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  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 Aerojet Rocketdyne has entered into a Space Act Agreement with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to design and manufacture a lightweight rocket engine thrust chamber assembly using innovative additive manufacturing processes and materials. The goal of the project is to reduce manufacturing costs and make a thrust chamber that is easily scalable to support a variety of missions, including America's return to the Moon and subsequent missions to explore Mars. Aerojet Rocketdyne will use a uni ... read more |
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ISRO works with Qualcomm to develop improved geo-location chipsetNew Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 15, 2019 India is moving forward towards harnessing space technology for national development and to make it accessible for everyone as they go about their daily lives. To improve the geo-location capa ... more 
Satelles, Inc. Secures $26 Million in Series C Funding Round Led by C5 CapitalReston VA (SPX) Oct 10, 2019 Satelles, Inc. has raised $26 million in Series C funding. C5 Capital led the round, with participation from Iridium Communications and existing investors. This new investment brings Satelles's tota ... more 
Russia eyes launching satellite into orbit from Saudi ArabiaMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 15, 2019 Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin announced earlier this year that Russia and Saudi Arabia had created a space cooperation programme under which the two sides floated th ... more  
Awe and fear: how Russian cosmonaut recalled first spacewalkMoscow (AFP) Oct 11, 2019 Alexei Leonov, the first man to do a space walk, died at the age of 85 on Friday. Here AFP republishes an interview with the cosmonaut from 2015, conducted on the 50th anniversary of his extraordinary achievement: ... more |
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How to startup fusion devices every timePlainsboro NJ (SPX) Oct 11, 2019 How do you start a fusion reaction, the process that lights the sun and stars, on Earth? Like lighting a match to start a fire, you first produce plasma, the state of matter composed of free electro ... more 
NASA and SpaceX hope for manned mission to ISS in early 2020Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 11, 2019 SpaceX could launch US astronauts to the International Space Station as early as next year if tests on the company's long-delayed Crew Dragon capsule prove conclusive, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Thursday. ... more 
Luca powers up for a spacewalkParis (ESA) Oct 11, 2019 European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Luca Parmitano is preparing to step out into space for his first spacewalk of the Beyond mission. Scheduled for 25 October, he will work with NASA astrona ... more 
SwRI hypersonic research spotlights future flight challengesSan Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 10, 2019 Southwest Research Institute engineers are advancing what researchers know about hypersonic flight. A new study presented at the 2019 Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force (JANNAF) Propulsion Meeting descr ... more 
Space and Missile Systems Center completes summer launch campaign; with small launchers next focusLos Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 With the August 22 launch of Lockheed Martin's GPS III SV02 satellite aboard the final Delta IV Medium+ (4,2) launch vehicle, the Space and Missile Systems Center's Launch Enterprise marked the succ ... more |
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 ImSAR LLC wins $$7.2M contract for work on RQ-21A UAV  
Elbit Systems sells $153M worth of mini-drones to unnamed countryWashington (UPI) Oct 11, 2019 Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems announced the sale of over 1,000 THOR mini-drones to an unnamed Southeast Asian country in a $153 million deal. ... more  |
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NASA, US industry aim to electrify commercial aviationCleveland 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 ... more 
British F-35Bs take off from, land on new carrier HMS Queen ElizabethWashington (UPI) Oct 14, 2019 The first landings and takeoffs of Britain's Royal Navy aboard the new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth were a success, the British Defense Ministry reported on Monday. ... more  
Kepler to launch satellite on a Soyuz mid next yearToronto, Canada (SPX) Oct 08, 2019 Kepler Communications signs launch agreement with Innovative Space Logistics B.V (ISL) working with GK Launch Services to deploy two satellites into sun-synchronous orbit in Q2-Q3 2020. The satellit ... more  
China's rocket-carrying ships depart for transportation missionNanjing (XNA) Oct 14, 2019 China's two rocket-carrying ships departed Saturday from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province on a transportation mission. The two Yuanwang ships are China's first ships made exclusively to ... more  
BAE Systems wins $148.3M Army contract to upgrade M88A1 vehiclesWashington (UPI) Oct 9, 2019 BAE Systems announced a $148.3 million contract with the U.S. Army on Wednesday to upgrade M88A1 heavy-lift vehicles. ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 11, 2019 
Astroscale Holdings Inc. has entered the assembly, integration and test (AIT) phase of its End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission, following completion of rigorous design reviews and subsystem testing.
"We are excited to be taking this next step in building our groundbreaking mission," said Seita Iizuka, Project Manager. "ELSA-d is an incredibly complex satellite ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 11, 2019 
Satlink, a Spanish company specializing in satellite communications, has showcased the most advanced solutions currently available in the market to the Special Operations Forces of the Spanish Army as well as other government security agencies.
The company has carried out simulations in real-life scenarios on a very practical day, called Operation Beyond the Horizon, in collaboration with ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 15, 2019 
India is moving forward towards harnessing space technology for national development and to make it accessible for everyone as they go about their daily lives.
To improve the geo-location capabilities of upcoming mobile phones, automotive and Internet-of-Things (IoT) platforms, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and US-based chip-maker Qualcomm have developed a new chipset platform. ... 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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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 
Researchers from Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have built a super-sensitive bolometer, a type of thermal radiation detector. The new radiation detector, made of a gold-palladium mixture makes it easier to measure the strength of electromagnetic radiation in real time. Bolometers are used widely in thermal cameras in the construction industry and in satellites to m ... more |
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 College Park MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2019 
University of Maryland (UMD) scientists have carried out a novel statistical analysis to determine for the first time a global picture of how the ocean helps predict the low-level atmosphere and vice versa.
They observed ubiquitous influence of the ocean on the atmosphere in the extratropics, which has been difficult to demonstrate with dynamic models of atmospheric and oceanic circulation ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 10, 2019 
For an astronaut looking out of the International Space Station windows, city lights are brighter than the stars. To tackle light pollution citizen scientists are urged to help map out the problem on their smartphones by identifying images of cities taken from space.
Astronaut pictures are the highest-resolution, colour images of night available from orbit. "The International Space Station ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) Oct 14, 2019 
China's two rocket-carrying ships departed Saturday from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province on a transportation mission.
The two Yuanwang ships are China's first ships made exclusively to carry rockets. With a length of 130 meters, a width of 19 meters and a height of 37 meters, the ships have a displacement of 9,000 tonnes.
Each ship is equipped with two 120-tonne cranes that c ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 07, 2019 
Russia will deploy more than 10 new laser-optical and radio-technical space monitoring stations on its territory by 2022, the Russian Defence Ministry said.
"It is planned to deploy over 10 new laser-optical and radio-technical systems in Russia that implement various principles of detecting and identifying space objects," the ministry said.
The Defence Ministry also said that two ne ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 07, 2019 
DARPA's Operational Fires (OpFires) program has reached a major program milestone, completing booster preliminary design review of an innovative two-stage tactical missile system. OpFires aims to develop and demonstrate a ground-launched hypersonic weapon system to engage critical, time-sensitive targets in contested environments.
"U.S. ground-based forces currently are limited in effectiv ... 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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 Adelphi MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2019 
In an effort to make robots more effective and versatile teammates for Soldiers in combat, Army researchers are on a mission to understand the value of the molecular living functionality of muscle, and the fundamental mechanics that would need to be replicated in order to artificially achieve the capabilities arising from the proteins responsible for muscle contraction.
Bionanomotors, like ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 11, 2019 
Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems announced the sale of over 1,000 THOR mini-drones to an unnamed Southeast Asian country in a $153 million deal.
The contract for the unmanned aircraft systems, including other unmanned aircraft manufactured by the company, will be executed over a 22-month period, Elbit said earlier this week.
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