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Rocket Lab’s Eighth Electron Rideshare Mission Set to Launch in August
Rocket Lab aims to deploy another four satellites to orbit as part of its eighth Electron rideshare launch mission scheduled for next month. The mission, dubbed Look Ma, No Hands, will carry a cubesat to be the starting point of a maritime surveillance constellation for UnseenLabs as well as three rideshare payloads for Spaceflight, consisting of BlackSky's Global-4 Earth-imaging satellite and two research satellites for the U.S. Air Force, Rocket Lab said Monday.Â
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SRI International Deploys Atmospheric Distortion Experiment
SRI International announced Monday that they launched an experiment June 25 from Kennedy Space Center to support NASA’s efforts in the collection of atmospheric data.
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Army Requests Market Info on Cyber R&D Projects
The U.S. Army seeks market sources on a variety of research and development topics that support the military’s cyber operations.
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HII Concludes Builder’s Testing of New Amphibious Ship
Huntington Ingalls Industries has completed builder’s trials of Tripoli, the second America-class amphibious assault ship.
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NCI’s Paul Dillahay: AI Adoption Could Help Revolutionize Federal Workforce
Paul Dillahay, president and CEO of NCI Information Systems, wrote in a Nextgov article published Monday about the need for the federal government to push for the adoption of artificial intelligence in order to revolutionize the government workforce.
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ULA to Launch Rocket for Student Engagement Program; Tory Bruno Quoted
Interns from United Launch Alliance and Ball Aerospace are joining K-12 students to launch payloads in celebration of the Apollo 11 moon landing’s 50th anniversary.
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Northrop Presents Firebird ISR Aircraft at U.S. Aerospace Event
Northrop Grumman exhibited a line of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft at a three-day aerospace industry event in the U.K.
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Slalom Hosts Two-Day Hackathon on AWS Tech for Law Enforcement
Slalom held a two-day hackathon to help the residents of San Diego develop technical approaches that will potentially address law enforcement gaps through the use of Amazon Web Services offerings.
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Draper Advances Tech Development Efforts in Support of NASA’s Lunar Missions
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory is developing technologies designed to support NASA’s robotic and manned missions to the moon by 2024, SpaceNews reported Thursday.
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Semantic AI, Bluescape Named Finalists for AFWERX Multi-Domain Challenge
Semantic AI and Bluescape’s multi-domain operation technologies have entered the final round of the U.S. Air Force’s competition, the AFWERX Fusion Xperience 2019 event, which will be held on July 23 to 24 in Las Vegas, Nev.