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  Daytona Beach FL (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 When Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University student John Trzinski was a sophomore, he took two classes that cross-pollinated, resulting in an idea that won the first-place prize for individual projects in a recent Undergraduate Research Symposium - and could help solve a real-life problem. While studying the life support systems on the International Space Station, Trzinski learned that filtration of the station's precious water is one of the station's most "energy-draining and inefficient" systems, ... read more |
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OmegA on track to support certification launch in 2021Promontory UT (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 Northrop Grumman Corporation has conducted a full-scale static fire test of the second stage of its OmegA rocket in Promontory, Utah. Developed to support the U.S. Space Force's National Security Sp ... more 
Space startup Astra fails to launch rocket on last day of DARPA launch challengeWashington DC (UPI) Mar 02, 2020 California-based space company Astra ended an attempt to launch a rocket Monday from Alaska, ending the government-sponsored DARPA Launch Challenge with no prize winner, according to the agency's chief of communications. ... more 
New generation rocket engines to be tested at EsrangeStockholm, Sweden (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 Swedish Space Corporation, SSC, and German space tech company Isar Aerospace have signed a long-term contract for testing of a new generation of European rocket engines for minilaunchers at Esrange ... more 
SpaceX Starship prototype explodes in test againWashington DC (UPI) Mar 02, 2020 Another prototype of SpaceX's Starship rocket exploded during a pressure test at the company's construction yard in Boca Chica, Texas. It was the second such explosion at the Texas site in the past four months. ... more |
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Robots autonomously navigate underground in DARPA challengeWashington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 Whether robots are exploring caves on other planets or disaster areas here on Earth, autonomy enables them to navigate extreme environments without human guidance or access to GPS. The Subterr ... more 
US trying to catch up with Russia, China in hypersonicsWashington (Sputnik) Mar 03, 2020 The United States finds itself behind both Russia and China after the two countries transitioned from hypersonic technologies to working weapon systems, something the Pentagon has yet to accomplish, ... more  
BAE wins $188.2M Navy contract for AEGIS system engineering, testingWashington DC (UPI) Mar 02, 2020 BAE Systems will provide the U.S. Navy's AEGIS Technical Representative office with resources in a $188.2 million contract, the company said on Monday. ... more 
PLD Space successfully achieved a full rocket engine test for MIURA 1 missionElche, Spain (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 In May 2019 PLD Space suffered a catastrophic engine failure, which provoked material damage, including the loss of the first flight version of the TEPREL-B liquid rocket engine, developed by PLD Sp ... more  
Regulators move to fine telecoms for selling location dataWashington (AFP) Feb 29, 2020 US regulators moved to impose fines Friday against the nation's four major wireless carriers for selling location data of customers without their consent. ... more |
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 Lockheed Martin awarded $141.7M for repair capabilities for the F-35  
Simple self-charging battery offers power solutions for devicesWashington DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 A new type of battery combines negative capacitance and negative resistance within the same cell, allowing the cell to self-charge without losing energy, which has important implications for long-te ... more  |
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Four BeiDou satellites join system to provide servicesBeijing (XNA) Feb 27, 2020 Four new satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) have recently passed tests in orbit and joined the system to provide positioning, navigation and timing services. The four s ... more  
Raytheon awarded $90.4M for JMEWS warheads for Tomahawk missilesWashington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2020 Raytheon Missile Systems has received a $90.4 million contract to provide engineering and manufacturing development for the Navy's Joint Multiple Effects Warhead System (JMEWS), the Pentagon announced. ... more  
Turkish drones kill 19 Syrian government soldiers as tensions soarAnkara (AFP) March 1, 2020 Turkish drone strikes in Syria's northwestern Idlib province killed 19 government soldiers on Sunday, a war monitor reported, as tensions soared between Damascus and Ankara. ... more  
Raytheon nets $15M to support small diameter bomb IIWashington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2020Washington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2020 Raytheon has been awarded a $15 million increase to a previous contract for Small Diameter Bomb II technical support, increasing the total value of the contract to $115 million, the Department of Defense said. ... more 
Lockheed Martin nabs $1.1B to provide GMLRS to Romania, South KoreaWashington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2020 Lockheed Martin was awarded a $1.1 billion contract modification to provide Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems for Romania and South Korea through the Foreign Military Sales program, the Department of Defense announced Thursday. ... more |
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 Los Alamos NM (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 
A new machine-learning computer model accurately predicts damaging radiation storms caused by the Van Allen belts two days prior to the storm, the most advanced notice to date, according to a new paper in the journal Space Weather.
"Radiation storms from the Van Allen belts can damage or even knock out satellites orbiting in medium and high altitudes above the Earth, but predicting these s ... more |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 
Lockheed Martin's third satellite based on the modernized LM 2100 bus launched from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket and is traveling to its transfer orbit for a series of in-orbit tests before operations are handed over to Sky Perfect JSAT Corporation. JCSAT-17 will provide flexible mobile communications services to users in Japan and the surrounding region. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 29, 2020 
US regulators moved to impose fines Friday against the nation's four major wireless carriers for selling location data of customers without their consent.
The Federal Communications Commission proposed fining T-Mobile more than $91 million; AT&T some $57 million; Verizon $48 million, and Sprint $12 million.
The wireless firms were accused of having disclosed mobile network user location ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2020 
Lockheed Martin received a $141.7 million contract modification for repair capabilities for the F-35 combat aircraft, the Pentagon announced.
This contract is funded with Fiscal 2019 funds from Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps coffers.
Lockheed closed out 2019 with $2.35 billion in contracts to support the aircraft, versions of which are used by the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Mari ... more |
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 York UK (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 
A research collaboration led by the University of York's Department of Physics has created open-source software to assist in the creation of quantum materials which could in turn vastly increase the world's computing power.
Throughout the world the increased use of data centres and cloud computing are consuming growing amounts of energy - quantum materials could help tackle this problem, s ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 2, 2020 
NASA satellite images show a dramatic fall in pollution over China that is "partly related" to the economic slowdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, the space agency said.
The reduction in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution was first noticed near Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, but eventually spread across China, according to NASA scientists who examined data collected by their and Euro ... more |
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 Dakar (AFP) Feb 29, 2020 
Volunteers gathered to clear a beach strewn with used compresses, dirty needles and vials of blood on Saturday, apparently discarded by nearby hospitals in Senegal's capital Dakar.
The city beach, named Cap-Manuel, is bordered by turquoise waters on one side and construction sites on the other.
It's a hit with locals, and children often use it as a football pitch.
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 Nanjing (XNA) Feb 21, 2020 
China's spacecraft tracking ship Yuanwang-5 is sailing to the Pacific Ocean from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province Thursday for a maritime space monitoring mission.
It is the first voyage of the ship this year.
Before the end of the Spring Festival, the mission members were gathered and quarantined on the ship to prevent the novel coronavirus infection. They completed the prepa ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 02, 2020 
BAE Systems will provide the U.S. Navy's AEGIS Technical Representative office with resources in a $188.2 million contract, the company said on Monday.
The five-year contract calls for AEGIS TECHREP to receive large-scale system engineering, integration, and testing expertise for the AEGIS Weapons and Combat Systems on U.S. Navy surface combatant ships.
The system is a command-an ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 28, 2020 
Russia has successfully test-launched its Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile from a ship for the first time and is planning more tests from nuclear submarines.
The missile was fired from the frigate Admiral Gorshkov in early January while it was cruising in the Barents Sea, state news agency TASS reported Thursday. It landed at a military testing range in the Northern Ural mountain range mo ... more |
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 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 
Whether robots are exploring caves on other planets or disaster areas here on Earth, autonomy enables them to navigate extreme environments without human guidance or access to GPS.
The Subterranean Challenge, or SubT, is testing this kind of cutting-edge technology. Sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the contest concluded its second circuit on Wednesday, Fe ... more |
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 Ankara (AFP) March 1, 2020 
Turkish drone strikes in Syria's northwestern Idlib province killed 19 government soldiers on Sunday, a war monitor reported, as tensions soared between Damascus and Ankara.
The 19 died in strikes on a military convoy in the Jabal al-Zawiya area and a base near Maaret al-Numan city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The report came hours after Turkey shot down two Syrian warp ... more |
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