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  Houston TX (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 History was made May 30 when NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley launched from American soil in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft lifted off on the company's Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked with the space station on May 31. Now, Behnken and Hurley are ready to return home in Endeavour for a splashdown off the coast of Fl ... read more |
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The Heartbeat of InnovationWashington DC (SPX) Jul 24, 2020 New innovative products breed new innovative production processes. Nowhere is that more prevalent than at Northrop Grumman. Designing, developing and manufacturing unique aircraft is in the company' ... more  
Leveraging microgravity to improve medical diagnosticsKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 What if a single drop of blood were all that is needed to provide reliable medical diagnostics in any setting on-or even off-Earth? This week, NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken, who ... more  
Garmin says systems back online after cyber attackSan Francisco (AFP) July 27, 2020 Computer networks of the smartwatch and electronics firm Garmin were coming back online Monday, the company said, after an outage widely believed to have been due to a ransomware attack. ... more  
Russia to create several space robotsMoscow (Sputnik) Jul 28, 2020 Russia will manufacture several space robots designed for operating on the surface of the International Space Station, but only one will be sent to space, Evgeny Dudorov, the CEO of Moscow-based And ... more |
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Northrop Grumman delivers three GEM 63 rocket motors for Atlas VMagna UT (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 Northrop Grumman has delivered three of its 63-inch-diameter Graphite Epoxy Motors (GEM 63) for United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Atlas V rocket. The three motors were shipped from the Northrop Grumman ... more  
Trump eases controls on armed drone exportsWashington (AFP) July 24, 2020 The Trump administration moved Friday to ease controls on exports of armed drones, saying that allies need US technology and that other countries outside of a non-proliferation pact were taking over the market. ... more 
Four companies share $400M contract for Skyborg drone prototypesWashington DC (UPI) Jul 24, 2020 Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics and Kratos Defense and Security Solutions have been awarded contracts to build Skyborg drone prototypes for the U.S. Air Force, the branch said Friday. ... more 
Israeli-built drone for German air force has first successful flightWashington DC (UPI) Jul 27, 2020 An unmanned aerial vehicle made in Israel for Germany's Defense Ministry completed its first successful flight, builder Israel Aerospace Industries announced. ... more  
First French fighter jets head to India after purchaseParis (AFP) July 27, 2020 The first five of a batch of French Rafale fighter jets purchased by New Delhi in a controversial multibillion-dollar deal headed to India on Monday for rapid deployment amid rising tensions with China. ... more |
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 Subterranean Challenge pivots to all-virtual competition for cave circuit 
AFLCMC Awards Skyborg ContractWright-Patterson AFB OHw (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has awarded multiple indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts to The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri; General Atomics Aeronautical System ... more  |
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Pandemic won't stop smallsat market takeoff to average 1,000 smallsats to be launched per year over 2020sParis, France (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 In the 6th edition of its latest research titled "Prospects for the Small Satellite Market", Euroconsult forecasts that two mega-constellations will account for half of the smallsats to be launched ... more
Garmin says outage continues but user data 'not affected'Washington (AFP) July 25, 2020 Garmin Ltd said Saturday that client data from the company's smartwatch and GPS services - offline since Thursday - has not been compromised, despite fears of a ransomware attack. ... more 
China's fastest rocket carries deep space dreamBeijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 A Long March-5 rocket blasted off Thursday at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province, carrying the country's Mars probe, Tianwen-1. It is the first time that the ... more 
Cubesats get close: proximity operation with interesting implicationsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 With some technical panache, one of The Aerospace Corporation's CubeSats maneuvered itself within 22 meters of its sibling CubeSat and snapped a series of photos while orbiting at 17,000 miles per h ... more  
A plethora of US-China disputesParis (AFP) July 22, 2020 The United States and China are at loggerheads over a long list of issues, from the cause of the novel coronavirus to Hong Kong, and trade. ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jul 27, 2020  The U.S. Air Force and a private technology company in Texas started to develop new satellites this summer that are capable of quick software changes in orbit to respond to threats and to carry out new tasks.
Austin-based Hypergiant, which works on several kinds of artificial intelligence, has a formal but classified agreement to develop technology for the Air Force, with a potential $1 ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) July 21, 2020 
South Korea's first-ever military communications satellite has been successfully launched by private operator SpaceX, Seoul said Tuesday, as it looks to build up its defence capabilities.
The ANASIS-II is intended to enhance the South's ability to defend itself against the nuclear-armed North, which invaded in 1950.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellite blasted off from Cape Canaveral ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) July 27, 2020 
Computer networks of the smartwatch and electronics firm Garmin were coming back online Monday, the company said, after an outage widely believed to have been due to a ransomware attack.
The company acknowledged it was the victim of a "cyber attack that encrypted some of our systems," without offering details.
The comments suggest a ransomware attack which would have required a payment t ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 24, 2020 
DARPA has selected three performers to work on the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program, which aims to demonstrate an aircraft design based on active flow control (AFC), an area not fully explored compared to traditional flight controls. The goal is to demonstrate significant efficiency benefits of AFC, as well as improvements in aircraft cost, weight, performan ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 
Electrons can interfere in the same manner as water, acoustical or light waves do. When exploited in solid-state materials, such effects promise novel functionality for electronic devices, in which elements such as interferometers, lenses or collimators could be integrated for controlling electrons at the scale of mirco- and nanometres.
However, so far such effects have been demonstrated m ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 28, 2020 
China's surveying and mapping capabilities will be further boosted with one more high-resolution mapping satellite launched on Saturday.
The Ziyuan III 03 satellite was sent into orbit by a Long March-4B rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. It will provide data for the country's land resources investigation, natural disaster prevention, agricult ... more |
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 Colombo (AFP) July 17, 2020 
A Sri Lankan court Friday blocked President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's controversial move to relax restrictions on sand mining and transport which conservationists said threatened fragile river eco systems.
High quality river sand is widely sought by the construction industry.
A two-judge bench ruled that the government had no powers to remove tight controls established under a 1992 law to pro ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 
With the carrier rocket Long March-5 lifting off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Thursday, China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has embarked on its maiden voyage to brave the challenge of orbiting, landing and deploying a rover on the red planet in one single mission.
"Tianwen," the name of China's Martian exploration project, comes from the long poem "Tianwen," meaning Heavenly Questi ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
Japan's announcement on the suspension of the deployment of Aegis Ashore missile defense systems marks a potential shift in the country's security strategy. The turning point depends on the substitute for Aegis Ashore. The country is now considering pre-emptive strike capabilities as a possibility, targeting missile launchers in North Korea first instead of intercepting incoming missiles. Interc ... more |
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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 
The 416th Flight Test Squadron recently completed a round of tests of the Air Force Research Laboratory's "Gray Wolf" prototype cruise missile at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
Gray Wolf is a DoD-directed prototype production and demonstration of low-cost, subsonic and networked collaborative cruise missiles. The missiles are designed to launch in a swarm to target enemy integrated ai ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 
University of Colorado Boulder researchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner than a human red blood cell.
The team, led by scientists at JILA, reported its new feat of wafer-thinness this week in the journal Physical Review Materials. The group's target, a film just 5 nanometers thick, is the thinnest material ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 28, 2020 
Russia will manufacture several space robots designed for operating on the surface of the International Space Station, but only one will be sent to space, Evgeny Dudorov, the CEO of Moscow-based Android Technics Scientific Production Association, said.
"We will be producing two or three copies of Teledroid: the final one, which will go to space, its exact copy, which will stay on Earth, an ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jul 27, 2020 
An unmanned aerial vehicle made in Israel for Germany's Defense Ministry completed its first successful flight, builder Israel Aerospace Industries announced.
The Heron TP, modified to the specifications of the German Defense Ministry, completed its first flight on Sunday in Israel, the company said.
The medium altitude, long endurance Heron TP, regarded as the company's most adv ... more |
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