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  Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 30, 2020 The production cost of each of Russia's new Angara-A5 heavy-lift rockets, manufactured for the Defence Ministry under a contract on test flights, is below 5 billion rubles ($71.6 million), the State Space Corporation Roscosmos said on Monday. "The contract for several rockets of this type was signed, as part of the research and development work, at a price below 5 billion rubles for one rocket. This is significantly lower than the starting price that some media outlets refer to," a Roscosmos repre ... read more |
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Orion's 'Twin' Completes Structural Testing for Artemis I MissionWashington DC (SPX) Jun 30, 2020 Before NASA astronauts fly the Orion spacecraft on Artemis missions to the Moon and back, engineers needed to thoroughly test its ability to withstand the stresses of launch, climb to orbit, the har ... more 
NASA Plans for More SLS Rocket Boosters to Launch Artemis Moon MissionsHuntsville AL (SPX) Jun 30, 2020 NASA has taken the next steps toward building Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket boosters to support as many as six additional flights, for a total of up to nine Artemis missions. The agency is ... more  
HyperScout 2 ready for launchKourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 As soon as weather in Kourou (French Guiana) permits, a Vega rocket will launch the first HyperScout 2 instrument into orbit. HyperScout 2 is a new version of the HyperScout instrument that contains ... more  
Beidou system's applications spread around globeBeijing (XNA) Jun 24, 2020 China's domestically developed Beidou Navigation Satellite System has been widely used in many public sectors and business fields at home and abroad, according to the China Satellite Navigation Offi ... more |
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Fugro partners with Australian Space Agency on new robotics control complexPerth, Australia (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 The Australian government's newly formed Australian Space Agency (ASA) has partnered with Fugro to design, build and operate the Australian Space Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Con ... more 
Vega Flight VV16 - the SSMS PoC mission: Launch postponed; reestablishing the launcher's full readinessKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jun 30, 2020 As winds at altitude above the Guiana Space Center remain unfavorable, the final chronology operations for Vega's Flight VV16 mission have been suspended. The Vega launcher and the 53 satellit ... more 
SpaceX scrubs Starlink launch with two BlackSky satellitesOrlando FL (UPI) Jun 26, 2020 SpaceX scrubbed Friday's plan to launch additional Starlink satellites in a mission that had another paying customer on board - what SpaceX calls its ride-share program. The change in plans wa ... more 
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Completes Second Flight from Spaceport AmericaLas Cruces NM (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. has reported the successful completion of the second SpaceShipTwo test flight from Spaceport America. This flight follows the completion of the first test flight from ... more 
Russia plans to take first tourist on space walk in 2023Moscow (AFP) June 25, 2020 Russia's Energia space corporation said Thursday it will take the first tourist on a space walk in 2023, under the terms of a new contract with a US partner. ... more |
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 Senate offers more funding for hypersonic weapons tracking 
The rocket fired by ScrumFalls Church VA (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 In May 2019, the OmegATM first stage fired in Northrop Grumman's northern Utah test area, fulfilling a 2016 commitment made by the company to test a stage of its OmegA rocket by spring 2019. As soon ... more  |
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Airmen at Eielson AFB, Alaska, start building bombs for F-35AsWashington DC (UPI) Jun 29, 2020 The first bombs built specifically for F-35A fighter planes were made earlier this month at Eielson Air Base, Alaska, the Air Force announced on Monday. ... more 
Bye Aerospace's eFlyer 2 technology demonstrator begins next phase of flight testsDenver CO (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 Bye Aerospace has begun the next phase of its flight test program for its two-seat all-electric eFlyer 2 technology demonstrator. George E. Bye, CEO of Bye Aerospace, said the flight test prog ... more 
Space tourists might rise above Earth with hydrogen balloonsWashington DC (UPI) Jun 19, 2020 The newest entry into a growing field of space tourism firms says it will use giant hydrogen balloons launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida - rather than rockets - to give passengers a view of the stars from the stratosphere. ... more  
GM Defense wins $214.3M contract to build troop carriersWashington DC (UPI) Jun 29, 2020 GM Defense was awarded a $214.3 million contract to build the U.S. Army's first Infantry Squad Vehicles, the Defense Department announced. ... more 
Iran to send black boxes of downed Ukraine jet to FranceParis (AFP) June 26, 2020 Iran will send to France next month the black boxes from a Ukrainian passenger jet that Tehran's armed forces mistakenly shot down in January, killing all 176 people on board, French aviation investigators said Friday. ... more |
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 Hawthorne CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
ThinKom Solutions, Inc., has announced its Ku3030 aero satellite antennas have been installed on more than 1,550 commercial aircraft of 16 major airlines. The antennas have accrued over 17 million flight hours and have achieved in excess of 100,000 hours mean-time-before-failure (MTBF) while supporting industry-leading 98 percent end-to-end system availability.
The Ku3030, underpinned by T ... more |
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 Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
The U.S. Space Force Commercial Satellite Communications Office recently announced the development of its Infrastructure Asset Pre-Assessment Program.
The objective of the IA-PRE Program is to advance the security posture of current and future commercial satellite communications procurements for the Department of Defense. As the sole authority for procurement of COMSATCOM services for all ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 24, 2020 
China's domestically developed Beidou Navigation Satellite System has been widely used in many public sectors and business fields at home and abroad, according to the China Satellite Navigation Office.
By the end of 2019, more than 100 million Beidou-based navigation chips, modules and other products had been sold.
The system had by then been applied to nearly 6.6 million taxis, buse ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 21, 2020 
Commercial flight trials that use satellite-enabled communications to reduce the environmental impact of flying are scheduled to commence once normal traffic levels resume.
As nations begin to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and airports start to reopen in Europe, satellite communications provider Inmarsat and consultancy firm CGI will be conducting real-world trials of the Iris air ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 
To the general public, lasers heat objects. And generally, that would be correct. But lasers also show promise to do quite the opposite - to cool materials. Lasers that can cool materials could revolutionize fields ranging from bio-imaging to quantum communication.
In 2015, University of Washington researchers announced that they can use a laser to cool water and other liquids below room t ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
Heading to the lake this summer? While harmful algal blooms can cause health problems for lake visitors, satellite data can provide early detection of harmful algae, resulting in socioeconomic benefits worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from one harmful algal bloom event, a new study finds. A Resources for the Future (RFF) and NASA VALUABLES Consortium study published in GeoHealth examines t ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) June 28, 2020 
Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel said on Sunday it had stopped the discharge of wastewater from one of its Arctic facilities, one month after an unprecedented fuel leak nearby sparked a state of emergency.
The incident occurred at the Talnakh enrichment plant near the Arctic city of Norilsk, the company said, when liquids used to process minerals were "discharged from a reservoir".
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 25, 2020 
Yuanwang-6 - China's space-tracking ship, Yuanwang-6, has completed maritime monitoring for the last satellite launch of the country's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday.
The satellite, the 55th of the BeiDou family, was launched at 9:43 am (Beijing Time) on Tuesday. It was sent into the preset orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang S ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
Raytheon Missiles and Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business (NYSE: RTX), received a $2.3 billion U.S. Missile Defense Agency production contract for seven gallium nitride (GaN)-based AN/TPY-2 radars as part of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, which is designed to protect against incoming ballistic missile threats.
The contract is part of a foreign military sale t ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 26, 2020 
The U.S. Senate's defense bill adds $120 million to the Defense Department's space-based anti-hypersonic weapons program, despite no request for an increase.
The Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor, a constellation of satellites dedicated to locating the firing and direction of enemy missiles capable of achieving 5,000 miles-per-hour speeds, is a part of the Defense Departmen ... more |
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 Dubendorf, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 
The smallest motor in the world - consisting of just 16 atoms: this was developed by a team of researchers from Empa and EPFL. "This brings us close to the ultimate size limit for molecular motors," explains Oliver Groning, head of the Functional Surfaces Research Group at Empa. The motor measures less than one nanometer - in other words it is around 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
The Australian government's newly formed Australian Space Agency (ASA) has partnered with Fugro to design, build and operate the Australian Space Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Control Complex (SpAARC) in Western Australia (WA).
Benefitting from additional funding support from the WA State Government, the new complex will support start-ups, small businesses and researcher ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 
Since the dawn of flight, pilots have used acrobatic maneuvers to test the limits of their airplanes. The same goes for flying drones: Professional pilots often gage the limits of their drones and measure their level of mastery by flying such maneuvers in competitions
Working together with microprocessor company Intel, a team of researchers at the University of Zurich has now developed a q ... more |
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