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  Beijing (XNA) Nov 09, 2020 China launched a Long March 6 carrier rocket to deploy 10 small satellites for an Argentine company on Friday. The rocket also carried three small Chinese satellites, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, a State-owned space contractor. The Long March 6 blasted off at 11:19 am from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province, carrying 10 NewSat remote-sensing satellites, from NewSat 9 to 18, into low-Earth orbit, CASC said. The 10 satellites were develope ... read more |
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Fourth Lockheed Martin-Built GPS III Satellite's On Board Engine Now Propelling It To OrbitDenver CO (SPX) Nov 05, 2020 The fourth Lockheed Martin-built Global Positioning System III (GPS III) satellite is now headed to orbit under its own propulsion. Following a successful launch earlier this evening, GPS III Space ... more  
An underwater navigation system powered by soundBoston MA (SPX) Nov 03, 2020 GPS isn't waterproof. The navigation system depends on radio waves, which break down rapidly in liquids, including seawater. To track undersea objects like drones or whales, researchers rely on acou ... more 
DNA-based molecular tagging system could replace printed barcodesWashington DC (UPI) Nov 03, 2020 A new DNA-based molecular tagging system could change the way goods, from vaccines to textbooks, are tracked. ... more  
Eyeing China, US and India accelerate defense bondsNew Delhi (AFP) Oct 28, 2020 Two days of meetings by the top US and Indian diplomatic and defense chiefs in New Delhi underscored a desire for growing military cooperation driven by mutual distrust of China. ... more |
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Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Critical For GPS, Seen In Distant StarsHuntsville AL (SPX) Oct 23, 2020 What do Albert Einstein, the Global Positioning System (GPS), and a pair of stars 200,000 trillion miles from Earth have in common? The answer is an effect from Einstein's General Theory of Re ... more  
Satellite imagery and broadband set to grow four fold in Precision Ag Market by 2029Paris, France (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 For its latest research titled, "EO4AG - Earth Observation for Agriculture", Euroconsult has teamed up with TerraMetric, a US-based, global business development firm focused on geospatial and new sp ... more  
Serco Europe launches space research incubator in ItalyBrussels, Belgium (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 Serco Europe, a leading provider of services to the space sector, has just launched a research incubator at its Italian Head Office near Rome. The Red Lab is a research hub which aims to stren ... more 
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  
New strategic sites monitoring solution developed by Airbus and EarthcubeToulouse, France (SPX) Oct 11, 2020 Airbus has joined forces with Earthcube, a French company specialising in the analysis of geospatial data using Artificial Intelligence (AI), to develop and market "Defence Site Monitoring", an onli ... more |
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GPS-enabled decoy eggs may help track, catch sea turtle egg traffickersWashington DC (UPI) Oct 05, 2020 GPS-enabled decoy eggs could help authorities track sea turtle egg poachers and disrupt illegal wildlife trade networks. ... more  |
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Satellogic announces global consortium of geospatial imageryBuenos Aires, Argentina (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 Satellogic, the first company to develop a scalable Earth observation platform with the ability to remap the entire planet at both high-frequency and high-resolution, has announced the public launch ... more 
SpaceX aborts GPS satellite launch from FloridaWashington DC (UPI) Oct 02, 2020 SpaceX scrubbed the launch of the U.S. military's latest model of Global Positioning System satellite from Florida on Friday night 2 seconds before the planned liftoff, just as the engine ignition sequence was beginning. ... more 
Fourth GPS 3 Satellite Encapsulated Ahead of LaunchCape 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 Op ... more 
US Army to leverage BlackSky's satellites for tactical GEOINT ProgramHerndon VA (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 BlackSky, a leading provider of global monitoring services, geospatial intelligence and satellite imagery, reports the next phase of expansion of its high-revisit commercial satellite constellation ... more 
Government to explore new ways of delivering 'sat nav' for the UKLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 29, 2020 New options for a UK satellite navigation and timing capability programme to support the nation's critical infrastructure will be explored by the government, it was Thursday. The Space-Based P ... more |
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 Cali, Colombia (SPX) Nov 03, 2020 
The digital age brims with promise for the world's half-billion smallholder farmers. Smartphones with the right apps can tell farmers when it's likely going to rain, how to identify and eradicate pests, and negotiate the prices for a bountiful harvest delivered by a combination of hard work and big data.
While digital technologies are steadily reaching more farmers, for each one plugged in ... more |
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 Princeton NJ (SPX) Nov 02, 2020 
When atoms get extremely close, they develop intriguing interactions that could be harnessed to create new generations of computing and other technologies. These interactions in the realm of quantum physics have proven difficult to study experimentally due the basic limitations of optical microscopes.
Now a team of Princeton researchers, led by Jeff Thompson, an assistant professor of elec ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 2, 2019 
Ohio State University on Monday announced a multi-university partnership with the U.S. Air Force to increase opportunities for minority science and engineering students.
The six-year, $40 million project will be co-led by Ohio State; Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio; North Carolina A&T State University and the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Base in Dayt ... more |
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 Kanazawa, Japan (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 
Given concerns over global climate warming, researchers are hard at work on minimizing the amount of fuel that we all use in everyday life. Reducing the weight of vehicles will lessen the amount of fuel required to power them, and put money back into your pocket.
In a study recently published in Chemical Engineering Journal, researchers from Kanazawa University have chemically modified an ... more |
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EOS Data Analytics to launch satellite with Dragonfly Multispectral Imagers in 2022Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 EOS Data Analytics has announced the conclusion of an agreement with Dragonfly Aerospace for the delivery of two HR-250 high-performance multispectral imagers. A satellite equipped with the Dragonfl ... more 
Despite pandemic-related setbacks, the NewSpace industry has new players enter the fieldLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 In the United States, NewSpace companies, including SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and Firefly Aerospace, and giants like Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, and Lockheed Martin, have avoided the massive layo ... more 
Redcliffe Partners' Ukrainian Space Regulation ReviewKyiv, Ukraine (SPX) Sep 24, 2020 Over the past decade, the aerospace industry has evolved from a race by countries for kudos into an accelerator of economic and scientific development, where technology travels freely between differ ... more
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 Zurich (AFP) Nov 6, 2020 
Profits tumbled at Richemont during the first half of its non-standard financial year, the Swiss luxury giant said Friday, as pandemic gloom in Europe outweighed booming Chinese sales.
Richemont, which counts Cartier among its brands and is ranked second only to French giant LVMH in the luxury industry, saw profits slump by 82 percent in the six months to the end of September compared to the ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 
Older, large-diameter trees have been shown to store disproportionally massive amounts of carbon compared to smaller trees, highlighting their importance in mitigating climate change, according to a new study in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. Researchers examined the aboveground carbon storage of large-diameter trees (>21 inches or >53.3 cm) on National Forest lands within Oregon and Wa ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 02, 2020 
Persistent cold temperatures and strong circumpolar winds, also known as the polar vortex, supported the formation of a large and deep Antarctic ozone hole that should persist into November, NOAA and NASA scientists reported Friday.
The annual Antarctic ozone hole reached its peak size at about 9.6 million square miles (24.8 million square kilometers), roughly three times the area of the c ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 06, 2020  With education budgets shrinking at universities in many parts of the world, every expense matters. Thanks to a team of scientists and students from the University of Sheffield, stocking the chem lab just got a little less expensive.
In a new paper, published Friday in the journal Nature Communications, researchers shared plans for the construction of a more affordable single-molecule m ... more |
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 White Salmon WA (SPX) Nov 09, 2020 
Sagetech Avionics, an innovative technology company providing industry-leading safety solutions for unmanned aerial systems (UAS), and Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, a leading UAS technology company, has announced that they have completed the integration of Sagetech's UAV transponders with the world's leading open source autopilot, ArduPilot.
The two companies successfully tested the new integra ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Nov 05, 2020 
The GEO (Group on Earth Observations) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Award has been given to the UK Space Agency.
In its second year, the GEO awards programme, led by the EO4SDG initiative, looks to celebrate productivity, innovation, novelty, and exemplary efforts in the use of Earth observations for sustainable development.
The UK Space Agency was given the award for its Inte ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 09, 2020 
Superconductivity is a phenomenon where an electric circuit loses its resistance and becomes extremely efficient under certain conditions. There are different ways in which this can happen which were thought to be incompatible. For the first time researchers discover a bridge between two of these methods to achieve superconductivity. This new knowledge could lead to a more general understanding ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 03, 2020 
The 3rd Marine Logistics Group this week reactivated the 3rd Landing Support Battalion in a ceremony aboard Camp Foster in Okinawa, Japan.
The 3rd LSB drew its lineage from the 3rd Service Battalion activated in 1942 amid WWII and was last known as the 3rd Division Service Group in 1976, according to a U.S. Marines Corps statement.
Now that it's reactivated, it is ready to serve ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 06, 2020  The U.S. Army is preparing its augmented reality headset for 2021 rollout with its latest "soldier touchpoint" for feedback, the third development milestone, having just been completed.
Soldiers of the U.S. Marines and the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army participated in field tests and demonstrations of the next-generation Integrated Visual Augmentation System in late October at ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Nov 02, 2020
Persistent cold temperatures and strong circumpolar winds, also known as the polar vortex, supported the formation of a large and deep Antarctic ozone hole that should persist into November, NOAA and NASA scientists reported Friday.
The annual Antarctic ozone hole reached its peak size at about 9.6 million square miles (24.8 million square kilometers), roughly three times the area of the c ... more |
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 Evanston IL (SPX) Nov 09, 2020 
Northwestern University researchers have developed a new computational approach to accelerate the design of materials exhibiting metal-insulator transitions (MIT), a rare class of electronic materials that have shown potential to jumpstart future design and delivery of faster microelectronics and quantum information systems - foundational technologies behind Internet of Things devices and large- ... more |
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 Bethesda VA (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 
Lockheed Martin teamed with Aerojet Rocketdyne on a proposal to compete for the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) contract for The Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
Lockheed Martin is offering an interceptor designed from the ground up as an all-up-round to address all elements of environmental survivability from day one. Our partner Aerojet Rocketdyne will power our primary propulsion to addr ... more |
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