Space Business News
June 02, 2020
ROCKET SCIENCE
Starliner to go to ISS without crew in November, crewed flight set for next year



Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 02, 2020
 Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will refly its uncrewed test mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in November of this year, while the first crewed flight is planned for April 2021, a space source said. "The second flight of the Starliner spacecraft to the ISS without crew is expected in mid-November 2020, while the first flight with crew - in April 2021", the source said. In April, Boeing announced that it was going to refly its uncrewed orbital flight test after problems during it ... read more
MICROSAT BLITZ
Preparations resume for Vega's upcoming mission with 53 small satellite passengers
 Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jun 02, 2020
 The launch campaign has resumed for Arianespace's next mission, which will be the proof-of-concept flight with the Vega launcher's "ride-share" configuration - known as the Small Spacecraft Mission ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
NASA Networks support 1st commercial launch of NASA astronauts from US
 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 02, 2020
 On May 30, a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft launched from the historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station as part of SpaceX's second demon ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
ISS welcomes first SpaceX Crew Dragon with NASA astronauts
 Houston TX (SPX) Jun 02, 2020
 NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday aboard the first commercially built and operated American spacecraft to carry humans to orbit, ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
US astronauts enter space station in milestone mission
 Washington (AFP) May 31, 2020
 NASA astronauts entered the International Space Station on Sunday after a landmark 19-hour journey on the first crewed US spacecraft in nearly a decade, a triumph for SpaceX and private enterprise. ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE
Moscow bemused at US space 'hysteria' as Musk taunts Russia
 Moscow (AFP) May 31, 2020
 Moscow space officials on Sunday said they were puzzled by "hysteria" around the successful SpaceX flight as Elon Musk taunted Russia and US President Donald Trump vowed to beat it to Mars. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
For Russia, SpaceX success is 'wakeup call'
 Moscow (AFP) May 31, 2020
 Russia has lost its long-held monopoly as the only country able to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station following the flawless manned launch by US company SpaceX. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Russia plans rocket tests, lunar programme resumption
 Moscow (AFP) May 31, 2020
 Russia on Sunday put a brave face on the loss of its space travel monopoly, saying it planned to test two new rockets this year and resume its lunar programme in 2021. ... more
ENERGY TECH
Next-gen laser facilities look to usher in new era of relativistic plasmas research
 Washington DC (SPX) May 27, 2020
 The subject of the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics, chirped pulse amplification is a technique that increases the strength of laser pulses in many of today's highest-powered research lasers. As next-gen ... more
ENERGY TECH
Surprise link found to edge turbulence in fusion plasma
 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) May 27, 2020
 Blobs can wreak havoc in plasma required for fusion reactions. This bubble-like turbulence swells up at the edge of fusion plasmas and drains heat from the edge, limiting the efficiency of fusion re ... more
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MISSILE DEFENSE
Advanced Air and Missile Defense, in the hands of soldiers
 Falls Church VA (SPX) May 28, 2020
 It's a cold December morning at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and two surrogate cruise missile targets have just been launched, one after the other. They are flying separate courses among ... more
UAV NEWS
Citadel Defense launches Deepfake AI to prevent drone attacks on military and government assets
 San Diego CA (SPX) May 27, 2020
 Citadel Defense, a proven innovator in full spectrum counter drone solutions, has released new software incorporating deepfake neural networks to protect against adversarial spoofing tactics. This c ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
Surrey reveals its implantable biosensor that operates without batteries
 Surrey UK (SPX) May 22, 2020
 Researchers from the University of Surrey have revealed their new biodegradable motion sensor - paving the way for implanted nanotechnology that could help future sports professionals better monitor ... more
ROBO SPACE
The concept of creating brain-on-chip revealed
 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (SPX) May 29, 2020
 Lobachevsky University scientists in collaboration with their colleagues from Russia, Italy, China and the United States have proposed the concept of a memristive neurohybrid chip to be used in comp ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX rocket lifts off on historic private crewed flight
 Kennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) May 30, 2020
 A SpaceX rocket carrying two veteran NASA astronauts was headed for the International Space Station on Saturday on the first ever crewed flight by a private company, ushering in a new era in space travel. ... more

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MICROSAT BLITZ
Nanosatellite with global mission tested for space
 Paris (ESA) May 29, 2020
 ESA's largest antenna test facility remains operational despite the COVID-19 pandemic, performing pre-flight testing for the latest satellite in a constellation to serve the internet of things. ... more

ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX astronaut launch: here's the rocket science it must get right
 Birmingham UK (The Conversation) May 28, 2020
 Two NASA astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, will make history by travelling to the International Space Station in a privately funded spacecraft, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Doug Liman to direct Tom Cruise film shot in space
 Washington DC (UPI) May 29, 2020
 Doug Liman will direct Tom Cruise in the first narrative feature film to be shot in space. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed Tuesday that Liman, 54, will direct Cruise, 57, in the new movie fil ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
AFRL marks 10 years of ramjet development since X-51A test mission
 Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) May 27, 2020
 The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Aerospace Systems Directorate celebrates the tenth anniversary of the X-51A's longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight, May 26, 2020. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Airbus wins ESA contract to construct third European Service Module for NASA's Orion spacecraft
 Bremen, Germany (SPX) May 27, 2020
 The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a contract with Airbus for the construction of the third European Service Module (ESM) for Orion, the American crewed spacecraft. The contract is worth aro ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
No SpaceX T-shirts for tourists at Cape Canaveral
 Merritt Island, United States (AFP) May 27, 2020
 NASA begged tourists to watch the SpaceX launch online, but space fans are still showing up in Florida. It would have been pretty good news for Brenda Mulberry - if she'd had some SpaceX T-shirts to sell them. ... more
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Class of stellar explosions found to be galactic producers of lithium
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jun 02, 2020
 A team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Sumner Starrfield of Arizona State University (ASU), has combined theory with both observations and laboratory studies and determined that a class of stellar explosions, called classical novae, are responsible for most of the lithium in our galaxy and solar system. The results of their study have been recently published in the Astrophysical Jour ... more
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+ UK commits new funding to combat space debris
+ Designing a flexible material to protect buildings, military personnel
+ Data-relay satellite ready for service
+ Solving the space junk problem
+ New Observatory Will Track Near-Earth Satellites and Space Debris
UK nears final stage of Skynet satellite contract competition
London, UK (Sputnik) May 26, 2020
 Britain's Ministry of Defense will soon launch the final stage of a competition to manage ground station capabilities for Skynet, a military communications satellite network which provides strategic communication services to the British Armed Forces and NATO. According to a report by C4ISRNET, the invitation to industry consortia to "negotiate documents" was expected to occur last week. Ho ... more
+ Roccor creates Helical L-Band Antenna for first-ever space demonstration of Link 16 Networks
+ NIST researchers boost microwave signal stability a hundredfold
+ IBCS Goes Agile
+ Northrop Grumman to rapidly develop net-centric gateway
+ Dominate the electromagnetic spectrum
+ L3Harris Technologies awarded third LRIP order on US Army's HMS Manpack IDIQ contract
+ Lockheed Martin's new contract with DARPA can disrupt the future of space
Harnessing space to save lives at sea
Prague, Czech Republic (SPX) May 25, 2020
 The migration crisis in recent years has thrown into focus the fact that current technological solutions are simply not capable of saving the lives of all those who get lost at sea. A number of search and rescue services and other state authorities are increasingly using drones to make surveillance operations more efficient. However, drones usually have very limited flight time which is not suff ... more
+ Out-of-the-box spoofing mitigation with Galileo's OS-NMA service
+ Galileo in high latitudes and harsh environments
+ New BeiDou satellite starts operation in network
+ Velodyne Lidar announces multi-year sales agreement with GeoSLAM
+ Galileo positioning aiding Covid-19 reaction
+ GPS celebrates 25th year of operation
+ Galileo Green Lane, easing pressure at the EU's internal borders
Sirkorsky awarded $17.9M modification for work on the H-53K
Washington DC (UPI) May 28, 2020
 Sikorsky was awarded a $17.9 million contract modification Thursday for work on the H-53K helicopter. Under the modification Sikorsky, a division of Lockheed Martin, will provide logistics, program management, training, configuration management and sustaining engineering support for the H-53K system. The CH-53K King Stallion, which has been in development since 2006, is a cargo h ... more
+ U.S. Air Force scales back fitness testing, citing COVID-19 concerns
+ AFRL, AFSOC launch palletized weapons from cargo plane
+ F-35 costs falling, Pentagon estimates indicate
+ UAVenture Capital spins off FreeFall Aerospace to form FreeFall 5G
+ China becomes large shareholder in Norwegian Air Shuttle
+ Russia begins building first stealth bomber
+ Hong Kong airport to resume limited transit services
DARPA Selects Teams to Increase Security of Semiconductor Supply Chain
Washington DC (SPX) May 29, 2020
 As Internet of Things (IoT) devices rapidly increase in popularity and deployment, economic attackers and nation-states alike are shifting their attention to the vulnerabilities of digital integrated circuit (IC) chips. Threats to IC chips are well known, and despite various measures designed to mitigate them, hardware developers have largely been slow to implement security solutions due t ... more
+ Carbon nanotube transistors make the leap from lab to factory floor
+ Xilinx 'lifts off' with launch of industry's first 20nm space-grade FPGA for space applications
+ 'One-way' electronic devices enter the mainstream
+ Huawei says 'survival' at stake after US chip restrictions
+ Scientists break the link between a quantum material's spin and orbital states
+ Light, fantastic: the path ahead for faster, smaller computer processors
+ US seek to cut off China's Huawei from global chip suppliers
Calling for ideas for next Earth Explorer
Paris (ESA) May 26, 2020
 As part of ESA's continuing commitment to realise cutting-edge satellite missions to advance the scientific understanding of our planet and to show how new technologies can be used in space, a new Call for Earth Explorer mission ideas has been released. The Call invites scientists working in Earth observation to submit ideas for ESA's 11th Earth Explorer mission. Our planet works as ... more
+ Atmospheric scientists identify cleanest air on Earth in first-of-its-kind study
+ Study shows today's atmospheric carbon dioxide levels greater than 23 million-year record
+ NASA's AIM Spots First Arctic Noctilucent Clouds of the Season
+ Volcanic eruptions reduce global rainfall
+ ESA's oldest Earth-observer images Delhi airport
+ Common CFC replacements break down into persistent pollutants
+ Tiny NASA satellite captures first image of clouds and aerosols
Bulgarian minister charged over illegal waste imports from Italy
Sofia (AFP) May 30, 2020
 Bulgaria's deputy environment minister Krassimir Zhivkov has been arrested and charged for his alleged role in illegally importing harmful waste from Italy and burning it, prosecutors said Saturday. Italian and Bulgarian authorities had been investigating two Bulgarian brothers operating in their countries. They own a recycling business and deal with dangerous waste such as batteries, lead a ... more
+ Gold mining with mercury threatens health of communities miles downstream
+ Copenhagen under fire over massive sewage dump
+ Wind can carry PFAS pollution miles away from manufacturing facilities
+ Amazon shareholders reject dissident moves to reshape company
+ Up to 90 percent fewer condensation trails due to reduced air traffic over Europe
+ Research aircraft investigate reduced concentrations of pollutants in the air
+ In China, quarantine improves air and prevents thousands of premature deaths
China space program targets July launch for Mars mission
Beijing (AFP) May 25, 2020
 China is targeting a July launch for its ambitious plans for a Mars mission which will include landing a remote-controlled robot on the surface of the red planet, the company in charge of the project has said. Beijing has invested billions of dollars in its space programme in an effort to catch up with its rival the United States and affirm its status as a major world power. The Mars mis ... more
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+ China's tracking ship Yuanwang-5 back from rocket monitoring mission
+ China's Kuaizhou rocket industrial park partially operational
+ China's experimental new-generation manned spaceship works normally in orbit
+ Long March-5B rocket enables China to construct space station
+ China's new spacecraft returns to Earth: official
+ China's space test hits snag with capsule 'anomaly'
Advanced Air and Missile Defense, in the hands of soldiers
Falls Church VA (SPX) May 28, 2020
 It's a cold December morning at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and two surrogate cruise missile targets have just been launched, one after the other. They are flying separate courses among the jagged San Andres and Sacramento mountains toward soldiers in a U.S. Army Air and Missile Defense unit at a test site called TAC-2 - Tactical Command Post 2. These sophisticated targets pre ... more
+ US approves sale of 84 Patriot missiles to Kuwait
+ Boeing awarded $128.5M modification to GMD missile upgrade contract
+ US pulling Patriot missile batteries from Saudi
+ Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Missiles and Defense Partner on Next Generation Interceptor
+ US Army awards $6B contract to Lockheed Martin for PAC-3 MSE production
+ SBIRS GEO-5 space vehicle enters critical thermal vacuum testing
+ Syria air defence intercepts 'Israeli' missiles: state media
Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System now has ground-to-ground capability
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 01, 2020
 A ground-to-ground test of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System rocket, normally launched from the air, was a success, BAE Systems announced on Monday. The tests were conducted at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona, with APKWS rockets fired from a launcher built specifically for ground vehicles by Missouri-based Arnold Defense and Electronics LLC. The U.S. Navy al ... more
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+ Morocco to purchase missiles, missile defense system from France
+ Boeing nabs $3.1B in cruise missile deals for Saudi Arabia, other partners
+ Boeing scores deals to deliver more than 1,000 missiles to Saudi
+ Javelin JV completes the first F-Model missile
+ Raytheon nabs $19M for RAM missiles, GMLS launchers
+ Lockheed completes final test of Precision Strike Missile for Army
Transporting energy through a single molecular nanowire
Groningen, Netherlands (SPX) May 11, 2020
 Photosynthetic systems in nature transport energy very efficiently towards a reaction centre, where it is converted into a useful form for the organism. Scientists have been using this as inspiration to learn how to transport energy efficiently in, for example, molecular electronics. Physicist Richard Hildner from the University of Groningen and his colleagues have investigated energy transport ... more
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The concept of creating brain-on-chip revealed
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (SPX) May 29, 2020
 Lobachevsky University scientists in collaboration with their colleagues from Russia, Italy, China and the United States have proposed the concept of a memristive neurohybrid chip to be used in compact biosensors and neuroprostheses. The concept is based on the existing and forward-looking solutions at the junction of neural cellular and microfluidic technologies that make it possible to grow a ... more
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Citadel Defense launches Deepfake AI to prevent drone attacks on military and government assets
San Diego CA (SPX) May 27, 2020
 Citadel Defense, a proven innovator in full spectrum counter drone solutions, has released new software incorporating deepfake neural networks to protect against adversarial spoofing tactics. This capability helps U.S. and allied forces combat growing enemy tactics that attempt to confuse existing security intelligence equipment as electronic warfare escalates. Citadel was the first compan ... more
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+ Textron nabs $20.7M contract modification for Navy drone program
+ Elbit Systems Introduces a UAS-Based Long-Range Maritime Rescue Capability
+ US military lose second drone in Niger
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