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  Warminster, PA (SPX) Apr 29, 2019 Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation (NASC) received a Special Airworthiness Certification in the Experimental Category from the FAA for two of its NASC TigerShark-XP aircraft, the N1740X and N1750X. The TigerShark-XP is a variant of the US Navy RQ-23A Group III Unmanned Aircraft System. The RQ-23A saw service in both Iraq and Afghanistan with over 100,000 flight hours. The TigerShark-XP has been assigned to research and development projects such as aircraft anti-ice and de-ice projects, detect-and ... read more |
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China's quest for clean, limitless energy heats upHefei, China (AFP) April 28, 2019 A ground-breaking fusion reactor built by Chinese scientists is underscoring Beijing's determination to be at the core of clean energy technology, as it eyes a fully-functioning plant by 2050. ... more  
International Space Station suffers partial power loss, no danger to crewWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 30, 2019 Astronauts on the International Space Station are working to restore full power after a partial failure in the orbiting laboratory's electrical system Monday morning that imposed no danger to the cr ... more 
Photobioreactor: oxygen and a source of nutrition for astronautsFriedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Apr 29, 2019 Airbus is bringing another experimental system to the International Space Station (ISS) in the form of the photobioreactor (PBR). The PBR, developed by the University of Stuttgart and built by Airbu ... 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 |
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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  
Marines to field enhanced handheld targeting system later this yearWashington DC (UPI) Apr 25, 2019 The U.S. Marine Corps plans to field a new version of an existing handheld GPS targeting system later this year, the military branch announced on Thursday. ... more  
Lockheed Martin cuts ribbon on South Carolina F-16 production lineWashington (UPI) Apr 24, 2019 Lockheed Martin opened its new F-16 fighter plane production line in Greenville, S.C., nearly two years after announcing it would move there. ... more 
Lockheed Martin awarded $117.1M contract for F-35 partsWashington (UPI) Apr 24, 2019 Lockheed Martin has received a $117.1 million contract modification for a variety of spares for the F-35 fighter planes of the U.S. Air Force and Marines. ... more 
Air Force's B-1B bombers back in the air after month-long safety inspectionWashington (UPI) Apr 24, 2019 Flights of the U.S. Air Force fleet of 62 B-1B Lancer bombers resumed after a nearly month-long stand-down for safety inspections, the Air Force announced. ... more |
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Pentagon to send 320 more troops to US-Mexico borderWashington (AFP) April 30, 2019 The US Defense Department announced Monday it would deploy around 320 additional troops to the southern border with Mexico to support immigration officials. ... more  |
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An army of micro-robots can wipe out dental plaquePhiladelphia PA (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 A visit to the dentist typically involves time-consuming and sometimes unpleasant scraping with mechanical tools to remove plaque from teeth. What if, instead, a dentist could deploy a small army of ... more 
Marines participate in medical readiness training in Puerto RicoWashington (UPI) Apr 29, 2019 U.S. military medical personnel, including physicians, dentists and optometrists, are participating in Innovative Readiness Training in Puerto Rico. ... more
Preventing collapse after catastropheChicago IL (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 As the impacts of climate change escalate, ecosystems will likely undergo events that will disrupt entire populations. In marine ecosystems, anthropogenic warming has subjected organisms to elevated ... more  
Chinese bank profits rise, but so do bad loansShanghai (AFP) April 30, 2019 Profit at China's biggest banks accelerated in the first quarter in line with a better-than-expected performance in the domestic economy, but rising bad loans may pressure authorities to ease up on pump-priming measures. ... more 
China factory activity softens despite stimulusBeijing (AFP) April 30, 2019 China's factory activity softened in April, official data showed Tuesday, in the latest sign that the world's second-largest economy remains on uneven footing despite a raft of government stimulus measures. ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Apr 29, 2019 
Scientists have been floating designs for solar sails to propel spacecraft for decades, but a new approach being developed by a Rochester Institute of Technology professor could be the key to helping spacecraft photograph the poles of the Sun for the first time.
NASA announced it is providing RIT Professor Grover Swartzlander a Phase II award through its NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts ( ... 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.
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 24, 2019 
Lockheed Martin has received a $117.1 million contract modification for a variety of spares for the F-35 fighter planes of the U.S. Air Force and Marines.
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Defense Department, covers air vehicle initial spares, including a deployment spares package, afloat spares package, and associated consumables to support air vehicle delivery schedules.
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Apr 24, 2019 
University of Copenhagen researchers have developed a nanocomponent that emits light particles carrying quantum information. Less than one-tenth the width of a human hair, the miniscule component makes it possible to scale up and could ultimately reach the capabilities required for a quantum computer or quantum internet. The research result puts Denmark at the head of the pack in the quantum rac ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
Whether they're idyllic floating cotton balls on an otherwise blue sky or ominous grey swirls that block the sun, clouds all begin as an invisible dot of water vapor. This elusive gas has been tricky to measure and track - until now.
Research scientists at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have created a new airborne instrument that can directly measure water vapor and f ... more |
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 Lyon (AFP) April 29, 2019 
French green chemistry firm Carbios said Monday it had picked up the backing of three major drinks firms to build a facility to test on an industrial scale its technology to break down and recycle PET plastic bottles with enzymes.
Nestle Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage and Food Europe join a consortium that already includes L'Oreal in a four-year partnership that aims to bring the techn ... 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 29, 2019 
Lockheed Martin has exercised a $13.9 million in support of the U.S. Navy's AEGIS combat system.
The AEGIS speed to capability development contract includes systems engineering, modeling and simulation, and design cycles. The contract also includes completion of the development and fielding of the AEGIS Baseline 9 AEGIS Weapon System and integrated AEGIS Combat System on AEGIS Technical ... 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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 Usurbil, Spain (SPX) Apr 23, 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.
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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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 Warminster, PA (SPX) Apr 29, 2019 
Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation (NASC) received a Special Airworthiness Certification in the Experimental Category from the FAA for two of its NASC TigerShark-XP aircraft, the N1740X and N1750X. The TigerShark-XP is a variant of the US Navy RQ-23A Group III Unmanned Aircraft System. The RQ-23A saw service in both Iraq and Afghanistan with over 100,000 flight hours.
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