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  Washington DC (UPI) Mar 10, 2020 SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said Tuesday the company is "gunning" for a May launch of astronauts from Florida, while NASA said only that it hopes for a launch sometime in the second quarter. SpaceX is poised to be the first private company to fly NASA astronauts. The company's successful in-flight test in January showed that the capsule could carry people to safety in an emergency. "We're gunning for May. We have work to do, NASA has work to do," Shotwell said at the Satellite 2020 conf ... read more |
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ESA and European Commission preorder four more Ariane 6 launchesEvry, France (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 Arianespace told SpaceDaily that it has received a preorder from the European Space Agency (ESA), on behalf of the European Commission (DG Grow), for four launches using the Ariane 6 rocket. Planned ... more 
NASA's SLS moon rocket is 30 percent over budget, report saysWashington DC (UPI) Mar 10, 2020 NASA's effort to build the Space Launch System rocket to transport people to the moon by 2024 is at least 30 percent over budget and two years behind schedule, an Inspector General's report said Tue ... more  
Arrows of misfortune as US Missile Defence needs upgradingMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 10, 2020 In late 2019, the Boeing Company was offered a modification contract worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars to upgrade the US Ground-based Midcourse Defence (GMD) interceptor system, which i ... more  
Spaceflight readies 28 payloads for inaugural rideshare launch on Arianespace's VegaSeattle WA (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 Spaceflight has told SpaceDaily that it is providing mission management and rideshare integration services for four organizations on Arianespace's first dedicated rideshare mission on its Vega launc ... more |
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Life support upgrades arrive at station, improve reliability for Moon, Mars MissionsHuntsville AL (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 NASA delivered upgraded life support hardware to the International Space Station March 9 aboard SpaceX's 20th resupply mission. Improving life support with reliable systems will help enable hu ... more 
Trisept completes Cubesat integration for NASA ELaNa 32 Andesite MissionChantilly VA (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 TriSept Corporation, a leading provider of launch integration, management and brokerage services for commercial and government missions, has told SpaceDaily it has completed the integration activity ... more  
Producing human tissue in spaceZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 On 6 March at 11:50 PM EST, the International Space Station resupply mission Space X CRS-20 took off from Cape Canaveral (USA). On board: 250 test tubes from the University of Zurich containing adul ... more 
SpaceX Dragon heads to Space Station for Monday dockingHouston TX (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station after launching at 11:50 p.m. EST Friday. Dragon will deliver more than 4,300 pounds of NASA cargo and science inves ... more 
Safe crops as a dietary supplement to assist long-distance space missionsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 Astronauts in space live on processed, pre-packaged space rations such as fruits, nuts, chocolate, shrimp cocktails, peanut butter, chicken, and beef to name a few. These have often been sterilized ... more |
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 NASA update on Starliner flight test review 
NASA: Boeing software team had too much power over Starliner capsuleWashington DC (UPI) Mar 06, 2020 Boeing's software team had too much influence over final decisions regarding the company's Starliner capsule, a top NASA administrator said Friday. ... more  |
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SpaceX launches 20th space station cargo missionWashington DC (UPI) Mar 06, 2020 SpaceX launched more than 4,300 pounds of supplies and science experiments to the International Space Station from Florida on Friday night - the company's 20th such mission for NASA. ... more  
B-2 bombers deploy to EuropeWashington DC (UPI) Mar 09, 2020 B-2 stealth bombers deployed to Portugal for training and integration into the European theater of operations, the U.S. European Command on Monday confirmed. ... more  
L3Harris nabs $383.2M to provide man pack radio systems for MarinesWashington DC (UPI) Mar 10, 2020 L3 Harris Technologies was awarded a $383.2 million Navy contract for the purchase of radio systems for the U.S. Marine Corps, according to the Department of Defense. ... more  
Lockheed Martin's PrSM demonstrates pinpoint accuracy in second US Army flight testDallas TX (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 Lockheed Martin has tested its next-generation long-range missile designed for the Army's Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) program at White Sands Missile Range, NM. All objectives were achieved in a ... more 
Missile Defense Agency's Long Range Discrimination Radar closer to deliveryClear AK (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 The Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) program has completed delivery of the first ten antenna panels to Clear, Alaska, that will make up the first of the system's ... more |
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 Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 
Billions of lightyears away, gigantic clouds of hydrogen gas produce a special kind of radiation, a type of ultraviolet light known as Lyman-alpha emissions. The enormous clouds emitting the light are Lyman-alpha blobs (LABs). LABs are several times larger than our Milky Way galaxy, yet were only discovered 20 years ago. An extremely powerful energy source is necessary to produce this radiation ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 10, 2020 
L3 Harris Technologies was awarded a $383.2 million Navy contract for the purchase of radio systems for the U.S. Marine Corps, according to the Department of Defense.
Under the contract, the Navy will purchase L3 Harris high frequency radio systems with National Security Agency certified Type 1 encryption, radio ancillaries, provisioning kits and required documentation and training. ... more |
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 Xichang, China (XNA) Mar 11, 2020 
China launched a new satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 7:55 p.m. Monday (Beijing Time), only one step away from completing the whole global system.
The satellite, the 54th of the BeiDou family, was sent into a geostationary orbit as planned by a Long March-3B carrier rocket.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 09, 2020 
The first interception and shadow of Russian aircraft by an F-35A fighter plane was conducted over the weekend by the Norwegian Air Force, officials said.
When two Russian Tu-142 anti-submarine aircraft, with MiG-31 fighter planes escorting them, came close to Norway's airspace on Saturday, two Norwegian F-16 planes on NATO's "Quick Reaction Alert" took off from Orland Air Station to id ... more |
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 Linkoping, Sweden (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 
A research group led by Simone Fabiano at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linkoping University, has created an organic material with superb conductivity that doesn't need to be doped. They have achieved this by mixing two polymers with different properties.
In order to increase the conductivity of polymers, and in this way obtain higher efficiency in organic solar cells, light-emitt ... more |
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 Konstanz, Germany (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 
Second attempt - the German-Russian International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space (ICARUS) experiment, which is installed on the International Space Station (ISS), will be put into operation on 10 March 2020. Originally planned for July 2019, the start of the experiment was postponed due to a technical malfunction.
This joint project between the Russian space agency Roscosmos a ... more |
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 Abu Dhabi (AFP) March 10, 2020 
Abu Dhabi announced Tuesday it aims to ban the use of single-use plastic bags in the United Arab Emirates capital by 2021.
The Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) said a new policy "will make Abu Dhabi free of single-use plastic bags by 2021", in a statement carried by the official Emirati news agency, WAM.
The policy "aims to... eliminate the use of avoidable single-use plastic and non ... 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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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 10, 2020 
In late 2019, the Boeing Company was offered a modification contract worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars to upgrade the US Ground-based Midcourse Defence (GMD) interceptor system, which is designed to intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles and their warheads in outer space beyond the Earth's atmosphere.
Washington, over time, has come to rely extensively on the threat of ... more |
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 Dallas TX (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 
Lockheed Martin has tested its next-generation long-range missile designed for the Army's Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) program at White Sands Missile Range, NM. All objectives were achieved in a flawless second performance following the missile's inaugural flight last December.
"Today's flight test further demonstrated the reliability, precision and critical capabilities Lockheed Martin ... more |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 
Through a technique known as DNA origami, scientists have created the fastest, most persistent DNA nano motor yet. Angewandte Chemie published the findings, which provide a blueprint for how to optimize the design of motors at the nanoscale - hundreds of times smaller than the typical human cell.
"Nanoscale motors have tremendous potential for applications in biosensing, in building synthe ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 11, 2020 
The newest edition of NASA's small, foldable robots recently practiced their scouting skills and successfully traversed rugged terrain in the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
JPL developed the Autonomous Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (A-PUFFER) to scout regions on the Moon and gain intel about locations that may be difficult for astronauts to inves ... more |
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 Ankara (AFP) March 1, 2020 
Turkish drone strikes in Syria's northwestern Idlib province killed 19 government soldiers on Sunday, a war monitor reported, as tensions soared between Damascus and Ankara.
The 19 died in strikes on a military convoy in the Jabal al-Zawiya area and a base near Maaret al-Numan city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The report came hours after Turkey shot down two Syrian warp ... more |
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