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  Washington DC (UPI) Jun 26, 2020 Two NASA astronauts conducted a spacewalk to replace lithium ion batteries outside of the International Space Station on Friday with only a minor snafu - the loss of a mirror. Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken began the spacewalk at 7:32 a.m. EDT and were back safely inside the ISS just over 6 hours later. Upon first exiting the ISS, though, Cassidy said a small mirror became detached from his spacesuit and floated into space. Astronauts use small mirrors on their spacesuits to hel ... read more |
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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Completes Second Flight from Spaceport AmericaLas Cruces NM (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. has reported the successful completion of the second SpaceShipTwo test flight from Spaceport America. This flight follows the completion of the first test flight from ... more 
SpaceX scrubs Starlink launch with two BlackSky satellitesOrlando FL (UPI) Jun 26, 2020 SpaceX scrubbed Friday's plan to launch additional Starlink satellites in a mission that had another paying customer on board - what SpaceX calls its ride-share program. The change in plans wa ... more  
USSF Commercial SATCOM Office announces development of new security programPeterson AFB CO (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 The U.S. Space Force Commercial Satellite Communications Office recently announced the development of its Infrastructure Asset Pre-Assessment Program. The objective of the IA-PRE Program is to ... more  
NGC and US Army team up for combined missile defense testWhite Sands Missile Range NM (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 Every day, Rafael Miranda leaves his hotel room before 6 a.m. to begin his long drive across White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in New Mexico. Miranda is a military training manager for Northrop ... more |
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Scientists develop new tool to design better fusion devicesPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 One way that scientists seek to bring to Earth the fusion process that powers the sun and stars is trapping hot, charged plasma gas within a twisting magnetic coil device shaped like a breakfast cru ... more 
Virgin Galactic's Unity completes final test before adding rocket powerWashington DC (Sputnik) Jun 26, 2020 According to a Thursday statement by Virgin Galactic, the space company's second gliding test of its Unity spacecraft appears to have been a success. Now, the air-deployed spaceplane will move on to ... more 
First contract signed for tourist space walk reports RoscosmosMoscow (Sputnik) Jun 26, 2020 Roscosmos and Space Adventures have been cooperating in space tourism since 2001, when the first space tourist, Dennis Tito, went into orbit. Since then, a total of seven people have been in space u ... more 
NASA completes Artemis SLS structural testing campaignHuntsville AL (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 span class="BDL">Video: a href="https://youtu.be/sSEh_oKLCAw">Water Gushes From SLS Rocket Propellant Tank As Engineers Break It On Purpose /a> /span> On June 24, 2020, engineers completed the Sp ... more  
Trump invokes Defense Production Act for hypersonic missile productionWashington DC (Sputnik) Jun 25, 2020 US President Donald Trump has invoked a wartime executive power giving him the authority to mobilize US industry, saying that without presidential direction, US industry "cannot reasonably be expect ... more |
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 First modernized LM 2100 SBIRS missile warning satellite completes thermal vacuum testing  
This Hopping Robot Could Explore the Solar System's Icy MoonsPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2020 Steam locomotion may sound like an antiquated way to get around, but it might be getting a science fiction makeover as we expand our reach into the solar system. A novel robotic concept being ... more  |
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Gilmour Space achieves 45-second milestone in latest hybrid rocket engine test fireGold Coast, Australia (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 Australia's leading rocket company has reached another milestone in its mission to launch small satellites to space by 2022. Rocket engineers at Gilmour Space Technologies in Queensland, Austr ... more 
Search for benzene on Space Station to resume in JulyMoscow (Sputnik) Jun 25, 2020 The search for a source of toxic benzene in the atmosphere of the International Space Station will resume at the end of July after the delivery of the new US air quality monitor on board the Russian ... more 
Thales Alenia Space will provide two key pressurized elements for Axiom commercial space stationTurin, Italy (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 Thales Alenia Space, Joint Venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %) announced the signature of an ATP (Authorization To Proceed) with Axiom Space of Houston, Texas to initiate the developme ... more  
Final Beidou launch marks major milestone in China's space effortBeijing (XNA) Jun 24, 2020 The final satellite to complete the third-generation network of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System was launched on Tuesday morning, marking a milestone in the nation's space endeavor. ... more  
Beidou system sees wide application across the countryBeijing (XNA) Jun 24, 2020 China's domestically developed Beidou Navigation Satellite System has been widely used in many public and private fields at home and abroad, according to official figures. By the end of 2019, ... more |
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 Hawthorne CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
ThinKom Solutions, Inc., has announced its Ku3030 aero satellite antennas have been installed on more than 1,550 commercial aircraft of 16 major airlines. The antennas have accrued over 17 million flight hours and have achieved in excess of 100,000 hours mean-time-before-failure (MTBF) while supporting industry-leading 98 percent end-to-end system availability.
The Ku3030, underpinned by T ... more |
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 Aalborg, Danmark (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 
GomSpace has signed a contract to develop and deliver a nanosatellite to the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI).
The satellite will demonstrate military tactical communications on the UHF band from a polar Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The primary mission objective is to demonstrate the military use and relevance of an Arctic satellite relay for tactical communication radios.
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 24, 2020 
China's domestically developed Beidou Navigation Satellite System has been widely used in many public sectors and business fields at home and abroad, according to the China Satellite Navigation Office.
By the end of 2019, more than 100 million Beidou-based navigation chips, modules and other products had been sold.
The system had by then been applied to nearly 6.6 million taxis, buse ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 21, 2020 
Commercial flight trials that use satellite-enabled communications to reduce the environmental impact of flying are scheduled to commence once normal traffic levels resume.
As nations begin to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and airports start to reopen in Europe, satellite communications provider Inmarsat and consultancy firm CGI will be conducting real-world trials of the Iris air ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 
Just as a meter stick with hundreds of tick marks can be used to measure distances with great precision, a device known as a laser frequency comb, with its hundreds of evenly spaced, sharply defined frequencies, can be used to measure the colors of light waves with great precision.
Small enough to fit on a chip, miniature versions of these combs - so named because their set of uniformly sp ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
Heading to the lake this summer? While harmful algal blooms can cause health problems for lake visitors, satellite data can provide early detection of harmful algae, resulting in socioeconomic benefits worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from one harmful algal bloom event, a new study finds. A Resources for the Future (RFF) and NASA VALUABLES Consortium study published in GeoHealth examines t ... more |
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 Cincinnati OH (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
Reservoirs in the heart of an ancient Maya city were so polluted with mercury and algae that the water likely was undrinkable.
Researchers from the University of Cincinnati found toxic levels of pollution in two central reservoirs in Tikal, an ancient Maya city that dates back to the third century B.C. in what is now northern Guatemala.
UC's findings suggest droughts in the ninth cen ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 25, 2020 
Yuanwang-6 - China's space-tracking ship, Yuanwang-6, has completed maritime monitoring for the last satellite launch of the country's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday.
The satellite, the 55th of the BeiDou family, was launched at 9:43 am (Beijing Time) on Tuesday. It was sent into the preset orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang S ... more |
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 Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 
The world's most advanced missile defense satellite recently and successfully came out of almost two months of harsh simulated space environmental testing.
On June 9, the U.S. Space Force's fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite (SBIRS GEO-5) successfully completed Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) testing at Lockheed Martin's Sunnyvale, California satellite manufacturi ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Jun 25, 2020 
US President Donald Trump has invoked a wartime executive power giving him the authority to mobilize US industry, saying that without presidential direction, US industry "cannot reasonably be expected" to provide the materials necessary for hypersonic weapons development "adequately and in a timely manner."
On Wednesday, Trump invoked the Defense Production Act of 1950, using the measure t ... more |
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 Dubendorf, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 
The smallest motor in the world - consisting of just 16 atoms: this was developed by a team of researchers from Empa and EPFL. "This brings us close to the ultimate size limit for molecular motors," explains Oliver Groning, head of the Functional Surfaces Research Group at Empa. The motor measures less than one nanometer - in other words it is around 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2020 
Steam locomotion may sound like an antiquated way to get around, but it might be getting a science fiction makeover as we expand our reach into the solar system.
A novel robotic concept being investigated at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California would use steam propulsion to hop across the sort of icy terrains found on Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus. Bo ... more |
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 Sigonella Italy (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 
The NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Force (NAGSF), with support from Northrop Grumman Corporation, marked a significant milestone recently in the System Level Performance Verification with the completion of a nine-hour training and test flight conducted for the first time under control of NAGSF trained pilots.
"Northrop Grumman is proud to support NAGSF pilots training as they control fl ... more |
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