Lockheed gets $106 million Trident II missile contract modification
Washington (UPI) Oct 3, 2016 -
Lockheed Martin Space Systems has been awarded a $106 million U.S. Navy contract modification for Trident II D5 missile procurement and support.
The fixed-price-incentive, cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee modification covers new procurement of missile production, life extension development and production and deployed systems support.
The maximum value of the modificat ...
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Australia's coordinates out by more than 1.5 metres: scientist
Sydney (XNA) Oct 04, 2016 -
Australia has had to change its position on world maps four times in the past 50 years. The country happens to be located on one of the world's fastest-moving tectonic plates, travelling about 2.7 inches north each year. That's almost three times as fast as the plate on which the U.S. is positioned, which only travels around one inch per year.
According to Dr Lucia Perez-Diaz from the Depa ...
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Beijing exhibition means plenty of "space" for everyone
Beijing (XNA) Oct 04, 2016 -
It is almost closing time at the China Science and Technology Museum (CSTM) and six-year-old Shi Jiajun is still standing in line, somewhat forlornly, in front of a "spacecraft," waiting for a "ride." Jiajun is from Urumqi in China's far northwest. He and his mother have just arrived in Beijing for a brief visit. They have a tight schedule, but for Jiajun, this is an important stop.
Since ...
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A Second Look at Plumes and the Search for life on Europa
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 04, 2016 -
Once can be a coincidence. Twice can be luck. Seeing a hundred-mile-high column of water spew out of Jupiter's icy moon Europa three times in a row has been cited as a good reason to get excited.
Plumes - great jets of subsurface water forced through the moon's thick ice sheet - were first spotted spraying out of Europa's southern pole in December 2012. At least, that's what the scientific ...
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Milkway's most-mysterious star is even stranger than astronomers thought
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 04, 2016 -
A star known by the unassuming name of KIC 8462852 in the constellation Cygnus has been raising eyebrows both in and outside of the scientific community for the past year. In 2015 a team of astronomers announced that the star underwent a series of very brief, non-periodic dimming events while it was being monitored by NASA's Kepler space telescope, and no one could quite figure out what caused t ...
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Lowering the heat makes new materials possible while saving energy
University Park PA (SPX) Oct 06, 2016 -
A new technology developed by Penn State researchers, called cold sintering process (CSP), opens a window on the ability to combine incompatible materials, such as ceramics and plastics, into new, useful compound materials, and to lower the energy cost of many types of manufacturing.
Ceramics is the oldest known man-made material, dating back tens of thousands of years. Throughout that tim ...
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Large volumes of data from ITER transferred to Japan at unprecedented speeds
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 06, 2016 -
The National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), as the implementing agency of the BA activities, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) National Institute of Informatics (NII), and the ITER International Fusi ...
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