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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. Both are thought to host vast subsurface oceans of salty water under a thick ice crust. But while that makes the ... read 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 |
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China's tracking ship wraps up satellite launch monitoringBeijing (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 o ... more 
Space Station stitchParis (ESA) Jun 24, 2020 This panorama of the International Space Station is a wider view of what ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano was capturing on camera during the first of a series of historic spacewalks that took place in N ... more  
Beidou system's applications spread around globeBeijing (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 Offi ... more  
First modernized LM 2100 SBIRS missile warning satellite completes thermal vacuum testingSunnyvale 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 fi ... more  
Flight trials for greener aviation set for take offParis (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 ... more |
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 UK looking at alternatives to UK GPS plans 
NASA Developing a Plan to Fly Personnel on Suborbital SpacecraftWashington DC (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 For the first time in the agency's history, NASA has initiated a new effort to enable NASA personnel to fly on future commercial suborbital spaceflights. NASA's Flight Opportunities program has succ ... more  |
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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 
F-35 restricted from flying in lightning over fuel system issueWashington DC (UPI) Jun 24, 2020 F-35 deliveries resumed after a flaw was discovered that could cause an explosion if the plane was struck by lightning, maker Lockheed Martin said Wednesday. ... more
China launches final satellite to complete rival to GPSBeijing (AFP) June 23, 2020 China on Tuesday launched the final satellite in its homegrown geolocation system, completing a network designed to rival American GPS as it jostles for market share in the lucrative sector. ... more  
Deep drone acrobaticsZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 Since the dawn of flight, pilots have used acrobatic maneuvers to test the limits of their airplanes. The same goes for flying drones: Professional pilots often gage the limits of their drones and m ... more 
NATO RQ-4D Phoenix Reaches New MilestoneSigonella 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 com ... more |
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 Krakow, Poland (SPX) Jun 19, 2020 
Ultracold atoms trapped in appropriately prepared optical traps can arrange themselves in surprisingly complex, hitherto unobserved structures, according to scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow. In line with their most recent predictions, matter in optical lattices should form tensile and inhomogeneous quantum rings in a controlled manner. ... 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 21, 2020 
Optical frequency synthesizers - systems that output laser beams at precise and stable frequencies - have proven extremely valuable in a variety of scientific endeavors, including space exploration, gas sensing, control of quantum systems, and high-precision light detection and ranging (LIDAR).
While they provide unprecedented performance, the use of optical frequency synthesizers has larg ... more |
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 (UPI) Jun 24, 2019 
Efforts to improve the precision with which climate models simulate cloud processes have yielded more realistic models. New research suggests these efforts have also introduced greater uncertainty, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.
When the latest generation of climate models started producing results last year, researchers noticed that several mo ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) June 17, 2020 
At least two-thirds of people in countries home to a fifth of the world's population support stricter laws and enforcement to tackle air pollution, the Clean Air Fund said Wednesday.
Researchers from the consortium of philanthropic groups analysed YouGov polling data from India, Britain, Nigeria, Bulgaria and Poland, the first survey across multiple countries on air pollution in the wake of ... 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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