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  Washington DC (UPI) Oct 01, 2020 SpaceX aborted the launch of 60 Starlink communications satellites from Florida 18 seconds before liftoff on Thursday morning due to a problem detected by a sensor. The company didn't elaborate on the cause of the abort and didn't immediately set a new launch time and date. "There's a thousand ways that a launch can go wrong, and only one way it can go right," Siva Baradvaj, space operations engineer for SpaceX, said in a live broadcast for the launch attempt. "Now overall, the vehicle d ... read more |
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Six-month mission will test limits of SpaceX Dragon, astronauts sayWashington DC (UPI) Sep 30, 2020 Four astronauts who plan to travel into space Oct. 31 say the six-month mission will test the limits of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft. ... more 
NASA awards launch services contract for IMAP missionWashington DC (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, which incl ... more 
Rocket Factory Augsburg signs agreement with Andoya Space for maiden flightAugsburg, Germany (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA), a participation of space technology company OHB SE, will be establishing a launch site for a micro launcher together with Norwegian company Andoya Space. The two pa ... more 
AgniKul Cosmos partners with Alaska Aerospace to launch from the Pacific Spaceport ComplexKodiak Island AK (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 Alaska Aerospace Corporation and India-based AgniKul Cosmos are pleased to announce they have signed a memorandum of agreement to test launch the Agnibaan launch vehicle from the Pacific Spaceport C ... more |
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Astronauts close to finding source of air leak at Space StationWashington DC (UPI) Oct 01, 2020 NASA says astronauts on the International Space Station are closing in on the source of a small air leak that had been growing in size. Astronauts first became aware of a leak at the station m ... more 
Russia to launch two new modules to Space Station in April, September 2021Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 01, 2020 Russia, for the first time in 11 years, plans to launch two new modules to the International Space Station (ISS) in April and September 2021, a source in the rocket and space industry told Sputnik. ... more  
MIT physicists inch closer to zero-emissions power sourceWashington DC (UPI) Sep 29, 2020 For the last few years, scientists at MIT have been working on a fusion research experiment called SPARC and, according to a series of papers - published Tuesday in the Journal of Plasma Physics - the research is going quite smoothly. ... more
Russia reports 'non-standard' air leak on Space StationMoscow (AFP) Sept 29, 2020 Russia said Tuesday that astronauts had found an air leak in its section of the International Space Station, with a senior space official calling the air loss beyond expected levels. ... more 
ISS Crew continues troubleshooting as tests isolate small leakHouston TX (NASA) Sep 30, 2020 Late Monday night, the Expedition 63 crew was awakened by flight controllers to continue troubleshooting a small leak on the International Space Station that appeared to grow in size. Ground analysi ... more |
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 State Department approves $14B sales of F-35s, F-18s to Switzerland 
United Launch Alliance scrubs spy satellite launch 2nd time this weekWashington DC (UPI) Sep 29, 2020 United Launch Alliance scrubbed the launch of a spy satellite for the U.S. Department of Defense for the second time this week Tuesday due to weather-related complications. ... more  |
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General Dynamics nabs $1.2B for Army's short-range air defense systemWashington DC (UPI) Oct 01, 2020 General Dynamics was awarded a $1.2 billion contract this week to deliver a short-range air defense system to the Army. ... more  
Wacky indoor Amazon drone takes on privacy skepticsWashington (AFP) Oct 2, 2020 It could be the wackiest product yet from Amazon - a tiny indoor drone which buzzes around people's homes as a security sentry. ... more  
Exolaunch delivers 15 small satellites into orbit on a Soyuz Rideshare missionBerlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 29, 2020 Exolaunch, the leader in rideshare launch and deployment services for the New Space industry, announced a successful launch of 15 commercial, governmental and scientific satellites for its customers ... more 
Gryphon Technologies wins $14M DARPA task order to support the DRACO programWashington DC (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Gryphon Technologies ("Gryphon"), the leading provider of digital engineering, cyber, cloud solutions, ... more  
Lockheed, Pentagon agree on $70.6M settlement over F-35 parts problemsWashington DC (UPI) Sep 30, 2020 Lockheed Martin will invest nearly $71 million to correct an ongoing problem with spare parts for the F-35 fighter plane, an agreement the Pentagon states. ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 29, 2020 
The Chang'e-4 lunar lander touched down on the far side of the Moon on 3 January 2019, with a German instrument for measuring space radiation on board. Since then, the Lunar Lander Neutron and Dosimetry (LND) instrument has been measuring temporally resolved cosmic radiation for the first time. Earlier devices could only record the entire 'mission dose'.
In its current issue, the scientifi ... more |
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 Reston VA (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
SES Government Solutions (SES GS), a fully-owned affiliate of SES, and Isotropic Systems, a leading developer of transformational broadband terminal technologies, has announced a two-phased antenna evaluation contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, working in close collaboration with the U.S. Army Research Engineering Team, for tests of Isotropic Systems' multi-beam terminal over S ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
The U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center's Lockheed Martin-built GPS III Space Vehicle 04 (GPS III SV04) satellite was encapsulated within a SpaceX payload fairing at Astrotech Space Operations Florida facility on Sept. 21 in preparation for its upcoming launch on Sept. 29 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The 15-minute launch window opens at 9:55 p.m. EDT.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 30, 2020 
Lockheed Martin will invest nearly $71 million to correct an ongoing problem with spare parts for the F-35 fighter plane, an agreement the Pentagon states.
The agreement, announced on Tuesday, will be formalized within two weeks, a Defense Contract Management Agency spokesman said.
The deal refers to over 15,000 F-35 spare parts delivered to the U.S. military without "electric eq ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 28, 2020 
Shares in China's biggest chipmaker tumbled Monday on reports that the United States had imposed export controls on the company, the latest salvo in the countries' battle for technological dominance.
In a new blow for China's advanced tech ambitions, the US Commerce Department reportedly ordered companies to seek permission before selling equipment to Semiconductor Manufacturing Internationa ... more |
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 Wellington NZ (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
Have you ever wondered why the Earth's surface is separated into two distinct worlds - the oceans and large tracts of land?
Why aren't land and water more mixed up, forming a landscape of lakes? And why is most of the land relatively low and close to sea level, making coastal regions vulnerable to rising seas?
Our new research uncovers the fundamental forces that control the Earth's ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 30, 2020 
Consumers who read labels and do their best to buy products without harmful chemicals aren't wasting their time - new research suggests smart shopping pays in the form of reduced exposure.
In a new study, published Wednesday in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, researchers surveyed consumers to find people who avoid products with specific endocrine disrupto ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 01, 2020 
The third batch of Chinese astronauts has been selected for the nation's coming space station mission, the China Manned Space Agency said on Thursday morning.
The 18 new astronauts - 17 men and one woman - are in three groups: seven will become spacecraft pilots, another seven will turn into spaceflight engineers, and the last four will be mission payload specialists, the agency said in a ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 01, 2020 
US Army officials unveiled plans on Tuesday for a vehicle-mounted electronic jamming system that will uniquely have the ability to jam incoming projectiles, fouling their targeting in the moments before impact.
At the Army's CEMAlite conference on Tuesday, three Army colonels discussed a new electronic warfare system they hope to employ in the coming years to disrupt enemy weapons systems ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 01, 2020  General Dynamics was awarded a $1.2 billion contract this week to deliver a short-range air defense system to the Army.
The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, covers production of the Interim Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense, which expected for deliver by September 2025.
The new IM-SHORAD will be mounted on a Stryker A1 platform and provide soldiers with ... 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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 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 disappointment at how much you can't do with that robot," he says.
Most new roboticists want to program their robots to solve interesting, complex tasks - but it turns out that just moving them through space ... more |
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 Sulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) Oct 1, 2020 
Turkey and Iran are increasingly adopting "game-changing" drones as their weapon of choice against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, prompting fears for the safety of civilians and stoking geopolitical tensions.
"Not a day goes by without us seeing a drone," said Mohammad Hassan, mayor of Qandil, the mountainous Iraqi stronghold of Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
"They f ... more |
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