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  Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 This book is a genuine treasure, focused on the making and consumption of alcohol throughout history...with a new upshot - the growing role of alcohol production in low Earth orbit (LEO) - or should it be libation Earth orbit? - and beyond! Featuring 7 chapters, this volume includes a brief history of alcohol and society, booze in science fiction, retro-flections of drinking in space, space beer, wine, whiskey and innovation, as well as human settlement and farming in space. Chris Carberry i ... read more |
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Design of the W7-X fusion device enables it to overcome obstaclesPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 A key hurdle facing fusion devices called stellarators - twisty facilities that seek to harness on Earth the fusion reactions that power the sun and stars - has been their limited ability to maintai ... more 
Virgin Galactic opens up prebooking booking optionSpaceport America NM (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 Virgin Galactic reports that in preparation for the re-opening of spaceflight sales, it is introducing the One Small Step initiative. The company formally closed its doors to new ticket sales after ... more  
Northrop Grumman completes key test for Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control MotorElkton MD (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 Northrop Grumman Corporation, along with NASA and Lockheed Martin, successfully completed its third and final qualification test of the Attitude Control Motor (ACM) for NASA's Orion spacecraft Launc ... more  
How scientists will track astronauts' mental performance on mars missionsVictoria, Canada (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 A journey to Mars is not going to be easy and there are a number of problems that need to be solved before we go. One interesting problem is how do we monitor the astronauts themselves. Of course, i ... more |
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Saudi military students to resume flight training in U.S., Navy saysWashington DC (UPI) Feb 26, 2020 Saudi Arabian flight students have been cleared to resume flight training in the United States after being grounded - following a shooting at a naval base in Florida - as the Navy investigated its vetting of foreign students. ... more  
Lockheed Martin nabs $1.1B to provide GMLRS to Romania, South KoreaWashington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2020 Lockheed Martin was awarded a $1.1 billion contract modification to provide Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems for Romania and South Korea through the Foreign Military Sales program, the Department of Defense announced Thursday. ... more 
PLD Space successfully achieved a full rocket engine test for MIURA 1 missionElche, Spain (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 In May 2019 PLD Space suffered a catastrophic engine failure, which provoked material damage, including the loss of the first flight version of the TEPREL-B liquid rocket engine, developed by PLD Sp ... more  
Four BeiDou satellites join system to provide servicesBeijing (XNA) Feb 27, 2020 Four new satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) have recently passed tests in orbit and joined the system to provide positioning, navigation and timing services. The four s ... more  
Raytheon nets $15M to support small diameter bomb IIWashington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2020Washington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2020 Raytheon has been awarded a $15 million increase to a previous contract for Small Diameter Bomb II technical support, increasing the total value of the contract to $115 million, the Department of Defense said. ... more |
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AFRL creates safer-than-steel synthetic winch cable for cargo aircraftWright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 The C-17 Globemaster III aircraft fleet currently uses winch cables made of steel to pull pallets, vehicles and other items onto the aircraft from the ground via the aft ramp. The current stee ... more  |
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India, U.S. ink $3B deal for helicoptersWashington DC (UPI) Feb 25, 2020 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has signed a deal arranging for the purchase of more than $3 billion in military equipment from the United States, Modi and President Donald Trump announced Tuesday. ... more 
Transportation Command head questions Air Force's plan for refueler upgradesWashington DC (UPI) Feb 25, 2020 The head of U.S. Transportation Command has publicly challenged the Air Force's plan to retire its older aerial refueling aircraft. ... more  
Japan school closure plan stuns parents, officialsTokyo (AFP) Feb 28, 2020 The Japanese government's abrupt call for schools nationwide to close over the coronavirus outbreak has caught parents and administrators off-guard, prompting criticism even as some experts defended the move. ... more 
Beijing ramps up crowd control measures on virus fearsBeijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2020 Fearing a resurgence of crowds as coronavirus cases drop, Beijing is not taking any chances, limiting numbers in parks, keeping shoppers apart in supermarkets and preventing cinemagoers from sitting close together. ... more  
Pentagon adopts 'ethical principles' for artificial intelligence useWashington (AFP) Feb 24, 2020 The Pentagon announced Monday it has adopted "ethical principles" for the use of artificial intelligence by the armed forces, a measure aimed at convincing US tech giants to collaborate with the military. ... more |
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 Everett WA (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 
NASA and OceanGate have entered into an agreement to collaborate in the development, manufacturing and testing of new carbon fiber pressure vessels. The resulting pressure vessel will be used for the deep-sea submersibles.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will serve as the facility where the development and manufacturing of a new aerospace-grade hull is completed ... more |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 
Lockheed Martin's third satellite based on the modernized LM 2100 bus launched from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket and is traveling to its transfer orbit for a series of in-orbit tests before operations are handed over to Sky Perfect JSAT Corporation. JCSAT-17 will provide flexible mobile communications services to users in Japan and the surrounding region. ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 27, 2020 
Four new satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) have recently passed tests in orbit and joined the system to provide positioning, navigation and timing services.
The four satellites include the 47th, 48th, 52nd and 53rd satellites of the BDS family, according to China's Satellite Navigation System Management Office.
All of them, operating in medium Earth orbit, we ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 25, 2020 
The head of U.S. Transportation Command has publicly challenged the Air Force's plan to retire its older aerial refueling aircraft.
The U.S. Air Force intends to retire 16 KC-10A Extender and 13 KC-135R Stratotanker aerial refueling tankers in the coming fiscal year, and has asserted that it can do so without a major operational impact.
The projected replacement tanker, the KC-46 ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
A team of international scientists investigating how to control the spin of atom-like impurities in 2D materials have observed the dependence of the atom's energy on an external magnetic field for the first time.
The results of the study, published in Nature Materials, will be of interest to both academic and industry research groups working on the development of future quantum application ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
NASA has selected a new space-based instrument as an innovative and cost-effective approach to maintaining the 40-year data record of the balance between the solar radiation entering Earth's atmosphere and the amount absorbed, reflected, and emitted. This radiation balance is a key factor in determining our climate: if Earth absorbs more heat than it emits, it warms up; if it emits more than it ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Feb 26, 2020 
Residents of a Swiss village have been told they may have to leave their homes for over a decade while a nearby World War II munitions store is cleared out.
The former underground depot at Mitholz, which contains 3,500 tons of weaponry, has partially caved in and many of the explosives are now covered by fallen rocks.
Around half of the arsenal exploded in 1947, killing nine people, but ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) Feb 21, 2020 
China's spacecraft tracking ship Yuanwang-5 is sailing to the Pacific Ocean from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province Thursday for a maritime space monitoring mission.
It is the first voyage of the ship this year.
Before the end of the Spring Festival, the mission members were gathered and quarantined on the ship to prevent the novel coronavirus infection. They completed the prepa ... more |
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 Ankara (AFP) Feb 20, 2020 
Turkey said Thursday it wanted no "face-off" with Moscow over Syria's offensive near the two countries' border but said it might receive US defence missiles to protect Turkish forces.
Tensions have mounted in the last three months between rebel-backer Turkey and Syria ally Moscow over President Bashar al-Assad's offensive in northwest Idlib, the last-rebel held region.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2020 
Lockheed Martin was awarded a $1.1 billion contract modification to provide Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems for Romania and South Korea through the Foreign Military Sales program, the Department of Defense announced Thursday.
GMLRS is an all-weather rocket designed for fast deployment and is fired from the Lockheed Martin HIMARS or M270 family of launchers, according to Lockheed. ... 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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 Washington (AFP) Feb 24, 2020 
The Pentagon announced Monday it has adopted "ethical principles" for the use of artificial intelligence by the armed forces, a measure aimed at convincing US tech giants to collaborate with the military.
"AI technology will change much about the battlefield of the future, but nothing will change America's steadfast commitment to responsible and lawful behavior," Secretary of Defense Mark Es ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 20, 2020 
The U.S. Navy announced Thursday that it has installed a laser weapon system that allows ships to counter aerial drones.
According to the Navy, the first Optical Dazzling Interdictor, Navy (ODIN) was installed on the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Dewey during the vessel's recently completed dry-docking restricted availbility.
The system's development, testing a ... more |
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