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  Houghton MI (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 Orbion Space Technology told SpaceDaily that it has formed a partnership with Xplore Inc to provide "Space As A Service". Orbion will build and deliver its plasma propulsion system to Xplore over the next six years. By innovating the manufacturing process to achieve new high-volume production standards, Orbion and Xplore will deliver the efficiency and affordability necessary to accelerate launch cadence for deep space exploration. This partnership comes on the heels of Xplore announcing its ... read more |
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Life support upgrades arrive at station, improve reliability for Moon, Mars MissionsHuntsville AL (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 NASA delivered upgraded life support hardware to the International Space Station March 9 aboard SpaceX's 20th resupply mission. Improving life support with reliable systems will help enable hu ... more 
Plant growth on ISS has global impacts on EarthWashington DC (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 Understanding the effects of gravity on plant life is essential in preparing for human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit. The ability to produce high-energy, low-mass food sources during spacefligh ... more  
Trisept completes Cubesat integration for NASA ELaNa 32 Andesite MissionChantilly VA (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 TriSept Corporation, a leading provider of launch integration, management and brokerage services for commercial and government missions, has told SpaceDaily it has completed the integration activity ... more  
Producing human tissue in spaceZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 On 6 March at 11:50 PM EST, the International Space Station resupply mission Space X CRS-20 took off from Cape Canaveral (USA). On board: 250 test tubes from the University of Zurich containing adul ... more |
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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 
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 
Axiom Space plans first-ever fully private human spaceflight mission to International Space StationHouston 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 t ... more 
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 |
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 SpaceX announces partnership to send tourists to ISS 
Gastronauts: Developing food ready for the next space raceBrighton UK (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 For the new space race, astronauts and space tourists will want to eat a little better than the corn beef sandwiches, applesauce and high-calorie cubes of protein, fat and sugar consumed by NASA sci ... more  |
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An astronaut's guide to applying to be an astronautHouston TX (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 About every four years, NASA accepts applications for a new class of astronauts. We in the astronaut office are thrilled and excited it is that time again! As someone who just went through this proc ... more  
Arrows of misfortune as US Missile Defence needs upgradingMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 10, 2020 In late 2019, the Boeing Company was offered a modification contract worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars to upgrade the US Ground-based Midcourse Defence (GMD) interceptor system, which i ... more  
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 
'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 
New material could turn clothing into a health monitorHouston TX (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 Researchers have reported a new material, pliable enough to be woven into fabric but imbued with sensing capabilities that can serve as an early warning system for injury or illness. The mater ... more |
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 Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 
Billions of lightyears away, gigantic clouds of hydrogen gas produce a special kind of radiation, a type of ultraviolet light known as Lyman-alpha emissions. The enormous clouds emitting the light are Lyman-alpha blobs (LABs). LABs are several times larger than our Milky Way galaxy, yet were only discovered 20 years ago. An extremely powerful energy source is necessary to produce this radiation ... 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 (UPI) Mar 09, 2020 
The first interception and shadow of Russian aircraft by an F-35A fighter plane was conducted over the weekend by the Norwegian Air Force, officials said.
When two Russian Tu-142 anti-submarine aircraft, with MiG-31 fighter planes escorting them, came close to Norway's airspace on Saturday, two Norwegian F-16 planes on NATO's "Quick Reaction Alert" took off from Orland Air Station to id ... more |
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 Linkoping, Sweden (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 
A research group led by Simone Fabiano at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linkoping University, has created an organic material with superb conductivity that doesn't need to be doped. They have achieved this by mixing two polymers with different properties.
In order to increase the conductivity of polymers, and in this way obtain higher efficiency in organic solar cells, light-emitt ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 06, 2020 
Plastics are being ingested by amphipods living in one of the deepest places on Earth, the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench.
Amphipods, sometimes called hoppers, are tiny shrimp-like crustaceans. Though they are found in all aquatic environs, the majority of the roughly 9,900 known species are found in the ocean.
Recently, scientists found a new species living in the Mariana Trench ... 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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 Damascus (AFP) March 5, 2020 
Syrian air defence responded to Israeli missiles targeting the south and centre of the country, state media said early Thursday.
"Our air defence confronted an Israeli missile attack in the southwest of Quneitra province" in the south and also in a central region, SANA news agency said.
The short statement released after midnight did not provide details on the targets. Quneitra province ... 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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