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  Houston (AFP) Aug 5, 2020 SpaceX on Tuesday successfully completed a flight of less than a minute of the largest prototype ever tested of the future rocket Starship, which the company hopes to use one day to colonize Mars. "Mars is looking real," SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted in response to a fan. The current Starship prototype is fairly crude: it's a large metallic cylinder, built in a few weeks by SpaceX teams on the Texas coast, in Boca Chica - but it's still smaller than the actual rocket will be. Several pre ... read more |
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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 
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 
Astronauts praise 'flawless' SpaceX capsule landingWashington DC (UPI) Aug 04, 2020 Two NASA astronauts who returned from space to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday praised the SpaceX Dragon capsule's performance in their first public comments since the mission. ... more  
Room temperature superconductivity creeping toward possibilityUniversity Park PA (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 The possibility of achieving room temperature superconductivity took a tiny step forward with a recent discovery by a team of Penn State physicists and materials scientists. The surprising dis ... more |
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Apocalyptic scenes as blasts ravage BeirutBeirut (AFP) Aug 4, 2020 An entire port engulfed in fire, ships ablaze at sea and crumbling buildings: the site of the massive blast in Beirut's harbour area resembled a post-nuclear landscape. ... more  
Army seeks proposals for Marines' new shoulder-fired rocket systemWashington DC (UPI) Aug 04, 2020 The Army is looking to procure a shoulder-fired rocket system on behalf of the U.S. Marine Corps, the Corps announced on Tuesday. ... more 
Marines elevate training command for 'information-age model'Washington DC (UPI) Aug 03, 2020 The U.S. Marine Corps announced an elevation of its Training and Education Command on Monday to a "three-star command" to reflect its importance and focus on the "intellectual edge" of Marines. ... more  
Full global service of Beidou signals space tech independenceBeijing (XNA) Aug 03, 2020 Although launched more than one month ago, the official operation of the 55th and last satellite of the Beidou-3 Navigation Satellite System was formally announced by President Xi Jinping at a cerem ... more 
Esper: Nation grieves over 9 service members killed in trainingWashington DC (UPI) Aug 03, 2020 Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Monday the United States grieves the deaths of eight Marines and a Sailor who were killed over the weekend when their amphibious assault vehicle sank off the coast of California's San Clemente Island. ... more |
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 Last BeiDou satellite starts operation in network
US ends search for 7 missing Marines, sailor, says presumed deadLos Angeles (AFP) Aug 2, 2020 The US military said Sunday it has called off a search for seven Marines and a sailor missing at sea for days, saying they were presumed dead. ... more  |
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Swiss Army Chooses Lockheed Martin's Indago 3 UAS For Tactical Reconnaissance And SurveillanceVineyard UT (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Armasuisse contracted Lockheed Martin (LMT) for a fleet of Indago 3 small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), with options for spares, training and tech support and additional systems for the Swiss Arm ... more
Eight still missing after US Marine amphibious vehicle sinksLos Angeles (AFP) July 31, 2020 Eight military personnel remained missing at sea Friday nearly a full day after a US Marine amphibious assault vehicle sank in deep water off the California coast during training exercises. ... more  
Lockheed, Boeing and Saab bid on Canada's fighter jet contractWashington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2020 Lockheed Martin, with its F-35 fighter plane, joined Boeing and Saab on Friday in submitting bids to build advanced aircraft for Canada's armed forces. ... 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 
Beidou also belongs to worldBeijing (XNA) Aug 03, 2020 China has been striving to foster international cooperation in space-based navigation and positioning as well as applications for its Beidou system, said the China Satellite Navigation Office. ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 4, 2020 
Scientists said Tuesday they had discovered a way to detect space debris even in daylight hours, potentially helping satellites to avoid the ever-growing cloud of junk orbiting the planet.
Defunct rockets, satellites and spacecraft parts continue to orbit Earth after they are discarded.
The estimated 500,000 objects circling the globe range in size from a single screw to an entire rocke ... more |
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 Rolling Meadows IL (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected to provide the prime mission equipment for the Sierra Nevada Corporation-led AC/MC-130J Radio Frequency Countermeasure (RFCM) program.
Northrop Grumman's RFCM system utilizes the latest in antenna, amplifier and electronics technology. This technology provides superior situational awareness and better enables aircraft survivability in operatio ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 03, 2020 
Although launched more than one month ago, the official operation of the 55th and last satellite of the Beidou-3 Navigation Satellite System was formally announced by President Xi Jinping at a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.
Which makes the BDS system one of the four global navigation systems providing global navigation and positioning services; the other thr ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2020 
Lockheed Martin, with its F-35 fighter plane, joined Boeing and Saab on Friday in submitting bids to build advanced aircraft for Canada's armed forces.
An upgrade to Canada's fleet of CF-18 planes, first purchased in 1977, is regarded as long overdue, and the process has been onerous.
A plan to purchase new planes first emerged in the 1990s, but changes in Canadian government, qu ... more |
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 Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
Semiconductors are important materials in numerous functional applications such as digital and analog electronics, solar cells, LEDs, and lasers. Semiconducting alloys are particularly useful for these applications since their properties can be engineered by tuning the mixing ratio or the alloy ingredients. However, the synthesis of multicomponent semiconductor alloys has been a big challenge du ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 03, 2020 
With the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere approaching levels that humans may have never before experienced, the need to monitor sources of emissions is more urgent than ever - hence the Copernicus Carbon Dioxide Monitoring mission being one of Europe's new high-priority satellite missions. Taking the mission a significant step forward, ESA and OHB System AG have signed a contract t ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2020 
Investigative field work began on contaminants in the groundwater of the former Reese Air Base, Texas, the U.S. Air Force said.
The base near Lubbock was closed in 1997 after a 50-year history. Like most U.S. air bases, it had relied since 1970 on foam, to put out fires, containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances [PFAS] regarded as hazardous materials. Repeated use of the foam led t ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 04, 2020 
The Army is looking to procure a shoulder-fired rocket system on behalf of the U.S. Marine Corps, the Corps announced on Tuesday.
In July, the Army issued a request for proposals for proposals for the M72 Light Assault Weapon Fire from Enclosure munition, according to a Marine Corps press release.
The M72 is a compact, lightweight, single-shot weapon system that incorporates and ... 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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 Wright-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 Systems Inc., Poway, California; Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems, Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Palmdale, California. These initial awards will establish a vendor pool tha ... more |
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