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  Washington (UPI) Oct 4, 2019 Virgin Orbit, a private company planning launches of orbital satellites, announced that a Royal Air Force pilot will join its team. Flight Lt. Mathew Stannard will join the Virgin Orbit program in a three-year contract. He will be one of the company's pilots in the trials of Boeing 747-400 aircraft from which satellites will be launched. The announcement was made on Thursday in California. Stannard is currently a Typhoon pilot with the RAF's test an evaluation squadrons. Virgin Or ... read more |
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Deep space exploration isn't a far-fetched possibilityLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 07, 2019 The future of deep space exploration holds the promise of solving the many mysteries that lie beyond our solar system. But despite renewed interest in again visiting the moon and a fevered pitch to ... more  
Controlling robots across oceans and spaceParis (ESA) Oct 04, 2019 This Autumn is seeing a number of experiments controlling robots from afar, with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano directing a robot in The Netherlands and engineers in Germany controlling a rover in Can ... more 
Spacesuits prepped for upcoming spacewalksHouston TX (SPX) Oct 07, 2019 NASA astronauts have been busy getting their spacesuits ready to go in preparation for a suite of 10 spacewalks outside the International Space Station. The first of five spacewalks to replace nicke ... more 
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to blast off in 2021 with private lunar landerWashington DC (Sputnik) Oct 04, 2019 Aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, a lunar lander developed and created by Houston-based Intuitive Machines will blast off into space and toward Earth's moon in 2021, a joint release from both compani ... more |
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RAF pilot seconded to Virgin OrbitLong Beach CA (SPX) Oct 04, 2019 Royal Air Force (RAF) and Virgin Orbit announced the next step in an exciting new space partnership with the selection of an RAF test pilot to be seconded to the small satellite launch program, pend ... more  
NASA, US industry aim to electrify commercial aviationCleveland OH (SPX) Oct 03, 2019 As our research team at NASA continues to explore electrified aircraft propulsion as a fuel- and- cost-efficient alternative to traditional jet engine-powered airplanes, the agency is teaming with U ... more  
Naval Strike Missile launched in Indo-Pacific region for first timeWashington (UPI) Oct 2, 2019 The Naval Strike Missile, which can strike an enemy ship 100 nautical miles away, was successfully demonstrated by the USS Gabrielle Giffords, the Navy announced. ... more 
Space Launch System mock up arrives at Kennedy for testingKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Oct 03, 2019 NASA's Pegasus Barge arrived at the Launch Complex 39 turn basin wharf at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to make its first delivery to Kennedy in support of the agency's Artemis missions. The ... more 
First Arab on ISS set for Earth returnAlmaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 3, 2019 An Emirati who made history as the first Arab to reach the International Space Station is set to return to Earth on Thursday following an eight-day mission that sparked euphoria in his homeland. ... more |
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NASA, Boeing, SpaceX closing in on return to human spaceflight for USOrlando FL (UPI) Oct 02, 2019 America's public and private space endeavors may soon regain the nation's role as the global leader in human space exploration, but they are years behind schedule. At stake is not only United ... more  |
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Full house for space scienceParis (ESA) Oct 02, 2019 Three newcomers and two spacecraft make a full house in space. The population of the International Space Station rose to nine last week while European science focused on bone loss, time perception a ... more 
New US spacecraft to conduct first manned flights to ISS in 2020 says Roscosmos ChiefMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 02, 2019 SpaceX's new Crew Dragon spacecraft and Boeing's Starliners will make the first manned flights to the International Space Station in 2020, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozi ... more 
SLS Rocket Pathfinders Prepare Teams for One-of-a-Kind Hardware Prior to Moon MissionHuntsville AL (SPX) Sep 30, 2019 NASA's Pegasus barge arrived Sept. 27 at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the core stage pathfinder for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The pathfinder will be used for lift ... more 
Japan's Kounotori Spaceship Attached to StationHouston TX (SPX) Sep 30, 2019 Ground controllers successfully installed the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Kounotori 8 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-8) to the Earth-facing port of the International Space Station's Harmon ... more  
Putin: Russia is helping China with missile defense systemWashington (UPI) Oct 4, 2019 Russia is aiding China in building a missile defense system able to counter ballistic and cruise missiles, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed. ... more |
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 Newport UK (SPX) Sep 27, 2019 
AdaCore reports that the European Space Agency (ESA) has selected AdaCore to provide a qualified multitasking solution for spacecraft software development to support multiple ongoing and future ESA projects.
As part of this contract, AdaCore has implemented a pre-qualified version of the Ravenscar Small Footprint (SFP) library - a configurable Ada run-time library that implements the Raven ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
DARPA has announced the 10 teams that have qualified for the Championship Event of the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) - a three-year contest to unlock the potential of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum using artificial intelligence (AI). The teams will head to Mobile World Congress Los Angeles on October 23, 2019, where their radio designs will go head to head during a live competition. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 30, 2019 
Northrop Grumman Corp. received a $1.39 billion contract from the U.S. Air Force for its embedded GPS system.
The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, includes production, sustainment and engineering technical services in support of its Embedded GPS Inertial Navigation System Modernization, EGI/EGI-M, system.
The open-sy ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Oct 03, 2019 
As our research team at NASA continues to explore electrified aircraft propulsion as a fuel- and- cost-efficient alternative to traditional jet engine-powered airplanes, the agency is teaming with U.S. industry to develop the innovative components and flight demonstrations required to make this electric evolution possible.
"We're at a critical time in the history of aviation because we hav ... more |
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 Yokohama, Japan (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 
Data centers are processing data and dispensing the results at astonishing rates and such robust systems require a significant amount of energy - so much energy, in fact, that information communication technology is projected to account for 20% of total energy consumption in the United States by 2020.
To answer this demand, a team of researchers from Japan and the United States have develo ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 07, 2019 
The Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), the third in a U.S.-European series of satellite missions designed to measure sea surface height, successfully ended its science mission on Oct. 1. NASA and its mission partners made the decision to end the mission after detecting deterioration in the spacecraft's power system.
Jason-2/OSTM, a joint NASA mission with the French space age ... more |
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 Dakar (AFP) Oct 5, 2019 
When the sight of plastic bags, bottles and other debris littering the seabed becomes too much, there's just one thing to do: don your diving suit, strap on an air tank and fish out the stuff yourself.
That is the solution adopted by Oceanium, an association of amateur divers in the West African state of Senegal.
In a few hours last month, divers removed hundreds of kilos (pounds) of pla ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019 
Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday.
The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit.
Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short prep ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 4, 2019 
Russia is aiding China in building a missile defense system able to counter ballistic and cruise missiles, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed.
He added that Russian involvement will give China a measure of protection which only the United States and Russia currently have. China now has only a small, Russian-made S-300 system regarded as a modest deterrent.
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 2, 2019 
The Naval Strike Missile, which can strike an enemy ship 100 nautical miles away, was successfully demonstrated by the USS Gabrielle Giffords, the Navy announced.
The test of the weapon, which as been deployed aboard the Giffords, aboard the Independence-variant littoral combat ship came Tuesday during the biennial Pacific Griffin exercise near Guam. This year's exercise was conducted b ... more |
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 Bath UK (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
A new nanomaterial developed by scientists at the University of Bath could solve a conundrum faced by scientists probing some of the most promising types of future pharmaceuticals.
Scientists who study the nanoscale - with molecules and materials 10,000 smaller than a pinhead - need to be able to test the way that some molecules twist, known as their chirality, because mirror image molecul ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 04, 2019 
This Autumn is seeing a number of experiments controlling robots from afar, with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano directing a robot in The Netherlands and engineers in Germany controlling a rover in Canada.
Imagine looking down at the Moon from the Gateway as you prepare to land near a lunar base to run experiments, but you know the base needs maintenance work on the life-support system that w ... more |
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 Istanbul (AFP) Sept 29, 2019 
Turkey's air force on Sunday downed an unidentified drone on the Syrian border after it breached Turkish air space six times, the defence ministry said.
"An unmanned aerial vehicle which violated our air space six times (on Saturday)... was downed by two of our F-16s which took off from Incirlik" air base in southern Turkey, the defence ministry said, sharing pictures of the downed drone. ... more |
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