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  Beijing (XNA) Jan 01, 2020 The Shenyang Institute of Automation (SIA) announced on Thursday that China's first solar sail, SIASAIL-I, has successfully verified a number of key technologies in orbit, a big breakthrough in China's solar sail development. The solar sail developed by the institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences based in Northeast China's Liaoning province is a spacecraft powered by the reflected light pressure of the sun on the spacecraft's membrane. Because it does not consume additional chemical fue ... read more |
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Veteran cosmonaut outlines what Russia needs to get some oomph back into its space programMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 01, 2020 Once enjoying nearly uncontested superiority in space with its group of space stations, fleets of robots exploring distant planets and plans to prepare for a Mars mission as soon as the early 2000s, ... more  
Scientists develop gentle, microscopic hands to study tiny, soft materialsChampaign IL (SPX) Dec 30, 2019 Handling very soft, delicate items without damaging them is hard enough with human hands, let alone doing it at the microscopic scale with laboratory instruments. Three new studies show how sc ... more 
Tech show offers big and flashy, up-close and (very) personalSan Francisco (AFP) Jan 2, 2020 The screens will be bigger and bolder, the cars will be smarter and some of the technology will be up-close and personal - even intimate. ... more 
Indonesia Negotiating Launch of 1st Indigenous Astronaut with Russia's RoscosmosMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 01, 2020 Indonesia is in talks with Russia's State Space Corporation Roscosmos on sending its first domestic astronaut to space, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin said. "We have started negotia ... more |
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Christina Koch sets record for longest space flight by a womanWashington DC (UPI) Dec 29, 2019 NASA astronaut Christina Koch set the record Saturday for the longest single space flight by a woman at 289 days. Koch, 40, surpassed the record set by Peggy Whitson, who spent 288 consecutive ... more 
Space history is made in this NASA robot factoryPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2019 Built in 1961, the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is the cradle of robotic space exploration. The first probes launched to the Moon, ... more  
Moscow lifts veil on missile attack warning systemMoscow (AFP) Dec 18, 2019 Russia on Wednesday lifted the veil on its tightly guarded space-based missile warning system, ahead of a vote in the US Congress on President Donald Trump's plan to create a new space force. ... more  
AECOM + Tetra Tech Joint Venture receives $90M to support Saudi Missile ProgramWashington (UPI) Jan 2, 2020 AECOM + Tetra Tech Joint Venture has received a $90 million contract to provide support for the Saudi Missile Program, the Department of Defense announced. ... more  
Lockheed Martin awarded $7B contract for F-22 sustainment workWashington DC (UPI) Dec 23, 2019 Lockheed Martin received a contract valued at $7 billion for sustainment of the F-22 fighter plane of the U.S. Air Force, the Defense Department announced. ... more |
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 Russia launches Rokot carrier rocket, Its Last Space Launch of 2019  
Commercial suborbital carrier rocket launched in ChinaJiuquan, China (XNA) Dec 27, 2019 A commercial suborbital carrier rocket developed by a private Chinese company was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 4:50 p.m. Wednesday (Beijing Time). Th ... more  |
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AFRL camber morphing wing takes flightWright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 The Air Force Research Laboratory recently completed the successful flight demonstration of a game-changing camber morphing wing technology that could significantly increase aircraft range and perfo ... more  
From airport approaches to eCall in cars in 10 years with EGNOSParis (ESA) Dec 24, 2019 The Galileo satellite navigation system has been providing Initial Services for three years now. Meanwhile Europe's other satnav system has marked its tenth anniversary: EGNOS has been delivering en ... more 
Sikorsky receives $556.1M for Black Hawk supportWashington DC (UPI) Dec 19, 2019 Sikorsky Aircraft received a $556.1 million deal to produce and support Black Hawk helicopters for the U.S. Army, according to the Pentagon. ... more 
Boeing tapped to provide technical services on aircraft in U.S., KuwaitWashington DC (UPI) Dec 19, 2019 Boeing Aerospace Operations has been awarded a contract to provide technical services in support of several aircraft programs for the U.S. Navy and the government of Kuwait, the Department of Defense has announced. ... more 
Boeing awarded $400M contract for B-1, B-52 engineering servicesWashington DC (UPI) Dec 26, 2019 Boeing has been awarded a $400 million contract by the U.S. Air Force for engineering work on two of the United States' three strategic bomber aircraft. ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 
Recently established Australian ground segment operator Capricorn Space and Japanese Ground Segment as a Service provider Infostellar have signed an agreement that will enable Infostellar customers access to their satellite constellations from the Australian Ground Network - West (AGN-W) site near Mingenew in Western Australia.
Established by Capricorn Space to provide global satellite ope ... more |
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 Fairfax VA (SPX) Nov 28, 2019 
General Dynamics Mission Systems has been awarded a $731.8 million cost-plus-award-fee and firm-fixed-price indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity sole-source contract for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) ground system sustainment. MUOS is a next-generation satellite communications system that provides secure voice and data communications for U.S. forces worldwide.
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 24, 2019 
The Galileo satellite navigation system has been providing Initial Services for three years now. Meanwhile Europe's other satnav system has marked its tenth anniversary: EGNOS has been delivering enhanced positioning to users across our continent, including safety-critical services such as aircraft landings for a growing number of European airports.
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 30, 2019  Lockheed Martin announced the delivery of its 134th F-35 fighter plane in 2019 on Monday, exceeding its goal of 131 for the year.
The last F-35 delivery of 2019 is a vertical-takeoff-and-landing plane, the most expensive of its three variants, and is destined for the U.S. Marine Corps, the company said in a statement.
Deliveries this year included 81 aircraft for the U.S. militar ... more |
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 Kiel, Germany (SPX) Dec 30, 2019 
Spintronics or spin electronics in contrast to conventional electronics uses the spin of electrons for sensing, information storage, transport, and processing. Potential advantages are nonvolatility, increased data processing speed, decreased electric power consumption, and higher integration densities compared to conventional semiconductor devices.
Molecular spintronics aims for the ultim ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 01, 2020 
A new satellite data centre will use cutting-edge satellite technology to help combat climate change. Ministers on 30 December announced backing for ground-breaking research analysing satellite images that will better predict the future impact of climate change in towns and cities and inform future government action.
A new 5 million pound satellite data centre involving the Universities of ... more |
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 Bangkok (AFP) Jan 3, 2020 
Thai shoppers grabbed baskets, buckets and even a wheelbarrow to skirt a new ban on single-use plastic bags at big retailers, with many posting images of their efforts online.
The restriction, introduced at the start of the new year by several major mall operators and the ubiquitous 7-Eleven convenience stores, was a victory for environmental campaigners in a country where individuals use an ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 27, 2019 
China Friday launched one of the world's most powerful rockets in a major step forward for its planned mission to Mars in 2020.
The heavy lift Long March 5 rocket carrying a Shijian 20 test satellite payload blasted off from the Wenchang launch site on the southern island of Hainan at 8:45 pm (1245 GMT), a livestream from state broadcaster CCTV showed.
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 Moscow (AFP) Dec 18, 2019 
Russia on Wednesday lifted the veil on its tightly guarded space-based missile warning system, ahead of a vote in the US Congress on President Donald Trump's plan to create a new space force.
The new system, named Kupol or dome, is designed to detect launches of ballistic missiles and track them to their landing site, according to documents presented by the general staff to military attaches ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 29, 2019 
The Avangard is one of half-a-dozen new defence systems unveiled by Moscow in early 2018 as a means of restoring the global strategic nuclear balance amid NATO efforts to press up against Russia's borders and create elements of a ground-based missile shield in Romania and Poland.
The first Strategic Missile Forces regiment to be armed with the nuclear-capable Avangard hypersonic glide vehi ... more |
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 Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 
Polymers are used to develop various materials, such as plastics, nylons, and rubbers. In their most basic form, they are made up of many of identical molecules joined together over and over, like a chain. If you engineer molecules to join together in specific ways, you can control the characteristics of the resulting polymer.
Using this method, Sheng Shen, an associate professor of mechan ... more |
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 Champaign IL (SPX) Dec 30, 2019 
Handling very soft, delicate items without damaging them is hard enough with human hands, let alone doing it at the microscopic scale with laboratory instruments.
Three new studies show how scientists have honed a technique for handling tiny, soft particles using precisely controlled fluid flows that act as gentle microscopic hands. The technique allows researchers to test the physical lim ... more |
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 Netanya, Israel (SPX) Dec 27, 2019 
Orbit Communication Systems Ltd., a leading global provider of airborne communications and satellite-tracking maritime and ground-station solutions, and Inmarsat Government, a leading provider of global mobile satellite communications and managed network services to the US government, has announced an initial order from Inmarsat Government for Orbit's Multi-Purpose Terminal (MPT) 46WGX.
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