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May 19, 2016

First CubeSat Built by an Elementary School Deployed into Space
Moffett Fied CA (SPX) May 1, 2016
In 2012, the students from St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington, Virginia lined up in the shape of a space shuttle in the school parking lot and witnessed the flyover of the Space Shuttle Discovery as it was being retired to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. This awe-inspiring vision was an inspiration to the entire school and a catalyst for them to literally reach for the stars. Thus beginning their quest to build a small satellite, called a CubeSat, that would engage students around the w ... read more

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Australian, U.S. HIFiRE rocket achieves Mach 7.5 Australia and the United States have successfully fired an experimental rocket with a speed of more than seven times the speed of sound. ... more		Interns Make Archived NASA Planetary Science Data More Accessible An internship program offered by NASA's Planetary Data System's Small Bodies Subnode hosted at the Planetary Science Institute is making archived scientific information more accessible to researcher ... more		Macau shows off robot croupiers as hopes of recovery rise Robot roulette dealers, animated playing cards and a gaming table that shakes its own dice were on show in the gambling hub of Macau Tuesday as experts forecast a two-year casino revenue downturn could be coming to an end. ... more
				Airbus Defence and Space opens a ground station in Australia for its Skynet military satellite A brand new purpose built satellite ground station has been established in Adelaide, to land Airbus Defence and Space's Skynet secure military satellite communications. The Australian facility exten ... more		A year of mystery swirls around latest X-37B mission The semi-classified X-37B robot spaceplane hasn't received much attention, despite the fact that it is on its fourth flight in space. At least, that's the official story. Launched in May 2015, the l ... more

Space Tech Expo - Design - Build - Test - Pasadena CA - May 24-26, 2016

MinXSS CubeSat deployed from ISS to study Sun's soft x-rays On May 16, 2016, the bread loaf-sized Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer, or MinXSS, CubeSat deployed from an airlock on the International Space Station to begin its journey into space. The NASA-fun ... more		Pre-launch processing is underway with Indonesia's BRIsat for the next Arianespace heavy-lift flight The second of two Space Systems Loral-built (SSL) payloads on Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 mission is well into its pre-launch processing at the Spaceport as Indonesia's BRIsat is readied for a J ... more		US-China: the clash of the titans UN nuclear chief in Tehran ahead of fresh Iran-US talks Changing face of war puts Denmark on drone offensive		Out of this world: 'Moon and Mars veggies' grow in Dutch greenhouse Establishing a human colony on the Moon and travelling to Mars has been the stuff of dreams since the dawn of the space age. ... more
				How the Marriage of Third Offset, Better Buying Power Affects Industry The value the U.S. Department of Defense places on space was apparent last year in standing up the Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center (JICSpOC) as the first working element of the de ... more		New Antares Rocket Rolls Out at NASA Wallops Orbital ATK's Antares first stage with the new engines is rolled from NASA Wallops Flight Facility's Horizontal Integration Facility to Virginia Space's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A on May ... more

Human 2 Mars Conference May 17-19 2016 - Washington DC

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Directed Energy And Next Generation Munitions - 20-22 June - Washington DC

NASA Invests in Next Stage of Visionary Technology Development NASA has selected eight technology proposals for investment that have the potential to transform future aerospace missions, introduce new capabilities, and significantly improve current approaches t ... more		AAC Microtec avionics aboard microsatellite deployed from the ISS AAC Microtec has supplied a key avionics component for the new Philippine microsatellite Diwata-1, which was launched from Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 23 a ... more		Trump admin proposes redefining 'harm' to endangered animals Australian PM vows not to bow to Trump on national interest Mexico seeks security coordination with US over border military moves		Researchers teach AI system to run complex physics experiment A pair of physicists in Australia have trained an artificial intelligence system to replicate the experiment that won the 2001 Nobel Prize. ... more
Israel successfully tests missile defence system at sea: army Israel has successfully tested a maritime missile interception system dubbed the Iron Dome of the Sea, the military announced on Wednesday. ... more		Sagem to produce Patroller UAVs for French Army Production of 14 Patroller optionally piloted aircraft for the French Army is set to begin following the signing of a production contract. ... more		New flight test campaign for nEUROn combat drone France has announced a new round of flight tests for the nEUROn unmanned combat aerial vehicle to study the use of the drone in a naval context. ... more		Battelle shows off DroneDefender at Navy Expo Defense research non-profit Battelle showed off its DroneDefender system at this week's Navy Sea-Air-Space expo, a handheld, rifle-like system designed to counter the growing presence of smaller, commercial drones in the sky. ... more

	US B-52 bomber crashes on Guam, all crew safe A B-52 bomber was left a fiery wreck after crashing at a US airbase on the Pacific island of Guam Thursday but all seven crew escaped unharmed, officials said. ... more		Airbus DS offers new SkyGhost ER mini drone Airbus Defense and Space, together with subsidiary SurveyCopter, is offering a new mini tactical unmanned aerial vehicle. ... more

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Germany presses Airbus to resolve A400M problems		Russia to start financing new Phoenix carrier rocket development in 2018		Russia's Glonass system to get 8 more satellites by end of 2017		U.S. Navy tests Raytheon's SeaRAM system		Air Force demos key rocket engine technologies for new launch systems
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Binocular vision-based UAVs autonomous aerial refueling platform

AeroVironment: Navy deploying underwater-launched UAS

SES Enables Danish Defence Wideband Global Satcom System Connectivity

US missile shield in Romania goes live to Russian fury

Ukraine's National Guard gets new vehicles

Artificial intelligence replaces physicists

Robot's in-hand eye maps surroundings, determines hand's location

Technique improves the efficacy of fuel cells

Currency wars, fiscal stimulus rift in focus at G7 meeting

China's Midea makes takeover offer for German robotics firm

Hybrid hydrostatic transmission enables robots with human-like grace and precision

Payload integration begins for Arianespace's next Soyuz mission with Galileo spacecraft

Saab to unveil first Gripen E aircraft this week

New TH-119 helicopter unveiled for military pilot training

U.S. Navy contracts Boeing for P-8A aircraft component repair

Paramount announces armed ISR aircraft

Hyperloop One test bodes well for transit's fast future

UPSat, an open-source Greek satellite

F-35 test pilot completes 1,000th vertical landing

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