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  Washington DC (UPI) Sep 25, 2020 The U.S. Space Force will start to fly missions on reused SpaceX rockets next year to save millions of dollars, the service announced Friday. The Space Force will fly two GPS satellites into orbit on a Falcon 9 first-stage booster. The lower cost that SpaceX charges for reused rockets will save taxpayers $52.7 million, a statement from the military branch said. SpaceX has reused boosters since March 2017, but the Space Force wanted to see the technology proven before flying costly satell ... read more |
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Powerful Delta Heavy rocket ready for another launch attempt from FloridaWashington DC (UPI) Sep 25, 2020 A powerful Delta IV Heavy rocket is scheduled for another attempt to launch a classified spy satellite for the U.S. Department of Defense from Florida just after midnight Saturday. ... more  
Swedish Space Corporation to cease assisting Chinese companies operate satellitesMoscow (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  
Cosmonauts not ready to try Russia's virus vaccineMoscow (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 
Blue Origin postpones Texas launch of experiments for NASA, universitiesWashington 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. ... more |
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Israel tests new sea-to-sea missileWashington DC (UPI) Sep 25, 2020 The Israeli Navy tested a sea-to-sea missile for use in protecting Mediterranean Sea natural gas platforms, the Israel Defense Force announced on Friday. ... more  
Alliant Technosystems gets $37.6M contract to upgrade Stryker cannonsWashington DC (UPI) Sep 25, 2020 The Defense Department announced a $37.6 million contract for production of Stryker Medium Caliber Weapons cannons with Alliant Techsystems Operations. ... more  
Integrated Battle Station upgrades finished on B-1B bombersWashington DC (UPI) Sep 28, 2020 The last of 60 cockpit conversions of B-1B Lancer to Integrated Battle Station status, an eight-year project, has been completed the, U.S. Air Force announced. ... more  
Helping robots avoid collisionsBoston 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  
NASA chief warns Congress about Chinese space stationWashington (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 |
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U.S. Air Force gets into gaming with 'Command Clash' competitionWashington 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  |
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NASA marks continued progress on X-59Edwards 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  
Army funding research to allow drones to run on multiple fuel sourcesWashington DC (UPI) Sep 22, 2020 The Army is funding research that could allow drones to run on any type of fuel. ... more  
ISS moves to avoid space debrisWashington (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 
Be a Space Traffic ControllerBethesda MD (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 In the not-too-distant future an international regulatory and enforcement agency may be looking for Space Traffic Controllers to fill hundreds of positions for well-trained professionals. It i ... more 
Aerospace Corporation dives into the futureLos 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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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 
Quantum mechanics does not only describe how the world works on its smallest scales, but also affects the motion of macroscopic objects. An international research team, including four scientists from the MPI for Gravitational Physics (Albert-Einstein-Institut/AEI) and Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany, has shown how they can influence the motion of mirrors, each weighing more than 40 kg, i ... more |
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 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 |
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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) 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 |
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 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.
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 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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 Bargny, S�n�gal (AFP) Sept 25, 2020 
Medza remembers the coastline of his native Senegalese town of Bargny as a place where he fished and played as a child before it became a festering rubbish dump.
The beach bordering the fishing settlement, about 30 kilometres (18 miles) south of the capital Dakar, is now permanently choked with plastic waste and rotten fish carcasses.
Wedged in by a motorway and industrial sites, Bar ... more |
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 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.
The first parts of the ISS were launched in 1998 and it has been continuously lived in since 2000.
The station, which serves as a space science lab and is a partners ... more |
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 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 |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 25, 2020 
The Israeli Navy tested a sea-to-sea missile for use in protecting Mediterranean Sea natural gas platforms, the Israel Defense Force announced on Friday.
The missile successfully struck and sank a decommissioned target vessel meant to simulate an enemy vessel. The missiles will be integrated into the Israeli Navy's newest Sa'ar-5 and Sa'ar-6 class ships, made in the United States by Hun ... more |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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