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  Washington 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 orbit to meet national security priorities. The remaining qualifying competitor is a space startup comprising industry veterans currently operating in stealth mode while the company works toward internal technical milestones. The team will receive notification of the first launch site in January 2020 with ... read 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  
UK should ditch plans for GPS to tival GalileoLondon (Sputnik) Oct 27, 2019 The UK has been accelerating plans to develop its own global navigation satellite system after its exclusion from secure aspects of Galileo as a result of Brexit. A satellite scientist on Frid ... 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 
Air Force demonstrates rocket engine preburner for advanced liquid rocket enginesEdwards AFB CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2019 The Air Force Research Laboratory has successfully tested a state-of-the-art rocket engine preburner to elevate the U.S. technology base for high performance oxygen-rich staged combustion. The ... more |
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NASA, industry partner for space-based study of potential alzheimer's keyHuntsville AL (SPX) Oct 25, 2019 An innovative experiment underway on the International Space Station could help researchers make new progress in the fight against aggressive neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parki ... 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  
York Space Systems accelerates satellite production with facility expansionDenver CO (SPX) Oct 30, 2019 York Space Systems, an aerospace company specializing in turn-key space segment customer solutions and the manufacturer of standardized spacecraft platforms for rapid deployment, has announced plans ... more 
SpaceSelfie Satellite Crashes in Michigan, Samsung Says Just as PlannedWashington DC (Sputnik) Oct 30, 2019 The tech company says the promotional spacecraft experienced a "soft landing," although local residents are grateful it did not strike their homes. A family in Michigan woke up to a noisy rack ... more 
Study underscores changes in brain structure, function in long-duration space missionsCharleston SC (SPX) Oct 30, 2019 A new study demonstrates for the first time that changes in cognitive performance correlate with changes in brain structure in NASA astronauts following spaceflight. How the human brain adapts in sp ... more |
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Lockheed to test F-35B durability under $148.4M contractWashington (UPI) Oct 28, 2019 Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded a $148.4 million contract for durability testing support of F-35B aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps, the Defense Department announced. ... more  |
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AFRL experts collect data inside hardened aircraft shelters around the worldWright-Patterson AFB CO (SPX) Oct 28, 2019 Acoustics researchers in the Air Force Research Laboratory's 711th Human Performance Wing are collecting and delivering acoustics data from hardened aircraft shelters around the world-data that cust ... more 
Three additional Russian RD-180 rocket engines being prepared for shipment to USMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 27, 2019 Russia has supplied the US with the state of the art rocket, first developed for the Soviet super-heavy lift Energiya launch vehicle, for use with Lockheed Martin's Atlas III and Atlas V, with the l ... more 
US Air Force hosts hypersonics pitch dayEglin AFB FL (SPX) Oct 29, 2019 The Air Force hosts the first-ever Hypersonics Pitch Day on Nov. 7, at the Doolittle Institute in Niceville. The purpose of Air Force "pitch days" is to do business at the speed of ideas by in ... more  
Nanoracks and Kayser to jointly open temperature controlled microgravity research on ISSWashington DC (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 Nanoracks Space Outpost - Europe (Nanoracks IT) and Kayser Italia have announced that the organizations have sign an agreement to broaden research opportunities onboard the International Space Stati ... more 
DLR and FAA working to integrate commercial spaceflight into the air transport systemBonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 27, 2019 The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the Office of Commercial Space Transportation of the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are seeking to identify ... more |
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 Seville, Spain (SPX) Oct 28, 2019 
University of Seville researchers, led by the professor Francisco Luis Cumbrera, together with colleagues from the University of Zaragoza and CSIC, have found a procedure for producing the phase B6C of boron carbide. This phase had been described from a theoretical point of view, but obtaining it and describing its character were a task that remained unfulfilled.
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 Los 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) - a three-year competition to unlock the true potential of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum with artificial intelligence (AI).
DARPA hosted the championship event at Mobile World Congress 2019 ( ... 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 (UPI) Oct 25, 2019 
The U.S. Air Force has released a final request for proposal for two types of light attack planes.
It intends to buy three examples each of two types of light attack planes, the A-29 Super Tucano and AT-6 Wolverine, the branch said in an announcement Friday.
Those to be based at Nellis AFB, Nev., would be used for training by the Air Force Special Operations Command, and those at ... 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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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 25, 2019  On 23 October 2019, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the U.S. company Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE) will announce the start of routine operations for the 'DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer' (DESIS).
This instrument will be operated by DLR and TBE. It is the most powerful hyperspectral Earth observation instrument in orbit and addresse ... more |
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 Sivakasi, India (AFP) Oct 25, 2019 
With thousands of workers painstakingly handmaking vast volumes of firecrackers, Sivakasi in southern India is usually at full tilt before Diwali. But due to efforts to curb air pollution, the pyrotechnics epicentre is fizzling out.
In addition to gifts, elaborate feasts and family get-togethers, the Hindu mega-festival of lights, which falls this weekend, has in recent years also meant sett ... more |
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 Xiamen (XNA) Oct 30, 2019 
China plans to launch four new science satellite missions by 2023, and scientists have completed concept research on another five to be launched in the next 10 years.
Successful Chinese science satellites launched since 2015 include the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) and the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT). These were under a sp ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 25, 2019 
The United States will spare Turkey from sanctions over its purchase of the S-400 missile system from Russia if it does not turn it on, a US official said Friday.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday lifted sanctions on Turkey that had been imposed over its assault on US-allied Syrian Kurdish fighters, which created a crisis between the NATO allies.
But tensions remain, with Turkey still ... 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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