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  Almaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 14, 2020 A three-person crew reached the International Space Station on Wednesday, the Russian space agency said, after a journey of just over three hours that was the fastest ever for a manned craft to the orbital lab. Roscosmos confirmed the successful docking of the Soyuz spacecraft in a tweet. The journey "took a record short three hours and three minutes," Russian news wire RIA Novosti added. "Three hours and three minutes," tweeted Roscosmos chief Dmitriy Rogozin in celebration of the journey that ... read more |
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Asteroid sampling technology tested on Blue Origin's suborbital rocketSan Antonio AZ (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 Two Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) experiments were aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital rocket Tuesday from Van Horn, Texas. The Box of Rocks Experiment II (BORE II) tested a new techno ... more 
Blue Origin launches, lands NASA moon landing sensor experimentWashington DC (UPI) Oct 13, 2020 Blue Origin successfully launched a NASA moon landing experiment aboard the company's reusable New Shepard rocket Tuesday morning in Texas. ... more 
Accion Systems to demonstrate its propulsion system in NanoAvionics US rideshare missionColumbia IL (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 NanoAvionics, a multinational nanosatellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, has signed a contract with US-company Accion Systems to host their propulsion system, TILE 3, on-board its new ri ... more  
China's Xichang launch center to carry out 10 missions by end of MarchBeijing (XNA) Oct 13, 2020 Southwest China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center will carry out 10 space launches including the Chang'e 5 lunar probe by the end of March next year, a center official said on Monday. The cent ... more |
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European Service Module structure for Moon landing arrives in BremenBremen, Germany (ESA) Oct 14, 2020 The structure that will fly the first woman and next man to land on the Moon and return on the Artemis III mission by 2024 arrived at the Airbus integration hall in Bremen, Germany, from its Thales ... more 
Final hot firing proves P120C booster for Ariane 6Paris (ESA) Oct 11, 2020 The qualification model of the P120C motor configured for Ariane 6, has been static fired on the test stand at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana in a final test to prove its readiness for flight. ... more 
Demonstrator masters flight sequences for reusable rocket stagesBucharest (ESA) Oct 14, 2020 A crucial part of rocket reusability is a smooth return and landing. ESA has helped Romania's National Institute for Aerospace Research, INCAS, to demonstrate vertical takeoff, short hovering and la ... more 
Thomas prepares for Time in spaceHouston TX (ESA) Oct 14, 2020 ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet trains for the Time experiment at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA ahead of his Alpha mission to the International Space Station in 2021. This European ... more 
ENPULSION launches its new MICRO family of satellite thrustersWiener Neustadt, Austria (SPX) Oct 11, 2020 Thrusters from the new ENPULSION MICRO family are based on the FEEP technology of the NANO family, which has a notable flight heritage with more than 50 units in space by September 2020. This proven ... more |
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 Space Flight Laboratory announces launch of two satellites  
KSAT passed 20 000 contacts in September on KSATLITE, their Smallsat networkTromso, Norway (SPX) Oct 11, 2020 KSAT has delivered more than 20 000 passes on the KSATLITE network in September. This is all-time-high for LITE, doubling the number of supports per month since January this year, and the growth see ... more  |
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China's self-developed BDS sees thriving applicationsHarbin (XNA) Oct 11, 2020 Despite being affected by three typhoons and the COVID-19 epidemic, Song Jilin's 20 hectares of rice on the Qixing farm, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, embraced a bumper harvest this year. ... more  
ESA's force-feedback rover controlled from a nation awayParis (ESA) Oct 13, 2020 A controller in Germany operated ESA's gripper-equipped Interact rover around a simulated moonscape at the Agency's technical heart in the Netherlands, to practice retrieving geological samples. At ... more 
D-Orbit announces launch service contract with AAC Clyde SpaceFino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Oct 11, 2020 Italian in-orbit transportation company D-Orbit has announced a launch service agreement with Swedish-British small satellite manufacturer AAC Clyde Space. The contract covers launch and deployment ... more 
SpaceX rocket issue delays astronaut launchWashington DC (UPI) Oct 12, 2020 SpaceX and NASA have delayed the launch of the company's upcoming astronaut mission to the first half of November to investigate a problem with gas generators in a Falcon 9 rocket's engine. ... more  
USAF airmen in Materiel, Global Strike commands to collaborateWashington DC (UPI) Oct 12, 2020 The U.S. Air Force Materiel Command and Global Strike Command agreed to partner to better understand each other's practices, the Air Force said on Monday. ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 
Activity in space continues to increase. Several thousand satellites, spacecraft and other objects orbit Earth at altitudes of between 300 and 3000 kilometres. In addition to the inactive satellites and upper stages of rockets that are left behind here after missions, there are hundreds of thousands of smaller pieces of debris.
Satellites and other space infrastructure such as the Internat ... more |
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 Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 
The Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS)-11+ program completed its first ever, all-virtual Preliminary Design Review (PDR) culminating in the successful conclusion of the review on July 1 after an eight-month long campaign.
Leveraging the Space and Missile Systems Center's cross-corps enterprise structure, the three-day event was co-chaired by SMC's Production Corps and Portfolio Architect's Missi ... more |
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 Harbin (XNA) Oct 11, 2020 
Despite being affected by three typhoons and the COVID-19 epidemic, Song Jilin's 20 hectares of rice on the Qixing farm, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, embraced a bumper harvest this year.
There was a lack of hands during the spring plowing season because of the epidemic, but the unmanned rice transplanters equipped with China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) helped out ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 
Raytheon Missiles and Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business, has announced the StormBreaker smart weapon has been approved for use on the F-15E by the U.S. Air Force's Air Combat Command. The fielding decision means that F-15E squadrons can now be equipped with StormBreaker and deployed for missions.
"StormBreaker delivers an unprecedented capability to pilots in the field," said Paul ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 
Moore's law is an empirical suggestion describing that the number of transistors doubles every few years in integrated circuits (ICs). However, Moore's law has started to fail as transistors are now so small that the current silicon-based technologies are unable to offer further opportunities for shrinking.
One possibility of overcoming Moore's law is to resort to two-dimensional semicondu ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 11, 2020 
The launch was carried out by multinational company Arianespace. This year the company has conducted six launches, which saw the company orbit 128 satellites. Most of them were CubeSats deployed from Vega SSMS and Soyuz missions.
Two US satellites have failed to enter orbit due to an abnormal situation that occured during the launch of a Vega rocket, a source told Sputnik.
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 Moscow (AFP) Oct 12, 2020 
The mass death of sea creatures in Russia's Kamchatka region was caused by toxins from microalgae rather than man-made pollution, a senior Russian scientist said on Monday, citing preliminary findings of an investigation.
Locals on the volcanic peninsula in the Pacific raised the alarm in September as surfers experienced stinging eyes and sea creatures, including octopuses, seals and sea urc ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 13, 2020 
Southwest China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center will carry out 10 space launches including the Chang'e 5 lunar probe by the end of March next year, a center official said on Monday.
The center will carry out launch missions twice a month on average, with a minimum interval of five days, said Zhang Xueyu, director of the launch center.
The country on Monday sent its new optical remo ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 09, 2020 
Turkey is preparing live-fire exercises in the Aegean Sea, angering Greece, and has transported its Russian-made S-400 air defense system to the Black Sea.
Turkey, whose military buildup and claims of sovereignty in the Mediterranean Sea have angered Greece, announced it will stage exercises in the Aegean Sea from Oct. 26 to Oct. 28, in Turkish-held and international waters.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 07, 2020 
Russia announced the successful test-firing of its Zircon hypersonic missile on Wednesday, striking a target 300 miles away after traveling at over 6,100 mph.
The announcement came in a teleconference between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov, transcribed on the presidential website.
"At 7:15 am yesterday [Tuesday], the frig ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Oct 13, 2020 
A controller in Germany operated ESA's gripper-equipped Interact rover around a simulated moonscape at the Agency's technical heart in the Netherlands, to practice retrieving geological samples. At the same time a smaller Germany-based rover interacted with ESA's rover as if together at the same site - in a dress rehearsal for a robotic test campaign to the Moon-like volcanic slopes of Mount Etn ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 11, 2020 
The self-driving car industry has made great autonomy advances, but mostly for well-structured and highly predictable environments. In complex militarily-relevant settings, robotic vehicles have not demonstrated operationally relevant speed and aren't autonomously reliable.
While vehicle platforms that can handle difficult terrain exist, their autonomy algorithms and software often can't p ... more |
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