Russia sends S-300 missile system to Syria port
Aleppo, Syria (AFP) Oct 5, 2016 -
Russia said Tuesday it has sent an advanced missile system to the Syrian port of Tartus, as tensions escalate between Moscow and Washington over the five-year conflict.
The announcement came after Washington said it was suspending talks with Moscow aimed at reviving a ceasefire deal over Russia's support for the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
On the ground, Assad's forces ad ...
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QinetiQ, Milrem debut Titan unmanned ground vehicle
Washington (UPI) Oct 4, 2016 -
QinetiQ North America and Milrem debuted their Titan unmanned ground vehicle this week at the 2016 Association of the United States Army event. The first-of-its-kind, modular, hybrid vehicle was co-developed by the two companies, QinetiQ said in a statement. The Titan unites Milrem's Tracked Hybrid Modular Infantry System, or THeMIS, a vehicle made for military applications, with ...
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Recent atmospheric behavior disrupts earth's most regular climate cycles
Exeter, UK (SPX) Oct 04, 2016 -
A team of scientists has discovered an unexpected disruption in one of the most repeatable atmospheric patterns. The normal flow of air high up in the atmosphere over the equator, known as the quasi-biennial oscillation, was seen to break down earlier this year.
These stratospheric winds are found high above the tropics, their direction and strength changes in a regular two- to three-year ...
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A terrible rift
St. Louis, MO (SPX) Oct 04, 2016 -
When Doug Wiens approached Minnesota farmers to ask permission to install a seismometer on their land, he often got a puzzled look. "You could tell they were thinking 'Why are you putting a seismometer here?,' " said Wiens, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. "'We don't have earthquakes and we don't have volcanoes. Do you know som ...
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Space for Shenzhou 11
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 04, 2016 -
China's state media are quiet right now about the upcoming Shenzhou 11 mission. This spacecraft will carry two astronauts to the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, which seems to have passed all of its on-orbit tests and is ready to support a crew.
We stand right now between the end of the launch and checkout phase for Shenzhou 11, which launched last month, and the build-up to the next mission. ...
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Students team up with NASA for space coms and navigation
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 04, 2016 -
Millions of students across the country take on internships every year, but not all have the chance to be part of an innovative team pushing the boundaries of space communications. Summer interns with the Explorations and Space Communications Projects Division (ESC) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, tackled projects critical to human and robotic spaceflight.
Thi ...
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Ice cores reveal slow decline in oxygen over past 800K years
Princeton NJ (SPX) Oct 05, 2016 -
Princeton University researchers have compiled 30 years of data to construct the first ice core-based record of atmospheric oxygen concentrations spanning the past 800,000 years, according to a paper in the journal Science.
The record shows that atmospheric oxygen has declined 0.7 percent relative to current atmospheric-oxygen concentrations, a reasonable pace by geological standards, the ...
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