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  Mahia, New Zealand (SPX) Dec 09, 2021 Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has successfully deployed two satellites to orbit for real-time geospatial intelligence company BlackSky, bringing the total number of satellites deployed by Rocket Lab to 109. The 'A Data With Destiny' mission, arranged for BlackSky through global launch services provider Spaceflight Inc., was Electron's 23rd liftoff from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula. Following liftoff at 00:02 UTC, December 09 2021, Electron successfully delivered the two Blac ... read more |
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Spire Global selects Virgin Orbit for late-load addition to next flightLong Beach CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 Leading launch company Virgin Orbit, which has announced a planned business combination with special purpose acquisition company NextGen Acquisition Corp. II, has announced alongside space-based dat ... more  
Redwire announces supplier agreement with Terran Orbital to support satellite manufacturingJacksonville FL (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 Redwire Corporation, a global leader in mission critical space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, has announced a three-year supplier agreement with Terran Orbital, a global leade ... more 
New rocket test facility under construction in ScotlandLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 The UK Space Agency welcomes the news that British company Orbex is constructing a state-of-the-art rocket test facility in Kinloss, Scotland. Ian Annett, Deputy CEO of the UK Space Agency, sa ... more 
Los Alamos National Laboratory awards satellite mission contract to NanoAvionics USColumbia IL (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 Smallsat mission integrator NanoAvionics US has received a mission contract by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), one of the largest science and technology institutions in the world. The 12U (1U ... more |
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RUAG Space: First fully U.S.-made fairing to fly into spaceKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Dec 06, 2021 On Sun., Dec. 5, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will launch the Space Test Program (STP)-3 mission for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) from Cape Canaveral, Fla. "Thi ... more  
Experiments riding 24th SpaceX Cargo Mission to USS included bioprinting, crystallization, laundry studiesHouston TX (SPX) Dec 08, 2021 The 24thSpaceX cargo resupply services mission, targeted to launch in late December from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carries scientific research and technology demonstrations to the Inte ... more 
Russia's cosmos town, an isolated relic of Soviet gloryBaikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Dec 8, 2021 Malik Mutaliyev walks by an abandoned amusement park in wintry Baikonur, a secretive town in Kazakhstan's inhospitable steppe that appeared alongside the eponymous Baikonur Cosmodrome where the Soviet Union's space programme rose to glory. ... more 
AFRL celebrates successful rocket launch at STEM AcademyKirtland AFB NM (SPX) Dec 09, 2021 "Five...four...three...two...one...launch," the Range Safety Officer called out. The Launch Control Officer pushed the red button, and the rocket took off, whoosh! about 1,000 feet in the air. ... more  
High-tech sleeping bag could solve vision issues in spaceDallas TX (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 A subtle smile emerged on Dr. James Leidner's face as he envisioned telling people of the unusual contribution he made to mankind's mission to Mars. For 72 straight hours, the study voluntee ... more |
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OFFSET Swarms take flight in final field experimentFort Campbell TN (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 Researchers, roboticists, and technologists deployed swarms of autonomous air and ground vehicles to test mission capabilities in the final field experiment (FX-6) of DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled ... more 
Orbex begins construction of new rocket launchpad in the UKForres UK (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 Orbex, Europe's leading private small satellite launch services provider, has announced it has started construction of its first state-of-the-art Launch Platform, the first orbital space launchpad t ... more  
Two new satellites mark further enlargement of GalileoParis (ESA) Dec 09, 2021 Europe's largest satellite constellation has grown even bigger, following the launch of two more Galileo navigation satellites by Soyuz launcher from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on 5 Decembe ... more  
India defence chief's body arrives in Delhi after helicopter crashNew Delhi (AFP) Dec 9, 2021 The body of Indian defence chief General Bipin Rawat arrived in New Delhi on Thursday, one day after he and 12 others were killed in a helicopter crash near a military academy. ... more
India defence chief among 13 dead in helicopter crashCoonoor, India (AFP) Dec 8, 2021 Indian defence chief General Bipin Rawat was among 13 people killed in a helicopter crash on Wednesday, raising questions over the future of military reforms he was leading. ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 06, 2021 
Our televisions and computer screens display news, movies, and shows in high-definition, allowing viewers a clear and vibrant experience. Fiber optic connections send laser light densely packed with data through cables to bring these experiences to users.
NASA and commercial aerospace companies are applying similar technologies to space communications, bringing optical speeds to the final ... more |
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 Reston VA (SPX) Dec 06, 2021 
SES Government Solutions has announced its new Common Operational Picture (COP) platform, Hydra, built exclusively to serve the U.S. Government and military. Managed and operated in-house, Hydra is a modular web-based monitoring and control system that provides end-to-end situational awareness in a single unified operational network platform.
Hydra collects, normalizes, and organizes data ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 09, 2021 
Europe's largest satellite constellation has grown even bigger, following the launch of two more Galileo navigation satellites by Soyuz launcher from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on 5 December. Galileo satellites 27-28 add to an existing 26-satellite constellation in orbit, providing the world's most precise satnav positioning to more than 2.3 billion users around the globe.
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 New Delhi (AFP) Dec 9, 2021 
The body of Indian defence chief General Bipin Rawat arrived in New Delhi on Thursday, one day after he and 12 others were killed in a helicopter crash near a military academy.
Rawat, 63, was travelling with his wife and other senior officers when their aircraft crashed in a forest in southern Tamil Nadu state, killing all but one soldier on board.
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 New York (AFP) Dec 7, 2021 
Semiconductor giant Intel said it plans to list shares in its car technology arm Mobileye publicly in the United States in mid-2022, a move reports said could value the subsidiary at over 50 billion dollars.
In a statement published late Monday, Intel specified that it would remain the majority shareholder and that the two companies would continue to work closely together.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 08, 2021 
Launched in 2001, NASA's TIMED mission has now spent 20 years surveying the complicated dynamics of Earth's upper atmosphere. Short for Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics, TIMED observes the chemistry and dynamics where Earth's atmosphere meets space. On its 20th anniversary, the scientific community is reflecting on what they've learned from TIMED's two decades of oper ... more |
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 Colombo (AFP) Dec 8, 2021 
The wreck of a chemical ship that caught fire off the Sri Lankan coast and caused environmental carnage will be removed, the operators said Wednesday.
A salvage company has been contracted to remove the sunken MV X-Press Pearl and the remains of its cargo, its Singapore-based managers said.
"The wreck removal plan will ensure a complete removal and safe, proper disposal of the wreck and ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 08, 2021 
A special lecture will begin at 3:40 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday, given by the three Shenzhou-13 crew members aboard China's space station, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced on Monday.
The three astronauts, namely Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu, will interact with students on Earth. The primary ground classroom will be at the China Science and Technology Museum. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 06, 2021 
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced the completion of military construction and installation of radar arrays for the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) during a ceremony declaring the initial fielding of the radar here Dec. 6.
LRDR is a multi-mission, multi-face radar with a wide field of view. Its massive arrays, each measuring 60 feet high by 60 feet wide, and advanced ga ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 08, 2021 
The South Korean Defense Ministry has unveiled a model for a hypersonic weapon prototype months after North Korea tested its own weapon. Just days ago while in South Korea, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin criticized Chinese hypersonic weapons tests for destabilizing the region.
The model for the weapon, named Hycore, was revealed on Friday by the Defense Ministry's Agency for Defense Dev ... more |
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 Groningen, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 27, 2021 
It is an intuitive rule of thumb: if you reduce the density of a material, its stiffness will also be reduced. But scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US noticed that materials that are based on sandwich nanotubes retained their stiffness at lower densities.
Modelling by materials scientists from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) revealed how this ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Dec 09, 2021 
Computer vision systems sometimes make inferences about a scene that fly in the face of common sense. For example, if a robot were processing a scene of a dinner table, it might completely ignore a bowl that is visible to any human observer, estimate that a plate is floating above the table, or misperceive a fork to be penetrating a bowl rather than leaning against it.
Move that computer v ... more |
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 Fort Campbell TN (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 
Researchers, roboticists, and technologists deployed swarms of autonomous air and ground vehicles to test mission capabilities in the final field experiment (FX-6) of DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program at the Cassidy Combined Arms Collective Training Facility (CACTF) in Fort Campbell, Tennessee. Since the program kicked off in 2017, OFFSET has held six field experiments wit ... more |
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