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  Washington DC (AFP) Mar 03, 2019 SpaceX's new Dragon capsule successfully docked on the International Space Station on Sunday, NASA and SpaceX confirmed during a live broadcast of the mission. "We can confirm hard capture is complete," NASA said. The announcement was met with applause at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The docking began at 1051 GMT, more than 248 miles (400 kilometers) above the Earth's surface, north of New Zealand - and 27 hours after the capsule's launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fr ... read more |
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FedEx to test 'SameDay Bot' for local deliveriesSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 27, 2019 Global courier service FedEx on Wednesday announced plans to test a "SameDay Bot" autonomous delivery device designed to carry purchases from retail shops to local customers. ... more  
Ready for Launch, NASA: UVA Space Satellite is A-OKCharlottesville VA (SPX) Mar 04, 2019 A project built by a team of University of Virginia engineering students took a giant leap toward outer space Tuesday when they and student colleagues from Old Dominion University and Virginia Tech ... more  
Orolia launches the world's first Galileo enabled PLBPortsmouth, UK (SPX) Mar 04, 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 s ... more 
GMV achieves important breakthroughs in robotics systems and autonomyMadrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 04, 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 Re ... more |
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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  
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
US Navy's version of F-35 jet 'ready for combat'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. ... 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 
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 |
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 General Dynamics awarded $3.37B for Stryker vehicle support  
U.S. Army orders tactical vehicles from Oshkosh DefenseWashington (UPI) Feb 27, 2019 Oshkosh Defense LLC announced on Wednesday that the U.S. Army placed $75 million in orders for trucks and trailers. ... more  |
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SU engineers create rubbery 'smart' material to treat open wounds, infections and cancerSyracuse NY (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 Researchers in the Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science have developed a material - a new kind of shape memory polymer (SMP) - that could have major implications for healt ... more 
BAE delivers first four BvS10 all-terrain vehicles to AustriaWashington (UPI) Feb 26, 2019 BAE Systems has delivered to Austria the first four BvS10 all-terrain vehicles as part of a contract signed in 2016 for 32 armored personnel carriers. ... more 
Malaysia open to proposals to revive MH370 huntKuala Lumpur (AFP) March 3, 2019 Malaysia is open to restarting the hunt for Flight MH370 if firms come forward with credible leads and concrete proposals, the transport minister said Sunday, five years on from the plane's disappearance. ... 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 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 |
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 Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 
Using a laser to drill through a plasma, scientists working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US have set a new world record for plasma accelerators: In a plasma tube only 20 centimetres long, the scientists accelerated electrons to an energy of 7.8 billion electron volts (GeV), a value for which today's most advanced conventional particle accelerators require hundreds of metre ... 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 04, 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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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 
When building a quantum computer, one needs to reckon with errors - in both senses of the word. Quantum bits or "qubits", which can take on the logical values 0 and 1 at the same time and thus carry out calculations faster, are extremely susceptible to perturbations.
A possible remedy for this is quantum error correction, which means that each qubit is represented "redundantly" in several ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 
Five years ago, on Feb. 27, 2014, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, a joint satellite project by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), lifted off aboard a Japanese H-IIA rocket. Since then, the cutting-edge instruments on GPM have provided advanced measurements about the rain and snow particles within clouds, Earth's precipitation patterns, extreme we ... 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 04, 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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