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  Orlando FL (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 After repeated delays due to weather and other problems, SpaceX on Tuesday successfully launched a shipment of 60 Starlink communications satellites from Florida. SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off about 7:30 a.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Multiple previous launches had been postponed since Sept. 17. The flight's reusable booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean following the launch. SpaceX founder Elon Musk had tweeted that he would travel to Flo ... read more |
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Aerojet Rocketdyne' new Large Solid Rocket Motor Facility opensCamden AK (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 Aerojet Rocketdyne's new large solid rocket motor manufacturing facility is officially open for operations, highlighting the company's significant investments in the modernization and innovation of ... more  
Maryland Company Licenses NASA's New Search and Rescue TechnologyGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 Technologies developed at NASA have helped locate more than 46,000 people through Cospas-Sarsat, an international cooperative system for search and rescue. Furthering the impact of the program, the ... more  
From Thales to spaceTurin, Italy (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 Meet the people behind the third European Service Module that will power and propel the next astronauts to land on the Moon in decades. The team at Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy pose with the ... more 
Georgia Southern University Shows Massive Tourism Boom for Spaceport CamdenWoodbine GA (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 Camden County and the Center for Business Analytics and Economic Research (CBAER) at Georgia Southern University has released a new study on the economic impact of space tourism on coastal Georgia. ... more |
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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  
ESA and GomSpace sign contract for continuation of the GOMX-5 missionAalborg East, Denmark (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 GomSpace A/S and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a contract to continue the development of the GOMX-5 mission. focused on demonstrating new nanosatellite capabilities in space, particula ... more 
Subterranean Challenge Identifies Qualified Teams for Cave Circuit Virtual CompetitionWashington DC (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 DARPA's Subterranean (SubT) Challenge will host its Cave Circuit Virtual Competition, which focuses on innovative solutions to map, navigate, and search complex, simulated cave environments November ... more 
Russian Cosmonauts to test new system extracting water from urine on ISSMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 05, 2020 The urine-reclaming system helps decrease the amount of water that needs to be shipped to the ISS via cargo spacecraft. Russian cosmonauts on board of the International Space Station are getti ... more 
Earth-imaging and scientific payloads arrive for Arianespace's Vega mission in NovemberKourou, French Guiana (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 Both spacecraft arrived in French Guiana last week, delivered by a chartered Antonov AN-124 cargo jetliner that touched down at Cayenne's Felix Eboue Airport. They were transported by road to the Sp ... more |
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 Skyvision team wins AUVSI XCELLENCE award 
Elon Musk to visit 2 SpaceX launch sites in Florida following tech scrubsMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 05, 2020 After the second recent cancellation of a Falcon 9 rocket launch, Musk apparently wants to see for himself what is going wrong, as his goal is to increase the total number of launch missions to 48 i ... more  |
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Boeing to build unmanned aerial vehicles in AustraliaWashington DC (UPI) Oct 05, 2020 Boeing said on Monday it will design and develop military aircraft, including unmanned vehicles, in Australia - the first time it has done so outside the United States. ... more  
F-35 crash caused by technical glitch, distracted pilotWashington DC (UPI) Oct 06, 2020 The May crash of an F-35A Lightning II at Florida's Eglin Air Force base was caused by the pilot trying to land at an excessive speed, and a flight control logic glitch that left its tail unresponsive, according to a new report. ... more  
Eighteen new astronauts chosen for China's space station missionBeijing (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 an ... more 
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 |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 
The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) has announced the release of a number of recommendations addressing the issue of space traffic management, with the goal of supporting a long-term sustainable and safe space environment for commercial satellites and spacecraft. The recommendations were included in a SIA White Paper titled "The Future of Space and Space Traffic Coordination and Management ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 05, 2020 
GPS-enabled decoy eggs could help authorities track sea turtle egg poachers and disrupt illegal wildlife trade networks.
In a proof-of-concept study, published Monday in the journal Current Biology, researchers placed 3D-printed, GPS-enabled decoy eggs in the nests of endangered sea turtles in Central America.
Using the ingeniously named InvestEGGator, scientists were able to tra ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 06, 2020 
The May crash of an F-35A Lightning II at Florida's Eglin Air Force base was caused by the pilot trying to land at an excessive speed, and a flight control logic glitch that left its tail unresponsive, according to a new report.
According to the report, the pilot was also fatigued, causing "cognitive degradation" and was distracted at a critical point in the flight and lacked key unders ... more |
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 Los Alamos NM (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 
A new algorithm that fast forwards simulations could bring greater use ability to current and near-term quantum computers, opening the way for applications to run past strict time limits that hamper many quantum calculations.
"Quantum computers have a limited time to perform calculations before their useful quantum nature, which we call coherence, breaks down," said Andrew Sornborger of th ... more |
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 Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 
Ubotica Technologies announced that its Artificial Intelligence technology has successfully enabled the first ever hardware-accelerated AI inference of Earth Observation images on an in-orbit satellite.
This historic event has been achieved onboard Pi-sat-1, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Artificial Intelligence (AI) demonstration cubesat that was launched on a Vega rocket on September ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 
DARPA's Subterranean (SubT) Challenge will host its Cave Circuit Virtual Competition, which focuses on innovative solutions to map, navigate, and search complex, simulated cave environments November 17. Previously, DARPA held Tunnel Circuit and Urban Circuit events featuring both Virtual and Systems (physical) Competitions in which teams demonstrated their autonomy, networking, perception, and m ... more |
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 Wright-Patterson AFB OH (AFNS) Oct 07, 2020 
The SkyVision team, a joint effort between the Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, the state of Ohio, and industry partners, has been selected as the first-place winner in the Technology and Innovation (Hardware - Platform) category of this year's Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) Awards.
AUVSI made the announcement in an Oct ... more |
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