Air Force wants next generation fighter to be operational by 2025-2029

In January, 2017, the US Air Force the service will begin an 18-month analysis of alternatives that will help determine the PCA (Penetrating Counter Air) platform by examining the ability to reach supersonic speeds in different configurations while maintaining a stealth signature and manoeuvrability. The USAF Scientific Advisory Board announced 2017 studies which will focus …

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Better lasers could lead to future atomic clocks that are 100 times more accurate

JILA physicists have demonstrated a novel laser design based on synchronized emissions of light from the same type of atoms used in advanced atomic clocks. The laser could be stable enough to improve atomic clock performance a hundredfold and even serve as a clock itself, while also advancing other scientific quests such as making accurate …

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Spherical shell laser sail would simplify interstellar laser sails by getting rid of the need for orientation and solve the beam riding problem

The stability of a light sail riding on a laser beam is analyzed both analytically and numerically. Conical sails on Gaussian beams, which have been studied in the past, are shown to be unstable in general. A new architecture for a passively stable sail and beam configuration is proposed. The novel spherical shell sail design …

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Safety Testing Self Driving Cars needs to consider the possible Deep Learning Weaknesses

Philip Koopman, professor of Carnegie Mellon Univ., believes the biggest hole in a Federal Automated Policy published late Sept. is in the regulators’ failure to tangle head-on with fundamental difficulties in testing Machine Learning — a problem already known to the scientific/engineering community. Representativeness of data Carmakers are building a fake city, for example, in …

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D-Wave Systems Previews 2000-Qubit Quantum System and Early tests show new features have up to 1000 times performance improvement over 1000 Qubit system

D-Wave Systems Inc., the world’s first quantum computing company, announced details of its most advanced quantum computing system, featuring a new 2000-qubit processor. The announcement is being made at the company’s inaugural users group conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The new processor doubles the number of qubits over the previous generation D-Wave 2X™ system, …

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General Atomics looks to adopt DARPA’s Gremlin Drone launch from C-130 effort to MQ-9 Reaper

General Atomics Aeronautical displayed its proposal for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Gremlin programme, to develop the ability to air launch and air recover a small unmanned aircraft system (SUAS) from a C-130 transport aircraft, at the annual Air Force Association (AFA) symposium. General Atomics Aeronautical showed its proposal for DARPA’s Gremlin effort, …

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US Air Force new Long Range Bomber is named the B-21 Raider

The B-21 Raider name will go on Northrop Grumman’s B-21, a modern, stealthy flying wing in the general style of Northrop Grumman’s B-2 Spirit. Originally developed as the “Long Range Strike Bomber,” The unit cost for each bomber is around $564 million in 2016 dollars, or about the same as five F-35A stealth fighters Introducing …

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Warner Brothers orders its own official webpages for the Dark Knight and the Matrix to cease and desist

Warner Bros ordered Google to remove several of its own webpages from search results on the grounds they infringed the media giant’s copyright. This was on the Lumen database of cease and desist orders Warner Brothers also told Google to remove legit movie streaming links from Amazon, Sky, and IMDb. SOURCES- Lumen Database, Arstechnica Brian …

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NIAC NASA Magnetoshell Aerocapture

NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) had their 2016 symposium on August 23-25, 2016 At 50 minutes of the video is the David Kirtley, MSNW, LLC, Magnetoshell Aerocapture for Manned Missions and Planetary Deep Space Orbiters talk No upper limit to insertion velocity Magnetic drag can be 1000 of times more. Magnetic field can be tens …

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Another Successful Spacex Mission to ISS and a good landing of the first stage

More than 2 tons of supplies and gear are speeding toward the International Space Station, after a SpaceX Falcon rocket launched early Monday from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The cargo includes a new port that will standardize how spacecraft connect to the station. The SpaceX Dragon craft will deliver its payload to the station Wednesday morning …

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Russia testing electronic components for a sixth generation fighter on their 5th gen T-50 prototype stealth fighter

Russia is testing components for a sixth 6th generation fighter jet on the 5th generation PAK FA T-50 prototype. Back in early March reports stated that work on the sixth-generation fighter aircraft had begun, with the fighter’s manned and unmanned versions under development. The fighter prototype is expected to perform its maiden flight prior to …

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