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  New Delhi (Sputnik) Nov 01, 2019 Initial designs of the space station suggest that it will be a 20-tonne modular abode located in low earth orbit (LEO), at an altitude of between 120 km and 140 km. The Bengaluru-based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday announced plans to put a space station into orbit within five to seven years, a media report said. "We don't want to be part of ISS (International Space Station). Our station, which will be set up in five to seven years, won't be very big", Indian daily Tim ... read more |
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British hypersonic engine passes key testBethesda MD (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 Reaction Engines, a UK-based company formed in 1989 to design and develop the technologies needed for a new class of innovative hypersonic propulsion system, claims a breakthrough in aerospace engin ... more  
New insights could help tame speedy ions in fusion plasmasFort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 To create a practical fusion energy reactor, researchers need to control particles known as fast ions. These speedy ions, which are electrically charged hydrogen atoms, provide much of the self-heat ... more 
Astronaut smart glove to explore the Moon, Mars and beyondMountain View CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 The NASA Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) and collaborating organizations SETI Institute, Mars Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Collins Aerospace, and Ntention are announcing the successful field te ... more 
Discoveries from fusion to astrophysics at global gatheringPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Oct 30, 2019 More than 155 researchers and students - the largest delegation from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in recent years - attended the 61st annual meeti ... more |
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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  
China plans more space science satellitesXiamen (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 scienc ... 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  
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 
Fuel injection helps reduce magnetic island instabilitiesFort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 Fusion is a non-carbon-based process for energy production, where lighter atoms fuse into heavier ones. Fusion reactors operate by confining a "soup" of charged particles, known as a plasma, within ... more |
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 NKorea conducts new test of 'super-large' rocket launcher: KCNA  
Teams Complete SubT Challenge Virtual Tunnel CircuitWashington DC (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 With 50 total points, Coordinated Robotics finished in first place in the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge Virtual Tunnel Circuit event, and as the top self-funded team, earned $250,000. Eight te ... 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  
North Korea fires short-range projectiles: South's militarySeoul (AFP) Oct 31, 2019 North Korea fired two short-range projectiles on Thursday, the South's military said, with nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington at a deadlock. ... 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 
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 
ESA and GomSpace sign contract to develop miniaturized electric propulsion systemAalborg, Danmark (SPX) Oct 30, 2019 GomSpace's subsidiary in Sweden and ESA have signed a contract to develop a miniaturized electric propulsion system suitable for small spacecrafts going on interplanetary missions. The contrac ... more |
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 Goleta CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2019 
Las Cumbres Observatory is one of nine organizations jointly awarded a $2.8 million grant by the National Science Foundation to further develop the concept for a Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (SCIMMA).
Multi-messenger astrophysics combines observations of light, gravitational waves, and particles to understand some of the most extreme events in the ... more |
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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 29, 2019 
Turkey is nearing the purchase of between 36 and 48 Su-35 fighter planes from Russia, Turkish government sources confirmed.
The figure of 48 planes would comprise two squadrons of the plane, and would complement the S-400 missile defense system that Turkey, a NATO member, purchased from Russia earlier this year and delivered in August.
The plane and missile system are part of a c ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 
MIPT physicists have learned how to locally control Josephson vortices. The discovery can be used for quantum electronics superconducting devices and future quantum processors. The work has been published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature Communications.
A Josephson vortex is a vortex of currents occurring in a system of two superconductors separated by a weak link - a dielectri ... 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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 Manila (AFP) Oct 23, 2019 
Tens of thousands of pieces of plastic littering the planet come from just a handful of multinational corporations, an environmental pressure group said Wednesday.
Coca-Cola, Nestle and PepsiCo were named by Break Free from Plastics, a global coalition of individuals and environmental organisations, who warned the companies largely avoid cleanup responsibility.
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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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 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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 Seoul (AFP) Oct 31, 2019  North Korea fired two short-range projectiles on Thursday, the South's military said, with nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington at a deadlock.
The weapons were launched from South Pyongan province in an easterly direction over the sea, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
They flew 370 kilometres (230 miles) at a maximum altitude of 90 kilometres, they said, addin ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 31, 2019  Northwestern University chemists have used visible light and extremely tiny nanoparticles to quickly and simply make molecules that are of the same class as many lead compounds for drug development.
Driven by light, the nanoparticle catalysts perform chemical reactions with very specific chemical products - molecules that don't just have the right chemical formulas but also have specific a ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 
With 50 total points, Coordinated Robotics finished in first place in the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge Virtual Tunnel Circuit event, and as the top self-funded team, earned $250,000. Eight teams developed, tested, and submitted their software-based solutions for simulation-based evaluation on the SubT Virtual Testbed.
DARPA-funded and self-funded teams compete side-by-side throughou ... more |
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 Dundee UK (SPX) Oct 31, 2019 
A new 3D process which involves old aerial photos and modern-day drone photography has shed light on accelerated ice loss from some of Iceland's largest glaciers.
Dr Kieran Baxter from the University of Dundee has created composite images that compare views from 1980s aerial surveys to modern day photos captured with the help of state-of-the-art technology.
This revolutionary techniq ... more |
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