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  Washington DC (UPI) Aug 07, 2020 Led by the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, the Air Force and Navy held joint training exercises this week near Japan, the 7th Fleet announced. The exercise involved the carrier and its strike group, currently the Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, as well as the Navy Electronic Attack Squadron 131, which transitioned from Whidbey Island,Wash., in June, and the Air Force 35th Fighter Wing. Both are currently stationed at Misawa Air Base, Japan. Integrated training i ... read more |
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75 years on, Japan bomb survivors make final pleas for abolitionTokyo (AFP) Aug 4, 2020 As Japan marks 75 years since the devastating attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the last generation of nuclear bomb survivors are working to ensure their message lives on after them. ... more  
Image processing algorithm allows indoor drones to fly autonomouslyBeijing, China (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 A research team from Japan has developed a single-camera machine vision algorithm, making it possible for lightweight hovering indoor robots to guide themselves by identifying and interpreting refer ... more  
Panasonic warns of annual profit dive over virus woesTokyo (AFP) July 30, 2020 Japan's Panasonic said Thursday its full-year net profit would plunge more than 50 percent as the coronavirus pandemic battered its businesses at home and overseas. ... more  
NASA Announces Astronauts to Fly on SpaceX Crew-2 Mission to Space StationWashington DC (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 NASA and its international partners have assigned crew members for Crew-2, which will be the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commerc ... more |
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First Arab space mission to Mars launches from JapanTokyo (AFP) July 20, 2020 The first Arab space mission to Mars, an unmanned probe dubbed "Hope", blasted off from Japan on Monday, in a bid to reveal more about the atmosphere of the Red Planet. ... more  
Subaru Telescope and New Horizons explore the outer Solar SystemTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 16, 2020 Collaborative observations with NASA's New Horizons mission have been ongoing at the Subaru Telescope since May 2020. Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), the wide field camera mounted on the prime focus of the ... more  
Capsule of Japan's Hayabusa2 asteroid probe to land in Australia on Dec 6Tokyo (Sputnik) Jul 16, 2020 The re-entry capsule of Japan's Hayabusa2 asteroid explorer containing samples from asteroid Ryugu will land in Australia on 6 December, as follows from a joint statement of the Japan Aerospace Expl ... more 
UAE again delays Mars probe launch over weatherDubai (AFP) July 15, 2020 The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday it would delay the launch of its "Hope" Mars probe for a second time, again due to bad weather. ... more 
Emirates Mars Mission delayed a second time by weatherWashington DC (UPI) Jul 15, 2020 Weather at the launch site in Japan has delayed Thursday's historic launch of a United Arab Emirates space mission to Mars. It was the second such delay in a week. ... more |
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Japan defence review slams China's virus 'disinformation'Tokyo (AFP) July 14, 2020 China has been spreading "disinformation" about the coronavirus and its naval activities are a matter of "grave" concern, Japan said in its annual defence review published Tuesday. ... more  |
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Columbus gets a new European science rackParis (ESA) Jul 13, 2020 After a successful launch aboard the Japanese HTV9 cargo vehicle, a new experiment facility was recently installed in the European laboratory Columbus as part of a comprehensive upgrade of Europe's ... more  
Okinawa governor demands action after COVID-19 outbreak at U.S. basesWashington DC (UPI) Jul 13, 2020 The governor of Okinawa has demanded stronger U.S. action after 61 U.S. Marines at two military bases there were reported infected with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. ... more  
Japan PM pledges billions for flood-hit regionTokyo (AFP) July 13, 2020 Japan will allocate $3.7 billion for the recovery of regions hit by devastating flooding and landslides that killed at least 72 people, the country's prime minister pledged Monday. ... more  
Russian Defense Ministry reports interception of U.S. spy planeWashington DC (UPI) Jul 11, 2020 Russia's news agency reported Saturday that Russian fighter jets intercepted a U.S. spy aircraft over the Sea of Japan this week. ... more  
US approves sale of 105 F-35 stealth fighters to JapanWashington (AFP) July 10, 2020 The United States announced Thursday that it has approved the sale of 105 F-35 stealth aircraft to Japan for an estimated $23.11 billion. ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Aug 6, 2020 
The state of New York sued the National Rifle Association and its leader Wayne LaPierre Thursday for financial fraud and misconduct, aiming to dissolve the powerful US conservative lobby.
State Attorney General Letitia James said LaPierre and three other top NRA officials used the dues and donations of members for years as their "personal piggy bank," spending tens of millions of dollars on ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 4, 2020 
Scientists said Tuesday they had discovered a way to detect space debris even in daylight hours, potentially helping satellites to avoid the ever-growing cloud of junk orbiting the planet.
Defunct rockets, satellites and spacecraft parts continue to orbit Earth after they are discarded.
The estimated 500,000 objects circling the globe range in size from a single screw to an entire rocke ... more |
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 Boothbay ME (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
Researchers have advanced a new way to see into the ocean's depths, establishing an approach to detect algae and measure key properties using light. A paper published in Applied Optics reports using a laser-based tool, lidar, to collect these measurements far deeper than has been typically possible using satellites.
"Traditional satellite remote sensing approaches can collect a wide range ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 
University of Colorado Boulder researchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner than a human red blood cell.
The team, led by scientists at JILA, reported its new feat of wafer-thinness this week in the journal Physical Review Materials. The group's target, a film just 5 nanometers thick, is the thinnest material ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
Japan's announcement on the suspension of the deployment of Aegis Ashore missile defense systems marks a potential shift in the country's security strategy. The turning point depends on the substitute for Aegis Ashore. The country is now considering pre-emptive strike capabilities as a possibility, targeting missile launchers in North Korea first instead of intercepting incoming missiles. Interc ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 07, 2020 
China is soliciting ideas for payloads aboard its proposed missions to the moon, an asteroid and a comet, according to the China National Space Administration.
It is asking for primary, middle school and university students across the country to provide ideas for payloads that would fly aboard the Chang'e 7 probe to the moon, and on another spacecraft to the asteroid 2016HO3 and the comet ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 
DARPA's Subterranean (SubT) Challenge focuses on discovering innovative approaches to map, navigate, and search complex underground environments across three diverse subdomains: human-made tunnels, urban underground, and natural cave systems. Two previous scored events - Tunnel and Urban Circuits - featured both Virtual and Systems Competitions.
DARPA has made the difficult decision to pro ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 3, 2020 
France on Monday said it was halting ratification of an extradition treaty with Hong Kong after Beijing introduced a controversial new security law in the former British colony.
"In light of the latest developments, France will not proceed as it stands with the ratification of the extradition agreement signed on May 4, 2017 between France and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region," the ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Aug 07, 2020 
China successfully launched a new optical remote-sensing satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:01 p.m. Thursday (Beijing Time).
The satellite, Gaofen-9 04, was sent into orbit by a Long March-2D carrier rocket. It has a resolution up to the sub-meter level.
The satellite will be mainly used for land surveys, city planning, land right confirmation ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 04, 2020 
By tracking the grooming behaviors of dairy cows, researchers have gained new insights into the formation and evolution of social networks among cows, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science .
Social grooming among animals is called allogrooming. Among bovine, allogrooming typically involves one cow licking the head and neck of another.
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 
Taking advantage of a total lunar eclipse, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have detected Earth's own brand of sunscreen - ozone - in our atmosphere. This method simulates how astronomers and astrobiology researchers will search for evidence of life beyond Earth by observing potential "biosignatures" on exoplanets (planets around other stars).
Hubble did not look at Earth di ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 07, 2020 
The number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. military passed the 30,000 threshold this week, the Pentagon reported.
The Department of Defense now has recorded 30,392 cases of the coronavirus among military personnel, with civilian, contractor and dependent cases bringing DoD's total case count to 43,634 as of Friday afternoon.
Although 2,856 positive cases were found this week, a 10 ... more |
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 Kinshasa (AFP) Aug 7, 2020 
Zambian troops occupying two villages in southeast Democratic Republic of Congo have withdrawn after regional mediation led to a breakthrough in a long-running border dispute, the Congolese government has announced.
Fighting broke out in mid-March between the Zambian and Congolese armies when the Zambian soldiers took control of the villages at Muliro-Kibambe in Tanganyika province.
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 
When the SpaceX Crew Dragon docked with the International Space Station during the Demo-2 mission, it was a historic day for NASA and our nation as we returned the launch of American astronauts on American rockets from American soil to the orbiting laboratory. As Crew Dragon approached the space station, one thing may have gone unnoticed - a narrow rubber seal that plays a critical role in safel ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 4, 2020 
The United States on Tuesday successfully tested an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a launch directed from an airborne command center, the Air Force said.
The missile was launched at 12:21 am (0721 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, travelling 6,700 kilometers (4,200 miles) over the Pacific Ocean before landing in the sea near the Marshall I ... more |
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