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  Prestwick, Scotland (SPX) Jan 10, 2022 South Ayrshire Council has started the process of submitting a formal planning application for the Prestwick Spaceport development. The Proposal of Application Notice (POAN) is the first step in the planning process for Prestwick Spaceport and signals the intent to apply for planning permission in early 2022. The submission of the POAN follows the Council's submission of an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Report last year which confirms that Prestwick's space ambitions will not result in ... read more |
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Shouzhou XIII crew finishes cargo spacecraft, space station docking testBeijing (XNA) Jan 10, 2022 The Shenzhou XIII astronauts in China's space station core module have completed the manual rendezvous and docking experiment with the Tianzhou 2 cargo craft, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) sa ... more  
Bringing the Sun into the labDresden, Germany (SPX) Jan 04, 2022 Why the Sun's corona reaches temperatures of several million degrees Celsius is one of the great mysteries of solar physics. A "hot" trail to explain this effect leads to a region of the solar atmos ... more  
Amazon helps develop Alexa-like Callisto system for Artemis moon missionWashington DC (UPI) Jan 5, 2021 Lockheed Martin has teamed up with Amazon and Webex to demonstrate technology on NASA's lunar Orion space capsule that will use software similar to Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa. ... more  
Arianespace to launch eight new Galileo satellitesParis, France (SPX) Jan 10, 2022 Arianespace will launch the first two satellites in 2022, leading to the Full Operational Capability of Galileo open service. Then, three successive launches on Ariane 62 in 2023, 2024 and 2025, wil ... more |
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Space Station research during 2021Houston TX (SPX) Jan 03, 2022 As the International Space Station enters its third decade of continuous human presence, the impact of microgravity research conducted there keeps growing. The months between Nov. 2020 and Nov. 2021 ... more 
China's astronauts mark New Year with livestream from spaceBeijing (XNA) Jan 03, 2022 From hosting a children's art gallery in space to answering questions about manned spaceflight, the three astronauts onboard China's Tiangong space station celebrated the New Year by cultivating sci ... more  
US, Japan to Collaborate on Developing Hypersonic Missile Defenses, Blinken SaysMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 10, 2022 The United States and Japan will soon sign an agreement that will enable bilateral cooperation on developing defenses against hypersonic missiles and on new space-based capabilities, US Secretary of ... more 
Rogozin says Baikonur security strengthened amid Kazakhstan protestsMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 06, 2022 The Russian forces have strengthened armed protection over the Baikonur Cosmodrome's key objects amid rallies in Kazakhstan, Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos Head Dmitry Rogozin said on Wed ... more 
NASA releases autonomous flight termination unit software to industryWallops Island VA (SPX) Jan 06, 2022 NASA has provided an advance release of its NASA Autonomous Flight Termination Unit (NAFTU) software code to the launch industry, a critical milestone toward the final certification of NAFTU, which ... more |
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CASC plans more than 40 space launches for China in 2022Beijing (XNA) Jan 06, 2022 China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the country's major space contractor, plans to carry out more than 40 space launch missions this year, according to its annual work report. Among t ... more 
Creepy meets cool in humanoid robots at CES tech showLas Vegas (AFP) Jan 5, 2022 A lifelike, child-size doll writhed and cried before slightly shocked onlookers snapping smartphone pictures Wednesday at the CES tech show - where the line between cool and slightly disturbing robots can be thin. ... more 
Northrop Grumman completes Precision Strike Missile rocket motor static testRocket Center WV (SPX) Jan 06, 2022 Northrop Grumman has completed a static test of its Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) rocket motor as part of its motor qualification effort. The test supports the necessary requirements to validate t ... more  
Morocco, China ink 'Belt and Road' roadmapRabat (AFP) Jan 5, 2022 Morocco and China on Wednesday signed an agreement sealing a strategic partnership between the two nations as part of Beijing's "Belt and Road" initiative. ... more 
China FM in Kenya on three-nation tour of AfricaMombasa, Kenya (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi will tour Beijing-funded infrastructure projects in Kenya and discuss future economic opportunities with President Uhuru Kenyatta during a visit Thursday to the East African nation. ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 5, 2021 
A Russian rocket is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere Wednesday in an uncontrolled descent.
Much of the rocket is expected to burn up as it plunges through the atmosphere, so there likely will not be major damage when it hits.
According to Russia's state-run TASS news agency, the Angara-A5 heavy-lift rocket was launched Dec. 27 to test the Persei booster.
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Dec 21, 2021 
The SPAINSAT NG programme has successfully passed another important milestone, the critical design review (CDR) of the payload and the complete satellite, including the CDR elements of the Pacis 3 partnership project with the European Space Agency (ESA). The review was declared successful after verifying the good progress of the tests performed on the development models of the X-band payload. ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jan 10, 2022 
Arianespace will launch the first two satellites in 2022, leading to the Full Operational Capability of Galileo open service. Then, three successive launches on Ariane 62 in 2023, 2024 and 2025, will finalize the launch of the first generation of Galileo satellites and will increase the constellation resilience.
These will be the 13th to 16th Galileo missions by Arianespace, which has orbi ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) Jan 5, 2022 
South Korea has grounded its entire fleet of advanced F-35 fighter jets, officials said Wednesday, pending a probe into a dramatic emergency landing.
After the landing gear on a South Korean F-35A stopped working during a major systems malfunction, the pilot chose not to eject and instead landed the jet on its belly - walking away without any injuries.
The heart-stopping incident on Tue ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 07, 2022 
Various properties of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have been optimized, including current to photon conversion efficiency. An external quantum efficiency exceeding 20%, with internal quantum efficiency of 100%, has been achieved owing to the development of thermally activated delayed fluorescent and phosphorescent materials that manage the spin of excited states.
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 London (AFP) Jan 1, 2022 
Britain experienced its warmest New Year's Day on record after temperatures rose above 16 degress Celsius (60.8 Fahrenheit) for the first time on January 1, the country's Meteorological Office said.
The mercury climbed to 16.2C in St James's Park in central London, according to a provisional Met Office reading, easily beating out the previous record of 15.6C set in Cornwall in 1916.
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Jan 1, 2022 
Between the pandemic and the rainy weather, it was a muted New Year's celebration on Rio de Janeiro's famed Copacabana beach, but there was a silver lining Saturday: 50 percent less garbage to collect.
The iconic Brazilian beach city's sanitation service, COMLURB, said it had picked up 320 tonnes of trash from New Year's Eve celebrations, less than half the annual average of 724.2 tonnes fro ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 03, 2022 
From hosting a children's art gallery in space to answering questions about manned spaceflight, the three astronauts onboard China's Tiangong space station celebrated the New Year by cultivating science and inspiration in the country's youth.
On Saturday afternoon, astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu hosted a live video call and interacted with college students at venues in ... more |
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 Melbourne FL (SPX) Dec 27, 2021 
L3Harris Technologies has completed the final major design milestone on the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program Phase IIb On-orbit Prototype Demonstration and has already begun building the demonstration satellite.
Completing the CDR is the final design milestone ensuring performance, cost and schedule requirements can be met b ... more |
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 Rocket Center WV (SPX) Jan 06, 2022 
Northrop Grumman has completed a static test of its Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) rocket motor as part of its motor qualification effort. The test supports the necessary requirements to validate the company's motor design for production.
"With another successful rocket motor test complete, we are one step closer to providing the U.S. Army with a next-generation, long range fires capabili ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 5, 2021 
Lockheed Martin has teamed up with Amazon and Webex to demonstrate technology on NASA's lunar Orion space capsule that will use software similar to Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa.
The demonstration, called Callisto, will fly on the uncrewed Artemis 1 lunar mission that NASA hopes to launch in the next few months. It won't be able to control the spacecraft, but it will be able to turn ... more |
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 Stockholm (AFP) Jan 7, 2022 
An autonomous drone carrying a defibrillator helped save the life of a 71-year-old man who suffered a cardiac arrest in Sweden, the man and the drone operator said Friday.
Emergency services dispatched the drone followed by an ambulance when Sven, a retiree who asked for his last name to be withheld, collapsed in early December while shovelling snow outside his home in the western town of Tr ... more |
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