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  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 NASA has awarded three additional missions to Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, for crew transportation services to the International Space Station as part of its Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract. The CCtCap modification, following the agency's notice of intent to procure the flights in December 2021, brings the total missions for SpaceX to nine and allows NASA to maintain an uninterrupted U.S. capability for human access to th ... read more |
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Rocket Lab selects Virginia for Neutron launch pad and manufacturing complexLong Beach CA (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) has selected Wallops Island, Virginia, as the location for its first launch site and extensive manufacturing and operations facilities, for its 8-ton payload class ... more 
New rocket to be partially reusableBeijing, China (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 China's next-generation rocket designed to carry astronauts will be multifunctional and partly reusable, according to a senior rocket scientist. Wang Xiaojun, president of the China Academy of ... more  
NASA exploring ways to keep ISS afloat without Russian help: officialWashington (AFP) Feb 28, 2022 NASA is exploring ways to keep the International Space Station in orbit without Russian help, but doesn't see any immediate signs Moscow is withdrawing from the collaboration following the invasion of Ukraine, a senior official said Monday. ... more 
Rocket Lab launches 2nd satellite for the Synspective SAR constellationMahia, New Zealand (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB), a leading launch and space systems company, has successfully deployed a second Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite to orbit for data and solutions provider S ... more |
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Tycoons bound for ISS aren't tourists, insists space companyWashington (AFP) Feb 28, 2022 Three tycoons and an ex-NASA astronaut are all set for the first fully private voyage to the International Space Station next month - just don't call them tourists. ... more 
SpaceX Axiom crew nears final training for first all-private mission to ISSWashington DC (UPI) Feb 28, 2021 NASA and Houston-based Axiom Space are in the final stages of training and preparation to launch the first all-private astronaut mission, Ax-1, to the International Space Station in late March, mission leaders said Monday. ... more 
US-Russia tensions spill into space, but ISS safe -- for nowWashington (AFP) Feb 25, 2022 Russia's invasion of Ukraine has placed a question mark over the future of the International Space Station, long a symbol of post Cold War cooperation, where astronauts and cosmonauts proudly live and work side-by-side. ... more 
Astronaut Matthias Maurer marks his first 100 days in spaceParis (ESA) Feb 28, 2022 Happy 100 days in space to ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer. The first-time space flier marked the milestone on 19 February 2022 and what a busy 100-days it been. In a Twitter post marking the mi ... more |
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NASA invites collaboration to define future of air travelMoffett Field Ca (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 We've long held dreams of what the future of air travel could look like. Something out of the Jetson's TV show or a Star Wars movie is generally the "go to" vision for most people: aircraft of all t ... more 
Sign Up to Fly with NASA Using the Flight Log ExperienceMoffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 NASA Aeronautics is cleared for takeoff through 2022, and we invite you and your family, friends, and classmates to join us and share in exciting aeronautical events happening this year and beyond u ... more  
China's new-generation rocket sends 22 satellites into space in record-setting missionWenchang (XNA) Mar 01, 2022 China launched a Long March-8 rocket to place 22 satellites in space on Sunday, setting a domestic record for the most spacecraft launched by a single rocket. The rocket blasted off at 11:06 a ... more  
China establishes deep space exploration laboratoryBeijing (XNA) Mar 01, 2022 China's deep space exploration laboratory has been officially inaugurated, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Co-established by the CNSA, Anhui Province and the Unive ... more |
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Russia halts space launches from French Guiana over sanctionsMoscow (AFP) Feb 26, 2022 Russia is suspending space launches from French Guiana and withdrawing its technical personnel in response to EU sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, the space agency said Saturday. ... more 
NASA Selects Futuristic Space Technology Concepts for Early StudyWashington DC (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 An astronaut steps into a body scanner and, hours later, walks on Mars in a custom-made spacesuit, breathing oxygen that was extracted from Mars' carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere. On Venus, an inflata ... more 
Tiny probes could sail to outer planets with the help of low-power lasersWashington DC (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 Space travel can be agonizingly slow: For example, the New Horizons probe took almost 10 years to reach Pluto. Traveling to Proxima Centauri b, the closest habitable planet to Earth, would require t ... more 
NASA plans mid-March test for SLS moon rocket's first flightWashington DC (UPI) Feb 24, 2021 NASA officials said Thursday the space agency is making progress toward a crucial test in mid-March of the first moon rocket since the Apollo-era but the agency did not set a new launch date for the first lunar mission. ... more  
Space Development Agency awards 126 satellites to Build Tranche 1 Transport LayerWashington DC (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 The Space Development Agency (SDA) has announced the awards of three prototype agreements worth approximately $1.8 billion to establish the foundation for Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL), a mesh ne ... more |
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 Swindon UK (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 
Pulse Power and Measurement Ltd (PPM) has been working with Aston University through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) to develop a game-changing approach to technology used in the radio-over-fibre communications industry. The project will look to transform the connection between low earth orbit (LEO) satellite antenna dishes and modems through optics rather than electronics, delivering per ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 
The Space Development Agency (SDA) has announced the awards of three prototype agreements worth approximately $1.8 billion to establish the foundation for Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL), a mesh network of 126 optically-interconnected space vehicles (SV) that will provide a resilient, low-latency, high-volume data transport communication system, and be ready for launch starting in September 202 ... more |
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 Apopka FL (SPX) Feb 23, 2022 
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been selected to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with the Next Generation Handheld Targeting System (NGHTS). This compact targeting device provides unparalleled precision targeting and is capable of operation in GPS-denied environments.
"NGHTS will significantly enhance the ability of Marines to identify ground targets under a wide range of condit ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 
NASA Aeronautics is cleared for takeoff through 2022, and we invite you and your family, friends, and classmates to join us and share in exciting aeronautical events happening this year and beyond using the new Flight Log Experience.
These milestones include first flights of two new X-planes: the X-57 Maxwell and X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft.
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 Tokyo (AFP) March 1, 2022 
Toshiba's CEO resigned on Tuesday, the Japanese conglomerate said, adding fresh uncertainty after already revising plans to split its businesses and just weeks before a key shareholder vote.
Satoshi Tsunakawa had been chief executive for less than a year at the tech and industrial giant, which has lurched from crisis to crisis in recent decades.
It comes ahead of an extraordinary shareho ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 1, 2021 
NASA plans to launch the latest in an advanced series of weather satellites, the GOES-T, from Florida on Tuesday to improve weather forecasting over the Pacific and western United States.
United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket is prepared for liftoff during a two-hour window starting at 4:38 p.m. EST from Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Meteorologists around th ... more |
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 Abidjan (AFP) Feb 26, 2022  What can be done to prevent Africa from becoming the world's biggest dumping ground for plastic?
That's one of the big questions facing United Nations members next week at a stock-taking on Earth's environmental woes.
From Antananarivo to Dakar via Nairobi and Conakry, African cities are scarred by huge landfills where plastic waste is measured in the thousands of tonnes.
The dumps a ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 01, 2022 
China's deep space exploration laboratory has been officially inaugurated, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
Co-established by the CNSA, Anhui Province and the University of Science and Technology of China, the laboratory is headquartered in Hefei.
It will carry out science and technology research focusing on major national projects in the field of deep spa ... more |
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 Peterson SFB CO (SPX) Feb 08, 2022 
The fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO-5) satellite built by Lockheed Martin, has been operationally accepted by the U.S. Space Force less than a year after being launched into orbit.
The early missile warning satellite is a "Go-Fast" success story, completing all on-orbit testing with accelerated analysis, resulting in a 40% improvement over GEO-1 thro ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 18, 2022 
Britain and France have signed a deal to jointly develop new cruise and anti-ship missiles, their defence procurement agencies and manufacturer MDBA said Friday, after months of cross-Channel defence tensions over a submarine deal with Australia.
Paris and London "have confirmed the launch of the preparation works for the Future Cruise / Anti-Ship Weapon," European missile specialist MBDA sa ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 
Tightening a string, e.g. when tuning a guitar, makes it vibrate faster. But when strings are nano-sized, increased tension also reduces, or 'dilutes', the loss of the string's vibrational modes.
This effect, known as 'dissipation dilution', has been exploited to develop mechanical devices for quantum technologies, where engineered, tensioned nanostrings with a thickness of just a few tens ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 
If faced with the choice of sending a swarm of full-sized, distinct robots to space, or a large crew of smaller robotic modules, you might want to enlist the latter. Modular robots, like those depicted in films such as "Big Hero 6," hold a special type of promise for their self-assembling and reconfiguring abilities. But for all of the ambitious desire for fast, reliable deployment in domains ex ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 
The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded a contract for Mjolnir, a next-generation counter electronics weapon system, to defend against adversarial drone activity, to Leidos Inc.
Building upon the success of the Tactical High-Power Operational Responder (THOR) technology demonstrator, Leidos will build an advanced high power microwave (HPM) weapon system to bring the newest technology ... more |
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