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  Huntington Beach CA (SPX) Nov 07, 2019 Rocket Lab reports that its next mission will launch multiple microsatellites in a rideshare mission representing five different countries. The launch window for Rocket Lab's tenth flight, named 'Running Out Of Fingers,' will open 25th November NZDT and take place from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula. Onboard this rideshare mission are six spacecraft comprised of 5cm PocketQube microsatellites from satellite manufacturer and mission management provider Alba Orbital. Th ... read more |
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Beijing eyes creating first Earth-Moon economic zoneBeijing (Sputnik) Nov 07, 2019 China has been actively investing in space exploration in recent years, with its latest achievement being the successful launch of a drone that landed on the far side of the Moon and conducted sever ... more 
UK Space Agency backs small satellite launches from Cornwall with new fundsLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 07, 2019 The UK Space Agency will award 7.35 million pounds to Virgin Orbit UK Limited, the UK branch of US launch operator Virgin Orbit, to enable horizontal launch of small satellites at Cornwall Airport N ... more 
Elon Musk reveals why SpaceX is trying to develop a reusable orbital rocketSan Francisco CA (Sputnik) Nov 07, 2019 The 48-year-old maverick engineer made a surprise appearance at an Air Force "Pitch Day" and spent half an hour on stage with US Air Force commander of the Space and Missiles Systems Centre, Lieuten ... more  
Are we set to taste space wineMoscow (Sputnik) Nov 07, 2019 A European start-up has sent a batch of red wine to the International Space Station. However, this is not for the astronauts to have an elegant soiree with a view of Earth or to deal with stress, bu ... more |
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Growing tissues in spaceParis (ESA) Nov 07, 2019 Tissue engineering is a fast-developing field reaching new heights thanks to space research. An experiment on the International Space Station is opening up possibilities to grow artificial blood ves ... more  
Russia to launch glass sphere into space before new year to obtain accurate Earth dataMoscow (Sputnik) Nov 05, 2019 Russia plans to launch into orbit a spherical glass satellite for measuring Earth's gravity field by the end of December, documents revealed. The BLITS-M retroreflector satellite will be launc ... more  
Spaceflight's 3rd Rideshare mission with Rocket Lab will launch ALE's entertainment satelliteSeattle WA (SPX) Nov 06, 2019 Spaceflight, the leading satellite rideshare and mission management provider, has announced it has arranged for Tokyo-based ALE to launch its entertainment and science satellite on Rocket Lab's next ... more 
China launches Sudan's first ever satellite: officialKhartoum (AFP) Nov 6, 2019 Sudan's first ever satellite for conducting research in military, economic and space technology has been launched by China, the northeast African country's ruling body said Tuesday. ... more 
Voyager 2 illuminates boundary of interstellar spacePasadena CA (JPL) Nov 05, 2019 One year ago, on Nov. 5, 2018, NASA's Voyager 2 became only the second spacecraft in history to leave the heliosphere - the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by our Sun. At ... more |
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China conducts simulated weightlessness experiment for long-term stay in spaceBeijing (XNA) Nov 05, 2019 Thirty-six healthy male volunteers lay on beds with their heads low and feet high for 90 days for an experiment to simulate weightlessness that will pave the way for Chinese astronauts' long-term st ... more  |
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AFRL personnel connect with creative thinking process to enhance problem solvingWright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Nov 07, 2019 Air Force Research Laboratory personnel recently participated in a course on design innovation to learn and practice creativity techniques for enhanced problem solving. Because road blocks often d ... more  
State Dept. approves sale of UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to CroatiaWashington (UPI) Oct 31, 2019 The U.S. State Department approved the sale of two UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to Croatia, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced. ... more 
Report: Turkey nearing purchase of Russian Su-35 fighter planesWashington (UPI) Oct 29, 2019 Turkey is nearing the purchase of between 36 and 48 Su-35 fighter planes from Russia, Turkish government sources confirmed. ... more 
Aptiv awarded $28M contract for F-15 electrical cable assembliesWashington (UPI) Nov 6, 2019 Aptiv Services has been awarded contract for electrical special purpose cable assemblies for the F-15s of the U.S. Air Force. ... more 
Bell-Boeing awarded $146M for MV-22 aircraft upgrades, maintenanceWashington (UPI) Nov 5, 2019 Bell-Boeing has been awarded a $146 million contract for upgrades and maintenance on MV-22 aircraft. ... 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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 Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 05, 2019  Russia plans to launch into orbit a spherical glass satellite for measuring Earth's gravity field by the end of December, documents revealed.
The BLITS-M retroreflector satellite will be launched together with three Gonets-M communications satellites using the Rokot carrier rocket, scheduled to take off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on December 25.
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 6, 2019 
Aptiv Services has been awarded contract for electrical special purpose cable assemblies for the F-15s of the U.S. Air Force.
The $28 million contract, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, requires Aptiv to supply the assemblies for five years, through November 2024.
The sole-source deal, which carries no additional option periods, has been funded using fiscal 2020 thr ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Nov 05, 2019 
Not everything is bigger in Texas - some things are really, really small. A group of engineers at The University of Texas at Austin may have found a new material for manufacturing even smaller computer chips that could replace silicon and help overcome one of the biggest challenges facing the tech industry in decades: the inevitable end of Moore's Law.
In 1965, Gordon Moore, founder of Int ... more |
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 Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Nov 06, 2019 
In the past million years, the high-altitude winds of the southern westerly wind belt, which spans nearly half the globe, didn't behave as uniformly over the Southern Pacific as previously assumed. Instead, they varied cyclically over periods of ca. 21,000 years. A new study has now confirmed close ties between the climate of the mid and high latitudes and that of the tropics in the South Pacifi ... more |
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 Rome (AFP) Nov 4, 2019 
ArcelorMittal, the world's biggest steelmaker, said Monday it is pulling out of a deal to buy struggling Italian firm Ilva after Rome decided not to grant it immunity from prosecution over a heavily polluting plant that was a central part of the acquisition.
The Taranto plant in the south of Italy is mired in controversy because experts believe that some 7,500 people have died in the surroun ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Nov 07, 2019 
China has been actively investing in space exploration in recent years, with its latest achievement being the successful launch of a drone that landed on the far side of the Moon and conducted several experiments there. Beijing is already planning future lunar missions, including a manned one.
Director of the Science and Technology Commission of the China Aerospace Science and Technology C ... 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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 Singapore (SPX) Nov 06, 2019 
Researchers from SMART, MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, have made a groundbreaking discovery that allows scientists to 'look' at the surface density of dispersed nanoparticles. This revolutionary technique enables researchers to 'characterise' or understand the properties of nanoparticles without disturbing the nanoparticle, and also at a far lower cost and far quicker too.
The new ... 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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 Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 31, 2019  An anti-aircraft missile was fired Thursday at an Israeli drone over Lebanon, the Israeli army said, adding that the unmanned aircraft was not hit.
"A short while ago, an anti-aircraft missile was launched over Lebanese territory towards an IDF (Israeli army) UAV. The UAV was not hit," the military said in a statement posted on Twitter. It gave no further details.
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