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  Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Sep 26, 2019 Russia's Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, bringing the next crew - including the first astronaut from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) - to the orbital outpost, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. The approach and docking of the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft, launched aboard a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket earlier in the day, took place in an autonomous regime. After the crew of the Russian Soyuz M ... read more |
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Improving the ductility of ceramic materials for missiles, enginesWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 Something as simple as an electric field could soon make wartime missiles or drinking mugs easier to produce and more resilient for fracture. Items such a ... more  
China launches two new BeiDou satellitesBeijing (XNA) Sep 24, 2019 China successfully sent two satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 5:10 a.m. Monday. Launched on ... more  
Orbital nabs $1.1B contract for Missile Defense targetsWashington (UPI) Sep 23, 2019 Orbital Sciences Corp. received a $1.1 billion contract with the Missile Defense Agency for missile defense targets, the Defense Department announced. ... more 
Stars in its eyes, UAE celebrates its first astronaut in spaceDubai (AFP) Sept 25, 2019 A crowd in Dubai erupted in cheers and applause Wednesday as the first astronaut from the United Arab Emirates launched towards the International Space Station, dubbing him a national hero. ... more |
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Tunnel 9 personnel provide guidance for hypersonic experimentArnold AFB TX (AFNS) Sep 24, 2019 When those conducting Air Force-sponsored basic science research in hypersonic aerodynamics needed some advice, they relied upon the expertise of engineers and technicians at Arnold Engineering and ... more  
Up-close and personal with neuronal networksBoston MA (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 How our brain cells, or neurons, use electrical signals to communicate and coordinate for higher brain function is one of the biggest questions in all of science. For decades, researchers have ... more 
Unmanned Japan craft launched toward space station: operatorTokyo (AFP) Sept 24, 2019 Japan on Wednesday launched an unmanned spacecraft towards the International Space Station, the operator said, after a fire early this month delayed the mission. ... more 
Top Five Technologies Needed for a Spacecraft to Survive Deep SpaceWashington DC (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 When a spacecraft built for humans ventures into deep space, it requires an array of features to keep it and a crew inside safe. Both distance and duration demand that spacecraft must have systems t ... more 
Researcher explores better use of microbes for space travelFort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 With the recent celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo program's first landing of humans on the moon, the eyes and hopes of the world turn skyward again. The romantic notions of exp ... more |
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 After rollout, Soyuz rocket set to launch new crew to space station 
First Arab set for ISS says voyage will make 'history'Moscow (AFP) Sept 24, 2019 The Emirati astronaut who will make history by becoming the first Arab on the International Space Station said Tuesday he had received support from around the world before his "dream" mission. ... more  |
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Japanese, Russian rockets prepare to launch cargo and crew this weekHouston TX (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 Japan is getting ready to launch its H-II Transport Vehicle-8 (HTV-8) cargo craft on Tuesday at 12:05 p.m. EDT to replenish the International Space Station crew. Russia has already rolled out its So ... more 
Understanding asthma from spaceWashington DC (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 Help may be on the way for the millions of people around the world who suffer from asthma. Pioneering research in orbit is opening new avenues to understanding what goes wrong in patients with airwa ... more  
Nevada's Team CERBERUS moves ahead at robotic underground terrain competitionReno NV (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 Team CERBERUS, an international collaboration based in the University of Nevada, Reno College of Engineering, has been selected to move on to the second round of the exclusive DARPA Subterranean Cha ... more  
Army research uncovers law-like progression of weapons technologiesAberdeen MD (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 Anticipating the technology and weapon systems of our future Army might not be entirely daunting, new Army research finds. Trends in the progression of weapon systems from the early crossbowma ... more 
Pad 39B water flow test comes through loud and clearKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 NASA eclipsed another milestone in its plan to send the first woman and next man to the lunar surface by 2024 with the latest successful water flow test on the mobile launcher at Kennedy Space Cente ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 
A Northwestern University research team has developed a new method for making highly desirable catalysts from metal nanoparticles that could lead to better fuel cells, among other applications. The researchers also discovered the method can take spent catalysts and recycle them into active catalysts.
Made mainly of precious metals, these coveted catalysts are shaped like gems. Each particl ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
DARPA has announced the 10 teams that have qualified for the Championship Event of the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) - a three-year contest to unlock the potential of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum using artificial intelligence (AI). The teams will head to Mobile World Congress Los Angeles on October 23, 2019, where their radio designs will go head to head during a live competition. ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Sep 24, 2019 
China successfully sent two satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 5:10 a.m. Monday.
Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, the two satellites entered orbit. They are the 47th and 48th satellites of the BDS satellite family.
The new satellites and the carrier rocket were developed by t ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Sept 24, 2019 
Japanese authorities on Tuesday referred the case of a US military pilot to prosecutors over the 2016 crash of an Osprey aircraft that fuelled sentiment against a US base on Okinawa island.
The crash did not kill anyone and only caused injuries to two of the five crew members aboard the US Marine MV-22 Osprey.
The Pentagon described the December 2016 crash as a "mishap", which saw the pl ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 24, 2019 
To develop the next generation of quantum technologies, scientists need to find materials with unique optical and electrical properties.
Often, when materials are put under stress and strain, they reveal unusual physical properties. But measuring the nanoscale effects of strain isn't easy.
To aid the search for quantum properties, scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory set ... more |
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 Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 
As neighborhood and city planners design ways to reuse vacant land in cities like Detroit, a researcher at the University of Michigan is urging them to look at the footpaths of people who already live there - literally.
In what's believed to be the first comprehensive study of unofficial footpaths in a large urban area, U-M's Joshua Newell and colleague Alec Foster of Illinois State Univer ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Sept 24, 2019  France's parliament will from Tuesday debate legislation seeking to move the country closer to its ambition of a low-waste future, forcing electronics firms to use second-hand materials and cutting down on plastic refuse.
France, with its population of nearly 70 million, is a voracious consumer of natural resources, producing five tonnes of waste per person per year, according to the environ ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019 
Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday.
The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit.
Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short prep ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 23, 2019 
Orbital Sciences Corp. received a $1.1 billion contract with the Missile Defense Agency for missile defense targets, the Defense Department announced.
The company, based in Chandler, Ariz., and a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, will build "threat-representative subscale targets with simple and complex re-entry vehicles," the Defense Department said on Friday.
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Sep 25, 2019  Something as simple as an electric field could soon make wartime missiles or drinking mugs easier to produce and more resilient for fracture.
Items such as drinking mugs, missile heads, thermal barrier coatings on engine blades, auto parts, electronic and optic components are commonly made with ceramics.
The ceramics are mechanically strong, but ... more |
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 Bath UK (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
A new nanomaterial developed by scientists at the University of Bath could solve a conundrum faced by scientists probing some of the most promising types of future pharmaceuticals.
Scientists who study the nanoscale - with molecules and materials 10,000 smaller than a pinhead - need to be able to test the way that some molecules twist, known as their chirality, because mirror image molecul ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 26, 2019 
Mini robots that can roll, fly, float and swim, then morph into a single machine? Together they form Shapeshifter, a developing concept for a transformational vehicle to explore treacherous, distant worlds.
In a dusty robotics yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the Shapeshifter team is testing a 3D-printed prototype of this unusual explorer. A contraption tha ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Sept 19, 2019 
Drone deliveries are coming soon, at least for one Virginia community, as part of a pilot project announced Thursday by Wing, the unit spun out of a "moonshot" lab at Google parent Alphabet.
The drone service to launch in October in Christiansburg, Virginia, will be the most advanced real-world test of the technology to quickly fly items ranging from Gummy Bears to painkillers to customers, ... more |
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