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  West Palm Beach FL (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 Aerojet Rocketdyne recently delivered four RL10 upper stage engines to NASA's Stennis Space Center that will help power NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket as it carries astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft to deep space. These missions are part of NASA's Artemis program, which will land the first woman and next man on the Moon, and set the stage to send astronauts to Mars. "Nearly 500 Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10 engines have powered launches into space," said Eileen Drake, Aerojet Rocketdyne CE ... read more |
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NASA grants KBR the right to train private astronauts at NASA facilitiesHouston TX (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 KBR will become the first company to train private astronauts at NASA facilities. The company recently signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA Johnson Space Center allowing it to provide human spacef ... more 
ISRO's Gaganyaan to facilitate space tourismThiruvananthapuram, India (IANS) Feb 04, 2020 Gaganyaan, the country's planned mission to take humans to space, will open huge commercial opportunities in the space sector, said former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair. Nair while speaking at ... more 
Getting around the Solar SystemBethesda MD (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 There is currently a great interest in going someplace in the Solar System. NASA wants to go to the Moon. Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. Still others just want to go to an asteroid. All of these des ... more  
Space Flight Laboratory and Kepler Communications team up for nanosatellite constellationToronto, Canada (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 Space Flight Laboratory (SFL), a developer of microspace missions for over 21 years, is designing and building the first fully operational nanosatellite in Kepler Communications' next-generation con ... more |
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SpaceX Falcon 9 launches fourth batch of 60 Starlink satellitesCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jan 29, 2020 SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 carrying it's fourth batch of 60 Starlink satellites. Launch was 9:06 a.m. Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The satellites were successfully deployed a little over one hour after launch. ... more 
Russian Space Agency confirms plans to launch nuclear-powered space tug by 2030Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 29, 2020 The secrecy-laden project, in development since 2010, is intended to facilitate the transportation of large cargoes in deep space, including for the purpose of creating permanent bases on other plan ... more 
New research launching to station aboard Northrop Grumman's 13th Resupply MissionMelissa Gaskill for ISS News Houston TX (SPX) Jan 30, 2020 Investigations studying tissue culturing, bone loss and phage therapy will be launching, along with more scientific experiments and supplies, to the International Spac ... more 
India plans to send 50 satellite launch vehicles into orbit within next 5 yearsNew Delhi (Sputnik) Feb 03, 2020 India's government space expenditure still lags behind that of the major players in the sector, such as the US, which spent about 13 times more than India in 2018, according to a report presented to ... more 
Rocket Lab successfully launches U.S. spy satelliteWashington DC (UPI) Feb 03, 2020 U.S. launch company Rocket Lab launched a U.S. spy satellite from New Zealand on Thursday. "Successful Electron lift-off!" RocketLab tweeted on Friday afternoon in New Zealand. The compa ... more |
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 NASA funds demonstration of assembly and manufacturing in space  
NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Mission Leaves Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 On Jan. 22, 2020, the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) flight payload was delivered to Northrop Grumman's facility in Sterling, Virginia. There the payload will be integrated onto the ... more  |
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Enhancing stability operations in under-governed regionsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 U.S. forces operating in remote, under-governed regions around the world often find that an area's distinct cultural and societal practices are opaque to outsiders, but are obvious to locals. Comman ... more  
Ukraine says Iran 'knew from start' missile downed planeKiev (AFP) Feb 3, 2020 Kiev on Monday accused Tehran of knowing from the start that an Iranian missile had downed a Ukrainian airliner last month, after leaked recordings emerged from Iranian air traffic control. ... more  
Pentagon to roll back restrictions on land mine useWashington (UPI) Jan 31, 2019 The United States is rolling back prohibitions on land mine use, the White House and Department of Defense announced Friday. ... more 
Trump lifts US restrictions on anti-personnel landminesWashington (AFP) Feb 1, 2020 US President Donald Trump's administration on Friday lifted US restrictions on landmines, saying new technology made them safer, outraging campaigners for the abolition of the explosives that maim thousands of civilians each year. ... more  
Boeing lands $84.1M deal to integrate ADCP II boxes into F-15 platformWashington (UPI) Jan 31, 2019 The Air Force has awarded Boeing with an $84.1 million contract to integrate the advanced display core processor into the F-15 platform, according to the Department of Defense. ... more |
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 Edinburgh UK (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 
The first ever eco liquid-fuel rocket engine ground tests to take place in Scotland have been deemed a huge success - and a major step forward in the UK's ambitions to become a space nation.
Edinburgh-based satellite launch firm Skyrora has completed a week of static horizontal firings conducted in Fife to compare the behaviour of kerosene and eco-fuel.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 
On Jan. 22, 2020, the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) flight payload was delivered to Northrop Grumman's facility in Sterling, Virginia. There the payload will be integrated onto the U.S. Air Force's Space Test Program Satellite 6 (STPSat-6) and prepared for launch.
LCRD will be NASA's first end-to-end optical relay, sending and receiving data from missions in space to miss ... more |
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 Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Feb 03, 2020 
The 2nd Space Operations Squadron decommissioned Satellite Vehicle Number-36, the second to last Block IIA satellite, Jan. 27.
Capt. Collin Dart, 2nd SOPS assistant flight commander of GPS mission engineering, said the disposal of SVN-36 will allow for newer vehicles to take it's place.
"The main reason it was decommissioned was because, at this time, we're accepting a lot of the new ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 31, 2019 
Lockheed Martin has received a $2.3 billion contract for parts maintenance for MH-60R and MH-60S helicopters for the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense announced.
The MH-60R - also called the 'Romeo' aircraft - has been operational since 2006. The helicopters are jointly built by Lockheed and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.
According to Lockheed, MH-60R replaces the SH-60B Bravo and ... more |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 03, 2020 
It is well known that quantum properties of individual atoms can be controlled and manipulated by laser light. Even large clouds of hundreds of millions of atoms can be pushed into the quantum regime, giving rise to macroscopic quantum states of matter such as quantum gases or Bose-Einstein condensates, which nowadays are also widely used in quantum technologies.
An exciting next step is t ... more |
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 Bethlehem, PA (SPX) Jan 28, 2020 
While elected officials in the U.S. debate a proposed "Green New Deal" and U.S. President Donald Trump derides "prophets of doom" in Davos, environmental scientists continue to gather evidence about how changes to industry could mitigate the harms of climate change.
In a News and Views article in Nature Climate Change ("Cleaner Air is a Win-Win," 10.1038/s41558-019-0685-4) Lehigh Universit ... more |
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 Newark NJ (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 
Every year, about 8 million metric tons of plastic are put into the world's oceans. Of particular concern are microplastics, materials found in the marine environment that occur in sizes below five millimeters and are the most abundant form of marine debris observed at the ocean surface.
Estuarine and coastal environments play a crucial role as a buffer between land, freshwater environment ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2020 
China plans to launch more space science satellites in the coming three to four years, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The satellites will be used to detect electromagnetic signals associated with gravitational waves, solar eruption activities, astronomy and the interaction between solar wind and the Earth's magnetosphere.
Four new missions include the Gravitation ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 30, 2020 
The United States is awaiting a green light from the Iraqi government to deploy Patriot missile defense systems to protect US troops from Iranian missile attacks, Pentagon chief Mark Esper said Thursday.
Iran launched 11 missiles at a US air base at Ain al-Assad and another at a base in Erbil on January 8 in retaliation for the killing days earlier of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in a US ... more |
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 Kiev (AFP) Feb 3, 2020 
Kiev on Monday accused Tehran of knowing from the start that an Iranian missile had downed a Ukrainian airliner last month, after leaked recordings emerged from Iranian air traffic control.
The recordings, aired on Ukraine's 1+1 TV channel on Sunday, feature a conversation between an air traffic controller and the pilot of another plane at the time the Ukrainian airliner was hit on January 8 ... more |
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 Sapporo, Japan (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 
Researchers have discovered a method to control biomolecular machines over a wide temperature range using deep-sea osmolyte trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO). This finding could open a new dimension in the application of artificial machines fabricated from biomolecular motors and other proteins.
Biomolecular motors are the smallest natural machines that keep living organisms dynamic. They can ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 03, 2020 
NASA has awarded a $142 million contract to Maxar Technologies of Westminster, Colorado, to robotically assemble a communications antenna and manufacture a spacecraft beam in orbit. The technology demonstration is slated to take place on NASA's Restore-L spacecraft, designed to service and refuel a satellite in low-Earth orbit.
The Restore-L spacecraft will be modified to accommodate a pay ... more |
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 Catonsville MD (SPX) Feb 03, 2020 
Consumers want what they want, and they want it now. Drone delivery has long been talked about as an option to satisfy consumer delivery demands, but how realistic is it? New research in the INFORMS journal Transportation Science looks at how possible and desirable it is to use drones for delivery for e-retailers considering cost and effectiveness in certain population areas and in certain locat ... more |
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