with the Galileo GNSS system.
Continuing Orolia's innovation and leadership role in Safety Electronics, the PLBs have been upgraded to include Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), the European Union's gl ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 28, 2019 
The US Navy's version of the F-35 stealth fighter jet is "ready for combat," officials said Thursday, marking another milestone in the development of the most expensive weapons program ever.
"The F-35C is ready for operations, ready for combat and ready to win," Vice Admiral DeWolfe Miller, who commands Naval Air Forces, said in a statement.
"We are adding an incredible weapon system int ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 
A team of Cambridge researchers have found a way to control the sea of nuclei in semiconductor quantum dots so they can operate as a quantum memory device.
Quantum dots are crystals made up of thousands of atoms, and each of these atoms interacts magnetically with the trapped electron. If left alone to its own devices, this interaction of the electron with the nuclear spins, limits the use ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 
Work has begun on a new CubeSat mission that will demonstrate for the first time a new, highly promising technique for measuring soil moisture from space - data important for early flood and drought warnings as well as crop-yield forecasts.
The technology-demonstration mission, SigNals of Opportunity: P-band Investigation, will validate a remote-sensing technique called signals of opportun ... more |
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 Stockholm, Swewden (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 
While fossil fuel emissions in New Delhi account for 80 percent of the air pollution plume during the summer, emissions from biomass burning (such as crop residue burning) in neighboring regions rival those from fossil fuels during the fall and winter.
"Black carbon aerosols are damaging to human health and their levels are higher in New Delhi than in many other megacities. During fall and ... 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.
The Long ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 1, 2019 
Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded an $850 million modification to an existing contract for element development and support services for a key part of the military's ballistic missile defense system the Missile Defense Agency.
The contract modification, announced Thursday by the Defense Department, will bring the value of an already existing contract for work on the Terminal High Altitud ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 27, 2019 
Lockheed Martin Space has received an $846 million contract to design, develop and construct the Intermediate Range Conventional Prompt Strike Weapon System for the U.S. Navy., the Defense Department said.
The contract modification, announced on Tuesday, calls for the design, development, construction and integration of large diameter rocket motors, associated parts and related support ... 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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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 
GMV has recently presented the results obtained in ERGO and ESROCOS, two robotic-technology building blocks led by GMV within the European Commission's H2020 Space Robotics Technologies Strategic Research Cluster (SRC), its biggest space robotics program.
The SRC's first activities have focused on the design, manufacture and testing of five common robotic-building blocks for space-based op ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 28, 2019 
During the Australian International Airshow, Boeing unveiled its newest unmanned drone, the Boeing Airpower Teaming System.
The system was viewed Wednesday by Australian Defense Minister Christopher Pyne at Avalon Airport in Victoria, Australia, 25 miles north of Melbourne.
The first flight is planned for 2020, according to Boeing in a news release.
The Loyal Wingman proje ... more |
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