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  Jiuquan (XNA) Dec 17, 2021 The launch of a pair of GeeSAT commercial satellites, carried by a Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket, was unsuccessful, the launch center said in a statement Wednesday. Abnormal performance was detected during the flight of the rocket, which lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 10 a.m. (Beijing Time). The cause of the failure is under investigation, according to the statement. span class="BDL">Source: Xinhua News Agency /span> ... read more |
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Webb placed on top of Ariane 5Paris (ESA) Dec 17, 2021 On Saturday 11 December, the James Webb Space Telescope was placed on top of the Ariane 5 rocket that will launch it to space from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. After its arrival in the ... more 
ESA contract to advance Vega-C competitivenessParis (ESA) Dec 17, 2021 ESA's Vega-C launch vehicle will fly in the second quarter of 2022 offering more performance to all orbits and extended mission flexibility at a similar cost to the current Vega. A new contract aims ... more 
NASA Completes Upper Part of Artemis II Core StageNew Orleans LA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 NASA has completed assembly of the upper, or forward, part of the core stage for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will send the Artemis II crew on their lunar mission. Boeing, the lead core ... more 
NASA 'Fires Up' Artemis RS-25 Rocket Engines with New ComponentsBay St. Louis MS (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 NASA conducted a successful full-duration test Dec. 15 to begin a new series of testing for state-of-the-art RS-25 engines to help power the agency's Space Launch System (SLS), America's new deep-sp ... more |
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NASA selects second private astronaut mission to Space StationWashington 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) ... 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 
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  
Blood disc for astronaut diagnosisParis (ESA) Dec 10, 2021 Specially designed to operate in weightlessness, this diagnostic disc can identify diabetes, cardiovascular disease and high cholesterol from a single drop of astronaut blood. Future long dura ... 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 |
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China's high-flying drone giant DJI in US cross-hairsShanghai (AFP) Dec 17, 2021 Chinese drone-maker DJI is easily the highest-profile company targeted in a new round of US economic sanctions against companies over China's treatment of its Muslim Uyghur minority. ... more  
Northrop Grumman completes environmental testing for Next Gen OPIR GEO payloadAzusa CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 The Northrop Grumman Corporation and Ball Aerospace team successfully achieved three critical milestones on production of its Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next Gen OPIR) Geosynchron ... more  
Mind-controlled robots now one step closerLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 Tetraplegic patients are prisoners of their own bodies, unable to speak or perform the slightest movement. Researchers have been working for years to develop systems that can help these patients car ... more  
EU threatens Russia sanctions as NATO backs UkraineBrussels (AFP) Dec 17, 2021 Western allies on Thursday rejected Russia's bid to thwart Kiev's NATO ambitions and urged Moscow to halt its military build-up along Ukraine's border and return to talks led by France and Germany. ... more  
AFRL'S PNT AgilePod achieves flight test objectivesEdwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 The Air Force Research Laboratory's complementary position, navigation, and timing (PNT) AgilePod prototype achieved three important objectives in flight tests conducted here November 1-10. Th ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
Scientists have developed an all-season smart-roof coating that keeps homes warm during the winter and cool during the summer - without consuming natural gas or electricity. Research findings reported in the Dec. 17 edition of the journal Science point to a groundbreaking technology that outperforms commercial cool-roof systems in energy savings.
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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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 Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
The Air Force Research Laboratory has completed development of a new wind tunnel facility here.
A team from AFRL's Aerospace Systems Directorate completed the facility, known as the Parker Subsonic Research Facility (SuRF).
"The objective of this effort is to design and build a continuous flow, closed jet, subsonic wind tunnel to be used in the evaluation of prototype aerodynamic mod ... more |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
Semiconductors are moving away from rigid substrates, which are cut or formed into thin discs or wafers, to more flexible plastic material and even paper thanks to new material and fabrication discoveries. The trend toward more flexible substrates has led to fabrication of numerous devices, from light-emitting diodes to solar cells and transistors.
Georgia Tech researchers have created a m ... more |
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 El Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
Raytheon Intelligence and Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, has been awarded a $67 million contract to demonstrate an Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System, or EWS, Prototype with the ability to deliver operational data for the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command under an Other Transaction Authority contract. A successful prototype demonstration will provide Electro-optical/Infrare ... more |
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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 10, 2021 
A Long March-4B rocket on Friday morning successfully sent a new group of satellites into space, marking the 400th launch mission of the China-developed Long March carrier rocket series.
Since the first launch in 1970, the Long March carrier rocket series has carried out 92.1 percent of China's space launch mission, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) ... more |
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 Azusa CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
The Northrop Grumman Corporation and Ball Aerospace team successfully achieved three critical milestones on production of its Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) Engineering Development Unit (EDU) payload. The missile warning sensor payload is being developed for the U.S. Space Force's GEO missile warning satellites built by spacecraft pr ... more |
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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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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
Fugro confirms the Australian Space Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Control Complex (SpAARC) will be located in the heart of downtown Perth's central business district (CBD). Housed in Western Australia's (WA's) largest telecommunications exchange, and thanks to an ongoing partnership with Telstra, Fugro's world-class facility will manage robotics and remote operations in Austra ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) Dec 17, 2021 
Chinese drone-maker DJI is easily the highest-profile company targeted in a new round of US economic sanctions against companies over China's treatment of its Muslim Uyghur minority.
Following are key facts about Shenzhen DJI Sciences and Technologies Ltd, better known around the world by drone users simply as DJI.
- Born in a dorm -
Company lore traces DJI's birth to the college dor ... more |
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