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  Washington (AFP) April 21, 2019 A mysterious but apparently serious incident occurred Saturday in Cape Canaveral, Florida involving the SpaceX capsule intended to carry American astronauts into space late this year, the private company and NASA announced. "Earlier today, SpaceX conducted a series of engine tests on a Crew Dragon test vehicle on our test stand at Landing Zone 1 in Cape Canaveral, Florida," a SpaceX spokesman said in a statement. "The initial tests completed successfully but the final test resulted in an anomaly on ... read more |
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NASA Takes Advantage of Innovative 3-D Printing Process for SLS RocketHuntsville AL (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 America's powerful new deep space rocket, NASA's Space Launch System, will face harsh conditions and extreme temperatures in flight when launching NASA's Orion spacecraft and potential cargo to luna ... more  
US Astronauts Have 15 Minutes to Evacuate to Russian Part of ISS If NH3 LeaksMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 16, 2019 Russian Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia has developed a system to purify air at the International Space Station (ISS) in the event of ammonia (NH3) leakage due to a possible decompression ... more  
Mice show off microgravity athleticism after arriving on ISSWashington (Sputnik) Apr 18, 2019 Wanting to better understand how space affects astronauts, the US' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sent a group of mice to the International Space Station for 37 days. NAS ... more 
SpaceX Says 'Anomaly' Happened During Fire Tests of Crew Dragon's Abort EnginesWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 20, 2019 US aerospace manufacturer SpaceX said on Sunday that an "anomaly" had occurred during static fire tests for the abort engines of its Crew Dragon spacecraft. The tests were carried out on Satur ... more |
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Unexpected properties uncovered in recently discovered superconductorTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have found that crystals of a recently discovered superconducting material, a layered bismuth chalcogenide with a four-fold symmetric structure, shows ... more 
New discovery makes fast-charging, better performing lithium-ion batteries possibleTroy NY (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 Creating a lithium-ion battery that can charge in a matter of minutes but still operate at a high capacity is possible, according to research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute just published in ... more  
NASA 'Nose' importance of humans, robots exploring togetherGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 NASA is sending humans forward to the Moon, this time to stay. Upcoming expeditions to the Moon will require making every moment of astronaut time outside the safety of the Gateway in orbit and luna ... more 
NASA accelerates pace of Core Stage production with new toolNew Orleans LA (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 The boat-tail structure, a fairing-like cover designed to protect the bottom end of the core stage and the RS-25 engines, has been joined to one of the most complicated and intricate parts of NASA's ... more  
Turkey says understands NATO concerns over Russian missile dealIstanbul (AFP) April 19, 2019 Turkey is "taking into account" NATO concerns over its Russian missile deal, the country's foreign minister said on Friday, in more conciliatory remarks over a purchase stoking tensions between Washington and Ankara. ... more |
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Virgin Orbit adds Guam as low inclination launch site for Launcherone Smallsat launch serviceLong Beach CA (SPX) Apr 12, 2019 Virgin Orbit, Sir Richard Branson's small satellite launch company, announced that the Pacific island of Guam will become an additional launch site for the company's LauncherOne service. With ... more  |
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Drop test proves technologies for reusable microlauncherMadrid (ESA) Apr 15, 2019 Spain's PLD Space, supported by ESA, has demonstrated the technologies for a reusable first stage of their orbital microlauncher, Miura 5. Miura 5 (formerly Arion 2) is aimed to provide dedica ... more 
Virginia Tech cubesat ready for launch into spaceBlacksburg VA (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 In a giant leap for Virginia Tech, the first satellite built by undergraduate students is scheduled to be launched into space on April 17, 2019. One small step closer to reaching space, a grou ... more 
World's largest plane makes first test flightWashington (AFP) April 13, 2019 The world's largest airplane - a Stratolaunch behemoth with two fuselages and six Boeing 747 engines - made its first test flight on Saturday in California. ... more 
Russia Developing Launch Vehicles Similar to Falcon Heavy - Deputy PMMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 15, 2019 The launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy heavy-lift vehicle is a major success for the US space industry but Russia is also developing its own launch vehicles with reusable elements, Russian Deputy Prime ... more 
Roscosmos, S7 Group Mull Developing Reusable Commercial Space VehicleMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 15, 2019 Russia's State Space Corporation Roscosmos and S7 Group are planning to develop the Soyuz-5 Light reusable launch vehicle based on the Soyuz-5 carrier rocket, Roscosmos General Director Dmitry Rogoz ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 17, 2019 
US Strategic Command chief General John E. Hyten defended India before members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, saying that the country had tested the anti-satellite missile because it needed the capability to defend itself in space. The general called for international norms of behaviour in space to curtail the dangerous debris issue.
According to Indian daily The Hindu, the Pentag ... more |
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 Menlo Park CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 
A new type of pocket-sized antenna, developed at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, could enable mobile communication in situations where conventional radios don't work, such as under water, through the ground and over very long distances through air.
The device emits very low frequency (VLF) radiation with wavelengths of tens to hundreds of miles. These waves ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
The GAINS project has moved one step closer to demonstrating that general aviation (GA) is able to fly instrument procedures with radius-to-fix (RF) legs, thanks to a strong collaboration with EASA and the manufacturing industry, who worked together to clear the way for existing avionics to be used.
GAINS - General Aviation Improved Navigation and Surveillance, is a project co-funded by th ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 19, 2019 
Lockheed Martin has negotiated new long-term logistics and repair contracts with F-35 Lightning II suppliers with lower costs and better availability.
Lockheed has moved sub-contractors into performance-based logistics contracts or master repair agreements to improve capacity, reduce costs and enhance supply availability, the company announced this week.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 16, 2019  In quantum mechanics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle prevents an external observer from measuring both the position and speed (referred to as momentum) of a particle at the same time.
They can only know with a high degree of certainty either one or the other - unlike what happens at large scales where both are known. To identify a given particle's characteristics, physicists introduc ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
Earth observation satellites play a key role in weather forecasting, climate research, monitoring of the planet's surface and the detection of forest fires. These tasks require satellites to transmit very large amounts of data to the ground for analysis. Today's radio systems are reaching their limits in this area.
Optical transmission methods, however, offer the possibility of sending dat ... more |
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 Hanoi (AFP) April 20, 2019 
The US launched on Saturday a $183 million clean-up at a former Vietnam storage site for Agent Orange, a toxic defoliant used in their bitter war which years later is still blamed for severe birth defects, cancers and disabilities.
Located outside Ho Chi Minh City, Bien Hoa airbase - the latest site scheduled for rehabilitation after Danang airbase's clean-up last year - was one of the mai ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 18, 2019 
China will promote aerospace development, strengthen international cooperation and contribute Chinese wisdom, plans and strength in man's peaceful utilization of outer space, said an official with China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Wednesday.
Zhao Jian, deputy director of the Department of System Engineering of CNSA, said at a press conference that the "Forum on Space Solutions: ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 11, 2019 
The United States will temporarily deploy its THAAD anti-missile protection system in Romania this summer, U.S. European Command said Thursday.
The land-based THAAD system, which stands for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, will be used by NATO for its Ballistic Missile Defense systems while the international alliance's existing Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System goes through mainte ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 17, 2019 
The U.S. Navy awarded Boeing a contract modification for Standoff Land Attack Missiles to support Saudi Arabia.
The Department of Defense announced the $30.14 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract Tuesday.
The initial $64 million contract in April 2018 enabled Boeing to "restart" its AGM-84 Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response production line and expand the pro ... more |
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 Usurbil, Spain (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 
Compared to so-far used global heating schemes, which are slow and energy-costly, light-controlled heating, using optical degrees of freedom such as light wavelength, polarisation, and power, allows to implement local, efficient, and fast heating schemes for the use in nanomagnetic computation or to quantify collective emergent phenomena in artificial spin systems.
Single-domain nanoscale ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 
NASA is sending humans forward to the Moon, this time to stay. Upcoming expeditions to the Moon will require making every moment of astronaut time outside the safety of the Gateway in orbit and lunar lander system on the surface count. Robotics will enable lunar crews to do more while minimizing their risk.
NASA's Satellite Servicing Projects Division is teaming up with the International S ... more |
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 Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 
Kongsberg Geospatial, an Ottawa-based geospatial visualisation software company, and MicroPilot, world leader in professional UAV autopilots, announced that the Kongsberg Geospatial IRIS UxS Fleet Control Station has been integrated with the MicroPilot MP2x28 series of autopilots to enhance the ability of UAV operators using MicroPilot autopilots to conduct safe BVLOS operations.
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