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September 25, 2020
ROCKET SCIENCE
Blue Origin postpones Texas launch of experiments for NASA, universities



Washington DC (UPI) Sep 24, 2020
Blue Origin postponed the launch of the company's reusable New Shepard rocket Thursday in Texas, citing internal power supply issues for NASA and university experiments on board. "Launch is scrubbed for today. New launch target forthcoming," the company announced on Twitter. Liftoff had been scheduled for 12:40 p.m. EDT at Blue Origin's launch facilities about 150 miles east of El Paso. The company had delayed an earlier launch Thursday due to clouds in the area. The launch would ... read more

ROBO SPACE
Teams demonstrate swarm tactics in fourth major OFFSET Field Experiment
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 21, 2020
Two Swarm Systems Integrators - Northrop Grumman Mission Systems and Raytheon BBN Technologies - are creating swarm systems architectures, advanced interfaces, and virtual and physical swarm testbed ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
Cosmonauts not ready to try Russia's virus vaccine
Moscow (AFP) Sept 24, 2020
Russian cosmonauts set to blast off for the International Space Station said on Thursday it was too early to get a coronavirus vaccine touted by President Vladimir Putin. ... more
MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
Swedish Space Corporation to cease assisting Chinese companies operate satellites
Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 22, 2020
Beijing will soon lose the ability to access its weather and earth-monitoring satellites via ground station locations affiliated with the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) in Sweden, Chile and Austral ... more
ROBO SPACE
Technology developed for Lunar landings makes self-driving cars safer on Earth
Washington DC (NASA) Sep 21, 2020
NASA is advancing a laser-based technology designed to help spacecraft land on a proverbial dime for missions to the Moon and Mars. The technology will undergo testing on upcoming suborbital rocket ... more
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MISSILE DEFENSE
Lockheed Martin selected to integrate missile warning onto EGS via FORGE
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 17, 2020
As part of the U.S. Space Force's effort to build a more flexible, resilient and survivable missile early warning system, while also reducing long-term sustainment and operations costs, control of o ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Rocket Lab to launch commercial rideshares mission for Planet, Canon
Long Beach CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2020
Leading space systems company, Rocket Lab, has announced its next Electron launch will be a rideshare mission to low Earth orbit for Planet and Spaceflight Inc.'s customer Canon Electronics. T ... more
ENERGY TECH
Promising computer simulations for stellarator plasmas
Munich, Germany (SPX) Sep 21, 2020
For the fusion researchers at IPP, who want to develop a power plant based on the model of the sun, the turbulence formation in its fuel - a hydrogen plasma - is a central research topic. The small ... more
DRAGON SPACE
NASA chief warns Congress about Chinese space station
Washington (AFP) Sept 23, 2020
NASA chief Jim Bridenstine told lawmakers Wednesday it was crucial for the US to maintain a presence in Earth's orbit after the International Space Station is decommissioned so that China does not gain a strategic advantage. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
NASA, US Space Force establish Foundation for broad collaboration
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 23, 2020
While advancing plans for unprecedented lunar exploration under the Artemis program, NASA also is building on a longstanding partnership with the Department of Defense with a new memorandum of under ... more
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AEROSPACE
U.S. Air Force gets into gaming with 'Command Clash' competition
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 23, 2020
"Command Clash," a six-part esports competition between 29 service members at multiple bases, begins this weekend, the U.S. Air Force announced Wednesday. ... more
AEROSPACE
NASA marks continued progress on X-59
Edwards AFB CA (NASA) Sep 21, 2020
Assembly of NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft is continuing during 2020 and making good progress, despite challenges such as those imposed by the unexpected global pandemic. NAS ... more
ROBO SPACE
Helping robots avoid collisions
Boston MA (SPX) Sep 18, 2020
George Konidaris still remembers his disheartening introduction to robotics. "When you're a young student and you want to program a robot, the first thing that hits you is this immense disappointmen ... more
UAV NEWS
Army funding research to allow drones to run on multiple fuel sources
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 22, 2020
The Army is funding research that could allow drones to run on any type of fuel. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
ISS moves to avoid space debris
Washington (AFP) Sept 23, 2020
Astronauts on the International Space Station carried out an "avoidance maneuver" Tuesday to ensure they would not be hit by a piece of debris, said US space agency NASA, urging better management of objects in Earth's orbit. ... more


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SPACE TRAVEL
Aerospace Corporation dives into the future
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2020
The Aerospace Corporation has plunged into the future of space and wants to take you along for the ride. In its most recent release, Pathfinder's Guide to the Space Enterprise, Aerospace dives into ... more
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AEROSPACE
U.S. Marine F-35Bs land on deck of carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 23, 2020
Ten U.S. Marines F-35B fighter planes arrived on the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to begin exercises in the North Sea, the Marines announced. ... more
AEROSPACE
India tests new French fighter jets in skies near China border
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 21, 2020
India's new French Rafale jets have flown "familiarisation" flights above the border region contested with China where a deadly clash between soldiers from the nuclear-armed neighbours took place in June, an official told AFP Monday. ... more
MISSILE NEWS
USS Antietam conducts Tomahawk strike exercise near Guam
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 21, 2020
U.S. military forces in the Valiant Shield 2020 exercise in the Pacific Ocean included a simulated Tomahawk cruise missile attack by the USS Antietam, the U.S. Navy said on Monday. ... more
MILTECH
Marines upgrade 'Monster Machine' cargo lifter
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 18, 2020
The U.S. Marine Corps' cargo-lifting vehicle known as the "Monster Machine" has reached full production through an upgrade program, according to a statement released Friday. ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
Exolaunch to Deliver the NetSat constellation into Orbit for Wurzburg Center for Telematics
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 18, 2020
The Wurzburg Center for Telematics, an independent research center in Germany, and Exolaunch, a rideshare launch and deployment solutions provider, announce a launch agreement for a NetSat nanosatel ... more
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Marine sponges inspire the next generation of skyscrapers and bridges
Boston MA (SPX) Sep 22, 2020
When we think about sponges, we tend to think of something soft and squishy. But researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are using the glassy skeletons of marine sponges as inspiration for the next generation of stronger and taller buildings, longer bridges, and lighter spacecraft. In a new paper published in Nature Materials, the rese ... more
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Swedish Space Corporation to cease assisting Chinese companies operate satellites
Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 22, 2020
Beijing will soon lose the ability to access its weather and earth-monitoring satellites via ground station locations affiliated with the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) in Sweden, Chile and Australia. "The geopolitical situation has changed since these contracts were signed in the early 2000s. We have to assess where we can do business and it's harder for us to make that assessment regard ... more
+ Creating cross-domain kill webs in real time
+ AEHF-6 protected communications satellite completes on-orbit testing
+ Air Force Research Laboratory Tracks Sporadic E
+ Lockheed Martin to build Mesh Network of 10 smallsats
+ Lockheed, York nab $281.6M for new military satellite network
+ New US Space Force technology beats satellite jamming attempts in recent test
+ Airbus to build BADR-8 satellite for Arabsat


Tech combo is a real game-changer for farming
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
+ Launch of Russia's Glonass-K satellite postponed until October
+ GPS 3 receives operational acceptance
+ Air Force navigation technology satellite passes critical design review
+ Software upgrades for Beidou to continue
+ Beidou's eye can help spot and stop rampant illegal mining
+ Full global service of Beidou signals space tech independence
+ Beidou also belongs to world
U.S. Marine F-35Bs land on deck of carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 23, 2020
Ten U.S. Marines F-35B fighter planes arrived on the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to begin exercises in the North Sea, the Marines announced. The short-takeoff-and-landing planes of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211, based in Arizona, arrived aboard the ship on Tuesday. The aircraft arrive ahead of GroupEx, an exercise which will involve a British Carrier Strike ... more
+ U.S. Air Force gets into gaming with 'Command Clash' competition
+ NASA marks continued progress on X-59
+ India tests new French fighter jets in skies near China border
+ Airbus reveals new zero-emission concept aircraft
+ Coronavirus epicentre Wuhan re-opens for international flights
+ Norwegian Air to cut emissions by 45% by 2030
+ US Air Force reveals previously unknown advanced fighter has already flown
U.S., Britain partner on research into sensor information processing
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 17, 2020
The United States and Britain have announced a jointly funded project to rapidly and automatically process data obtained from sensors and optimize that information for military use. The project is led by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development and Command Army Research Laboratory, CCDC-Atlantic and the U.K. Defense Science and Technology Laboratory, according to the Army. P ... more
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+ Pentagon: It's time to bring microelectronics manufacturing to the U.S.
+ Artificial materials for more efficient electronics
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+ US court overturns Qualcomm defeat in antitrust case
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MethaneSAT completes critical design review, moves into production phase
San Francisco CA (SPX) Sep 21, 2020
MethaneSAT has reached an important new milestone with completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) phase for both the mission's remote sensing instrument and the spacecraft platform "bus" that will provide power and maneuvering, and transmit the vast stream of data from the high resolution sensors to ground stations. Completion of the CDR means that MethaneSAT is now entering the production s ... more
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+ CO2 emission reductions are not yet detectable in atmosphere from Covid shutdowns
+ USSF and NOAA begin joint operations of infrared weather satellite
+ Kleos Scouting Mission launch update
+ Ball Aerospace selected by NASA to study sustainable land imaging technologies
+ NASA monitors carbon monoxide from California wildfires
+ Emissions pioneer GHGSat secures US$30m in Series B funding
Mercury concentrations in Yukon River fish could surpass EPA criterion by 2050
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 17, 2020
The concentration of mercury in the fish in Alaska's Yukon River may exceed the EPA's human health criterion by 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming are not constrained, according to scientific research funded in part by NASA. This first of its kind research estimates potential releases of mercury from thawing permafrost under high and low carbon emissions scenarios. ... more
+ Study: Cleanup, management won't save ecosystems from plastic pollution
+ Chile court shuts gold mine over environmental fears
+ Brown Danube: How Belgrade's sewers taint Europe's famous river
+ Smog blankets US West Coast as deadly wildfires rage
+ For small island nations, marine plastic cleanup is prohibitively expensive
+ 1000s protest in Mauritius over oil spill; operator to pay millions
+ Sick of city din? Try 'noise-cancelling headphones' for your flat


China's new carrier rocket available for public view
Shanghai (XNA) Sep 18, 2020
Spacecraft enthusiasts can catch a glimpse of a newly developed commercial Chinese rocket at the ongoing China International Industry Fair in Shanghai. The medium-sized carrier rocket was developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology affiliated to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. It is 59 meters long, with a take-off thrust of about 500 tonnes and a tak ... more
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+ China sends nine satellites into orbit by sea launch
+ Chinese spacecraft launched mystery object into space before returning to Earth
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+ Mars-bound Tianwen 1 hits milestone
+ China's Mars probe over 8m km away from Earth
+ China seeks payload ideas for mission to moon, asteroid
Lockheed Martin selected to integrate missile warning onto EGS via FORGE
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 17, 2020
As part of the U.S. Space Force's effort to build a more flexible, resilient and survivable missile early warning system, while also reducing long-term sustainment and operations costs, control of our nation's advanced infrared surveillance satellites will soon be integrated via the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) onto the next-generation ground system, the Government-own ... more
+ Japan's Abe urges stronger defences to face missiles
+ Advanced Patriot missile fails in live-fire test
+ Russia testing news S-500 Systems, mass production on the way
+ Lockheed nets $18.8M to support Japan's Aegis Ashore system
+ IBCS engages advanced tactical ballistic missile and cruise missile during rigorous test
+ US Japan to build network of satellites to detect missile launches
+ MBDA and Lockheed Martin submit proposal for Germany's Integrated Air And Missile Defense System


USS Antietam conducts Tomahawk strike exercise near Guam
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 21, 2020
U.S. military forces in the Valiant Shield 2020 exercise in the Pacific Ocean included a simulated Tomahawk cruise missile attack by the USS Antietam, the U.S. Navy said on Monday. The guided-missile cruiser, part of the strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, successfully targeted land on the uninhabited Farallon de Medinilla range off the coast of Guam on Sunday. / ... more
+ Putin says Russia was forced to create hypersonic weapons after US withdrew from treaty
+ DARPA's air-breathing hypersonic missiles ready for free-flight tests
+ Lockheed Martin awarded $183M contract for HIMARS launchers
+ Harpoon missile firing sinks ship in Hawaiian naval exercise
+ Pentagon slams Chinese missile launches in South China Sea
+ Indian troops armed with Russian portable SAMs deployed near China border
+ DARPA's Gremlins Program completes second flight test in demonstration series
Nano particles for healthy tissue
Paris (ESA) Sep 07, 2020
"Eat your vitamins" might be replaced with "ingest your ceramic nano-particles" in the future as space research is giving more weight to the idea that nanoscopic particles could help protect cells from common causes of damage. Oxidative stress occurs in our bodies when cells lose the natural balance of electrons in the molecules that we are made of. This is a common and constant occurrence ... more
+ Hybrid nanomaterials hold promise for improved ceramic composites
+ Scientists open new window into the nanoworld
+ The smallest motor in the world
+ Crystalline 'nanobrush' clears way to advanced energy and information tech
+ Transporting energy through a single molecular nanowire
+ To make an atom-sized machine, you need a quantum mechanic
+ Magnetic nanoparticles help researchers remotely release adrenal hormones


Teams demonstrate swarm tactics in fourth major OFFSET Field Experiment
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 21, 2020
Two Swarm Systems Integrators - Northrop Grumman Mission Systems and Raytheon BBN Technologies - are creating swarm systems architectures, advanced interfaces, and virtual and physical swarm testbeds for OFFSET. The Swarm Systems Integrators tested their autonomous platforms - comprising ground vehicles, multirotor and fixed-wing aircraft - in a multi-stage, interactive scenario to locate ... more
+ Technology developed for Lunar landings makes self-driving cars safer on Earth
+ Helping robots avoid collisions
+ Light processing improves robotic sensing, study finds
+ U.S. Navy selects Lockheed Martin to deliver large unmanned surface vessel study
+ DoD to start live fighter trials with AI pilots by 2024, Esper says
+ Miniature antenna enables robotic teaming in complex environments
+ Pentagon picks Google Cloud for AI-assisted cancer diagnoses


Army funding research to allow drones to run on multiple fuel sources
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 22, 2020
The Army is funding research that could allow drones to run on any type of fuel. The University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign was recently awarded a four-year, $8 million, the Army said on Tuesday, contract to research multi-fuel chemistry and ignition assistant technologies to increase the reliability of unmanned air and ground vehicles. The project is one of 11 the Army funded t ... more
+ General Atomics nets $7.4B MQ-9 Reaper contract with U.S. Air Force
+ France sees joint European drone project launched this year
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+ Iran invests in advanced drone technology
+ Britain, Belgium to collaborate on MQ-9B drone acquisition
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