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  Washington (UPI) Apr 22, 2019 Boeing has been awarded a $605 million contract for the production of the Air Force's 11th Wideband Global Satellite Communication Space Vehicle. The Department of Defense, which announced the contract on Friday, depends on the WGS system to communicate with warfighters across the globe. Ten Ka-band and 8 X-band beam can be positioned anywhere in the field of view of each satellite, according to Boeing. The total value of the modified WGS Block II contract is $2.5 billion. Fiscal 2018 pr ... read more |
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What Are CubeSats?Bethesda, MD (SPX) Apr 24, 2019 The "CubeSat" is a type of miniaturized satellite for low earth orbit (LEO) space research and applications. One of these is typically made up of one or more 10+ 10+ 11.35 cm cubic units, and each u ... more  
Artificial intelligence speeds efforts to develop clean, virtually limitless fusion energyPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 Artificial intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science that is transforming scientific inquiry and industry, could now speed the development of safe, clean and virtually limitless fusion energy ... more  
Giving robots a better feel for object manipulationBoston MA (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 A new learning system developed by MIT researchers improves robots' abilities to mold materials into target shapes and make predictions about interacting with solid objects and liquids. The system, ... more 
Need more energy storage? Just hit 'print'Philadelphia PA (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 Researchers from Drexel University and Trinity College in Ireland, have created ink for an inkjet printer from a highly conductive type of two-dimensional material called MXene. Recent findings, pub ... more |
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Rare metal improves performance of energy-harvesting piezoelectric crystalsWashington (UPI) Apr 19, 2019 Researchers have discovered that the addition of a rare earth metal significantly improves the performance of piezoelectric crystals. ... more 
NASA 'Nose' importance of humans, robots exploring togetherGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 23, 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 
AST and Science announces successful launch of its first satelliteMidland TX (SPX) Apr 24, 2019 AST and Science has announced that its first satellite, designated BlueWalker 1, has been successfully launched, stabilized in orbit and is ready for operations. The BlueWalker 1 nano-satellit ... more 
Nepal says its first ever satellite launchedKathmandu (XNA) Apr 23, 2019 Nepal's first ever satellite was launched into space on Thursday morning, Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli confirmed here. Nepali Prime Minister Oli expressed happiness over Nepal's entry i ... more  
NASA accelerates pace of Core Stage production with new toolNew Orleans LA (SPX) Apr 23, 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 |
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Percepto launches its all-in-one aerial solution for autonomous operationsCanberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 Percepto has announced that it has launched its all-in-one aerial solution for autonomous security, safety and inspection missions in Australia, following the completion of a series of successful li ... more  |
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The Satellite Applications Catapult partners with Infostellar to provide improved ground station accessTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 Infostellar has partnered with leading ground systems manufacturers to simplify the StellarStation integration process for new users. Partnered ground systems manufacturers include Innovative Soluti ... more 
SpaceX to launch cargo resupply mission despite Crew Dragon mishapWashington (UPI) Apr 22, 2019 The "anomaly" experienced by SpaceX's Crew Dragon over the weekend won't affect the company's planned space station resupply mission. ... more  
China opens Chang'e-6 for international payloads, asteroids nextBeijing (XNA) Apr 23, 2019 China announced the cooperation plan for its future Chang'e-6 mission, offering to carry a total of 20-kg solicited payloads, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Thursday. ... more  
New concept for novel fire extinguisher in spaceToyohashi, Japan (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 A research team in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology has developed new concept of fire extinguisher optimized for space-use; named Vacuum Extinguish Meth ... more  
China launches new BeiDou satelliteXichang (XNA) Apr 23, 2019 China sent a new satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 10:41 p.m. Saturday. Launched on a Long Ma ... more |
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 Tomsk, Russia (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
Scientists from TPU, Germany, and the United States have found a new way to functionalize a dielectric, otherwise known as 'white graphene', i.e. hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), without destroying it or changing its properties. Thanks to the new method, the researchers synthesized a 'polymer nano carpet' with strong covalent bond on the samples.
Prof Raul Rodriguez from the TPU Research Sch ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 22, 2019 
Boeing has been awarded a $605 million contract for the production of the Air Force's 11th Wideband Global Satellite Communication Space Vehicle.
The Department of Defense, which announced the contract on Friday, depends on the WGS system to communicate with warfighters across the globe. Ten Ka-band and 8 X-band beam can be positioned anywhere in the field of view of each satellite, acc ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Apr 23, 2019 
China sent a new satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 10:41 p.m. Saturday.
Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, it is the 44th satellite of the BDS satellite family and the first BDS-3 satellite in inclined geosynchronous Earth orbit.
After in-orbit tests, the satellite will work wi ... more |
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 Arlington VA (AFNS) Apr 18, 2019 
Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson unveiled a new and ambitious Science and Technology Strategy designed to better identify, develop and deploy breakthrough technologies, April 17.
The 32-page report is a blueprint for the next decade and beyond. The strategy includes an array of changes allowing the Air Force to maximize - and expand - its technological advantage in the new era of ... more |
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 Sendai, Japan (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
A research group from Tohoku University has developed spintronics devices which are promising for future energy-efficient and adoptive computing systems, as they behave like neurons and synapses in the human brain.
Today's information society is built on digital computers that have evolved drastically for half a century and are capable of executing complicated tasks reliably. The human bra ... more |
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 Lesbos Island, Greece (AFP) April 22, 2019 
Knee-deep in water on a picture-postcard Lesbos island beach, a team of Greek university students gently deposits a wall-sized PVC frame on the surface before divers moor it at sea.
Holding in plastic bags and bottles, four of the 5 metre-by-5-metre (16 foot-by-16-foot) frames are part of an experiment to determine if seaborne litter can be detected with EU satellites and drones.
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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 (AFP) April 24, 2019 
Beijing plans to send a manned mission to the moon and to build a research station there within the next decade, state media reported Wednesday, citing a top space official.
China aims to achieve space superpower status and took a major step towards that goal when it became the first nation to land a rover on the far side of the moon in January.
It now plans to build a scientific researc ... 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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 Istanbul (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.
The deal for Russian S-400 missiles riled Washington, prompting US officials to suspend Turkey's participation in the US-made F-35 jet programme and warn of more sanctions again ... more |
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 Houghton, MI (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are promising for quantum computing and future electronics. Now, researchers can convert metallic gold into semiconductor and customize the material atom-by-atom on boron nitride nanotubes.
Gold is a conductive material already widely used as interconnects in electronic devices. As electronics have gotten smaller and more powerful, the semiconducting mat ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 15, 2019 
Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos and Rocket and Space Corporation Energia have received FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) anthropomorphic robot for its potential use in manned space missions, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin said on Thursday.
"FEDOR - anthropomorphic rescue robot developed by the Android Technology R and D Company as well as the Rus ... more |
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
Cubic Corporation reports its Cubic Mission Solutions (CMS) business division has been awarded a contract by The Boeing Company to supply its Wideband Satellite Communications (SATCOM) modem system and Line-of-Sight (LOS) Common Data Link (CDL) system for the MQ-25 unmanned aerial refueling program.
"Our resilient, wideband communication solution will enable the MQ-25 to conduct its missio ... more |
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