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  Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 22, 2019 Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is transported from NASA's Kennedy Space Center to a facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019. Later in the day it was placed atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket ahead of Boeing's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test to the International Space Station. Boeing's uncrewed flight test, which is targeted for Dec. 17, will provide valuable data on the end-to-end performance of the rocket, spacecraft and ground systems, as well as, in ... read more |
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SpaceX's Starship prototype blows its top during Texas testOrlando FL (UPI) Nov 22, 2019 An early prototype of SpaceX's Starship rocket blew its top during a test Wednesday at the company's construction yard in Boca Chica, Texas. Images captured by two independent videographers fr ... more  
NASA takes a cue from Silicon Valley to hatch artificial intelligence technologiesGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 21, 2019 Could the same computer algorithms that teach autonomous cars to drive safely help identify nearby asteroids or discover life in the universe? NASA scientists are trying to figure that out by partne ... more 
NASA contracts SpaceX to launch another Dragon filled with cargoHouston TX (SPX) Nov 21, 2019 The 19th SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-19) contract mission for NASA carries a variety of cutting-edge scientific experiments to the International Space Station. The Dragon cargo spacecra ... more 
Boeing Starliner to cost $90 Million per seatWashington DC (Sputnik) Nov 20, 2019 NASA's Inspector General (IG) predicts that the US will have to spend $90 million per seat for flights on the CST-100 Starliner, a spacecraft currently being constructed by Boeing to transport peopl ... more |
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Sierra Nevada Corp. ships Shooting Star cargo module to Kennedy Space CenterKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 20, 2019 Sierra Nevada Corp.'s new disposable space cargo container has arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare for taking supplies to the International Space Station. The cargo unit is t ... more 
China sends five satellites into orbit via single rocketTaiyuan (XNA) Nov 15, 2019 Five new remote-sensing satellites were sent into planned orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province Wednesday. The five Ningxia-1 satellites were launched ... more  
PPPL scientist confirms way to launch current in fusion plasmasPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 An obstacle to generating fusion reactions inside facilities called tokamaks is that producing the current in plasma that helps create confining magnetic fields happens in pulses. Such pulses, gener ... more  
Hibernating astronauts would need smaller spacecraftParis (ESA) Nov 19, 2019 If a sci-fi spaceship does not come with hyperdrive then it is usually fitted with hibernation capsules instead. In movies from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Event Horizon, Alien to Passengers, fictional ... more 
Dangerous health risk to human spaceflight to Mars revealed in new NASA studyWashington DC (Sputnik) Nov 19, 2019 Scientists are still learning the potential effects that extended periods spent in space could have on the human body as mankind hopes to embark on long, ambitious journeys through the cosmos. ... more |
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 NASA overpaid Boeing by hundreds of millions of dollars: auditor 
SpaceX Crew Dragon releases photos of emergency escape engines testCape Canaveral FL (Sputnik) Nov 15, 2019 SpaceX fired up the engines on its new passenger spacecraft, the Crew Dragon, during a ground test in Cape Canaveral, Florida, paving the way for the company to perform a crucial test flight of the ... more  |
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Audit criticizes NASA for payments to Boeing in human spaceflight programOrlando FL (UPI) Nov 18, 2019 A government report on NASA's quest to send people into space again criticizes the agency for making additional and "unnecessary" payments to Boeing Co. of up to $287 million. The report from ... more 
Arianespace will orbit TIBA-1 and Inmarsat GX5 with Ariane 5Evry, France (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 On its fourth flight with Ariane 5 in 2019, Arianespace will orbit two telecommunications satellites at the service of long-term customers: TIBA-1 for Thales Alenia Space and Airbus Defence and Spac ... more  
US Government designates Lockheed Martin's latest generation radarMoorestown NJ (SPX) Nov 21, 2019 The world's latest generation solid-state radar technology, formerly known as Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Solid State Radar (LM SSR), has been designated as AN/SPY-7(V)1 by the United States gover ... more  
Raytheon awarded an $84.7M contract modification for Evolved Sea SparrowWashington (UPI) Nov 20, 2019 Raytheon Missile System in Tucson has been awarded an $84 million contract for support on the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile Block 2's production requirements. ... more  
FSU researchers develop thin heat shield for superfast aircraftTallahassee FL (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 The world of aerospace increasingly relies on carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites to build the structures of satellites, rockets and jet aircraft. But the life of those materials is lim ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Nov 22, 2019 
India's ambition to soft-land on the Moon crash-landed when the Chandrayaan-2 failed to touch-down on the lunar surface as planned on 7 September. Its orbiter, however, continued to perform "as per the design providing valuable scientific data".
India's Federal Space Minister Dr Jitendra Singh admitted for the first time that the failure of the Chadrayaan-2 was due to a reduction in veloci ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 18, 2019 
Lockheed Martin Co. was awarded a $3.3 billion contract for orbital operations, logistics and support of three U.S. Air Force satellite systems.
The Defense Department announced the 10-year contract on Friday. It calls for maintenance of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency program, used by the U.S. Air Force and allies British Armed Forces, Canadian Armed Forces and Royal Netherlands ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 05, 2019  Russia plans to launch into orbit a spherical glass satellite for measuring Earth's gravity field by the end of December, documents revealed.
The BLITS-M retroreflector satellite will be launched together with three Gonets-M communications satellites using the Rokot carrier rocket, scheduled to take off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on December 25.
The BLITS-M satellite is an improved ... more |
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 Tallahassee FL (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 
The world of aerospace increasingly relies on carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites to build the structures of satellites, rockets and jet aircraft.
But the life of those materials is limited by how they handle heat.
A team of FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers from Florida State University's High-Performance Materials Institute is developing a design for a heat shield ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Nov 22, 2019 
Strange metals make interesting bedfellows for a phenomenon known as high-temperature superconductivity, which allows materials to carry electricity with zero loss.
Both are rule-breakers. Strange metals don't behave like regular metals, whose electrons act independently; instead their electrons behave in some unusual collective manner. For their part, high-temperature superconductors oper ... more |
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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 12, 2019 
The Earth's magnetic field, or geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from the Earth's interior out into space. This field interacts with the stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun, known as the solar wind.
This magnetic field is sustained by electric currents generated from the motion of convection currents of molten iron in the Earth's outer core. The convectio ... more |
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 New Delhi (AFP) Nov 16, 2019 
A thick grey smog choked New Delhi for the fifth day Saturday, adding to a mounting pollution health crisis, but retired naval commander Anil Charan is one of the vast majority of the city's 20 million inhabitants who do not wear a mask.
Indian media is packed with warnings about the risk of premature death, lung cancer and particular danger to children from PM2.5 - tiny particles that get ... more |
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 Wuhan, China (XNA) Nov 22, 2019 
A Chinese company on Wednesday launched a satellite service platform to make satellite resources more accessible for users.
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), the platform's designer, announced the news at the 5th China (International) Commercial Aerospace Forum in Wuhan.
A common satellite operating business focuses on satellites rather than services, which ma ... more |
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 Moorestown NJ (SPX) Nov 21, 2019 
The world's latest generation solid-state radar technology, formerly known as Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Solid State Radar (LM SSR), has been designated as AN/SPY-7(V)1 by the United States government. The designation of AN/SPY-7(V)1 is a direct reflection of the maturity and capability of Lockheed Martin's solid-state radar technology.
The Japanese Ministry of Defense selected AN/SPY-7 ... more |
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 Damascus (AFP) Nov 20, 2019  Syrian anti-aircraft defences on Wednesday intercepted a "heavy attack" by Israeli warplanes over the capital Damascus, state media said.
"At 1:20 am (2320 GMT) on Wednesday, Israeli warplanes... targeted the vicinity of the city of Damascus with a number of missiles," SANA news agency quoted a military source as saying.
"Our air defence confronted the heavy attack and intercepted the h ... more |
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 Singapore (SPX) Nov 06, 2019 
Researchers from SMART, MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, have made a groundbreaking discovery that allows scientists to 'look' at the surface density of dispersed nanoparticles. This revolutionary technique enables researchers to 'characterise' or understand the properties of nanoparticles without disturbing the nanoparticle, and also at a far lower cost and far quicker too.
The new ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 21, 2019 
Could the same computer algorithms that teach autonomous cars to drive safely help identify nearby asteroids or discover life in the universe? NASA scientists are trying to figure that out by partnering with pioneers in artificial intelligence (AI) - companies such as Intel, IBM and Google - to apply advanced computer algorithms to problems in space science.
Machine learning is a type of A ... more |
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 Topeka KS (SPX) Nov 14, 2019 
The Kansas Department of Transportation's (KDOT) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP) has successfully completed the first beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) drone operation using only onboard detect-and-avoid systems.
The flight mark the first time under Part 107 the FAA has authorized an operation to fly BVLOS without a requirement for visual observers or a gr ... more |
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