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  Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 12, 2020 Aerojet Rocketdyne has been awarded a contract worth up to $19.6 million by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop enabling technologies for an advanced hypersonic defense interceptor known as Glide Breaker. "Advancing hypersonic technology is a national security imperative," said Eileen Drake, Aerojet Rocketdyne CEO and president. "Our team is proud to apply our decades of experience developing hypersonic and missile propulsion technologies to the Glide Breaker program." ... read more |
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Qarman CubeSat: falling into a fireballParis (ESA) Feb 11, 2020 This Wednesday 12 February, ESA's latest mission will enter the vacuum of space, not aboard a rocket but by being released from the International Space Station. The first task of the shoebox-sized Q ... more  
Two Russian satellites tailing US spy satellite: WashingtonMoscow (AFP) Feb 11, 2020 Washington has accused two Russian satellites of tailing a US spy satellite in what it called "disturbing behaviour", prompting a guarded response from Moscow on Tuesday. ... more  
NASA to hire more Artemis generation astronautsHouston TX (SPX) Feb 12, 2020 As NASA prepares to launch American astronauts this year on American rockets from American soil to the International Space Station - with an eye toward the Moon and Mars - the agency is announcing i ... more 
Economical and environmentally friendly solutions on the commercial satellites marketWarsaw, Poland (SPX) Feb 12, 2020 We are observing a considerable increase in the demand for satellite systems around the world. Various independent sources forecast that the nano- and microsatellite market will grow from $1.5 billi ... more |
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Spaceflight Industries to sell Rideshare Launch Services Provider to Mitsui JVHerndon VA (SPX) Feb 12, 2020 Spaceflight Industries, Inc. announced it has signed a definitive share purchase agreement with Mitsui and Co., Ltd., in partnership with Yamasa Co., Ltd. to sell its satellite rideshare launch busi ... more  
Honeywell nets $3B+ deal for new Air Force navigation system sustainmentWashington DC (UPI) Feb 11, 2020 Honeywell Inc. was awarded a contract potentially worth $3.5 billion for development of GPS navigation system modernization, the Pentagon announced. The indefinite delivery/indefinite-quantity ... more 
Third Lockheed Martin-Built GPS III satellite delivered to Cape CanaveralCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 11, 2020 The nation's third next-generation GPS III satellite - and the first delivered by Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) to the new U.S. Space Force - has arrived in Florida for an expected April launch. ... more  
The industries of Artificial Intelligence and Space to meet for AIxSPACEMontreal, Canada (SPX) Feb 11, 2020 For the first time, the industries of AI and space have decided to combine their expertise in order to surpass the human limitations imposed by the infinite vastness of space. AIxSPACE, dedicated to ... more 
Air Force's proposed $169 billion budget focuses on 'great power competition,' readiness, establishing Space ForceArlington, VA (AFNS) Feb 11, 2020 The Department of the Air Force released a $169 billion budget proposal Feb. 10, which for the first time includes funding for the newly created U.S. Space Force while also focusing funds to help bo ... more |
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 Russian satellites tracking U.S. spy satellite, Space Force chief says 
Space Wing squadron poised to receive first Space Force weapon systemPeterson AFB CO (AFNS) Feb 10, 2020 Imagine a secure communications room, like what has been shown in big-screen blockbuster movies...dozens of space and communications professionals behind computer terminals working together to deny ... more  |
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Patrick AFB in Florida will be first facility renamed under Space ForcePatrick AFB FL (SPX) Feb 10, 2020 Patrick Air Force Base in Florida will be the first base to be renamed as a Space Force base within the next 30 days, the commander of the 45th Space Wing at Patrick said Friday. "It's excitin ... more 
Global Lightning 20 concludes with greatest commercial participation to dateVandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Feb 11, 2020 Exercise Global Lightning 20 successfully concluded with the most commercial partnership participation to date at the Combined Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base Jan. 30. Th ... more  
US accuses Iran of building missiles through satellite bidWashington (AFP) Feb 11, 2020 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday accused Iran of honing its ballistic missile skills through a satellite launch and vowed to exert more pressure. ... more  
Amazon wants Trump testimony about huge Pentagon contractSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 10, 2020 Amazon is seeking testimony from US President Donald Trump and other top officials about how the tech giant was shut out of a $10 billion US military cloud computing contract, according to court documents made public on Monday. ... more 
NASA prepares for Moon and Mars with new addition to its deep space networkPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 12, 2020 Surrounded by California desert, NASA officials broke ground Tuesday, Feb. 11, on a new antenna for communicating with the agency's farthest-flung robotic spacecraft. Part of the Deep Space Network ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 10, 2020 
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station plan to install a high-speed radio link to enable almost real-time connections with Earth.
The upgrade to the ESA Columbus laboratory will relay data from experiments on the Station back to Earth almost instantaneously.
The fridge-sized device will fly to the Station aboard Northrop Grumman's 12th Cygnus supply ship on 9 February.
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 Bethesda, MD (SPX) Feb 11, 2020 
Launch vehicles and satellites are commonly built by different contractors in separate locations by two different talent pools. Satellite engineers and managers are not generally intimately familiar with launch vehicle design, manufacture and operations. Launch vehicle engineers and managers are not generally intimately familiar with satellite design, manufacture and operations. At some point on ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 10, 2020 
NASA is sending a new laser-toting robot to Mars. But unlike the lasers of science fiction, this one is used for studying mineralogy and chemistry from up to about 20 feet (7 meters) away. It might help scientists find signs of fossilized microbial life on the Red Planet, too.
One of seven instruments aboard the Mars 2020 rover that launches this summer, SuperCam was built by a team of hun ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 07, 2020 
China's Long March-5B carrier rocket arrived at the launch site in southern China's Hainan Province Wednesday after a week of ocean and rail transport, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
The rocket will take part in a joint rehearsal with the prototype of the Chinese space station's core module at the Wenchang Space Launch Center. It is scheduled to make i ... more |
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 Westminster CO (SPX) Feb 05, 2020 
Intelsat has selected Maxar Technologies to manufacture Intelsat 40e, a next-generation geostationary communications satellite scheduled to launch in 2022. Maxar will integrate NASA's Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) payload with the Intelsat 40e satellite.
"When it's launched, Intelsat 40e will be the newest addition to our next-generation Intelsat Epic platform, wh ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 12, 2020 
3-D printing is often touted as the future of manufacturing. It allows us to directly build objects from computer-generated designs, meaning industry can manufacture customized products in-house, without outsourcing parts. But 3-D printing has a high degree of error, such as shape distortion. Each printer is different, and the printed material can shrink and expand in unexpected ways. Manufactur ... more |
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 Waimea, HI (SPX) Feb 11, 2020  Maunakea, Hawaii - A team of astronomers led by Brendan Bowler of The University of Texas at Austin has probed the formation process of giant exoplanets and brown dwarfs, a class of objects that are more massive than giant planets, but not massive enough to ignite nuclear fusion in their cores to shine like true stars.
Using direct imaging with ground-based telescopes in Hawaii - W. M. Kec ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 05, 2020 
A "beating heart" of frozen nitrogen controls Pluto's winds and may give rise to features on its surface, according to a new study.
Pluto's famous heart-shaped structure, named Tombaugh Regio, quickly became famous after NASA's New Horizons mission captured footage of the dwarf planet in 2015 and revealed it isn't the barren world scientists thought it was.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 06, 2020  Northern Florida's Gulf Coast were once home to a large population of colossal oysters, but no more. New research suggests the once commonplace mollusks are now absent from even the most pristine stretches of Florida's coastline.
According to the latest study, published this week in the journal Biology Letters, the newest generations of Gulf Coast oysters are roughly a third smaller tha ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 11, 2020 
The nation's third next-generation GPS III satellite - and the first delivered by Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) to the new U.S. Space Force - has arrived in Florida for an expected April launch.
On Feb. 5, the third Lockheed Martin-built GPS III space vehicle (GPS III SV03) was shipped to Cape Canaveral from the company's GPS III Processing Facility near Denver aboard a massive Air Force C-17 ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 11, 2020 
"President Donald Trump's Fiscal Year 2021 budget for NASA is worthy of 21st century exploration and discovery. The President's budget invests more than $25 billion in NASA to fortify our innovative human space exploration program while maintaining strong support for our agency's full suite of science, aeronautics, and technology work.
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 Warwick UK (SPX) Feb 11, 2020 
The majority of stars in the universe will become luminous enough to blast surrounding asteroids into successively smaller fragments using their light alone, according to a University of Warwick astronomer.
Electromagnetic radiation from stars at the end of their 'giant branch' phase - lasting just a few million years before they collapse into white dwarfs - would be strong enough to spin ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 
Scientists at Caltech and JPL have tied a shift in winter weather patterns in Europe and northern Eurasia to a reduction in air pollution.
Over the past 50 years, the occurrence of extremely cold days has decreased throughout Europe and northern Eurasia, which includes Russia. Combining long-term observations with a state-of-the-art climate model revealed what researchers describe as an "u ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 11, 2020 
After Solar Orbiter, ESA's next mission observing the Sun will not be one spacecraft but two: the double satellites making up Proba-3 will fly in formation to cast an artificial solar eclipse, opening up the clearest view yet of the Sun's faint atmosphere - probing the mysteries of its million degree heat and magnetic eruptions.
Aiming for launch in mid-2022, Proba-3 comprises two small me ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 10, 2020 
For the first time, researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Strasbourg have simulated the formation of galaxies in a universe without dark matter. To replicate this process on the computer, they have instead modified Newton's laws of gravity. The galaxies that were created in the computer calculations are similar to those we actually see today. According to the scientists, their assumption ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Feb 07, 2020 
A new Artificial Intelligence (AI) has allowed AI researchers, for the first time, to demonstrate a useful and reliable way of sifting through masses of correlating data to spot when correlation means causation. By fusing old, overlapping and incomplete datasets this new method, inspired by quantum cryptography, paves the way for researchers to glean the results of medical trials that would othe ... more |
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