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  Orlando FL (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $31.9 million contract for the Operational Fires (OpFires) Phase 3 Weapon System Integration program. OpFires seeks to develop and demonstrate an innovative ground-launched system to enable a hypersonic boost glide missile system to penetrate modern enemy air defenses and rapidly engage time-sensitive targets. Lockheed Martin, DARPA and the U.S. Army, aims to develop and demonstrate an innovative, ground-la ... read more |
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Gremlins program completes first flight test for X-61A vehicleWashington DC (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 DARPA's Gremlins program has completed the first flight test of its X-61A vehicle. The test in late November at the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah included one captive-carry mission aboar ... more 
Exquadrum-Dynetics team test full-scale OpFires rocketAdelanto CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 Exquadrum has completed the hot-fire test of the revolutionary new rocket being developed to accomplish the DARPA Operational Fires (OpFires) advanced tactical weapon system mission objectives. The ... more 
Russia claims edge as US lags in hypersonic weapons developmentWashington DC (Sputnik) Jan 20, 2020 Last week, US President Donald Trump admitted that the United States is working on the development of hypersonic rockets, noting that the US is seeking to add them to its arsenal of "big, powerful, ... more  
Slow light to speed up LiDAR sensors developmentYokohama Japan (SPX) Jan 15, 2020 Quicker is not always better, especially when it comes to a 3D sensor in advanced technology. With applications in autonomous vehicles, robots and drones, security systems and more, researchers are ... more |
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Generation and manipulation of spin currents for advanced electronic devicesBarcelona, Spain (SPX) Jan 15, 2020 Graphene-based heterostructures of the van der Waals class could be used to design ultra-compact and low-energy electronic devices and magnetic memories. This is what a paper published in the latest ... more  
Collins Aerospace to supply critical subsystems for NASA's Orion spacecraftWindsor Locks CT (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp., has signed a contract with Lockheed Martin to provide critical subsystems to support production of NASA's Orion spacecraft fleet for A ... more 
NASA, SpaceX complete final major flight test of crew spacecraftWashington DC (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 NASA and SpaceX completed a launch escape demonstration of the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket Sunday. This was the final major flight test of the spacecraft before it begins ca ... more  
ESA opens oxygen plant - making air out of moondustNoordwijk, The Netherlands (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 A prototype oxygen plant has been set up in the Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory of the European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, based in Noordwijk in the Netherlands. ... more 
RUAG Space develops high-tech-mechanisms for new all-electric satellitesBern, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 Eutelsat KONNECT satellite has been launched on 16 January on board an European Ariane 5 rocket. The satellite will provide broadband internet services to Africa. For this new generation of European ... more |
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Martian water could disappear faster than expectedParis, France (SPX) Jan 19, 2020 The small red planet is losing water more quickly than what theory as well as past observations would suggest. The gradual disappearance of water (H2O) occurs in the upper atmosphere of Mars: ... more  |
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Scientists pinpoint release of energy that powered series of solar flaresWashington DC (UPI) Jan 17, 2020 Scientists have precisely pinpointed the explosive release of energy that powered a series of solar flares - a first. ... more 
Could future homes on the Moon and Mars be made of fungi?Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 Science fiction often imagines our future on Mars and other planets as run by machines, with metallic cities and flying cars rising above dunes of red sand. But the reality may be even stranger - an ... more  
Core of massive dying galaxies formed early after Big BangCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 Astrophysics, Galaxies: The most distant dying galaxy discovered so far, more massive than our Milky Way - with more than a trillion stars - has revealed that the 'cores' of these systems had formed ... more 
NJIT scientists measure the evolving energy of a solar flare's explosive first minutesNewark NJ (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 Toward the end of 2017, a massive new region of magnetic field erupted on the Sun's surface next to an existing sunspot. The powerful collision of magnetic energy produced a series of potent solar f ... more  
Heat wave signals the growth of a stellar embryoHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 An international research team with the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) participating has detected a propagating heat wave near a massive protostar. It confirms the scenario that such obje ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jan 15, 2020 
The first of three spacewalks planned for January begins Wednesday to continue upgrading International Space Station power systems and a cosmic ray detector. While the spacewalkers ready their suits and tools, the rest of the Expedition 61 crew is on science and maintenance duty today.
NASA Flight Engineer Jessica Meir is partnering for a second time with fellow NASA astronaut Christina Ko ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $31.9 million contract for the Operational Fires (OpFires) Phase 3 Weapon System Integration program. OpFires seeks to develop and demonstrate an innovative ground-launched system to enable a hypersonic boost glide missile system to penetrate modern enemy air defenses and rapidly engage time-sensitive tar ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jan 19, 2020  The small red planet is losing water more quickly than what theory as well as past observations would suggest.
The gradual disappearance of water (H2O) occurs in the upper atmosphere of Mars: sunlight and chemistry disassociate water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen atoms that the weak gravity of Mars cannot prevent from escaping into space.
An international research team,1 led par ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 06, 2020 
China's aerospace industry will see a busy year in 2020, with the number of space launches expected to exceed 40, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).
The highlights of the space activities include the launch of China's first Mars probe, the Chang'e-5 lunar probe, which is expected to bring moon samples back to Earth, the final step of China's current ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 15, 2020 
The UK Space Agency is offering young people expert advice and a share of Pounds 50,000 for their ideas of how satellites could improve life on Earth.
The SatelLife Competition, now in its fourth year, is looking for innovative proposals that could use data collected from space to benefit daily life, such as growing new businesses, improving health services or tackling climate change.
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Jan 17, 2020 
Physicists are teaming up with computer scientists in a NASA-funded study to help predict solar flares and radiation that can disable spacecraft and potentially kill astronauts.
NASA has awarded a $550,000 grant to the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne to begin the three-year machine learning project next month. Computer algorithms will analyze data and imagery from the sun and ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 
Phosphorus, present in our DNA and cell membranes, is an essential element for life as we know it. But how it arrived on the early Earth is something of a mystery. Astronomers have now traced the journey of phosphorus from star-forming regions to comets using the combined powers of ALMA and the European Space Agency's probe Rosetta. Their research shows, for the first time, where molecules conta ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 06, 2020 
Safe to say, 2020 came in more quietly for many members of the New Horizons mission team than did 2019.
A year ago, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 (now known as Arrokoth) in the early hours of New Year's Day, ushering in an era of exploration of the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of primordial objects that holds keys to understanding the origins ... more |
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 Miami Beach, United States (AFP) Jan 17, 2020 
Dozens of trucks have started dumping hundreds of thousands of tons of sand on Miami Beach as part of US government measures to protect Florida's tourist destinations against the effects of climate change.
"We have erosion hotspots," said Stephen Leatherman, an expert on beaches and the environment at Florida International University.
"When the beach is critically narrow, there's not en ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 17, 2020 
A military training exercise scheduled for this weekend could jam GPS signals in the Southeast and Caribbean, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
An FAA advisory warns pilots could experience "unreliable or unavailable GPS signal" during a training exercise scheduled for Jan. 16 through Jan. 24.
The U.S. Navy's Carrier Strike Group Four will be conducting GPS testin ... more |
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 Noordwijk, The Netherlands (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 
A prototype oxygen plant has been set up in the Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory of the European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, based in Noordwijk in the Netherlands.
"Having our own facility allows us to focus on oxygen production, measuring it with a mass spectrometer as it is extracted from the regolith simulant," Beth Lomax of the University of Glasgow, whos ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 
At around 1 a.m. local standard time on April 29, 2017, a fireball flew over Kyoto, Japan. Compared to other fireballs spotted from Earth, it was relatively bright and slow. Now, scientists have determined not only what the fireball was, but also where it came from.
"We uncovered the fireball's true identity," says Toshihiro Kasuga, paper author and visiting scientist at the National Astro ... more |
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 Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 
The almost six-week-long EUREC4A (Elucidating the role of clouds-circulation coupling in climate) field campaign will begin on 20 January 2020. The aim is to test theories about the role of clouds and convection in climate change by conducting comprehensive measurements in the atmosphere and ocean.
In addition, EUREC4A will examine how fine-scale features in the ocean - eddies and fronts - ... more |
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 Newark NJ (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 
Toward the end of 2017, a massive new region of magnetic field erupted on the Sun's surface next to an existing sunspot. The powerful collision of magnetic energy produced a series of potent solar flares, causing turbulent space weather conditions at Earth. These were the first flares to be captured, in their moment-by-moment progression, by NJIT's then recently opened Expanded Owens Valley Sola ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 
An international research team with the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) participating has detected a propagating heat wave near a massive protostar. It confirms the scenario that such objects grow in bursts. This wave became visible by observing naturally generated microwave lasers, whose spatial arrangement changed unexpectedly rapid.
Although the basic principles of star format ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 
Astrophysics, Galaxies: The most distant dying galaxy discovered so far, more massive than our Milky Way - with more than a trillion stars - has revealed that the 'cores' of these systems had formed already 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, about 1 billion years earlier than previous measurements revealed.
The discovery will add to our knowledge on the formation of the Universe more ge ... more |
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