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  Cape Town, South Africa (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 On Thursday 13 January the Cape Peninsula University of Technology is set to launch its third satellite mission into space from the Cape Canaveral launch site in the USA. The MDASat (Marine Domain Awareness) constellation has two main priorities namely ocean economy and healthcare and has been mandated by the Department of Science and Innovation to enhance South Africa's ocean's sovereignty. Operation Phakisa, a fast track implementation of the National Development Plan, focuses on effective marin ... read more |
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Indian Space Agency tests cryogenic engine for its first-ever manned missionNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 13, 2022 India's flagship human spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan, has completed the design and testing phases. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to launch two uncrewed missions ahead of the f ... more  
How scientists designed the controllers for robot manipulators in the space station?Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 In the process of the construction and routine maintenance of the Chinese Space Station, the manipulator of the Chinese Space Station plays a significantly important role that can accomplish some ke ... more 
Astroscale U.S. and Orbit Fab sign first on-orbit satellite fuel sale agreementDenver CO (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 Orbit Fab, the Gas Stations in Space refueling service provider and Astroscale U.S. Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings Inc. and market leader in securing long-term orbital sustainabili ... more 
Ride into space on Vega-C secured for FLEX and AltiusParis (ESA) Jan 12, 2022 A contract signed with Arianespace secures the joint launch for two satellites that will further knowledge of our home planet. Scheduled to lift off on a new class of rocket, ESA's Vega-C, from Euro ... more |
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Intelsat buys 2 Software-Defined Satellites from Thales Alenia Space to boost 5G solutionMcLean VA (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 Intelsat, operator of the world's largest integrated satellite and terrestrial network, and Thales Alenia Space, Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%) have signed an agreement to bui ... more  
US briefly halted west coast flights after NKorea missile test: FAAWashington (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 Takeoffs at some western US airports were temporarily halted after North Korea test-launched a ballistic missile, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday. ... more  
North Korea's Kim urges more 'military muscle' after hypersonic missile testSeoul (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the successful test of a hypersonic missile, state media said Wednesday, and urged North Korea to press ahead with building more "strategic military muscle" despite international sanctions over its nuclear weapons programme. ... 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 
South Korean Air Force pilot killed in F-5 crashSeoul (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 A South Korean Air Force pilot was killed in a F-5 fighter jet crash on Tuesday, officials said, a week after the country grounded its fleet of F-35s. ... more |
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Thaw of permafrost has vast impact on built environmentHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 Permafrost has a central role in the sustainable development of the Arctic region. The thaw of permafrost is set to damage buildings and roads, leading to tens of billions of euros in additional cos ... more  
Japan space tourist eyes Mariana Trench trip after ISSTokyo (AFP) Jan 7, 2022 Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Friday his trip into space had given him a new appreciation for Earth, and he now hopes to plunge into the ocean's forbidding Mariana Trench. ... more  
Renewable: Lithium promises revival for dying California inland seaSalton Sea, United States (AFP) Jan 7, 2022 Hollywood's jetset once crowded the shores of the Salton Sea, a then-idyllic southern California playground for the wealthy. Today, it is desolate and depressed - the evaporating water leaving behind dead shellfish, dust and chemicals that irritate the airways. ... more 
Weather disaster deaths hit 10-year high in mainland USWashington (AFP) Jan 10, 2022 Nearly 700 people died due to natural disasters in the contiguous United States in 2021 - the most since 2011, said a federal weather agency in a report released Monday. ... more 
Weather expert predicts more disasters looming for BrazilBrasilia (AFP) Jan 10, 2022 The tragic collapse of a cliff that left 10 dead in Brazil on Saturday was caused by torrential rains and more disasters could be on the way, meteorologist Estael Sias told AFP. ... more |
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 Phoenix AZ (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 
Mangata Networks has closed a $33 million Series A round led by US-based venture capital firm Playground Global to continue its mission to transform the way the world interacts with information. This closing manifests the truly global nature of the organization with other major investors including Temasek which is headquartered in Singapore, ktsat from South Korea, Scottish Enterprise in the UK, ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
Intelsat, operator of the world's largest integrated satellite and terrestrial network, and Thales Alenia Space, Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%) have signed an agreement to build two software-defined satellites designed to advance Intelsat's global fabric of software-defined GEO connectivity as part of its 5G software-defined network.
The addition of the Thales Alenia ... 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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 Washington (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 
Takeoffs at some western US airports were temporarily halted after North Korea test-launched a ballistic missile, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday.
"As a matter of precaution, the FAA temporarily paused departures at some airports along the West Coast on Monday evening," the FAA said in a statement about the rare action.
"Full operations resumed in less than 15 minutes. T ... 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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 Champaign IL (The Conversation) Jan 11, 2022 
As the Earth orbits the sun, it spins around an axis - picture a stick going through the Earth, from the North Pole to the South Pole. During the 24 hours that it takes for the Earth to rotate once around its axis, every point on its surface faces toward the Sun for part of the time and away from it for part of the time. This is what causes daily changes in sunlight and temperature.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 
Climate change and air pollution are interlocking crises that threaten human health. Reducing emissions of some air pollutants can help achieve climate goals, and some climate mitigation efforts can in turn improve air quality.
One part of MIT Professor Arlene Fiore's research program is to investigate the fundamental science in understanding air pollutants - how long they persist and move ... more |
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 Beijing (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) said Saturday.
At the beginning of the experiment, the astronauts in the core module teleoperated the Tianzhou 2 cargo craft to leave the front docking port of the core module's node cabin and mov ... 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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 Moscow (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 State Antony Blinken said.
According to Blinken, in the coming days the United States and Japan will sign a new five-year host nation agreement that will support framework which will invest gre ... 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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 Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 
In the process of the construction and routine maintenance of the Chinese Space Station, the manipulator of the Chinese Space Station plays a significantly important role that can accomplish some key tasks, such as transposition docking, daily maintenance, and auxiliary extravehicular activities.
The high accuracy and dynamic performance of the manipulator are the necessary conditions for ... 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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