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  Washington (AFP) July 28, 2020 The Virgin Galactic spaceship that will someday carry very moneyed tourists boasts windows and cameras galore for easy selfies with planet Earth. The company, founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, provided a virtual tour Tuesday of the inside of the ship that will transport people willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a brief taste of being at the edge of space. Besides all the windows and cameras, the craft will have a mirror in the back of the cabin so people can admire ... read more |
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NASA Announces Astronauts to Fly on SpaceX Crew-2 Mission to Space StationWashington DC (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 NASA and its international partners have assigned crew members for Crew-2, which will be the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commerc ... more  
Unleashing the potential of tethered dronesThuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 The use of tethered unmanned aerial vehicles (TUAVs) has been modeled as a powerful new tool for improving cellular phone and internet networks. When employed as flying base stations with a cable co ... more 
Top 10 things to know for NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 returnHouston 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 Internation ... 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 |
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South Korea given green light for solid-propellant rocketsWashington DC (UPI) Jul 29, 2020 South Korea has been permitted to develop solid-fuel space rockets after missile guidelines were revised with the United States. Kim Hyun-chong, South Korea's deputy national security adviser ... more 
VTOL demonstration at JEB Little Creek showcases REALL TechnologyJEB Little Creek VA (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 Naval Facilities (NAVFAC) Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (EXWC), U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), and the U.S. Transportation ... more 
VSR700 prototype performs first autonomous free flightMarignane, France (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 The prototype of Airbus Helicopters' VSR700 unmanned aerial system (UAS) has performed its first free flight. The VSR700 performed a ten minute flight at a drone test centre near Aix-en-Provence in ... 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  
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 |
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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  |
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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 
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 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  
Subterranean Challenge pivots to all-virtual competition for cave circuitWashington DC (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 DARPA's Subterranean (SubT) Challenge focuses on discovering innovative approaches to map, navigate, and search complex underground environments across three diverse subdomains: human-made tunnels, ... 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 |
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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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 Urumqi, China (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 
The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has been adopted in more than 10,000 unmanned farm tractors and spraying drones in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to the regional agriculture and husbandry machinery administration.
Xinjiang has been promoting tractors, harvesters and other agricultural machinery equipped with BDS in recent years, and techniques su ... more |
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 Wallops VA (SPX) Jul 24, 2020 
Work has begun on an ambitious new mission that will carry a cutting-edge 8.4-foot (2.5-meter) telescope high into the stratosphere on a balloon. Tentatively planned to launch in December 2023 from Antarctica, ASTHROS (short for Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths) will spend about three weeks drifting on air currents above ... more |
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 Taipei (AFP) July 28, 2020 
Taiwanese chip giant TSMC on Tuesday briefly became the world's tenth largest company thanks to a two-day surge in its stock price that has propelled the island's exchange to a record high.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's largest contract microchip maker, produces the processors that provide the computing muscle for everything from iPhones, laptops and games consoles ... 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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 Paris (AFP) July 28, 2020 
Air pollution cuts life expectancy for every man, woman and child on Earth by nearly two years, according to data released Tuesday which experts said showed poor air quality is "the greatest risk to human health".
The Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) said that as the world races to find a vaccine to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control, air pollution would continue to cause billions of peo ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 
DARPA's Subterranean (SubT) Challenge focuses on discovering innovative approaches to map, navigate, and search complex underground environments across three diverse subdomains: human-made tunnels, urban underground, and natural cave systems. Two previous scored events - Tunnel and Urban Circuits - featured both Virtual and Systems Competitions.
DARPA has made the difficult decision to pro ... more |
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 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 
The use of tethered unmanned aerial vehicles (TUAVs) has been modeled as a powerful new tool for improving cellular phone and internet networks. When employed as flying base stations with a cable connection, multirotor drones promise to quickly ramp up coverage, increase the efficiency of urban networks and provide much needed access in remote rural areas.
"Our aim has been to show that TU ... more |
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