October 2018 AE Links
Is AI to be
a major advance in the training of new Air Force pilots?
Blue Origin
wins important rocket engine contract to the consternation of Aerojet
Rocketdyne
Small planet
spotted outside of Pluto hints that there may be a hidden huge planet at the
outer fringes of our solar system
***Advanced robotics-Japan fields a
robotic drywall installer.
Iron Ox
leaders announce the development of a robotically managed hydroponic farm on a
commercial scale
***Disney Research is developing a
system to spray paint surfaces using a robotic drone
Boeing and
Embraer may team up to produce the KC-390, a jet powered aircraft to replace
C-130 fleet
Lockheed
Martin at work designing lunar lander that can be reused and accommodate 4
astronauts
Russians
allegedly working for GRU in Fancy Bear cyberattacks are indicted by US Dept.
of Justice
First manned
space flights scheduled for next summer by both SpaceX and ULA
Cassini
found that Saturn’s rings rain huge amounts of material onto planet’s surface
every second
https://www.yahoo.com/news/saturn-iconic-rings-raining-thousands-pounds-material-onto-164959487.html
Voyager 2
bound for interstellar space. Cosmic ray counts increase 5 percent
Gyroscope
fails on Hubble Space Telescope forcing controllers to place it in safe mode
while engineers troubleshoot the problem, hoping for a satisfactory solution
***Watch launch of SpaceX rocket and
first landing back at Vandenberg during satellite launch
Global
climate change at the forefront in UN discussions-2 reports
Blue Origin
wins contract to build military booster rockets
Office of
Inspector General releases report critical of the state of Boeing’s SLS program
Another
space telescope failure for NASA-Chandra goes into safe mode for reasons yet to
be determined
MIT gets
huge grant to open new school dedicated to study of computer sciences
Air Force
F-22’s damaged by hurricane Michael
Start-up
rocket company Rocket Lab selects a Virginia site for its US based space port
with first launch expected third quarter of 2019
Vector Space
Systems raises funds for its new launch vehicle designed for low earth orbit
missions. Rockets to be built at a factory in Tucson
NASA
proposing unmanned missions to moon carrying small payloads with landings on
lunar surface by 2019 or 2020
International
observe the moon night marks 50 years since trip of Apollo 8 to the moon and
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