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  Beijing (AFP) July 23, 2020 China launched a rover to Mars on Thursday, another milestone for its space programme after putting humans into orbit and landing a probe on the Moon. It is among a trio of nations, along with the United Arab Emirates and the United States, launching missions to the Red Planet this month, taking advantage of a period when Mars and Earth are favourably aligned. Beijing's space programme has made huge strides in recent years as it tries to catch up with the United States and Russia. Here are f ... read more |
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China to hit Lockheed Martin with sanctions over Taiwan dealBeijing (AFP) July 14, 2020 China said Tuesday it would impose sanctions on US defence group Lockheed Martin, days after the United States approved a potential $620 million upgrade package for missiles to Taiwan - fuelling tensions between the countries. ... more  
AFRL tests cruise missile prototype Gray WolfEdwards AFB CA (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 The 416th Flight Test Squadron recently completed a round of tests of the Air Force Research Laboratory's "Gray Wolf" prototype cruise missile at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Gray Wolf ... more  
Arianespace to launch three satellites towards Geostationary Orbit on July 28Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 23, 2020 Arianespace's next Ariane 5 launch from the Guiana Space Center (CSG) in Kourou, French Guiana, is scheduled for Tuesday, July 28, in a launch window from 21:29 UTC to 22:15 UTC. Satellites to ... more  
Robot hotel gets its occupantsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 Storage is just as important aboard the International Space Station as it is on Earth. While the space station is about the size of a football field, the living space inside is much smaller than tha ... more |
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Alion to provide support to USAF for spectrum managementWashington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 Alion Science and Technology reports it has been awarded a $51M task order to provide radio spectrum studies, measurements, transitions, certification, and licensing for the Air Force Spectrum Manag ... more  
Duckweed is an incredible, radiation-fighting astronaut foodBoulder CO (The Conversation) Jul 16, 2020 Current industrialized food systems were optimized for a single goal - growing the maximum amount of food for the least amount of money. But when room and supplies are limited - like during space tr ... more 
NASA scientist over the Moon with homegrown radish researchPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 20, 2020 While others have perfected sourdough starter or whipped up chocolate chip cookies during the pandemic, NASA scientist Max Coleman has been toiling in his kitchen over containers of baby radishes - ... more 
Spacewalk on Tuesday will conclude space station power upgradeWashington DC (UPI) Jul 20, 2020 Two NASA astronauts plan to conclude a power systems upgrade for the International Space Station during a spacewalk Tuesday. ... more  
All systems are go for AstroGramsAustin TX (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 AstroGrams reports that its maiden payload has been sent to Firefly Aerospace Inc. (Headquartered in Austin, TX, USA) (Firefly.com) ready for loading onto their rocket. As currently scheduled, the l ... more |
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 Boeing awarded $1.2B deal for 8 F-15EX fighter jets 
Two US astronauts to come home on SpaceX ship on August 2Washington (AFP) July 17, 2020 The two US astronauts who reached the International Space Station (ISS) on board the first crewed US spacecraft in nearly a decade will leave for Earth on August 1, NASA's chief said Friday. ... more  |
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NASA Teams Load Artemis I Rocket Hardware on Barge for Trip to KennedyHuntsville AL (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 Teams at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, moved the Artemis I launch vehicle stage adapter for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket onto the agency's Pegasus barge July ... more 
Aerojet Rocketdyne achieves another milestone on DARPA Opfires ProgramHuntsville AL (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 Aerojet Rocketdyne has successfully completed a second series of propulsion system tests in support of the Operational Fires (OpFires) program, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ef ... more 
Northrop Grumman delivers three GEM 63 rocket motors for Atlas VMagna UT (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 Northrop Grumman has delivered three of its 63-inch-diameter Graphite Epoxy Motors (GEM 63) for United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Atlas V rocket. The three motors were shipped from the Northrop Grumman ... more 
Britain, Sweden, Italy to collaborate on combat aircraftWashington DC (UPI) Jul 22, 2020 The British, Swedish and Italian defense industries are in discussion to collaborate on air combat capability, defense contractor BAE Systems said on Wednesday. ... more 
Spaceflight unveils next-gen orbital transfer vehicle to fly aboard SpaceX missionSeattle WA (SPX) Jul 16, 2020 Spaceflight Inc has announced that it will be flying its next generation orbital transfer vehicle, Sherpa-FX, on a fully dedicated rideshare mission with SpaceX. The mission, called SXRS-3 by ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 
Loft Orbital Solutions Inc. (Loft Orbital), a Space Infrastructure-as-a-Service company, has signed a contract with LeoStella, a specialized satellite constellation design and manufacturing company, to build and integrate satellite buses for several upcoming Loft Orbital missions.
Under the contract, Seattle-area LeoStella will use its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, which opened ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 
Alion Science and Technology reports it has been awarded a $51M task order to provide radio spectrum studies, measurements, transitions, certification, and licensing for the Air Force Spectrum Management Office (AFSMO). This task order is also being co-sponsored by the Army Research Lab (ARL) and the Department of Defense-Chief Information Office (DoD-CIO).
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 Urumqi, China (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 
The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has been adopted in more than 10,000 unmanned farm tractors and spraying drones in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to the regional agriculture and husbandry machinery administration.
Xinjiang has been promoting tractors, harvesters and other agricultural machinery equipped with BDS in recent years, and techniques su ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 14, 2020 
China said Tuesday it would impose sanctions on US defence group Lockheed Martin, days after the United States approved a potential $620 million upgrade package for missiles to Taiwan - fuelling tensions between the countries.
The possible foreign military sale involves Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles, and would be the island's latest purchase from the US to boost its defence capabil ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 
MIT researchers have developed a process to manufacture and integrate "artificial atoms," created by atomic-scale defects in microscopically thin slices of diamond, with photonic circuitry, producing the largest quantum chip of its type.
The accomplishment "marks a turning point" in the field of scalable quantum processors, says Dirk Englund, an associate professor in MIT's Department of E ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 16, 2020 
China's domestically-developed marine observation satellites will be used to study the distribution of coral reefs in the South China Sea, and facilitate protection and restoration of coral reefs.
State broadcaster CCTV reported that the National Satellite Ocean Application Service will cooperate with a coral reef research center in Guangxi University to monitor coral reefs in the South Ch ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) July 15, 2020  Russian prosecutors on Wednesday said they were conducting an inspection of a facility supposed to treat acid runoff from an abandoned Urals mine after photographs emerged of streams running orange.
Drone footage uploaded last week by an Instagram travel blogger showed a bright-orange landscape near the disused copper-sulphide mine close to the village of Lyovikha in the Urals.
"The Niz ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 23, 2020  China launched a rover to Mars on Thursday, another milestone for its space programme after putting humans into orbit and landing a probe on the Moon.
It is among a trio of nations, along with the United Arab Emirates and the United States, launching missions to the Red Planet this month, taking advantage of a period when Mars and Earth are favourably aligned.
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
Japan's announcement on the suspension of the deployment of Aegis Ashore missile defense systems marks a potential shift in the country's security strategy. The turning point depends on the substitute for Aegis Ashore. The country is now considering pre-emptive strike capabilities as a possibility, targeting missile launchers in North Korea first instead of intercepting incoming missiles. Interc ... more |
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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 
The 416th Flight Test Squadron recently completed a round of tests of the Air Force Research Laboratory's "Gray Wolf" prototype cruise missile at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
Gray Wolf is a DoD-directed prototype production and demonstration of low-cost, subsonic and networked collaborative cruise missiles. The missiles are designed to launch in a swarm to target enemy integrated ai ... 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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 
Storage is just as important aboard the International Space Station as it is on Earth. While the space station is about the size of a football field, the living space inside is much smaller than that. Just as you wouldn't store garden tools in a house when you could store them in a shed outside, astronauts now have a "housing unit" in which they can store tools for use on the exterior of the spa ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jul 17, 2020 
An oversight failure left the Pentagon unable to judge if a $174 million Afghan surveillance drone project is effective, an inspector general's report says.
Released on Friday by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan, the report notes that at least $174 million was spent between 2015 and 2019 to supply Afghanistan's security forces with ScanEagle remotely piloted aircraft.
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