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  Washington (UPI) May 29, 2019 A pair of Russian cosmonauts completed a spacewalk on Wednesday to retrieve science experiments and carry out maintenance on the International Space Station. Expedition 59 commander Oleg Kononenko and fellow cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin stepped out of the space station at 11:42 a.m. and returned about 6 hours later to close the hatch at 5:43 p.m. after completing the spacewalk, which was being live streamed on NASA's YouTube channel. The pair began the exhibition by sending out a special gr ... read more |
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NASA Navigation Tech Shows Timing Really Is EverythingGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2019 Without accurate timekeeping, space navigation would be impossible. As NASA goes forward to the Moon with the Artemis missions, precise measurements of time are key to mission success. To calc ... more  
AFRL demonstrates world's first daytime free-space quantum communication enabled by adaptive opticsStarfire Optical Range, NM (SPX) May 27, 2019 The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Starfire Optical Range (SOR) recently demonstrated quantum communication in daylight under conditions representative of space-to-Earth satellite links. ... more  
NEAT Tests Megawatt-Scale Electric Aircraft Power SystemsCleveland OH (SPX) May 30, 2019 As large airline companies compete to reduce emissions, fuel and noise, aircraft manufacturers are shifting more of their aircraft systems to electrical power. To help usher in the next revolution i ... more  
Researchers set new mark for highest-temperature superconductorWashington (UPI) May 23, 2019 Scientists have demonstrated superconductivity at the highest temperatures yet. ... more |
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Spidey senses could help autonomous machines see betterWest Lafayette IN (SPX) May 23, 2019 What if drones and self-driving cars had the tingling "spidey senses" of Spider-Man? They might actually detect and avoid objects better, says Andres Arrieta, an assistant professor of mechani ... more 
Wandering Earth: rocket scientist explains how we could move our planetGlasgow UK (The Conversation) May 27, 2019 In the Chinese science fiction film The Wandering Earth, recently released on Netflix, humanity attempts to change the Earth's orbit using enormous thrusters in order to escape the expanding sun - a ... more  
ISISpace selected by the Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory to realize a 6U platformDelft, The Netherlands (SPX) May 27, 2019 Innovative Solutions in Space was selected by the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory (HSFL) to realize their 6U platform. ISISpace and HSFL will work closely on the desig ... more  
Erdogan offers Trump working group on Russian missilesAnkara (AFP) May 29, 2019 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with US counterpart Donald Trump on Wednesday, reiterating an offer to set up a working group on Turkey's decision to buy a Russian missile defence system. ... more  
Raytheon nabs $38.2M contract for Army TOW missilesWashington (UPI) May 29, 2019 Raytheon Co. received a $38.2 million contract for the refinement and maintenance of the U.S. Army's TOW missiles, the Defense Department announced. ... more |
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 Britain's Royal Air Force tests miniature missile decoys on Typhoon jets 
Micro-Cameras and Space Exploration to join Pioneer-IODA projectParis (ESA) May 27, 2019 Space cameras to monitor the deployment of satellites and check the health of spacecraft will be developed under the Pioneer-IODA project by Micro-Cameras and Space Exploration based in Neuchatel, S ... more  |
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China to launch six to eight BDS-3 satellites this yearBeijing (XNA) May 27, 2019 China will send six to eight new satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space this year, according to the ongoing tenth China Satellite Navigation Conference on Wednesday. ... more  
Making DoD's Vast Logistics Enterprise More ResilientWashington DC (SPX) May 27, 2019 The Department of Defense (DoD)'s Joint Logistics Enterprise, which spans both supply chain and logistics operations, provides the means to muster, transport, and sustain military power anywhere in ... more 
Air Force deploys F-35 squadron to Italy for exercises, trainingWashington UPI) May 28, 2019 The U.S. Air Force has deployed a squadron of F-35A Lightning II fighter jets, airmen and equipment to an air base in Italy for exercises and to conduct training with other Europe-based aircraft. ... more 
Britain's Royal Air Force tests miniature missile decoys on Typhoon jetsWashington UPI) May 28, 2019 Britain's Royal Air Force has been testing a miniature missile decoy device on its Typhoon fighter jets, Defense Minister Stuart Andrew announced. ... more 
Future narrowband satellite capability to transfer to Air ForceArlington VA (AFNS) May 30, 2019 The Air Force and Navy took the important step to enable the development of an integrated space enterprise architecture. In a memorandum dated May 28, Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 29, 2019 
They are used in everything from lightbulbs to guided missiles, but with China controlling 95 percent of the world's supply of rare earth metals, they are also a potentially powerful weapon in Beijing's trade war with Washington.
Here are some key questions and answers on the prized elements.
- What are rare earths? -
The bedrock of electrical manufacturing, rare earths are 17 elemen ... more |
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 Starfire Optical Range, NM (SPX) May 27, 2019 
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Starfire Optical Range (SOR) recently demonstrated quantum communication in daylight under conditions representative of space-to-Earth satellite links.
"This is the world's first such demonstration, integrating quantum communication with a novel filtering technique enabled by adaptive optics (AO), a technology pioneered at the SOR," said Dr. Kelly H ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 27, 2019 
The output value of China's satellite navigation industry is expected to surpass 400 billion yuan (about 57.9 billion U.S. dollars) in 2020, according to the ongoing 10th China Satellite Navigation Conference on Thursday.
"Currently, we have built the complete industry chain which is made up of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) basic products, application terminals and systems, ... more |
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 Denver CO (SPX) May 23, 2019 
BlackBird, the world's leading on-demand general aviation marketplace, and Bye Aerospace, the world's leading electric aircraft developer, today announced a long-term partnership to make flying more affordable than driving for trips up to 300 miles. BlackBird has agreed to purchase Bye Aerospace's first 100 commercial 4-seat eFlyer 4s and 10 eFlyer 2s.
As the nation's largest aviation mark ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) May 23, 2019 
MIT researchers have designed a way to generate, at room temperature, more single photons for carrying quantum information. The design, they say, holds promise for the development of practical quantum computers.
Quantum emitters generate photons that can be detected one at a time. Consumer quantum computers and devices could potentially leverage certain properties of those photons as quant ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2019 
More than a trillion new measurements of Earth's height - blanketing everything from glaciers in Greenland, to mangrove forests in Florida, to sea ice surrounding Antarctica - are now available to the public. With millions more observations added each day, data from NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 is providing a precise global portrait of elevation and will allow scientists to t ... more |
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 Port Klang, Malaysia (AFP) May 28, 2019 
Hundreds of tonnes of imported plastic waste will be shipped back to where it came from, Malaysia said Tuesday, insisting the country did not want to be a global dumping ground.
Around 300 million tonnes of plastic are produced every year, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), with much of it ending up in landfill or polluting the seas, in what is becoming a growing international ... more |
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 Taiyuan (XNA) May 27, 2019  The attempt to launch a remote sensing Yaogan-33 satellite carried by a Long March-4C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province was unsuccessful on Thursday morning.
The first and second stages of the rocket worked normally, while the third stage had abnormal operation.
Based on monitoring data, the third stage of the rocket and satellite debris ... more |
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 Ankara (AFP) May 29, 2019 
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with US counterpart Donald Trump on Wednesday, reiterating an offer to set up a working group on Turkey's decision to buy a Russian missile defence system.
The move to buy the Russian S-400 system over America's Patriot equivalent has been a major source of tension between the NATO allies, leading to threats of US sanctions.
In his call with Trump, Er ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 17, 2019  The United States said Friday it had approved more than $600 million in sales of air defense missiles to South Korea and Japan as tensions return with North Korea.
The State Department said it had approved 94 SM-2 missiles used by ships against air threats, along with 12 guidance systems for a total cost of $313.9 million.
It separately gave the green light to sell 160 anti-air AMRAAM mi ... more |
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 Bochum, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2019 
Nanoparticles can be used in many ways as catalysts. To be able to tailor them in such a way that they can catalyse certain reactions selectively and efficiently, researchers need to determine the properties of single particles as precisely as possible. So far, an ensemble of many nanoparticles is analysed. However, the problem of these investigations is that the contributions of different parti ... more |
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 Research Triangle Park NC (SPX) May 23, 2019 
A project of the U.S. Army has developed a new framework for deep neural networks that allows artificial intelligence systems to better learn new tasks while forgetting less of what they have learned regarding previous tasks.
The North Carolina State University researchers, funded by the Army, have also demonstrated that using the framework to learn a new task can make the AI better at per ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) May 27, 2019 
Landing multi-rotor drones smoothly is difficult. Complex turbulence is created by the airflow from each rotor bouncing off the ground as the ground grows ever closer during a descent. This turbulence is not well understood nor is it easy to compensate for, particularly for autonomous drones. That is why takeoff and landing are often the two trickiest parts of a drone flight. Drones typically wo ... more |
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