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May 23, 2016

Mission control ready for next Galileo pair
Paris (ESA) May 23, 2016
Paris (ESA) May 23, 2016 A team of European mission control experts will be watching closely next week when two Galileo satellites are boosted into space, ready to shepherd the craft through the first critical days in orbit. Galileo satellites 13 and 14 are scheduled to lift off at 08:48 GMT (10:48 CEST) on 24 May from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on top of an Arianespace Soyuz rocket. This will be the seventh Galileo launch, and it will bring the number of satellites in space to 14. ... read more

First Spectrum: Strongest biosignature signal yet found on exoplanet

Strongest 'hints' yet of life detected on distant planet

AI revolutionizes gravitational wave detector design

	China to launch 30 Beidou navigation satellites in next 5 years Changsha, China (XNA) May 23, 2016 China plans to launch 30 Beidou navigation satellites during the 13th five-year plan period (2016-2020), capping its three-step strategy to build a global navigat ... more		NASA super pressure balloon begins globetrotting journey NASA successfully launched a super pressure balloon (SPB) from Wanaka Airport, New Zealand, at 11:35 a.m. Tuesday, May 17, 2016 (7:35 p.m. EDT Monday, May 16, 2016) on a potentially record-breaking, ... more

Unease grows over Trump tariffs despite 'progress' in Japan trade talks

Chinese embassy slams UK politicians' 'arrogance' in British Steel row

China's Xi arrives in Cambodia for state visit

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Airbus Defence and Space starts Orion service module assembly Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, has started assembling the European Service Module (ESM), a key element of NASA's next-generation Orion spacecraft that will trans ... more		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		NASA mini-balloon mission maps migratory magnetic boundary During the Antarctic summer of 2013-2014, a team of researchers released a series of translucent scientific balloons, one by one. The miniature membranous balloons - part of the Balloon Array for Ra ... more
				Will America Set Military Back by Abandoning Russian RD-180 Rocket Engines The Senate Armed Services Committee calls for halving the US appropriation for the military's go-to rocket engine, the House Armed Services Committee focuses on replacements, and the White House is ... more		Fregat is fueled in Arianespace's FCube facility for Soyuz Flight VS15 Arianespace's new Spaceport processing facility has fueled another Fregat stage. This upper stage for the medium-lift Soyuz launcher will be used for the May 24 flight from French Guiana with two Eu ... more

Transition from Operations to Decommissioning by Preparing a Safe, Cost-Effective Shut Down and Waste Management Strategy

Russian Armed Forces Use Glonass Satellites for Aiming in Syria The Glonass satellites are being used to ensure the work of the Russian precision-guided weapons in Syria, a senior space industry official said Friday. "Glonass is the system which is the mos ... more		First CubeSat Built by an Elementary School Deployed into Space 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 D ... more		UN nuclear chief in Tehran ahead of fresh Iran-US talks Trump blocked Israeli plan to strike Iran nuclear sites: report Third top Pentagon official on leave after DoD's Signal group chat security breach		Lockheed demos future evolution of its flexible GPS 3 satellite design In the future, when mission needs change for the Global Positioning System (GPS), the U.S. Air Force will be able to respond - thanks to some engineering forethought and the innovative design of Loc ... more
				Russia to Carry Out Four Commercial Launches From Vostochny Cosmodrome Russia will conduct four commercial launches from the Vostochny space center in Russia's Far East in 2018, the director of Roscosmos state corporation's representative office at Vostochny said Thurs ... more		Using static electricity, RoboBees can land and stick to surfaces Call them the RoboBats. In a recent article in Science, Harvard roboticists demonstrate that their flying microrobots, nicknamed the RoboBees, can now perch during flight to save energy - like bats, ... more

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

The World's Largest Commercial Drone Conference and Expo - Sept 7-9 - Las Vegas

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

Sikorsky gets new order for U.S. Army Black Hawks Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. has been awarded an $88.1 million contract modification to exercise an option for eight UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters. ... more		Lockheed to refresh systems on German P-3C Orion aircraft Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $54.9 million U.S. Navy firm-fixed-price contract for the P-3C mission system refresh program. ... more		Trump admin proposes redefining 'harm' to endangered animals Australian PM vows not to bow to Trump on national interest Germany sees 'worrying' record dry spell in early 2025		Northrop Grumman gets KC-10 engine overhaul contract Northrop Grumman Technical Services has been awarded a $17.5 million delivery order to a previously awarded U.S. Air Force contract for four engine overhauls in support of the KC-10 program. ... more
Navy orders additional Digital Modular Radios General Dynamics Mission Systems to build and deliver Digital Modular Radios to the U.S. Navy for use on surface vessels and submarines. ... more		Saab rolls out its Gripen E 'Smart Fighter' Saab introduced its new Gripen E "Smart Fighter" during a ceremony Wednesday at the company's headquarters in Sweden. ... more		Stratobus: The Spy Blimp-Satellite of the Future Used for Snooping If you thought surveillance drones were unnerving, a French-Italian aerospace company is now producing an unmanned blimp to monitor the ground from space. One good thing can be said for government-o ... more		Pentagon Buys 'Safe Solution' for Zapping Drones Out of the Sky It's the latest in high-tech anti-drone technology, and both the Pentagon and US Homeland Security are on board. As recreational drones become increasingly common, multiple government agencies are s ... more

Russia to Renew Production of Mi-14 Nuclear-Capable Anti-Sub Helicopters		SpeedCast to build ground station for X-band Satcom Services in Asia-Pacific		Abandonment of Russian Booster Engines May Send NASA's Costs Skyrocketing		Israel successfully tests missile defence system at sea: army		Airbus Defence and Space opens a ground station in Australia for its Skynet military satellite
A year of mystery swirls around latest X-37B mission		Orbita, a ghost of Chernobyl in the heart of Ukraine		Libya coastguard intercepts 850 migrants: navy		Solar Impulse 2 plane lands in Dayton		Global growth tops agenda as G7 meeting kicks off in Japan

G7 warns over global economy as currency row flares

Robots get creative to cut through clutter

Artificial intelligence replaces physicists

Technique improves the efficacy of fuel cells

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

Macau shows off robot croupiers as hopes of recovery rise

Currency wars, fiscal stimulus rift in focus at G7 meeting

Interns Make Archived NASA Planetary Science Data More Accessible

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

Sagem to produce Patroller UAVs for French Army

MinXSS CubeSat deployed from ISS to study Sun's soft x-rays

Saab to unveil first Gripen E aircraft this week

New flight test campaign for nEUROn combat drone

Battelle shows off DroneDefender at Navy Expo

US B-52 bomber crashes on Guam, all crew safe

Airbus DS offers new SkyGhost ER mini drone

Germany presses Airbus to resolve A400M problems

China's Midea makes takeover offer for German robotics firm

Pre-launch processing is underway with Indonesia's BRIsat for the next Arianespace heavy-lift flight

Out of this world: 'Moon and Mars veggies' grow in Dutch greenhouse

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