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  Washington DC (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 NASA has selected Axiom Space for the second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. NASA will negotiate with Axiom on a mission order agreement for the Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) targeted to launch between fall 2022 and late spring 2023. Ax-2 will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a mission of no more than 14 days docked to the space station. NASA and Axiom will negotiate in-orbit activities for the private astronauts to conduct in coordination with space st ... read more |
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BWXT Delivers Fuel to NASA to Support Nuclear Thermal PropulsionLynchburg VA (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 BWX Technologies, Inc. has reached a critical milestone in the nation's pursuit of space nuclear propulsion by delivering coated reactor fuels to NASA in support of its space nuclear propulsion proj ... more  
SatRevolution Secures Series B Funding from Virgin OrbitParis, France (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 SatRevolution S.A. has secured Series B funding from Virgin Orbit, the US-based responsive launch and space solutions company that has announced a planned business combination with NextGen Acquisiti ... more 
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 |
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Innovative silicon nanochip can reprogram biological tissue in living bodyBloomington IN (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 A silicon device that can change skin tissue into blood vessels and nerve cells has advanced from prototype to standardized fabrication, meaning it can now be made in a consistent, reproducible way. ... more  
On they march as China records 401st flight of Long March rocket familyBeijing (XNA) Dec 15, 2021 China launched a relay satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China early on Tuesday morning, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation's major ... 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 
Space Habitat Market size to grow by USD 94.92 BnWashington DC (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 Technavio analyzes the space habitat market by technology (inflatable and non-inflatable) and geography (North America, Europe, APAC, and ROW). The report expects the market to witness an incrementa ... more 
Father's foundry job inspires Dr. Sharon Cobb to pursue NASA career pathHuntsville AL (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 Career inspiration can come from many places. For Space Launch System (SLS) Program Associate Manager Dr. Sharon Cobb, it was her father's work at a foundry in Birmingham, Alabama. During a fa ... more |
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Bezos' Blue Origin completes third crewed space flightLaunch Site One, United States (AFP) Dec 11, 2021 Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company blasted its third private crew into space on Saturday and brought it back safely, this time including the daughter of the first American astronaut. ... more 
Daughter of first American astronaut launches on Blue Origin flightLaunch Site One, United States (AFP) Dec 11, 2021 Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company blasted its third private crew to space on Saturday, this time including the daughter of the first American astronaut. ... more  
India May Become 1st in Line to Buy Russian Air Defense System S-500Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 15, 2021 India may become the first in line to but Russian air defense system S-500, if it expresses such a desire, after the Russian Armed Forces receive them in required quantity, Russian Deputy Prime Mini ... more  
Airbus and OneWeb expand their partnership to connect European defence and security forcesParis, France (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 Airbus and OneWeb have signed a distribution partner agreement to provide low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication services for military and governmental use. As the leading provider of militar ... more  
Northrop Grumman Global Hawk to Expand Participation in SkyRange ProgramSan Diego CA (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 Northrop Grumman has been issued a task order to support the Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) to begin engineering and planning work to reconfigure four United States Air ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 15, 2021 
Just off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, thousands of gallons of oil seep through cracks in the seafloor and rise to the surface each day. But this isn't a disaster zone: It's one of the largest naturally occurring oil seeps in the world and is believed to have been active for thousands of years.
The reliability of these seeps makes the area an important natural laboratory for scie ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 
Airbus and OneWeb have signed a distribution partner agreement to provide low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication services for military and governmental use. As the leading provider of military satellite communication services in Europe, Airbus will offer new communication services utilising the OneWeb constellation to select European and UK armed forces, and civil protection and security ... 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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 Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Dec 15, 2021 
Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisted Wednesday the US was still prepared to sell F-35 fighter jets to the UAE, which has threatened to scrap the deal over stringent conditions.
The $23 billion arms package was pushed through by former president Donald Trump in what was seen as a reward for the United Arab Emirates' recognition of Israel, but his successor Joe Biden has pledged greater ... more |
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 Bellingham WA (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 
Optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) have been widely applied in areas ranging from spectroscopy photonics to quantum information. While conventional OPOs typically suffer from weak nonlinearity which leads to high power consumption, exciton polaritons offer a smart alternative.
Hybrid quasiparticles composed of light and matter, exciton polaritons possess a nonlinearity that is orders of ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 
NASA will launch four Earth science missions in 2022 to provide scientists with more information about fundamental climate systems and processes including extreme storms, surface water and oceans, and atmospheric dust. Scientists will discuss the upcoming missions at the American Geophysical Union's (AGU) 2021 Fall Meeting, hosted in New Orleans between Dec. 13 and 17.
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 Istanbul (AFP) Dec 15, 2021 
Shrouded by acrid smoke, a young Afghan crouches sorting waste he has pulled from the trash bins of Istanbul, anxious that Turkey will soon strip him of even this subsistence.
"I start at eight in the morning and finish at eight at night," said Issam Raffur, who has spent four of his 20 years in Turkey.
"It is very hard and poorly paid, but I have no choice," he shrugged, smoke billowing ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 15, 2021 
China launched a relay satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China early on Tuesday morning, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation's major space contractor.
A Long March 3B carrier rocket blasted off at 0:09 am and then deployed the Tianlian II-02 satellite into orbit, the State-owned company said in a statement. The mission marke ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 15, 2021 
India may become the first in line to but Russian air defense system S-500, if it expresses such a desire, after the Russian Armed Forces receive them in required quantity, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov said.
"India will probably be the first on the list if it expresses a desire to buy these modern means," Borisov said in an interview with the RBC broadcaster.
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army in support of U.S. European Command (EUCOM) to provide Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control (FAAD C2) to Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. The $14.3 million contract will support upgrading air defense and counter unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS) capabilities and forms the framework for integration into EUCOM Integrat ... 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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 Delft, Netherlands (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 
How can humans instantly estimate the slipperiness of a surface and adjust their gripping, for instance when picking up a wet glass? Researchers from Delft University of Technology have, together with French and Australian colleagues, demonstrated that a (radial) strain of the skin of the fingertip is involved in the perception of slipperiness during initial contact. Robotics could use this info ... more |
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 
Northrop Grumman has been issued a task order to support the Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) to begin engineering and planning work to reconfigure four United States Air Force EQ-4 Block 20 Global Hawk aircraft for use in the SkyRange fleet of testing vehicles. Northrop Grumman provides support for TRMC's current fleet of Global Hawk aircraft.
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