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  Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 17, 2019 A grueling year of intensive testing, planning and hard work has a team of budding rocket scientists over the moon. Next week, the University of Sydney Rocketry Team will be the first Australian team to attend and compete in the 2019 Spaceport America Cup, an annual university rocketry competition held in New Mexico. This year's competition has attracted over 100 university teams from around the world - each team will be launching their student-built and designed rockets in a race for the sk ... read more |
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NASA renames street for 'hidden' black women mathematiciansWashington (AFP) June 13, 2019 NASA has renamed the street outside its Washington headquarters to honor three black female mathematicians whose pioneering work on the agency's early space program was chronicled in the film "Hidden Figures". ... more 
India hopes to launch 'very small' space station after 2022New Delhi (AFP) June 13, 2019 India plans to establish its own "very small" space station in the next decade as the country gears up for a first manned mission beyond earth. ... more 
Xplore and the Arch Mission Foundation partner to fly Arch Libraries to spaceSeattle WA (SPX) Jun 12, 2019 Xplore and the Arch Mission Foundation reports that the Xplore spacecraft will host specially designed Arch Libraries on its planned missions to the Moon, Mars, Venus and Near-Earth Asteroids starti ... more  
Lockheed Martin Delivers GPS III Contingency OperationsDenver CO (SPX) Jun 12, 2019 The next step in modernizing the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite constellation with new technology and capabilities is happening from the ground up! On May 22, Lockheed Martin delive ... more |
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GAO: Air Force shifting money to KC-135 because of KC-46 tanker problemsWashington (UPI) Jun 14, 2019 Because of ongoing problems with the KC-46 Pegasus, the U.S. Air Force plans to initially re-allocate $57 million from the program to the older refueling tanker, the KC-135 Stratotanker, according to a Government Accountability Office report. ... more 
Rockwell Collins to overhaul 'Blackhawk' helicopter displays in $49.1M contractWashington (UPI) Jun 11, 2019 Rockwell Collins Co. was awarded a $49.1 million contract to overhaul and maintain display units of the U.S. Army's UH-60 "Blackhawk" helicopters, the Defense Department announced. ... more 
Europe's air forces risk falling behind as US and China bulk upParis (AFP) June 17, 2019 As European leaders prepare to formalise Monday the launch of a next-generation combat jet, analysts warn the continent's air forces are increasingly outpaced by American and soon Chinese aerospace industries that are swimming in cash. ... more 
Turkey: Pentagon threat to remove F-35 program not in spirit of allianceWashington (UPI) Jun 12, 2019 The Pentagon's threat to remove Turkey from the F-35 program is not in line with the spirit of the two nations' alliance, the Middle East country's national defense minister said Wednesday. ... more 
Sikorsky awarded $542M for six VH-92A helicopters for presidential fleetWashington (UPI) Jun 11, 2019 Sikorsky has been awarded a $542 million contract to build six VH-92A helicopters as part of the presidential fleet. ... more |
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U.S. Army changes recruitment approach with new advertising agencyWashington (UPI) Jun 7, 2019 The U.S. Army announced it will reallocate its marketing, advertising and recruiting funds following an internal audit. ... more  |
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GenDyn gets $16.2M contract for Abrams M1A1 tank tech supportWashington (UPI) Jun 12, 2019 General Dynamics Land Systems has received a $16.2 million contract modification for technical support in building Abrams M1A1 tanks, both for the U.S. military and for foreign military sales to Morocco, the Defense Department said. ... more  
Syria says air defence downs Israeli missilesDamascus (AFP) June 12, 2019 Syrian air defence shot down Israeli missiles targeting the south of the country Wednesday, state media said, as a monitor reported positions of the regime's Lebanese ally Hezbollah had been hit. ... more  
Rio's far-right governor would use 'a missile' against criminalsRio De Janeiro (AFP) June 15, 2019 Rio de Janeiro's far-right governor Wilson Witzel has advocated using a "missile" to blow up criminals in one of the Brazilian city's most violent slums. ... more 
'I'm no hero' says Chernobyl diver portrayed in hit TV seriesKiev (AFP) June 14, 2019 In the acclaimed US mini-series "Chernobyl", Oleksiy Ananenko is hailed as one of three men who helped avert an even greater disaster after the worst nuclear accident in history. ... more
War, depression, suicide: American veterans are finding helpCenter Moriches, United States (AFP) June 13, 2019 Roger King was 19 when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in 2005. He left four years later after two deployments in Iraq, where a sniper's bullet nearly cost him his life. ... more |
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 Guelph, Canada (SPX) Jun 17, 2019 
That gold on your ring finger is stellar - and not just in a complimentary way.
In a finding that may overthrow our understanding of where Earth's heavy elements such as gold and platinum come from, new research by a University of Guelph physicist suggests that most of them were spewed from a largely overlooked kind of star explosion far away in space and time from our planet.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 13, 2019 
The Corps recently began fielding a next-generation narrowband satellite communication system that assists warfighters in connecting to networks on the battlefield.
Fielded in the first quarter of 2019, the Mobile User Objective System provides satellite communication capabilities to mobile or stationary Marines. The system enables the warfighter to leverage cellular technology to increase ... more |
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 Denver CO (SPX) Jun 12, 2019 
The next step in modernizing the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite constellation with new technology and capabilities is happening from the ground up!
On May 22, Lockheed Martin delivered the GPS III Contingency Operations (COps) software upgrade to the U.S. Air Force's current GPS ground control system. The upgrade will enable the Air Force to start commanding the new, next-genera ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 14, 2019  Boeing Co. received a $30.7 million order to build Chinook helicopter components for the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, the Defense Department announced.
The new delivery order comes after an announcement earlier this week of a $194.2 million contract to deliver six renew-build and one new-build MH-47G helicopters for the Command. The Pentagon cited an increased need for the airc ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) June 14, 2019 
Top executives in Hong Kong have warned they will have "no reason to stay" if the city's freedoms are damaged by a proposed bill allowing extradition to mainland China.
In a trend that could be damning for the international finance hub, some businesses say they would consider moving if the controversial bill - which has provoked a huge backlash in the city - is passed.
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 Washington (AFP) June 13, 2019 
From her desk in a building in downtown Washington, Lacey Malarky monitors fishing vessels that take advantage of the vastness of Earth's oceans to cheat in the belief that no one is watching.
Malarky uses a website called Global Fishing Watch, which was launched by her employer, the NGO Oceana, with Google and a nonprofit called SkyTruth less than three years ago to trace where 70,000 fishi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 14, 2019 
The U.S. Air Force diverted more than $66 million to cover the cleanup costs of harmful "forever chemicals" in the water supply in the past two years, according to an analysis by the Department of Defense.
The class of chemicals, called perfluorooctanic acid and commonly referred to as PFAS, have been widely used by the military in firefighting foam.
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 
Luokung Technology Corp. has announced a strategic partnership with Land Space Technology Corporation Ltd. ("Land Space"). The two parties will work together and take advantage of respective strength on commercial space cooperation with satellite remote sensing data applications as the main target market.
They will jointly develop domestic and foreign markets of products and services which ... more |
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 Damascus (AFP) June 12, 2019 
Syrian air defence shot down Israeli missiles targeting the south of the country Wednesday, state media said, as a monitor reported positions of the regime's Lebanese ally Hezbollah had been hit.
The attack was launched in the early hours of the morning against the Tall al-Hara sector near the Golan Heights, according to official news agency SANA, which said there had been no casualties.
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 Ankara (AFP) June 16, 2019 
Turkey expects the delivery of the controversial Russian S-400 missile defence system to begin in July, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying in Turkish media on Sunday.
"I believe (S-400s) will begin to arrive in the first half of July. Colleagues in charge of the schedule are following the issue," Erdogan said according to CNN Turk broadcaster.
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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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 Paris (AFP) June 16, 2019 
"Do you ever lie to your friends?," Jam asks, popping up in a private message box at the bottom of your screen.
If it seems like a personal question, don't worry - Jam isn't a person, but a chatbot, eager for a bubbly conversation about the news, environment, pop culture and more.
This particular cryptic query leads to Jam telling the story of Romain Gary, a French author who deceived t ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 17, 2019 
A new energy-efficient data routing algorithm developed by an international team could keep unmanned aerial vehicle swarms flying - and helping - longer, report an international team of researchers this month in the journal Chaos, from AIP Publishing.
UAV swarms are cooperative, intercommunicating groups of UAVs used for a wide and growing variety of civilian and military applications. In ... more |
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