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  Houston TX (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 Axiom Space announced it is planning history's first fully private human spaceflight to the International Space Station. Axiom has signed a contract with SpaceX for a Crew Dragon flight which will transport a commander professionally trained by Axiom alongside three private astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The mission, set to launch as soon as the second half of 2021, will allow the crew to live aboard the ISS and experience at least eight days of microgravity and views of Earth t ... read more |
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Xplore selects Orbit Fab's RAFTI design standard for deep space missionsSeattle WA (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 Xplore Inc have announced that they are integrating the Orbit Fab RAFTI into the Xcraft, Xplore's highly-capable, multi-mission ESPA-class spacecraft. The RAFTI, which stands for Rapidly Attachable ... more  
In-space Robotic Servicing Program moves forward with new commercial partnerWashington DC (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 DARPA has established a new partnership with U.S. industry to jointly develop and deploy advanced robotic capabilities in space. The agency has signed an Other Transactions for Prototypes agreement ... more  
SpaceX Dragon heads to Space Station for Monday dockingHouston TX (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station after launching at 11:50 p.m. EST Friday. Dragon will deliver more than 4,300 pounds of NASA cargo and science inves ... more 
SpaceX announces partnership to send tourists to ISSWashington (AFP) March 5, 2020 SpaceX on Thursday announced a partnership to send three tourists to the International Space Station (ISS), the first private trip in more than a decade. ... more |
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SpaceX launches 20th space station cargo missionWashington DC (UPI) Mar 06, 2020 SpaceX launched more than 4,300 pounds of supplies and science experiments to the International Space Station from Florida on Friday night - the company's 20th such mission for NASA. ... more 
Study confirms space-grown lettuce nutritious, safeWashington DC (UPI) Mar 06, 2020 Astronauts onboard the International Space Station have successfully cultivated lettuce and, according to a study published Friday, the red romaine lettuce - a Lactuca sativa variety known as 'Outredgeous' - is disease-free and safe to eat. ... more 
NASA: Boeing software team had too much power over Starliner capsuleWashington DC (UPI) Mar 06, 2020 Boeing's software team had too much influence over final decisions regarding the company's Starliner capsule, a top NASA administrator said Friday. ... more 
Bartolomeo external platform to expand commercial usage of the ISSKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 Its days on Earth are numbered - the external platform Bartolomeo is currently waiting for its launch to the International Space Station (ISS) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida inside a SpaceX Drag ... more 
Robot uses artificial intelligence and imaging to draw bloodNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 Rutgers engineers have created a tabletop device that combines a robot, artificial intelligence and near-infrared and ultrasound imaging to draw blood or insert catheters to deliver fluids and drugs ... more |
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'It's like you have a hand again': An ultra-precise mind-controlled prostheticAnn Arbor MI (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 In a major advance in mind-controlled prosthetics for amputees, University of Michigan researchers have tapped faint, latent signals from arm nerves and amplified them to enable real-time, intuitive ... more  |
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NASA's Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge Advances with Agreement SigningsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 NASA has signed Space Act Agreements with 17 companies in the aviation industry to advance plans for the first in a series of technology demonstrations known as the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Grand Ch ... more  
RUAG Space celebrated 700 satellite separationLinkoping, Sweden (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 The 700th satellite separation was celebrated with the Swedish space minister Matilda Ernkrans in Linkoping, Sweden, where RUAG is producing its separation systems. In February RUAG Space has succes ... more  
Scientists created an 'impossible' superconducting compoundMoscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 Scientists have created new superconducting compounds of hydrogen and praseodymium, a rare-earth metal, one substance being quite a surprise from the perspective of classical chemistry. The study he ... more 
Manipulating atoms to make better superconductorsChicago IL (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 Scientists have been interested in superconductors - materials that transmit electricity without losing energy - for a long time because of their potential for advancing sustainable energy productio ... more 
Interference testing for Orion spacecraft beginsParis (ESA) Mar 04, 2020 Testing one, two and now, three. Radio frequency testing has begun on the first Orion spacecraft that will fly around the Moon for the Artemis 1 mission, just two weeks after thermal and environment ... more |
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 Leeds UK (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 
Scientists have made a breakthrough in the search for a new, sustainable permanent magnet.
Most permanent magnets are made from alloys of rare earth metals - but the mining and processing of these materials produces toxic by-products, leading to ecological challenges around rare-earth mines and refineries. At the same time, demand for permanent magnets is increasing as they are a common co ... 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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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 06, 2020 
The Beijing municipal government has released a three-year plan to promote the innovation and development of industries related to the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System.
Beijing will foster breakthroughs in key and core technologies, and create a sound ecology for Beidou-related industries via cultivating competitive enterprises, according to the plan.
The total output value of the ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 
NASA has signed Space Act Agreements with 17 companies in the aviation industry to advance plans for the first in a series of technology demonstrations known as the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Grand Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to test the capabilities and readiness of vehicles and systems that could revolutionize mobility in and around densely populated metropolitan areas.
When fu ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 
Our world has no dearth of complex networks - from cellular networks in biology to intricate web networks in technology. These networks also form the basis of various applications in virtually all fields of science, and to analyze and manipulate these networks, specific "search" algorithms are required. But, conventional search algorithms are slow and, when dealing with large networks, require a ... more |
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 Broomfield CO (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 
World View, the stratospheric data and information services company, has announced their plans to build and deploy a fleet of Stratollites, known as World View Orbits, over North and Central America starting this summer.
After a series of successful test and development flights to sharpen vehicle flight and navigation capabilities, World View is in final preparations to offer customers hig ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 25, 2020 
Nearly 90 percent of the 200 cities beset by the world's highest levels of deadly micro-pollution are in China and India, with most of the rest in Pakistan and Indonesia, researchers reported Tuesday.
Taking population into account, Bangladesh emerged as the country with the worst so-called PM2.5 pollution, followed by Pakistan, Mongolia, Afghanistan and India, according to the 2019 World Ai ... more |
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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 (AFP) March 4, 2020 
The US government on Wednesday approved the sale to Poland of Javelin anti-tank missiles, the weapon system at the center of the Ukraine scandal that led to President Donald Trump's impeachment.
The Pentagon said the order, authorized by the State Department, was for 79 Javelin missile launchers and 189 missiles worth $100 million.
Poland's conservative government has stepped up its effo ... more |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 
Through a technique known as DNA origami, scientists have created the fastest, most persistent DNA nano motor yet. Angewandte Chemie published the findings, which provide a blueprint for how to optimize the design of motors at the nanoscale - hundreds of times smaller than the typical human cell.
"Nanoscale motors have tremendous potential for applications in biosensing, in building synthe ... more |
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 New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 
Rutgers engineers have created a tabletop device that combines a robot, artificial intelligence and near-infrared and ultrasound imaging to draw blood or insert catheters to deliver fluids and drugs.
Their most recent research results, published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, suggest that autonomous systems like the image-guided robotic device could outperform people on some c ... 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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