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  Darien IL (SPX) Aug 27, 2020 It's hard to get a good night's sleep in space. An evaluation of astronauts serving on the Mir space station found that they experienced shorter sleep durations, more wakefulness, and changes in the structure of their sleep cycles while in microgravity. Researchers at Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, and NASA Ames Research Center studied the sleep patterns of four cosmonauts and one astronaut before, during and after spaceflight to conduct missions on the space station. Preliminary r ... read more |
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Could injectable microrobots one day run in your veins?London (AFP) Aug 26, 2020 Scientists have created an army of microscopic four-legged robots too small to see with the naked eye that walk when stimulated by a laser and could be injected into the body through hypodermic needles, a study said Wednesday. ... more  
DARPA's Gremlins Program completes second flight test in demonstration seriesWashington DC (SPX) Aug 27, 2020 After meeting several primary objectives during risk reduction flights at the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah in late July, DARPA's Gremlins program now is targeting additional tests of it ... more  
Lockheed nets $18.8M to support Japan's Aegis Ashore systemWashington DC (UPI) Aug 26, 2020 Lockheed Martin won an $18.8 million modification contract for planning and risk reduction of the Aegis Ashore defense system in Japan. ... more 
Russia testing news S-500 Systems, mass production on the wayMoscow (Sputnik) Aug 25, 2020 Deputy Defence Minister Aleksey Krivoruchko announced that Russia Armed Forces are looking to receive the first batch of the newest systems in 2021. The full-scale supply of the S-500s is scheduled ... more |
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China's Mars probe over 8m km away from EarthBeijing (XNA) Aug 24, 2020 China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has traveled more than 8 million km away from Earth and is functioning normally, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space ... more  
ISS crew moved to Russian segment for 3 days to search for air leakMoscow (Sputnik) Aug 24, 2020 The current 63rd ISS crew includes Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Wagner and US astronaut Christopher Cassidy. "Closing hatches on the American segment and closing the hatch bet ... more  
NASA takes delivery of GE jet engine for X-59Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 Mark the big one-of-a-kind engine, designed and built just for NASA, as delivered. Nearly 13 feet long, three feet in diameter, and packing 22,000 pounds of afterburner enhanced jet propulsion ... more 
NASA perseveres through pandemic, looks ahead in 2020, 2021Washington DC (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 With 2020 more than half way through, NASA is gearing up for a busy rest of the year and 2021. Following the recent successful launch of a Mars rover and safely bringing home astronauts from l ... more 
Polish and US air forces participate in bilateral exerciseWashington DC (UPI) Aug 25, 2020 F-16 Fighting Falcons and Airmen assigned to the 480th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, 52nd Fighter Wing, have deployed to the 32nd Tactical Air Base in Lask, Poland, to participate in an aviation detachment rotation, the Air Force announced. ... more |
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AlphaDogfight trials foreshadow future of human-machine symbiosisWashington DC (SPX) Aug 27, 2020 A small Maryland company took first place in last week's AlphaDogfight Trials Final event, a three-day competition designed to demonstrate advanced algorithms capable of performing simulated, within ... more  |
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NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission nears completionHuntsville AL (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 NASA just validated a new type of propellant, or fuel, for spacecraft of all sizes. Instead of toxic hydrazine, space missions can use a less toxic, "green" propellant and the compatible technologie ... more  
Marines to build 100,000-square-foot wargaming center in VirginiaWashington DC (UPI) Aug 25, 2020 The Marine Corps announced plans Tuesday to break ground on a new wargaming facility in Quantico, Va., next year. ... more 
Pentagon policy for immigrant troops violates citizenship law, judge rulesWashington DC (UPI) Aug 26, 2020 A federal judge struck down a Pentagon policy which slows the citizenship path of non-citizens in the U.S. military. ... more 
Enemy jammer takes first test flight aboard EA-18G GrowlerWashington DC (UPI) Aug 24, 2020 An advanced electronic system to disrupt enemy communications was successfully used aboard a fighter plane for the first time, maker Raytheon said on Monday. ... more 
U.S. Army pilot commitment extended to 10 yearsWashington DC (UPI) Aug 21, 2020 Army pilots will be required to serve at least 10 years, four years longer than the previous policy, Army officials said this week. ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Aug 26, 2020 
The US on Wednesday said it will spend $625 million over the next five years on centers to research artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
An additional $340 million will be contributed by the private sector and academic institutions, bringing the total planned investment close to $1 billion, according to a release by the Department of Energy.
The money will go to establishing a ... more |
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 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 
Airbus has been contracted by Arabsat, one of the world's top satellite operators, to build BADR-8, their new generation telecommunications satellite. BADR-8 will replace and increase Arabsat's capacity and augment its core business at the BADR hotspot 26E.
The BADR-8 satellite will be based on the-state-of-the-art Airbus Eurostar Neo electric orbit raising platform giving access to a wide ... more |
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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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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 
Mark the big one-of-a-kind engine, designed and built just for NASA, as delivered.
Nearly 13 feet long, three feet in diameter, and packing 22,000 pounds of afterburner enhanced jet propulsion, the F414-GE-100 engine is now at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base in California.
There it will be checked out and inspected before it is transported to nearby ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 20, 2020 
The U.S. government must entice companies to do more microelectronics manufacturing in the United States, the Pentagon's undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment said Thursday.
During a prerecorded "fireside chat" at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Electronics Resurgence Initiative summit, Ellen Lord said the fact that most microelectronics are manufactured offshor ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 24, 2020 
Designed to assist in land surveying, Gaofen 7 begins serving ministries
China's best optical Earth-observation satellite for civil use has finished its in-orbit tests and started formal operation on Thursday.
At a handover ceremony at the China National Space Administration on Thursday morning, designers of the Gaofen 7 announced that the satellite had begun serving its major users- ... more |
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 Port Louis, Mauritius (AFP) Aug 24, 2020  The broken stem of a Japanese-owned ship which ran aground causing a devastating oil spill in pristine waters off Mauritius, has been successfully sunk in the open ocean, the national crisis committee said Monday.
The MV Wakashio ran aground on a coral reef off the Indian Ocean island on July 25 and began leaking oil two weeks later, prompting a race against the clock to pump all the fuel of ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 24, 2020 
China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has traveled more than 8 million km away from Earth and is functioning normally, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration Thursday.
As of 11:20 pm Wednesday, the Mars probe has traveled 8.23 million km away from Earth. Starting from 10:20 pm Wednesday, multiple payloads on the Mars probe, including M ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 
The U.S. Army successfully intercepted a high-performance, high-speed tactical ballistic missile (TBM) target and a cruise missile target during a flight test using the Northrop Grumman Corporation Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS).
The target missiles were part of the second of two live-fire tests during the Army's IBCS Limited User Test (LUT) at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexic ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 27, 2020 
After meeting several primary objectives during risk reduction flights at the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah in late July, DARPA's Gremlins program now is targeting additional tests of its X-61A vehicle later this year. The program seeks to develop and demonstrate air launch and air recovery of up to four unmanned aerial systems (UASs), known as Gremlins Air Vehicles (or just Gremlins ... 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) Aug 27, 2020 
A small Maryland company took first place in last week's AlphaDogfight Trials Final event, a three-day competition designed to demonstrate advanced algorithms capable of performing simulated, within-visual-range air combat maneuvering - commonly known as a dogfight.
Heron Systems' F-16 AI agent defeated seven other companies' F-16 AI agents and then went on to dominate the main event - a s ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 19, 2020 
Britain and Belgium signed a statement of intent to work together after both countries acquire the MQ-9B drone, they announced this week.
The Remotely Piloted Aircraft System is built by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems of San Diego, and is known as the Protector RG Mk1 in Europe.
In remote signing ceremonies on Tuesday, Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston of the Royal Air Force a ... more |
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