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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 08, 2019 Eight briefcase-size satellites flying in a row may be key to improving forecasts of a hurricane's wind speed - detecting whether it will make landfall as a Category 1 or a Category 5. NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) fleet, launched in 2016, was designed to show whether the same GPS signals your phone uses for navigation can be used to measure winds deep within a hurricane or typhoon. The answer appears to be a resounding yes. Weather forecasting models have gotten much ... read more |
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Astronauts will spend much of October outside the space stationWashington (UPI) Oct 7, 2019 October is spacewalk month for astronauts aboard the space station. By the end of the month, crew members will have completed a total of five spacewalks. Most of their time outside will be spent making upgrades to the space station's power system. ... more 
Kepler to launch satellite on a Soyuz mid next yearToronto, Canada (SPX) Oct 08, 2019 Kepler Communications signs launch agreement with Innovative Space Logistics B.V (ISL) working with GK Launch Services to deploy two satellites into sun-synchronous orbit in Q2-Q3 2020. The satellit ... more  
Lockheed nets $163.9M to support space-based infrared systemWashington (UPI) Oct 3, 2019 Lockheed Martin has been awarded nearly $163.9 million for support of the space based infrared system. ... more  
Air Force scientists discover unique stretchable conductorWright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Oct 03, 2019 The Air Force Research Laboratory has developed liquid metal systems which autonomously change structure so that they become better conductors in response to strain. Conductive materials change thei ... more |
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Artemis Generation takes on NASA Student Launch: 64 teams to competeHuntsville AL (SPX) Oct 04, 2019 The quiet fields of North Alabama await the high-flying rockets of teams competing in the 20th year of NASA Student Launch. Before those rockets can fly, though, they have to be designed, built and ... more
First Arab on ISS returns to EarthAlmaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 3, 2019 A three-man crew including an Emirati who became the first Arab to reach the International Space Station returned to Earth safely on Thursday and were in good shape, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said. ... more 
NASA astronaut Nick Hague, crewmates return safely from ISSHouston TX (SPX) Oct 04, 2019 NASA astronaut Nick Hague returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday, alongside Soyuz commander Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and visiting astronaut H ... more 
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 
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 |
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NASA, Roscosmos in talks on more Soyuz seatsMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 02, 2019 NASA is in talks with Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos to purchase additional space on Soyuz spacecraft to deliver US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) after the spring of ... 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 
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 
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 
Russia to deploy over 10 space monitoring centres by 2022Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 07, 2019 Russia will deploy more than 10 new laser-optical and radio-technical space monitoring stations on its territory by 2022, the Russian Defence Ministry said. "It is planned to deploy over 10 ne ... more  
OpFires program advances technology for upper stage with PDR completionWashington DC (SPX) Oct 07, 2019 DARPA's Operational Fires (OpFires) program has reached a major program milestone, completing booster preliminary design review of an innovative two-stage tactical missile system. OpFires aims to de ... more |
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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Oct 08, 2019 
We see more and more reports of debris concern among satellite operators and space observers. Add to this the many recent announcements of multiple broadband satellite constellations that are being funded and developed for launch in the next few years. Just focusing on low Earth orbits (LEO), there are an estimated 15,000 satellites in the works.
For example, Amazon is planning to launch 3 ... 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 DC (SPX) Oct 02, 2019 
Navigating to within three inches of your destination is made possible by algorithms and software developed by NASA. These power a NASA system that augments the raw navigation signals provided by the U.S. Air Force's GPS satellites to support airplane navigation around the world, direct emergency responders and, soon, guide self-driving cars.
The Air Force began launching global positionin ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 3, 2019 
Twenty-two paratroopers have been injured after wind blew them into trees while training at Camp Shelby in Mississippi.
The incident at Camp Shelby, located at the southern boundary of Hattiesburg, Miss., occurred at around 8 p.m. Wednesday, during a military parachute training exercise with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division in Alaska, the military posted on Facebook. ... 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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 08, 2019 
The public is invited to a free lecture called 'Going to the Top of the World to Touch the Sky,' with Dr. Douglas Rowland, NASA research scientist. The talk will occur in the Pickford Theater, third floor, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue SE, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., on Oct. 17 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EDT.
Every day, Earth loses hundreds of tons of its atmosphe ... 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 3, 2019 
Lockheed Martin has been awarded nearly $163.9 million for support of the space based infrared system.
The contract, awarded specifically to the company's Lockheed Martin Space division on Wednesday by the Department of Defense, covers SBIRS contractor logistics support.
The SBIRS provides early missile warning for the U.S. military through infrared surveillance. It evolved from ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 07, 2019 
DARPA's Operational Fires (OpFires) program has reached a major program milestone, completing booster preliminary design review of an innovative two-stage tactical missile system. OpFires aims to develop and demonstrate a ground-launched hypersonic weapon system to engage critical, time-sensitive targets in contested environments.
"U.S. ground-based forces currently are limited in effectiv ... 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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 Adelphi MD (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 
What does it take for a human to trust a robot? That is what Army researchers are uncovering in a new study into how humans and robots work together. Research into human-agent teaming, or HAT, has examined how the transparency of agents - such as robots, unmanned vehicles or software agents - influences human trust, task performance, workload and perceptions of the agent. Agent transparency refe ... more |
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 National Harbor MD (SPX) Sep 30, 2019 
With small unmanned aircraft systems - frequently called drones, becoming more common every day, the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, has developed a counter-swarm high power weapon that should cause those with nefarious intentions of using drones against United States forces at U.S. military installations at home or overseas to th ... more |
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