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  Paris (AFP) Jan 21, 2020 The European Union on Tuesday announced 200 million euros ($222 million) of funding for the Ariane 6 rocket launcher and for small and medium-sized space technology companies. Half the money is in the form of a loan for the new Ariane 6 heavy launcher programme, a collaboration between the European Space Agency programme and the ArianeGroup. The other 100 million euros go towards a venture capital programme to "support innovation and growth of European smaller and medium-sized space technology c ... read more |
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Aerospike rocket engines are more efficient than classic onesWashington DC (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 On December 20th, 2019 ARCA started the tests for its advanced aerospike engine LAS 25DA, for the water-based, electric Launch Assist System (LAS) rocket. After reading the test data from the ... more  
China's space station core module, manned spacecraft arrive at launch siteWenchang (XNA) Jan 22, 2020 A core module prototype of China's space station and a prototype of China's new-generation manned spacecraft arrived at the launch site in south China's Hainan Province after a week of ocean and rai ... more  
Meir, Koch complete battery swaps to upgrade station power systemsHouston TX (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 At 1:33 p.m. EST, Expedition 61 Flight Engineers Jessica Meir and Christina Koch of NASA concluded their third spacewalk together. During the six hour and 58-minute spacewalk, the two NASA astronaut ... more  
China's international journal Satellite Navigation launchedBeijing (XNA) Jan 22, 2020 A new English publication offering scientific research in the field of satellite navigation has just been launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Springer Nature. The peer-reviewed aca ... more |
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NASA, SpaceX complete final major flight test of crew spacecraftWashington DC (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 NASA and SpaceX completed a launch escape demonstration of the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket Sunday. This was the final major flight test of the spacecraft before it begins ca ... more 
Collins Aerospace to supply critical subsystems for NASA's Orion spacecraftWindsor Locks CT (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp., has signed a contract with Lockheed Martin to provide critical subsystems to support production of NASA's Orion spacecraft fleet for A ... more 
Operational Fires Program Advances to Phase 3, Targets System Development and IntegrationWashington DC (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 The joint DARPA/U.S. Army Operational Fires (OpFires) program is moving into Phase 3 to further develop and integrate ongoing propulsion system designs into a missile system, including the launcher, ... more 
Boeing: Starliner capsule can return to flight with minimal workWashington DC (UPI) Jan 15, 2020 Boeing officials said Wednesday the company's Starliner space capsule can be fully refurbished with almost no new hardware following a software malfunction during its maiden flight Dec. 20. ... more 
Jessica Meir, Christina Koch complete first 2020 spacewalkWashington DC (UPI) Jan 15, 2020 NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir completed the first spacewalk of 2020 on Wednesday, spending more than six hours conducting battery repair work on the International Space Station's Port-6 truss. ... more |
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CMV-22B Osprey completes first flight in TexasWashington DC (UPI) Jan 21, 2020 The first CMV-22B Osprey aircraft has completed its first flight at Bell's Amarillo Assembly Center in Texas, Bell Boeing announced Tuesday. ... more  |
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Iran confirms two missiles fired at Ukraine airlinerTehran (AFP) Jan 21, 2020 Iran has confirmed two missiles were fired at a Ukrainian airliner brought down this month, in a catastrophic error that killed all 176 people on board and sparked angry protests. ... more  
Trisept secures dedicated rideshare mission aboard Orbex PrimeForres UK (SPX) Jan 15, 2020 TriSept Corporatio has procured a full mission aboard an Orbex Prime launch vehicle set to lift off in the fall of 2022 from the UK's first spaceport in Sutherland, Scotland. With its expansion into ... more  
Sig Sauer nabs $10M Army contract for sniper rifle ammoWashington DC (UPI) Jan 15, 2020 The U.S. Army has awarded Sig Sauer a $10 million contract to manufacture ammunition for use in the branch's bolt-action sniper rifle. ... more 
BAE nabs $400.9M contract to deliver armored multi-purpose vehicles to ArmyWashington DC (UPI) Jan 21, 2020 BAE Systems Land & Armaments LP has been awarded a $400.9 million deal to procure 160 armored multi-purpose vehicles for the U.S. Army, according to the Pentagon. ... more 
Leonardo nets $176.5M for 32 TH-37A helicopters for NavyWashington DC (UPI) Jan 14, 2020 Leonardo subsidiary AgustaWestland will deliver 32 advanced helicopters for the U.S. Navy per a $176.5 million announced this week by the Department of Defense. ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 
An innovation that helps speed the design of fishing rods, skis and cell phone electronics soon will help NASA do its work in space.
AnalySwift LLC, a Purdue University-affiliated commercial software provider, has received a $125,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from NASA. The STTR award will help the company further develop its SwiftComp software, technology that provid ... more |
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 White Sands Missile Range NM (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 
Two U.S. Air Force F-35s were integrated with the U.S. Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS), providing an airborne sensor capability to successfully detect, track and intercept near simultaneous air-breathing threats in a test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
The December 2019 test marked the first time F-35s were used as sensors during an IBCS live ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 22, 2020 
A new English publication offering scientific research in the field of satellite navigation has just been launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Springer Nature.
The peer-reviewed academic journal "Satellite Navigation" is online in an open-access format, according to the joint sponsor Aerospace Information Research Institute of the CAS Tuesday.
The journal aims to report ne ... more |
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 Wright-Patterson AFB CO (SPX) Jan 15, 2020 
Air Force Capt. Joshua Lee knew as a kid that he wanted to be part of the U.S. military.
"I always wanted to be in the military. My dad was in the Coast Guard for 21 years, so I have always known the military lifestyle. I knew I wanted to join, but I didn't know which branch to go into," said Lee. "Part of me wanted to join the Coast Guard to honor my dad, and the other part wanted to join ... more |
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 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Jan 15, 2020 
Graphene-based heterostructures of the van der Waals class could be used to design ultra-compact and low-energy electronic devices and magnetic memories. This is what a paper published in the latest issue of the Nature Materials journal suggests. The results have shown that it is possible to perform an efficient and tunable spin-charge conversion in these structures and, for the first time, even ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 
Capella Space, an information services company providing Earth observation data on demand, has unveiled its evolved satellite design to enable on-demand observations of anywhere on Earth.
Informed by extensive customer feedback and findings from the launch of Denali, Capella's testbed satellite, the re-engineered design features a suite of technological innovations to deliver timely, flexi ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2020 
Parcels piled high at sorting centres and drivers speeding down bike lanes to deliver takeout lunches are ubiquitous sights in urban China, where e-commerce and delivery apps have taken over everyday life.
But the growing embrace of consumerism is generating mountains of waste: The nation will produce as much as 500 million tonnes of waste annually by 2030, the World Bank warns, up from just ... more |
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 Wenchang (XNA) Jan 22, 2020 
A core module prototype of China's space station and a prototype of China's new-generation manned spacecraft arrived at the launch site in south China's Hainan Province after a week of ocean and rail transport, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) announced Monday.
The core module will take part in joint rehearsals with the Long March-5B carrier rocket at the Wenchang Space La ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 31, 2019 
Lockheed Martin has received a $114 million contract to accelerate delivery of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles to United Arab Emirates through the Foreign Military Sales program, according to the Department of Defense.
The Phased Array Tracking to Intercept of Target, or Patriot, missile program is an air-defense guided missile system with long-range, medium-to-high-altitude and ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 15, 2020 
New video footage has emerged showing two Iranian missiles tearing through the night sky and hitting a Ukrainian passenger plane, sending the aircraft down in flames and killing all 176 passengers and crew on board.
The projectiles were fired 30 seconds apart and explain why the plane's transponder was not working as it hurtled to the ground - it was disabled by the first strike, before bei ... more |
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 Freiburg, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2020 
A team headed by Professor Frank Stienkemeier at Freiburg's Institute of Physics and Dr. Marcel Mudrich, professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, has observed the ultrafast reaction of nanodroplets of helium after excitation with extreme ultraviolet radiation (XUV) using a free-electron laser in real time. The researchers have published their findings in the latest issue of Nature Commu ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 
NASA's Human Exploration Rover Challenge isn't for the faint of heart. The critical thinking that goes into designing rovers and the hours spent building them require dedication from teams of students from high schools, colleges and universities around the world.
The 26th annual challenge, managed by the Office of STEM Engagement at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabam ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 18, 2020 
Cameras "miles in the sky", a countdown and then "boom": US President Donald Trump has recounted the final moments of Iran's powerful General Qasem Soleimani in an American drone strike.
Trump delivered the account Friday night to Republican Party donors gathered at his Florida residence Mar-a-Lago for a fundraising dinner, US media said.
CNN on Saturday broadcast an audio recording in w ... more |
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