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  Yonkers, United States (AFP) Oct 17, 2019 The date for the world's first commercial space flight is not even confirmed yet, but future passengers' Star Trek-like outfits are ready and waiting. Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson on Wednesday introduced the custom suits that will be worn by the first private astronauts. US sportswear designer Under Armour "worked day and night for about two years on this project" said Branson, who himself served as a model at the presentation at a skydiving simulator near New York. The 69-ye ... read more |
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NASA commits to future Artemis missions with more SLS rocket stagesWashington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 NASA has taken the next steps toward building Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stages to support as many as 10 Artemis missions, including the mission that will carry the first woman and next m ... more 
NASA Admin selects Douglas Loverro as next human spaceflight headWashington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Wednesday named Douglas Loverro as the agency's new associate administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. Loverro succeeds former a ... more 
Under Armour, Virgin Galactic reveal suits to be worn by space touristsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 One day after NASA unveiled prototype spacesuits designed to explore the moon and Mars, Under Armour on Wednesday revealed new equipment it says will be worn by space tourists when Virgin Galactic b ... more 
Awe and fear: how Russian cosmonaut recalled first spacewalkMoscow (AFP) Oct 11, 2019 Alexei Leonov, the first man to do a space walk, died at the age of 85 on Friday. Here AFP republishes an interview with the cosmonaut from 2015, conducted on the 50th anniversary of his extraordinary achievement: ... more |
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Russia eyes launching satellite into orbit from Saudi ArabiaMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 15, 2019 Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin announced earlier this year that Russia and Saudi Arabia had created a space cooperation programme under which the two sides floated th ... more  
China's rocket-carrying ships depart for transportation missionNanjing (XNA) Oct 14, 2019 China's two rocket-carrying ships departed Saturday from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province on a transportation mission. The two Yuanwang ships are China's first ships made exclusively to ... more  
Air Force F-35 squadrons improve readiness capability amid deploymentsWashington (UPI) Oct 15, 2019 A concentration on mission readiness has improved the capabilities of F-35 Lightning II fighter planes and pilots, the U.S. Air Force said Tuesday. ... more  
ISRO works with Qualcomm to develop improved geo-location chipsetNew Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 15, 2019 India is moving forward towards harnessing space technology for national development and to make it accessible for everyone as they go about their daily lives. To improve the geo-location capa ... more  
Japan plans to postpone imperial parade over typhoon: mediaTokyo (AFP) Oct 17, 2019 Japan plans to postpone a major imperial parade celebrating the new emperor's ascension to the throne after nearly 80 people were killed in a devastating typhoon, local media said Thursday. ... more |
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 China's GDP growth slows to 6% in third quarter: AFP poll  
US-China trade mini-deal being 'papered': TrumpWashington (AFP) Oct 17, 2019 The partial trade bargain struck last week with China is now being formally put down in writing, US President Donald Trump said Wednesday. ... more  |
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Development of highly sensitive diode, converts microwaves to electricityTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Fujitsu Limited, and the Tokyo Metropolitan University announced that they developed a highly sensitive rectifying element in the form of a nanowire ba ... more 
Battery with a twistZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 Today's electronics industry is increasingly focusing on computers or smartphones with screens that can be folded or rolled. Smart clothing items make use of wearable micro-devices or sensors to mon ... more 
Sterling stands firm as Brexit hopes build, equities riseHong Kong (AFP) Oct 16, 2019 The pound held most of its gains Wednesday after hitting a five-month high on growing hopes that Britain and the European Union are close to a Brexit deal, while equity markets remained buoyed despite signs of fresh China-US tensions over Hong Kong. ... more 
German climate plan brings sharp air travel tax hikeFrankfurt Am Main (AFP) Oct 15, 2019 Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet will sign off draft laws on new green taxes and subsidies this week, including much harsher charges on short-haul flights, German government sources said Tuesday. ... more 
Imaging method promises industrial insight into fuel cellsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 Hydrogen-containing substances are important for many industries, but scientists have struggled to obtain detailed images to understand the element's behavior. In Review of Scientific Instruments, f ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 
The entry probe of the Galileo mission to Jupiter entered the planet's atmosphere in 1995 in fiery fashion. As the probe descended from Mach 50 to Mach 1 and generated enough heat to cause plasma reactions on its surface, it relayed data about the burning of its heat shield that differed from the effects predicted in fluid dynamics models. New work examines what might have caused such a discrepa ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 11, 2019 
Satlink, a Spanish company specializing in satellite communications, has showcased the most advanced solutions currently available in the market to the Special Operations Forces of the Spanish Army as well as other government security agencies.
The company has carried out simulations in real-life scenarios on a very practical day, called Operation Beyond the Horizon, in collaboration with ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 15, 2019 
India is moving forward towards harnessing space technology for national development and to make it accessible for everyone as they go about their daily lives.
To improve the geo-location capabilities of upcoming mobile phones, automotive and Internet-of-Things (IoT) platforms, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and US-based chip-maker Qualcomm have developed a new chipset platform. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 15, 2019 
A concentration on mission readiness has improved the capabilities of F-35 Lightning II fighter planes and pilots, the U.S. Air Force said Tuesday.
Officials said all three squadrons of the 388th Fighter Wing were involved in missions and exercises away from home this summer, operating in nine countries, meeting goals set out by now-former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.
Col. Mi ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 
Researchers from Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have built a super-sensitive bolometer, a type of thermal radiation detector. The new radiation detector, made of a gold-palladium mixture makes it easier to measure the strength of electromagnetic radiation in real time. Bolometers are used widely in thermal cameras in the construction industry and in satellites to m ... more |
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 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 
An interdisciplinary team of four researchers from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, the University of Valencia, and Columbia University has been awarded a 2019 European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant to understand and model the Earth system with machine learning, one of the important approaches of ar ... more |
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 Athens (AFP) Oct 16, 2019 
Greece announced a campaign on Wednesday to tackle plastic pollution and promised to stop the use of single-use plastics by June 2020.
"39 tonnes of plastic waste end up in the sea in Greece (every day) and a lot of it turns into fish food," Environment Minister Kostis Hatzidakis said at a press conference.
"The fight against plastic pollution is a government priority."
Greece has a ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) Oct 14, 2019 
China's two rocket-carrying ships departed Saturday from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province on a transportation mission.
The two Yuanwang ships are China's first ships made exclusively to carry rockets. With a length of 130 meters, a width of 19 meters and a height of 37 meters, the ships have a displacement of 9,000 tonnes.
Each ship is equipped with two 120-tonne cranes that c ... more |
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 Moscow (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 new laser-optical and radio-technical systems in Russia that implement various principles of detecting and identifying space objects," the ministry said.
The Defence Ministry also said that two ne ... 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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 Houston TX (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 
In work that combines a deep understanding of the biology of soft-bodied animals such as earthworms with advances in materials and electronic technologies, researchers from the United States and China have developed a robotic device containing a stretchable transistor that allows neurological function.
Cunjiang Yu, Bill D. Cook Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Universit ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 11, 2019 
Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems announced the sale of over 1,000 THOR mini-drones to an unnamed Southeast Asian country in a $153 million deal.
The contract for the unmanned aircraft systems, including other unmanned aircraft manufactured by the company, will be executed over a 22-month period, Elbit said earlier this week.
The contract calls for THOR multirotor vertical ... more |
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