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  Kennedy Space Center FL (UPI) May 02, 2019 SpaceX acknowledged Thursday that the company's Crew Dragon capsule was destroyed last weekend in an explosion during a test firing. "It is too early to confirm any cause," Vice President Hans Koenigsmann during a press conference at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "This will make us a better company ... to ensure that Crew Dragon is one of the safest spacecraft ever built." Koenigsmann also confirmed, as had been suspected by observers, that the explosion happened Saturday during activatio ... read more |
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TRISAT satellite joins the first European rideshare mission on the SSMSMaribor, Slovenia (SPX) May 03, 2019 On April 5, the University of Maribor (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) and SAB Launch Services S.r.l. (SAB-LS) signed the Launch Services Agreement (LSA) for the launch of th ... more 
Firefly Aerospace advances toward late 2019 launchMelbourne, FL (UPI) Apr 29, 2019 Texas-based Firefly Aerospace said Monday it successfully test-fired the second stage of its Firefly Alpha rocket in a five-minute hot fire to prepare for a planned launch later this year. The ... more  
NASA and Blue Origin Help Classrooms and Researchers Reach SpaceEdwards AFB CA (SPX) May 03, 2019 "We are now on the verge of giving students and teachers the ability to build and fly affordable experiments in space. When teachers are this excited about putting experiments in space, their studen ... more  
Europe's First Hydrogen Drone Doubles Flying Times with AMS CylindersLondon, UK (SPX) May 01, 2019 Specialist drone manufacturer, SKYCORP, has successfully doubled the maximum flight times of e-Drone Zero, Europe's first hydrogen powered drone, to two hours, by using a new, ultra-lightweight gas ... more |
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Power Glitch in US Segment of ISS Fixed, Station Back to Full Power - NASAMoscow (Sputnik) May 03, 2019 The problem with the power supply system in the US part of International Space Station has been solved and the ISS has returned to full power, NASA said in a statement on Thursday. A partial failure ... more  
China's Yuanwang-7 departs for space monitoring missionsNanjing (XNA) May 03, 2019 China's spacecraft tracking ship Yuanwang-7 is sailing to the Pacific Ocean, beginning its first maritime space monitoring mission this year. The ship departed from a port in eastern China's J ... more  
Missile contracts surge as US exits arms treaty: studyGeneva (AFP) May 2, 2019 Washington has signed more than $1 billion in new missile contracts in the three months since it announced plans to withdraw from a key Cold War-era arms treaty, campaigners said Thursday. ... more 
SpaceX capsule was destroyed in 'anomaly': lawmakerWashington (AFP) May 1, 2019 A space capsule suspected to have exploded last month in an incident characterized by manufacturer SpaceX as an "anomaly" was in fact completely destroyed, a US Senator confirmed Wednesday. ... more 
NASA Aids Testing of Boeing Deep Space Habitat Ground Prototype in AlabamaHuntsville AL (SPX) May 02, 2019 Engineers and technicians explore a deep space habitat ground prototype May 1 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The prototype, built by Boeing, will undergo testing this ... more |
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Northrop Grumman to integrate countermeasures system on aircraft for US, alliesWashington DC (UPI) May 02, 2019 Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. was awarded a contract to integrate the U.S. Navy's Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures onto aircraft of the U.S. military and two allies. ... more  |
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CGI and Thales sign contract for secure Galileo satellite navigation servicesRotterdam, Netherlands (SPX) May 03, 2019 CGI has signed an agreement with Thales Alenia Space France to enhance and maintain security software for the Galileo satellite navigation system. Valued at approximately 14 million euros, the contr ... more 
Obstacles to overcome before operating fleets of drones becomes realityAmes IA (SPX) May 03, 2019 Search and rescue crews are already using drones to locate missing hikers. Farmers are flying them over fields to survey crops. And delivery companies will soon use drones to drop packages at your d ... more 
NASA Says It Lost $700 Million in Failed Rocket Launches Due to Fraud SchemeWashington DC (Sputnik) May 02, 2019 A company that supplied faulty aluminium parts for rocket launches will pay $46 million to NASA, the Department of Defence, and other victims of its fraud scheme. Sapa Profiles, Inc. (SPI), an ... more 
Pilots safely eject from Air Force T-6 trainer before crashWashington DC (UPI) May 02, 2019 Two crew members safely ejected from a T-6 Texan II trainer plane southwest of Hastings, Okla., near Lake Waurika Wednesday afternoon, military officials said. ... more 
Raytheon receives $419 million for Sidewinder missiles, partsWashington DC (UPI) May 01, 2019 Raytheon Missiles Systems was awarded a $419 million contract modification to build the Lot 19 AIM-9X missile, the Defense Department announced on Tuesday. ... more |
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 Sanford FL (SPX) May 01, 2019 
PathFinder Digital was awarded a contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study the feasibility of developing a transportable research and test platform to facilitate the design of Free Space Optic (FSO) satellite networks. The study focuses on the development of Optical Ground Stations (OGS) and their interoperability to Optical Space Terminals (OST).
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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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 Rotterdam, Netherlands (SPX) May 03, 2019 
CGI has signed an agreement with Thales Alenia Space France to enhance and maintain security software for the Galileo satellite navigation system. Valued at approximately 14 million euros, the contract will last until the end of 2020. CGI experts are working on this strategic project from Rotterdam and Toulouse.
CGI will improve the functionality, robustness and reliability of Galileo's gr ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 01, 2019  An airstrike in Iraq this week was the first combat employment of the F-35A Lightning II fighter aircraft by the U.S. Air Force.
Two F-35s struck an entrenched Islamic State tunnel network and weapons cache at Wadi Ashai, Iraq, on Tuesday, the Air Force announced in a statement on Tuesday. The planes were recently deployed from Hill AFB, Utah, and joined the Combined Forces Air Componen ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) May 01, 2019 
Researchers at DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have 3D-printed an all-liquid device that, with the click of a button, can be repeatedly reconfigured on demand to serve a wide range of applications - from making battery materials to screening drug candidates.
"What we demonstrated is remarkable. Our 3D-printed device can be programmed to carry out multistep, compl ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 02, 2019 
Researchers have found a new way to use satellites to monitor the Great Whirl, a massive whirlpool the size of Colorado that forms each year off the coast of East Africa, they report in a new study.
Using 23 years of satellite data, the new findings show the Great Whirl is larger and longer-lived than scientists previously thought. At its peak, the giant whirlpool is, on average, 275,000 s ... more |
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 Pemba, Mozambique (AFP) April 30, 2019 
The people of Chibuabuar, an informal settlement of modest wooden homes perched on a hillside between a highway and the coast of Pemba in north Mozambique, thought they had escaped the worst of Cyclone Kenneth.
But on Sunday night, the vast rubbish dump that towers over their informal neighbourhood gave way, sending mounds of trash crashing into the valley, demolishing five houses and pushin ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) May 03, 2019 
China's spacecraft tracking ship Yuanwang-7 is sailing to the Pacific Ocean, beginning its first maritime space monitoring mission this year.
The ship departed from a port in eastern China's Jiangsu Province Wednesday.
As a part of China's new generation of spacecraft tracking ships, Yuanwang-7 is about 220 meters long, 40 meters high and has a displacement of nearly 30,000 tonnes. I ... 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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 Geneva (AFP) May 2, 2019 
Washington has signed more than $1 billion in new missile contracts in the three months since it announced plans to withdraw from a key Cold War-era arms treaty, campaigners said Thursday.
"The withdrawal from the INF Treaty has fired the starting pistol on a new Cold War," warned Beatrice Fihn, who heads the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). ... 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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 Philadelphia 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 tiny robots to precisely and non-invasively remove that buildup?
A team of engineers, dentists, and biologists from the University of Pennsylvania developed a microscopic robotic cleaning crew. ... more |
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 Vancouver, Canada (SPX) May 01, 2019 
Ballard Unmanned Systems, Inc. has announced the launch of the FCair fuel cell product line, a complete long duration fuel cell power solution for commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), at the AUVSI Xponential Annual Conference and Expo 2019 being held in Chicago.
FCair includes an industry-leading hydrogen fuel cell power system, hydrogen storage vessels, pressure regulators, refueli ... more |
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