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  Beijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 A Long March-5 rocket blasted off Thursday at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province, carrying the country's Mars probe, Tianwen-1. It is the first time that the Long March-5 carrier rocket, currently China's largest launch vehicle, is put into practical use after a series of trial launches. It is also the first time the Long March-5 exceeded the second cosmic velocity, the fastest China's carrier rockets have gone to date, said Li Dong, the rocket's chief desig ... read more |
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BeiDou adopted in unmanned farm machines in XinjiangUrumqi, 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 r ... more  
Russian Progress resupply cargo spacecraft docks with ISSMoscow (Sputnik) Jul 24, 2020 Roscosmos space corporation previously said that a Progress cargo craft would lift off for the International Space Station on 23 July, while a Proton rocket with communication satellites would head ... 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 |
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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 
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 |
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Boeing awarded $1.2B deal for 8 F-15EX fighter jetsWashington DC (UPI) Jul 14, 2020 The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a $1.2 billion contract - with a ceiling of nearly $23 billion - to build the first lot of eight F-15EX fighter jets. ... more  |
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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 
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 
DARPA awards contracts for new X-Plane program based on active flow controlWashington DC (SPX) Jul 24, 2020 DARPA has selected three performers to work on the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program, which aims to demonstrate an aircraft design based on active flow control ( ... more  
A plethora of US-China disputesParis (AFP) July 22, 2020 The United States and China are at loggerheads over a long list of issues, from the cause of the novel coronavirus to Hong Kong, and trade. ... more 
China wields economic weapons over tensions with UKBeijing (AFP) July 21, 2020 Just five years ago, Britain was predicting a "golden era" in trade with China. Today, the shine has faded as the two countries square off over Hong Kong, Huawei and human rights. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 
Eyeing a launch in 2023, DARPA's Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program will focus the remainder of this year on completing the elements of the robotic payload. The objective of RSGS is to create an operational dexterous robotic capability to repair satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO), extending satellite life spans, enhancing resilience, and improving reliabili ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) July 21, 2020 
South Korea's first-ever military communications satellite has been successfully launched by private operator SpaceX, Seoul said Tuesday, as it looks to build up its defence capabilities.
The ANASIS-II is intended to enhance the South's ability to defend itself against the nuclear-armed North, which invaded in 1950.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellite blasted off from Cape Canaveral ... more |
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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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 Ramat Gan, Israel (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 
Spintronics is a thriving branch of nano-electronics which utilizes the spin of the electron and its associated magnetic moment in addition to the electron charge used in traditional electronics. The main current practical contributions of spintronics are in magnetic sensing and non-volatile magnetic data storage, and additional breakthroughs in developing magnetic based processing and novel typ ... 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.
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 
With the carrier rocket Long March-5 lifting off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Thursday, China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has embarked on its maiden voyage to brave the challenge of orbiting, landing and deploying a rover on the red planet in one single mission.
"Tianwen," the name of China's Martian exploration project, comes from the long poem "Tianwen," meaning Heavenly Questi ... more |
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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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