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  Washington DC (Sputnik) Oct 04, 2019 Aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, a lunar lander developed and created by Houston-based Intuitive Machines will blast off into space and toward Earth's moon in 2021, a joint release from both companies revealed Wednesday. The commercial lander, known as Nova-C, is expected to launch from Complex 39A at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Citing Trent Martin, vice president of aerospace systems at Intuitive Machines, SpaceFlightNow reported tha ... read more |
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NASA takes delivery of first all-electric experimental aircraftEdwards AFB CA (SPX) Oct 04, 2019 The first all-electric configuration of NASA's X-57 Maxwell now is at the agency's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The X-57, NASA's first all-electric experimental air ... more  
The first humans in spaceBethesda, MD (SPX) Oct 04, 2019 The first human to fly in space was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut who was born on March 9, 1934, near Moscow, Russia. He flew aboard the Vostok spacecraft in April 1961 and orbited the Earth onc ... more 
Artemis Generation takes on NASA Student Launch: 64 teams to competeHuntsville AL (SPX) Oct 04, 2019 The quiet fields of North Alabama await the high-flying rockets of teams competing in the 20th year of NASA Student Launch. Before those rockets can fly, though, they have to be designed, built and ... more 
First Arab on ISS returns to EarthAlmaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 3, 2019 A three-man crew including an Emirati who became the first Arab to reach the International Space Station returned to Earth safely on Thursday and were in good shape, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said. ... more |
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First Arab on ISS set for Earth return Almaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 3, 2019 An Emirati who made history as the first Arab to reach the International Space Station is set to return to Earth on Thursday following an eight-day mission that sparked euphoria in his homeland. ... more  
Controlling robots across oceans and spaceParis (ESA) Oct 04, 2019 This Autumn is seeing a number of experiments controlling robots from afar, with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano directing a robot in The Netherlands and engineers in Germany controlling a rover in Can ... more 
NASA, Roscosmos in talks on more Soyuz seatsMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 02, 2019 NASA is in talks with Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos to purchase additional space on Soyuz spacecraft to deliver US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) after the spring of ... more 
NASA, Boeing, SpaceX closing in on return to human spaceflight for USOrlando FL (UPI) Oct 02, 2019 America's public and private space endeavors may soon regain the nation's role as the global leader in human space exploration, but they are years behind schedule. At stake is not only United ... more 
Full house for space scienceParis (ESA) Oct 02, 2019 Three newcomers and two spacecraft make a full house in space. The population of the International Space Station rose to nine last week while European science focused on bone loss, time perception a ... more |
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 New US spacecraft to conduct first manned flights to ISS in 2020 says Roscosmos Chief 
SLS Rocket Pathfinders Prepare Teams for One-of-a-Kind Hardware Prior to Moon MissionHuntsville AL (SPX) Sep 30, 2019 NASA's Pegasus barge arrived Sept. 27 at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the core stage pathfinder for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The pathfinder will be used for lift ... more  |
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Japan's Kounotori Spaceship Attached to StationHouston TX (SPX) Sep 30, 2019 Ground controllers successfully installed the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Kounotori 8 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-8) to the Earth-facing port of the International Space Station's Harmon ... more  
Lockheed nets $163.9M to support space-based infrared systemWashington (UPI) Oct 3, 2019 Lockheed Martin has been awarded nearly $163.9 million for support of the space based infrared system. ... more  
State Department OKs Javelin missile sale to UkraineWashington (UPI) Oct 3, 2019 The U.S. State Department gave its approval for Ukraine's request to purchase $39.2 million in Javelin missiles and launch systems Thursday. ... more 
Italy signs first ever agreement with Virgin to launch suborbital research missionsMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 03, 2019 Virgin Galactic is a subsidiary of the Virgin Group, which is involved in developing commercial spacecraft and eventually providing trips to space tourists and missions for scientific research. ... more 
Tree landing at Camp Shelby injures 22 paratroopersWashington (UPI) Oct 3, 2019 Twenty-two paratroopers have been injured after wind blew them into trees while training at Camp Shelby in Mississippi. ... more |
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 Newport UK (SPX) Sep 27, 2019 
AdaCore reports that the European Space Agency (ESA) has selected AdaCore to provide a qualified multitasking solution for spacecraft software development to support multiple ongoing and future ESA projects.
As part of this contract, AdaCore has implemented a pre-qualified version of the Ravenscar Small Footprint (SFP) library - a configurable Ada run-time library that implements the Raven ... 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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 Washington (UPI) Sep 30, 2019 
Northrop Grumman Corp. received a $1.39 billion contract from the U.S. Air Force for its embedded GPS system.
The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, includes production, sustainment and engineering technical services in support of its Embedded GPS Inertial Navigation System Modernization, EGI/EGI-M, system.
The open-sy ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Oct 03, 2019 
As our research team at NASA continues to explore electrified aircraft propulsion as a fuel- and- cost-efficient alternative to traditional jet engine-powered airplanes, the agency is teaming with U.S. industry to develop the innovative components and flight demonstrations required to make this electric evolution possible.
"We're at a critical time in the history of aviation because we hav ... more |
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 Yokohama, Japan (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 
Data centers are processing data and dispensing the results at astonishing rates and such robust systems require a significant amount of energy - so much energy, in fact, that information communication technology is projected to account for 20% of total energy consumption in the United States by 2020.
To answer this demand, a team of researchers from Japan and the United States have develo ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 30, 2019 
Ball Aerospace delivered the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) for Landsat 9, completing development of the instrument on schedule and under budget. Ball will continue to support instrument integration and spacecraft-level testing, working closely with NASA and the Landsat 9 spacecraft provider.
"Ball Aerospace is enabling the sustainability of the nation's land imaging architecture throug ... more |
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 Tripoli (AFP) Oct 3, 2019 
Faraj al-Doukali hastened to unload the dozens of rubbish bags from his van onto a sidewalk dump in Siyahiya, a residential district west of the Libyan capital.
"Each weekend I collect the rubbish from my four brothers at the farm where we live and I look for somewhere to dump it. I have no choice but to leave it here on the footpath," he said.
Across Tripoli, tonnes of waste overflows f ... 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) Oct 3, 2019 
Lockheed Martin has been awarded nearly $163.9 million for support of the space based infrared system.
The contract, awarded specifically to the company's Lockheed Martin Space division on Wednesday by the Department of Defense, covers SBIRS contractor logistics support.
The SBIRS provides early missile warning for the U.S. military through infrared surveillance. It evolved from ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 2, 2019 
The Naval Strike Missile, which can strike an enemy ship 100 nautical miles away, was successfully demonstrated by the USS Gabrielle Giffords, the Navy announced.
The test of the weapon, which as been deployed aboard the Giffords, aboard the Independence-variant littoral combat ship came Tuesday during the biennial Pacific Griffin exercise near Guam. This year's exercise was conducted b ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Oct 04, 2019 
This Autumn is seeing a number of experiments controlling robots from afar, with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano directing a robot in The Netherlands and engineers in Germany controlling a rover in Canada.
Imagine looking down at the Moon from the Gateway as you prepare to land near a lunar base to run experiments, but you know the base needs maintenance work on the life-support system that w ... more |
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 Istanbul (AFP) Sept 29, 2019 
Turkey's air force on Sunday downed an unidentified drone on the Syrian border after it breached Turkish air space six times, the defence ministry said.
"An unmanned aerial vehicle which violated our air space six times (on Saturday)... was downed by two of our F-16s which took off from Incirlik" air base in southern Turkey, the defence ministry said, sharing pictures of the downed drone. ... more |
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