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  Washington DC (UPI) Oct 25, 2019 Virgin Galactic is set to become the first commercial spaceflight company to be publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange next week, a Securities and Exchange Commission filing indicates. The Wednesday filing shows the company, founded by Richard Branson, was expected to merge Friday with Social Capital Hedosophia, a venture capital firm. After the completion of the merger, the two companies were expected to trade under the ticker symbol SPCE on Monday. The two companies have a combined ... read more |
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US vows closer cooperation with French space agencyWashington (AFP) Oct 23, 2019 The United States on Wednesday pledged closer cooperation with France's space agency, saying the two were advancing the commercial development of space. ... more  
NASA attaches first of 4 RS-25 engines to Artemis I rocket stageNew Orleans LA (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 Engineers and technicians at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have structurally mated the first of four RS-25 engines to the core stage for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket tha ... more 
Indian space agency ISRO's launch vehicles to carry along 14 foreign satellitesNew Delhi (XNA) Oct 25, 2019 Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will carry along as many as 14 small foreign satellites in its next three PSLVs (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles) over the next two months, reliable sources ... more  
China's absence from global space conference due to "visa problem" causes concernWashington DC (XNA) Oct 23, 2019 "I miss an important space agency in this panel. Where is China?" Attendees at a plenary of the ongoing weeklong International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Washington brought the question atop th ... more |
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Roscosmos agrees to reschedule Progress launch following request from NASAMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 25, 2019 Despite tensions between Moscow and Washington on issues ranging from NATO's eastward expansion to the US's recent withdrawal from a key strategic arms treaty, the Russian and US space agencies have ... more 
DLR and Swedish Space Corporation combine expertise for engine testsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 25, 2019 A new test stand for the next generation of sounding rockets, microlaunchers and reusable launchers will be constructed at the Swedish Esrange Space Center. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Ze ... more  
Swarm of tiny drones explores unknown environmentsDelft, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 Researchers have presented a swarm of tiny drones that can explore unknown environments completely by themselves. This work, presented in Science Robotics on 23 October, forms a significant step in ... more 
Russia customising Soyuz for tourist tripsMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 24, 2019 A soyuz spaceship will be customised for a tourist trip to the International Space Station (ISS) so that one person may pilot it rather than a three-person crew, Sergei Krikalev, executive director ... more 
Nanoracks signs with Maritime Launch on re-use of C4M stages for in-orbit outpostsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 Nanoracks, the world's leading provider of commercial access to space, is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Canada's Maritime Launch Services to work on re-purposing and re-us ... more |
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 How the International Space Station is helping us get to the Moon 
DARPA updates competitor field for flexible, responsive launch to orbitWashington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 In early 2020, one team will attempt to win a $10 million prize in the DARPA Launch Challenge. The Challenge aims to increase the flexibility and pace of space launch to put assets into low Earth or ... more  |
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GatorWings wins DARPA Spectrum Collaboration ChallengeLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2019 DARPA has announced that GatorWings, a team of undergraduate students, Ph.D. candidates, and professors from the University of Florida are the winners of the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) - ... more  
GPS III Ground System Operations Contingency Program Nearing Operational AcceptanceLos Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2019 The Global Positioning System enterprise reached another major milestone on Oct. 21, when the GPS III Contingency Operations Program (COps) successfully connected with the first GPS III satellite on ... more 
EPS completes multiservice operational test, declared fully operationalSchriever AFB CO (AFNS) Oct 25, 2019 The Enhanced Polar System (EPS) was declared operational and handed over to operators at the 4th Space Operations Squadron at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, following months of on-orbit check o ... more  
Russia sends S-400 system to Serbia for drillsMoscow (AFP) Oct 24, 2019 Moscow has sent a S-400 missile system battalion and a Pantsir anti-aircraft gun and missile system to Belgrade for their first joint drills in Serbia, the defence ministry said. ... more 
Russia to launch Angara Carrier Rocket in 2024Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 24, 2019 Russia's new Angara-A5M carrier rocket is expected to be launched from the Vostochny space centre in 2024, the chief designer at the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre said. ... more |
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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Oct 25, 2019 
Those familiar with air traffic management architectures understand the constraints of aircraft flying in the atmosphere, vehicle dynamics and command and control techniques.
Unfortunately, space traffic has many more degrees of freedom and much less control capability. Add to this the completely uncontrolled nature of space debris and the reality that most debris objects cannot be tracked ... more |
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 Schriever AFB CO (AFNS) Oct 25, 2019 
The Enhanced Polar System (EPS) was declared operational and handed over to operators at the 4th Space Operations Squadron at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, following months of on-orbit check out and the successful completion of a Multiservice Operational Test and Evaluation (MOT&E).
EPS is a polar adjunct to the Advanced Extreme High Frequency (AEHF) system providing Military Satelli ... more |
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 Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2019 
The Global Positioning System enterprise reached another major milestone on Oct. 21, when the GPS III Contingency Operations Program (COps) successfully connected with the first GPS III satellite on orbit.
The COps system will allow the Air Force to operationally command and control the new, more powerful GPS III satellites as well as legacy GPS satellites currently in the constellation. T ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 24, 2019  A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter plane was seen at an air base in Saudi Arabia, an indication that the stealth planes have been deployed there.
A brief video by U.S. Air Forces Command Central, released on Tuesday, shows an F-22 making a low pass over Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan Air Base.
The video was accompanied by the comment that "the ability of fighter jets to operate a ... more |
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 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 
Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories of natural science, and although its predictions are often counterintuitive, not a single experiment has been conducted to date of which the theory has not been able to give an adequate description.
Along with colleagues at bigQ (Center for Macroscopic Quantum States - a Danish National Research Foundation Center of Excellence), cent ... more |
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 New Haven CT (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 
For many, the word "aerosol" might conjure thoughts of hairspray or spray paint. More accurately, though, aerosols are simply particles found in the atmosphere. They can be human-made, like from car exhaust or biomass burning, or naturally occurring, from sources such as volcanic eruptions or sea spray.
Aerosols account for one of the greater uncertainties in understanding the Earth's clim ... more |
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 Port Moresby (AFP) Oct 24, 2019 
Papua New Guinea said Thursday it had ordered the indefinite closure of a multi-billion dollar Chinese-owned nickel facility that spewed potentially toxic red slurry into the sea.
The Mineral Resources Authority said it had ordered owners of the Ramu Nickel refinery to "shut down its processing operations" as of Monday October 21.
The facility is run by the state-owned China Metallurgica ... more |
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 Washington DC (XNA) Oct 23, 2019 
"I miss an important space agency in this panel. Where is China?" Attendees at a plenary of the ongoing weeklong International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Washington brought the question atop the panel voting system and demanded an answer.
The crowd-sourced question popped up after the audience found that Wu Yanhua, vice administrator of China National Space Administration (CNSA) sched ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Oct 24, 2019 
Moscow has sent a S-400 missile system battalion and a Pantsir anti-aircraft gun and missile system to Belgrade for their first joint drills in Serbia, the defence ministry said.
The systems will be deployed at Batajnica base, outside the capital, as part of the exercises that will take place on October 23-29, a statement said.
It is the first time that the S-400 and Pantsir systems will ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 18, 2019 
The State Department approved the sale of 120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles (AMRAAM) to South Korea, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced.
The requested $253 million package includes the AIM-120C-7/C-8 missiles; containers; weapon support and support equipment; spare and repair parts; logistics support services and other related elements. The contract, announced ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2019 
Evening gowns with interwoven LEDs may look extravagant, but the light sources need a constant power supply from devices that are as well wearable, durable, and lightweight. Chinese scientists have manufactured fibrous electrodes for wearable devices that are flexible and excel by their high energy density. A microfluidic technology was key for the preparation of the electrode material was a mic ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 25, 2019 
A Russian-developed anthropomorphic space-faring robot can now perform the important function of deploying fasteners to handrails during spacewalks, cosmonaut Sergei Kud-Sverchkov said Thursday.
Speaking at a presentation as part of the annual International Astronautical Congress in Washington, Kud-Sverchkov said that ground experiments and simulations carried out with the robot included " ... more |
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 Delft, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 
Researchers have presented a swarm of tiny drones that can explore unknown environments completely by themselves. This work, presented in Science Robotics on 23 October, forms a significant step in the field of swarm robotics.
The challenge comes from the fact that the tiny 33-gram drones need to navigate autonomously while having extremely limited sensing and computational capabilities. T ... more |
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