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Iran breaks monopoly of know-how to launch satellites Tehran, Iran (IRNA) Jan 29, 2020 Iran broke the monopoly of nine states over know-how to launch satellites, spokesman for Ministry of Defense Aerospace Organization Ahmad Hosseini said on Tuesday. Ahmad Hosseini made the remarks in an interview about launching Zafar satellite. Military missiles and satellite rockets have two very different use in terms of system design and system integration. Ballistic missiles are used in hostility and should be capable of operating quickly and with high mobility, but satellites are for civilia ... read more |
From Antarctica to space: telemedicine at the limit Paris (ESA) Jan 31, 2020 ESA is working with Argentina to test telemedicine device Tempus Pro in the harsh conditions of Antarctica as Europe prepares for its next phase of human exploration in space. The development ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 30, 2020 Engineers for NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft are working to return the mission to normal operating conditions after one of the spacecraft's autonomous fault protection routines was triggered. Mul ... more Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jan 29, 2020 SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 carrying it's fourth batch of 60 Starlink satellites. Launch was 9:06 a.m. Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The satellites were successfully deployed a little over one hour after launch. ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 29, 2020 The secrecy-laden project, in development since 2010, is intended to facilitate the transportation of large cargoes in deep space, including for the purpose of creating permanent bases on other plan ... more |
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NASA selects first commercial destination module for International Space Station Houston TX (SPX) Jan 28, 2020 NASA has selected Axiom Space of Houston to provide at least one habitable commercial module to be attached to the International Space Station as the agency continues to open the station for commerc ... more Washington (AFP) Jan 30, 2020 The United States is awaiting a green light from the Iraqi government to deploy Patriot missile defense systems to protect US troops from Iranian missile attacks, Pentagon chief Mark Esper said Thursday. ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jan 31, 2020 In its third field experiment, DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program deployed swarms of autonomous air and ground vehicles to demonstrate a raid in an urban area. The OFFSET progr ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jan 31, 2020 The sophistication of autonomous systems currently being developed across various domains and industries has markedly increased in recent years, due in large part to advances in computing, modeling, ... more Washington (AFP) Jan 30, 2020 The US government plans to relax restrictions on the army's use of anti-personnel mines, reversing an Obama-era commitment that more than 160 countries have signed up to, and which aims to limit injuries to civilians, US media reported Thursday. ... more |
41st Field Artillery Brigade conducts live fire exercise in Germany Beijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2020 China plans to launch more space science satellites in the coming three to four years, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The satellites will be used to detect electromagnetic ... more |
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NASA awards contract for intelligent systems research Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 NASA has selected Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, LLC, a KBRwyle business unit, of Greenbelt, Maryland, for a contract for intelligent systems research and development support services at the agenc ... more New Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 23, 2020 India's space agency the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) is gearing up for its week-long space mission worth $1.31 billion. Four astronauts have been shortlisted from the Indian Air Force ... more Paris (ESA) Jan 17, 2020 Ariane 5's first launch of 2020 has delivered two telecom satellites, Konnect and GSAT-30, into their planned transfer orbits. Arianespace announced liftoff at 21:05 GMT (22:05 CET, 18:05 local time ... more Washington DC (UPI) Jan 28, 2020 National Technologies Associates received a $104.9 million contract to provide support for the Presidential Helicopters Program Office, Helicopter Marine Squadron One and Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Twenty-One, the Department of Defense announced. ... more Washington DC (UPI) Jan 28, 2020 Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. received an $80.1 million modification to sustain the C-20 and C-37 fleet for the AIr Force, Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. ... more |
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NASA scientists tap virtual reality to make a scientific discovery Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 30, 2020 NASA scientists using virtual reality technology are redefining our understanding about how our galaxy works. Using a customized, 3D virtual reality (VR) simulation that animated the speed and direction of 4 million stars in the local Milky Way neighborhood, astronomer Marc Kuchner and researcher Susan Higashio obtained a new perspective on the stars' motions, improving our understanding o ... more |
US Army and Air Force team up for multi-domain operations White Sands Missile Range NM (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 Two U.S. Air Force F-35s were integrated with the U.S. Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS), providing an airborne sensor capability to successfully detect, track and intercept near simultaneous air-breathing threats in a test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The December 2019 test marked the first time F-35s were used as sensors during an IBCS live ... more |
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China's international journal Satellite Navigation launched Beijing (XNA) Jan 22, 2020 A new English publication offering scientific research in the field of satellite navigation has just been launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Springer Nature. The peer-reviewed academic journal "Satellite Navigation" is online in an open-access format, according to the joint sponsor Aerospace Information Research Institute of the CAS Tuesday. The journal aims to report ne ... more |
NASA creates technologies to gather Great Observatory Science from a balloon Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2020 NASA Scientist Al Kogut has found a way to do Hubble Space Telescope-class science from a relatively inexpensive scientific balloon and is well on the way to proving the concept. If he succeeds, the technology he's developing under the Balloon-borne Cryogenic Telescope Testbed (BOBCAT) effort could prove potentially revolutionary for cosmologists and other scientists who need to collect far-infr ... more |
Coupled quantum dots may offer a new way to store quantum information Washington DC (SPX) Jan 30, 2020 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have for the first time created and imaged a novel pair of quantum dots - tiny islands of confined electric charge that act like interacting artificial atoms. Such "coupled" quantum dots could serve as a robust quantum bit, or qubit, the fundamental unit of information for a quantum computer. Moreover, ... more |
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Agreement on data utilization of earth observation satellite with FAO Tsukuba, Japan (SPX) Jan 27, 2020 FAO will bolster the scale and scope of its geospatial monitoring toolkit thanks to collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) that will expand the capacity of FAO's accessible platforms for forestry and land-use assessments. A three-year agreement signed last week will enhance the access of FAO member states and other users to JAXA data sets and more "ground-truthing ... more |
France cracks down on plastic waste, destruction of unsold clothes Paris (AFP) Jan 30, 2020 The French parliament on Thursday passed a law forbidding retailers from destroying unsold clothes and banning single-use plastic containers by 2040, part of the government's efforts to reduce waste. The bill adopted by the Senate, after being cleared by the lower house National Assembly last week, bans fast-food restaurants from serving food that is not for takeaway in plastic containers be ... more |
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China to launch more space science satellites Beijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2020 China plans to launch more space science satellites in the coming three to four years, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The satellites will be used to detect electromagnetic signals associated with gravitational waves, solar eruption activities, astronomy and the interaction between solar wind and the Earth's magnetosphere. Four new missions include the Gravitation ... more |
US awaits Iraq's okay to deploy Patriots to protect troops Washington (AFP) Jan 30, 2020 The United States is awaiting a green light from the Iraqi government to deploy Patriot missile defense systems to protect US troops from Iranian missile attacks, Pentagon chief Mark Esper said Thursday. Iran launched 11 missiles at a US air base at Ain al-Assad and another at a base in Erbil on January 8 in retaliation for the killing days earlier of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in a US ... more |
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New footage shows Iranian missiles hitting Ukraine plane Washington (AFP) Jan 15, 2020 New video footage has emerged showing two Iranian missiles tearing through the night sky and hitting a Ukrainian passenger plane, sending the aircraft down in flames and killing all 176 passengers and crew on board. The projectiles were fired 30 seconds apart and explain why the plane's transponder was not working as it hurtled to the ground - it was disabled by the first strike, before bei ... more |
Deep-sea osmolyte makes biomolecular machines heat-tolerant Sapporo, Japan (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 Researchers have discovered a method to control biomolecular machines over a wide temperature range using deep-sea osmolyte trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO). This finding could open a new dimension in the application of artificial machines fabricated from biomolecular motors and other proteins. Biomolecular motors are the smallest natural machines that keep living organisms dynamic. They can ... more |
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OFFSET Swarm Systems Integrators Demonstrate Tactics to Conduct Urban Raid Washington DC (SPX) Jan 31, 2020 In its third field experiment, DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program deployed swarms of autonomous air and ground vehicles to demonstrate a raid in an urban area. The OFFSET program envisions swarms of up to 250 collaborative autonomous systems providing critical insights to small ground units in urban areas where limited sight lines and tight spaces can obscure hazards, as we ... more |
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AFRL XQ-58A Valkyrie expands flight envelope in fourth test Wright-Patterson AFB CO (SPX) Jan 27, 2020 The Air Force Research Laboratory, along with partner Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc., completed the successful fourth flight test of the XQ-58A Valkyrie low-cost unmanned air vehicle demonstrator Jan. 23, 2020, at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. During the test event, the Valkyrie demonstrator's flight successfully met all of the test objectives, and the envelope was expanded be ... more |
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