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 Washington (AFP) Aug 3, 2020 America's first crewed spaceship to fly to the International Space Station in nearly a decade returned safely to Earth on Sunday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The successful mission, carried out jointly by SpaceX and NASA, demonstrated that the United States has the capacity once more to send its astronauts to space and bring them back. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour splashed into the water off Pensacola, Florida at 2:48 pm (1848 GMT), trailed by its four main parachutes. It was t ... read more |
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Proton-M with two telecommunication satellites launches from BaikonurMoscow (Sputnik) Aug 03, 2020 The flight of the Russian Proton-M carrier rocket, initially scheduled to take place on 29 July (30 July local), was postponed one day for additional checks to components and assemblies, according t ... more  
Work Begins on Delta Faucet's Droplet Formation Space Station Experiment This WeekKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 On a cold winter day more than four years ago, representatives from the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory and NASA descended upon Indianapolis for a Destination Station outr ... more 
Key Connection for Artemis I Arrives at KennedyKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 The second to last piece of hardware for the Artemis I test flight around the Moon has arrived at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) connects the c ... more  
Xi unveils Beidou full-scale coverageBeijing (XNA) Aug 03, 2020 President Xi Jinping announced on Friday that China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System has been completed and has started providing full-scale global services that day. Xi, who is also gener ... more |
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Quest advances to recreate sun's energy on earthSaint-Paul-Les-Durance, France (AFP) July 28, 2020 Fourteen years after receiving the official go-ahead, scientists on Tuesday began assembling a giant machine in southern France designed to demonstrate that nuclear fusion, the process which powers the sun, can be a safe and viable energy source on Earth. ... more 
South Korea given green light for solid-propellant rocketsWashington DC (UPI) Jul 29, 2020 South Korea has been permitted to develop solid-fuel space rockets after missile guidelines were revised with the United States. Kim Hyun-chong, South Korea's deputy national security adviser ... more 
Last BeiDou satellite starts operation in networkBeijing (XNA) Jul 30, 2020 The 55th and last satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has commenced operation in the network after completing in-orbit tests and network access evaluations, according to a stat ... more  
US ends search for 7 missing Marines, sailor, says presumed deadLos Angeles (AFP) Aug 2, 2020 The US military said Sunday it has called off a search for seven Marines and a sailor missing at sea for days, saying they were presumed dead. ... more  
Swiss Army Chooses Lockheed Martin's Indago 3 UAS For Tactical Reconnaissance And SurveillanceVineyard UT (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Armasuisse contracted Lockheed Martin (LMT) for a fleet of Indago 3 small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), with options for spares, training and tech support and additional systems for the Swiss Arm ... more |
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 Eight still missing after US Marine amphibious vehicle sinks  
Lockheed, Boeing and Saab bid on Canada's fighter jet contractWashington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2020 Lockheed Martin, with its F-35 fighter plane, joined Boeing and Saab on Friday in submitting bids to build advanced aircraft for Canada's armed forces. ... more  |
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Subterranean Challenge pivots to all-virtual competition for cave circuitWashington DC (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 DARPA's Subterranean (SubT) Challenge focuses on discovering innovative approaches to map, navigate, and search complex underground environments across three diverse subdomains: human-made tunnels, ... more 
U.S. Navy's Blue Angels get their first F/A-18E Super HornetWashington DC (UPI) Jul 29, 2020 The U.S. Navy's Blue Angels demonstration team received an F/A-18E Super Hornet this week, its first of 11 to replace its aging fleet. ... more 
Eglin AFB readies for testing of upgraded F-15 fighter planeWashington DC (UPI) Jul 29, 2020 Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is preparing for testing of the F-15EX fighter plane, an upgraded version of the F-15, the U.S. Air Force announced on Wednesday. ... more 
India uses arrival of new fighter jets to warn ChinaNew Delhi (AFP) July 29, 2020 The first five Rafale fighter jets bought from France in a multi-billion-dollar deal landed in India on Wednesday, and the defence minister used their arrival to launch a veiled warning to neighbouring China over territorial tensions. ... more  
Pandemic won't stop smallsat market takeoff to average 1,000 smallsats to be launched per year over 2020sParis, France (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 In the 6th edition of its latest research titled "Prospects for the Small Satellite Market", Euroconsult forecasts that two mega-constellations will account for half of the smallsats to be launched ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
As the saying goes, "Necessity is the mother of invention". Given that employers nationwide have scrambled to adopt social-distancing practices that health officials say will help slow the spread of COVID-19, necessity is also paving the way for innovation. As an industry leader in the space domain, The Aerospace Corporation is spearheading the resilient and agile adaptation of new workplace and ... more |
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 Rolling Meadows IL (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected to provide the prime mission equipment for the Sierra Nevada Corporation-led AC/MC-130J Radio Frequency Countermeasure (RFCM) program.
Northrop Grumman's RFCM system utilizes the latest in antenna, amplifier and electronics technology. This technology provides superior situational awareness and better enables aircraft survivability in operatio ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 03, 2020 
Although launched more than one month ago, the official operation of the 55th and last satellite of the Beidou-3 Navigation Satellite System was formally announced by President Xi Jinping at a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.
Which makes the BDS system one of the four global navigation systems providing global navigation and positioning services; the other thr ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2020 
Lockheed Martin, with its F-35 fighter plane, joined Boeing and Saab on Friday in submitting bids to build advanced aircraft for Canada's armed forces.
An upgrade to Canada's fleet of CF-18 planes, first purchased in 1977, is regarded as long overdue, and the process has been onerous.
A plan to purchase new planes first emerged in the 1990s, but changes in Canadian government, qu ... more |
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 Sendai, Japan (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
The electron is an elementary particle, a building block on which other systems evolve. With specific properties such as spin, or angular momentum, that can be manipulated to carry information, electrons are primed to advance modern information technology. An international collaboration of researchers has now developed a way to extend and stabilize the lifetime of the electron's spin to more eff ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 03, 2020 
With the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere approaching levels that humans may have never before experienced, the need to monitor sources of emissions is more urgent than ever - hence the Copernicus Carbon Dioxide Monitoring mission being one of Europe's new high-priority satellite missions. Taking the mission a significant step forward, ESA and OHB System AG have signed a contract t ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2020 
Investigative field work began on contaminants in the groundwater of the former Reese Air Base, Texas, the U.S. Air Force said.
The base near Lubbock was closed in 1997 after a 50-year history. Like most U.S. air bases, it had relied since 1970 on foam, to put out fires, containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances [PFAS] regarded as hazardous materials. Repeated use of the foam led t ... more |
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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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 Tehran (AFP) July 29, 2020 
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they launched ballistic missiles from "the depths of the Earth" on Wednesday during the last day of military exercises near sensitive Gulf waters.
The launches came a day after the Guards struck a mock-up of a US aircraft carrier with volleys of missiles near the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for a fifth of world oil output.
The Iranian manoeuvr ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 
University of Colorado Boulder researchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner than a human red blood cell.
The team, led by scientists at JILA, reported its new feat of wafer-thinness this week in the journal Physical Review Materials. The group's target, a film just 5 nanometers thick, is the thinnest material ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 
DARPA's Subterranean (SubT) Challenge focuses on discovering innovative approaches to map, navigate, and search complex underground environments across three diverse subdomains: human-made tunnels, urban underground, and natural cave systems. Two previous scored events - Tunnel and Urban Circuits - featured both Virtual and Systems Competitions.
DARPA has made the difficult decision to pro ... more |
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 Vineyard UT (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
Armasuisse contracted Lockheed Martin (LMT) for a fleet of Indago 3 small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), with options for spares, training and tech support and additional systems for the Swiss Army.
Indago provides aerial reconnaissance in environments unreachable by normal fixed-wing, unmanned aircraft systems.
The first phase comprises manufacturing development to optimize the In ... more |
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