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  Paris (ESA) Sep 03, 2020 Vega's return to flight today proves new launch service capabilities on an ESA-developed launch vehicle while ensuring continuity of Europe's guaranteed and independent access to space. This flight marks the fast and efficient completion of corrective measures and actions carried out by industry with ESA in the lead as the Vega Launch System Qualification Authority, following recommendations made by the Independent Inquiry Commission which analysed the failure of Vega flight VV15 on 10 July 2019. ... read more |
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NASA conducts SLS booster test for future Artemis missionsHuntsville AL (SPX) Sep 03, 2020 As NASA begins assembling the boosters for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will power the first Artemis mission to the Moon, teams in Utah are evaluating materials and processes to improve ... more 
Engineers test Space Launch System rocket booster in UtahWashington DC (UPI) Sep 02, 2020 Engineers successfully performed a test fire of the Space Launch System rocket's full-scale booster on Wednesday afternoon. ... more  
Miniature antenna enables robotic teaming in complex environmentsAdelphi MD (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 A new, miniature, low-frequency antenna with enhanced bandwidth will enable robust networking among compact, mobile robots in complex environments. In a collaborative effort between the U.S. A ... more  
NASA Partners with Boeing on test flights to advance aviationWashington DC (SPX) Sep 01, 2020 A pair of NASA research projects to gather data on aircraft noise and test an air traffic management digital data communications tool are flying aboard a Boeing 787 this week as part of the Chicago- ... more |
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NASA seeks next class of Flight Directors for human spaceflight missionsWashington DC (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 NASA is looking for leaders for one of the best jobs on Earth for human spaceflight - including missions to the Moon - the position of flight director in mission control at the agency's Johnson Spac ... more  
Revised code could help improve efficiency of fusion experimentsPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Sep 01, 2020 An international team of researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has upgraded a key computer code for calculating forces acting on magneti ... more 
Boeing's Starliner makes progress ahead of flight test with astronautsKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 NASA and Boeing continue to make progress toward the company's second uncrewed flight test of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft prior to flying astronauts to the International Space Station as part o ... more  
Lockheed Martin to build Mesh Network of 10 smallsatsLittleton CO (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 The Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded a Tranche 0 contract of the Space Transport Layer to Lockheed Martin to demonstrate a mesh network of 10 small satellites that links terrestrial warfightin ... more 
DARPA completes key milestone on Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapons programWashington DC (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 DARPA and the US Air Force (ave announced the successful completion of captive carry tests of two variants of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) and are ready to proceed to first fre ... more |
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 GA-ASI and SENER Aeroespacial Team to Develop New NATO Pod for MQ-9  
Rocket Lab Successfully Deploys Satellite for Capella Space on 14th MissionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 Rocket Lab, a space systems company and the global leader in dedicated small satellite launch, has successfully launched its 14th Electron mission and deployed a single microsatellite for Capella Sp ... more  |
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Boeing delivers first MH-47G Block II Chinook to Special OpsWashington DC (UPI) Sep 01, 2020 Boeing has delivered the first of two dozen MH-47G Block II Chinook helicopters to Army Special Operations Command, the company announced Tuesday. ... more  
DARPA's air-breathing hypersonic missiles ready for free-flight testsWashington DC (UPI) Sep 02, 2020 Captive carry tests of two hypersonic weapons have been completed, with their first free flights scheduled for later this year, according to DARPA and the U.S. Air Force. ... more 
Toward a machine learning model that can reason about everyday actionsBoston MA (SPX) Sep 01, 2020 The ability to reason abstractly about events as they unfold is a defining feature of human intelligence. We know instinctively that crying and writing are means of communicating, and that a panda f ... more 
Starship could attempt near-earth orbit test flight next year, Elon Musk saysWashington (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2020 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says the Starship reusable launch vehicle that his company is developing with the intention of taking humans to the moon and Mars at some point, could fly to the near-Earth orbi ... more 
Lockheed, York nab $281.6M for new military satellite networkWashington DC (UPI) Sep 01, 2020 The Space Development Agency has awarded two contracts - totaling $281.6 million - to develop two sets of satellites that will serve as the communications backbone for a network designed to enable a range of advanced command and control systems. ... more |
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 Deerfield Beach FL (SPX) Sep 03, 2020 
Orbit Communication Systems reports that Orbit's Tracking and Telemetry Antenna Solution successfully supported and met all performance expectations during Virgin Orbit's initial LauncherOne rocket launch.
Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne mission is to open space for everyone, by employing a Boeing 747 carrier for launching a rocket into orbit, thus enabling cost effective and increased availabi ... more |
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 Littleton CO (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 
The Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded a Tranche 0 contract of the Space Transport Layer to Lockheed Martin to demonstrate a mesh network of 10 small satellites that links terrestrial warfighting domains to space sensors - all launching in just two years.
The $187.5-million contract for Transport Layer's Tranche 0 is an initial test and demonstration phase, with two prime contractors b ... 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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 Washington DC (AFNS) Sep 02, 2020 
Today, less than 200 personnel assigned to the Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities office rapidly develop capabilities to outpace and counter the increasing threats of adversaries.
Their primary focus incorporates cutting edge approaches to standard acquisition processes to produce capabilities for both the Department of Defense and the DAF, which includes the U.S. Air Force and ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 29, 2020 
As Internet of Things (IoT) devices rapidly increase in popularity and deployment, economic attackers and nation-states alike are shifting their attention to the vulnerabilities of digital integrated circuit (IC) chips.
Threats to IC chips are well known, and despite various measures designed to mitigate them, hardware developers have largely been slow to implement security solutions due t ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Sep 01, 2020 
According to a recent research, in the coming years, the global growth of this segment will exceed 11% per year. Climate change, environmental protection, disaster monitoring - these are only a few of many areas where satellite imaging is used. As the technology develops, the quality of images is constantly improving and the cost of getting them is falling, analysts predict a dynamic growth of t ... more |
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 Port Louis, Mauritius (AFP) Sept 1, 2020  The prime minister of Mauritius said Tuesday two sailors were dead and two others missing after a tugboat assisting in a major oil spill clean-up off the Indian Ocean island collided with a barge.
A search was under way for the missing crew after the accident late Monday as the boats returned from where a tanker crashed into a reef in late July, leaking more than 1,000 tonnes of oil into the ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2020 
China's Tianwen 1 Mars probe had traveled 100 million kilometers as of Friday morning, according to the China National Space Administration.
The administration said in a statement that the spacecraft was in good condition and several of its mission payloads had completed self-examination and sent scientific data back to ground control.
By Friday morning, the robotic probe had flown a ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 26, 2020 
The U.S. Army's most advanced Patriot missile misfired during a major test of the Army's Integrated Battle Command System, an Army official confirmed.
A hit-to-kill Patriot Advanced Capability-2 Guided Enhanced Missile was used against a cruise missile target last week in alive-fire exercise at the Army's White Sands, N. M., Missile Range, but failed, Col. Phil Rottenborn, IBCS project ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 02, 2020 
Captive carry tests of two hypersonic weapons have been completed, with their first free flights scheduled for later this year, according to DARPA and the U.S. Air Force.
Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have each designed hypersonic missiles for a combined program of the Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept program ... 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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 Adelphi MD (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 
A new, miniature, low-frequency antenna with enhanced bandwidth will enable robust networking among compact, mobile robots in complex environments.
In a collaborative effort between the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory and the University of Michigan, researchers developed a novel design approach that improves upon limitations of conventional ante ... more |
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 Tehran, Iran (Sputnik) Sep 01, 2020 
Iran's Ministry of Defense is investing in its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology to ensure it remains one of the top countries in combat drone development, according to state media.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Iran has produced several lines of drones, such as the Ababil series, the Mohajer, the Karrar and the Fotros. The Karrar, for instance, is a jet-powered target drone manu ... more |
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