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  Washington DC (UPI) Aug 18, 2019 SpaceX reused the same first-stage Falcon 9 rocket booster for the sixth time in a launch from Florida Tuesday morning, setting a record for the launch industry. The rocket carried 58 of the company's Starlink satellites into space, along with three small Earth-imaging SkySat satellites for San Francisco-based Planet (formerly Planet Labs). The rocket lifted off as planned at 10:31 a.m. EDT into a partly cloudy sky from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, adjacent to K ... read more |
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Sierra Nevada aims to complete Dream Chaser space plane in MarchOrlando FL (UPI) Aug 18, 2020 Colorado-based Sierra Nevada Corp. aims to complete its first operational Dream Chaser space plane by March to provide cargo trips to the International Space Station. The spacecraft, which res ... more  
Launch of Russia's Glonass-K satellite postponed until OctoberMoscow (Sputnik) Aug 16, 2020 The launch of Russia's next-generation Glonass-K navigation satellite, which has been postponed several times since March, is planned for mid-October, a space industry revealed on Saturday. "T ... more  
SqwaQ demonstrates BVLOS UAS flight capabilities for controlled airspaceDallas TX (SPX) Aug 14, 2020 SqwaQ, a leader in communications technology for robotics, autonomy and aviation, revealed today that it has successfully demonstrated its patented airborne LTE drone communications technology for m ... more  
Human Rights Watch eyes treaty banning 'killer robots'Geneva (AFP) Aug 10, 2020 Human Rights Watch said Monday it was seeking a new international treaty to halt the race towards fully autonomous weapons, claiming a growing number of countries wanted an outright ban. ... more |
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NASA begins installing orion adapter for first Aartemis lunar flightKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 14, 2020 Technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are working to install an adapter that will connect the Orion spacecraft to its rocket for the Artemis I mission around the Moon. This is one of ... more  
Moonstruck 'aroma sculptor' builds scent from spaceMontegut-Lauragais, France (AFP) Aug 12, 2020 He may never have pulled on a spacesuit or flown in a shuttle but that has not stopped Frenchman Michael Moisseeff from reaching for the stars. ... more 
Artemis I rocket moves closer to hot fire testHuntsville AL (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage for the Artemis I lunar mission has successfully completed its first four Green Run tests and is building on those tests for the next phase of checkou ... more 
GPS 3 receives operational acceptanceLos Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 The United States Space Force (USSF) and the Space and the Missile Systems Center achieved another major Global Positioning System (GPS) milestone on July 27 when the GPS III Space Vehicle (SV) 03 r ... more  
South Korea to invest $250B in missile defense, submarinesWashington DC (UPI) Aug 12, 2020 South Korea is to invest more than $250 billion in missile defense systems and new submarines to help deter North Korea military threats. According to South Korea's five-year defense program f ... more |
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 US Air Force and Lockheed Martin complete another successful hypersonics test 
U.S. hypersonic weapon system completes second test on B-52 StratofortressWashington DC (UPI) Aug 10, 2020 The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin said Monday have completed the second successful hypersonic air-to-ground weapon test on a B-52 Stratofortress bomber out of Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.. ... more  |
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MBDA and Lockheed Martin submit proposal for Germany's Integrated Air And Missile Defense SystemSchrobenhausen, Germany (SPX) Aug 16, 2020 MBDA Deutschland and Lockheed Martin, the TLVS bidders consortium (TLVS JV), have submitted an updated proposal to the German Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Se ... more  
Lockheed Martin to build F-16s in potential $62 billion contractWashington DC (UPI) Aug 17, 2020 Lockheed Martin will build F-16 fighter planes for foreign allies under a contract, potentially worth $62 billion, announced by the Defense Department. ... more 
F-35s join U.S. Air Force's Red Flag-Alaska exercise for first timeWashington DC (UPI) Aug 12, 2020 High-level training of U.S. Air Force pilots concluded this week at Red Flag-Alaska, a regular drill which this year featured use of F-35 fighter planes. ... more 
B-2 bombers fly to Diego Garcia in Indian OceanWashington DC (UPI) Aug 12, 2020 Three B-2 stealth bombers were deployed to a remote Indian Ocean base, the Defense Department announced on Wednesday. ... more 
Northrop Grumman completes first qualification test of new rocket motor for United Launch AlliancePromontory UT (SPX) Aug 14, 2020 Northrop Grumman Corporation conducted its first ground test of an extended length 63-inch-diameter Graphite Epoxy Motor (GEM 63XL) in Promontory, Utah. This variation of the company's GEM 63 strap- ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 07, 2020 
In a peninsula far, far away, a laser shoots into the sky to study the Antarctic atmosphere at Concordia research station.
The Light Detection and Ranging instrument, or LIDAR, is a remote sensing technique that uses light to study an object.
A pulsed laser beam is aimed at the target and properties of the resulting scattered light are recorded by sensors. Using these measurements, r ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 05, 2020 
The U.S. Army announced "Capability Set '23," a technical exchange meeting to consider its requirements for its networking modernization plan.
The meeting will be conducted virtually on Sept. 2, and build on "Capability Set '21," whose critical review of future networking necessities led to what the Army called the "first round of modernized network capabilities."
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 18, 2020 
Global acceptance and application of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System will gather momentum on the back of further integration with telecom technologies like 5G and the internet of things, company executives and experts said.
Their comments came after Beidou started offering full-scale global services on July 31. More importantly, navigation technologies are increasingly intertwin ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 14, 2020 
Northrop Grumman's construction of the first B-21 Raider stealth bomber, slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic, is back on track, a U.S. Air Force official said.
Randall Walden, director of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, acknowledged on Thursday that some B-21 subcontractors were affected by the pandemic.
Walden cited Spirit AeroSystems, which makes large composite aerostruct ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Aug 11, 2020 
An appeals court on Tuesday overturned a judge's ruling that Qualcomm "strangled competition," undoing a major victory scored last year by US antitrust enforcers.
Shares in the California-based mobile chip giant jumped more than four percent on word that an appellate court was not convinced that Qualcomm's tactics in the market unfairly stifled competition, hurting consumers and device maker ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 16, 2020 
As many regions in China are experiencing or expecting heavy rainfall, residents in those places have often been checking weather forecasts and looking up at the sky to avoid being caught in a downpour.
High above their heads, several Chinese meteorological satellites are also staring at moving cloud clusters and transmitting data and images back to an inconspicuous building in northwester ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Aug 14, 2020 
A UN agency said Friday it is trying to determine what kind of hazardous debris landed across Beirut after the catastrophic port explosion and how to clean it up safely.
The United Nations Development Programme said it also wanted to find out how much the August 4 blast in the Lebanese capital may have polluted the Mediterranean Sea.
"Within seconds, Beirut was covered in layers and laye ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 07, 2020 
China is soliciting ideas for payloads aboard its proposed missions to the moon, an asteroid and a comet, according to the China National Space Administration.
It is asking for primary, middle school and university students across the country to provide ideas for payloads that would fly aboard the Chang'e 7 probe to the moon, and on another spacecraft to the asteroid 2016HO3 and the comet ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 12, 2020 
South Korea is to invest more than $250 billion in missile defense systems and new submarines to help deter North Korea military threats.
According to South Korea's five-year defense program for 2021-25, Seoul is to develop a missile interceptor similar to Israel's Iron Dome, Yonhap and Money Today reported Monday.
The Israeli system, designed to intercept and destroy short-range pro ... 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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 Geneva (AFP) Aug 10, 2020 
Human Rights Watch said Monday it was seeking a new international treaty to halt the race towards fully autonomous weapons, claiming a growing number of countries wanted an outright ban.
The non-governmental organisation (NGO) said 30 countries are now explicitly seeking a ban, after compiling an overview of 97 nations with a stated position on the use and development of what it termed "kill ... more |
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 Dallas TX (SPX) Aug 14, 2020 
SqwaQ, a leader in communications technology for robotics, autonomy and aviation, revealed today that it has successfully demonstrated its patented airborne LTE drone communications technology for multiple partners. The technology enables drones, helicopters, air taxis and other connected aircraft to share the same airspace rather than being segregated.
This eliminates the need for UTM (Un ... more |
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