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  Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Mar 28, 2022 Using software to handle tasks to assist people is not a new concept - look at our computers, cell phones or electric cars. Advanced Air Mobility, or AAM, aircraft intend to apply that same idea with new software algorithms and hardware such as sensors and radars. Technology like this could enable vehicles to operate without a pilot, or if a pilot is in the loop, increase the safety. Use cases include helping the vehicle avoid bad weather, other aircraft, and safely take off and land. Once d ... read more |
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GS Yuasa Lithium Power completes PDR of scalable spacecraft batteryRoswell GA (SPX) Mar 25, 2022 GS Yuasa Lithium Power (GYLP) has announced the successful completion of the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for a new scalable small form factor battery design. With PDR complete the battery design ... more  
China's Tianzhou-2 cargo craft leaves space station core moduleBeijing (XNA) Mar 28, 2022 China's cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-2 separated from the core module of the country's space station Sunday afternoon, announced the China Manned Space Agency. At 3:59 pm Beijing Time, Tianzhou-2 ... more  
Rocket Lab confirms next launch and updates on Q1 Revenue GuidanceLong Beach CA (SPX) Mar 25, 2022 Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced the launch window for its next Electron mission, a dedicated mission for BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) through global launch services provider Spaceflight Inc., b ... more 
AFRL AFOSR conduct successful hypersonics rocket launch at WallopsWright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Mar 25, 2022 The BOLT II "In memory of Mike Holden" flight experiment, managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory/Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFRL/AFOSR), launched on the evening of March 21 from ... more |
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Identifying RF and GPS interferences for military applications with satellite dataVienna VA (SPX) Mar 25, 2022 Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR)has announced the expansion of their existing partnership with Slingshot Aerospace. On September 30, 2021, the U.S. Space Force awarded Slingshot Aerospace a $2 million cont ... more 
NASA Awards Balloon Operations Follow-On ContractWashington DC (SPX) Mar 28, 2022 NASA has awarded a follow-on contract to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of Greenbelt, Maryland, for support of the agency's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, located in Palestine, Texas. ... more 
All-private Axiom mission to ISS could launch as early as April 3Washington DC (UPI) Mar 25, 2021 Axiom Space, a private space company, expects to send the first all-private crew to the International Space Station as early as April 3 pending weather conditions and other scheduling concerns, NASA officials said Friday. ... more  
Handheld surgical robot can help stem fatal blood lossBoston MA (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 After a traumatic accident, there is a small window of time when medical professionals can apply lifesaving treatment to victims with severe internal bleeding. Delivering this type of care is comple ... more |
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Space X's Crew-4 Dragon capsule named 'Freedom'Washington DC (UPI) Mar 24, 2021 Space X's fourth Dragon capsule to carry astronauts to space has been named "Freedom," bringing the name of the first capsule to fly an American into space to a new generation. ... more  
Lettuce could protect astronauts' bones on Mars tripDavis CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 Astronauts might one day grow and eat genetically modified plants to ward off disease associated with long spaceflights. Researchers at the University of California, Davis College of Engineering hav ... more  
Launching robots into lunar cavesLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 A hundred meters below the surface of the moon lie caves untouched by humans. They were discovered about ten years ago, but space agencies want to send robots to investigate these mysterious cavitie ... more 
Developing design tools for outer space structuresWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 Achieving affordable space exploration will require lightweight structures for vehicles, solar arrays and antennas. Lightweight materials also will be used for ... more |
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Chef Jose Andres plans paella dinner for Axiom space voyage in AprilWashington DC (UPI) Mar 23, 2021 Meals are set to get a little more exciting at the International Space Station next month as celebrity chef Jose Andres and his company ThinkFoodGroup will send two dinners to space, as a multinational crew joins astronauts already in orbit. ... more 
Rocket Lab to Launch Three Demonstration Satellites for E-SpaceLong Beach CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB) will launch three demonstration satellites for E-Space, to validate the systems and technology for its satellite system. The satellites are scheduled to fly as part of ... more  
Germany mulling Israeli anti-missile shield purchaseBerlin (AFP) March 27, 2022 Germany is looking at buying an Israeli anti-missile shield system that could also offer protective cover for neighbouring EU states, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sunday. ... more 
Russian space agency wants foreign partners to pay it in rublesMoscow (AFP) March 23, 2022 The Russian space agency said Wednesday it will insist its international partners pay it in rubles, after President Vladimir Putin said Russia will only accept ruble payments for gas deliveries to "unfriendly countries". ... more  
North Korea goes Hollywood with dramatic missile launch footageSeoul (AFP) March 25, 2022 Leather jacket, sunglasses and a gigantic missile: North Korean state media announced the launch of Pyongyang's largest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile with an attempt at old-school Hollywood flair on Friday. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 25, 2022 
DARPA's Novel Orbital Moon Manufacturing, Materials, and Mass Efficient Design (NOM4D) program is underway with eight industry and university research teams on contract. The selected teams are tasked to provide foundational proofs of concept in materials science, manufacturing, and design technologies to enable production of future space structures on orbit without the volume constraints imposed ... more |
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 Germantown MD (SPX) Mar 24, 2022 
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), an innovator in satellite and multi-transport technologies and networks for 50 years, has announced the award of an $18 million contract from the Department of Defense (DoD) to deploy a standalone 5G network at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington state.
The Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) was issued through the Information Warfare Research ... more |
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 Vienna VA (SPX) Mar 25, 2022 
Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR)has announced the expansion of their existing partnership with Slingshot Aerospace. On September 30, 2021, the U.S. Space Force awarded Slingshot Aerospace a $2 million contract to develop a prototype analytics tool that utilizes space-based location data from proliferated low Earth orbit (pLEO) constellations to identify potential sources of electronic ground interferen ... more |
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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Mar 28, 2022 
Using software to handle tasks to assist people is not a new concept - look at our computers, cell phones or electric cars.
Advanced Air Mobility, or AAM, aircraft intend to apply that same idea with new software algorithms and hardware such as sensors and radars. Technology like this could enable vehicles to operate without a pilot, or if a pilot is in the loop, increase the safety. Use c ... more |
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 Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 24, 2022 
Computers, smartphones, GPS: quantum physics has enabled many technological advances. It is now opening up new fields of research in cryptography (the art of coding messages) with the aim of developing ultra-secure telecommunications networks. There is one obstacle, however: after a few hundred kilometers within an optical fiber, the photons that carry the qubits or 'quantum bits' (the informati ... more |
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 Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Mar 28, 2022 
GeoSphere is a first-of-its-kind system that combines wireless Geodes, edge computing and a constellation of low earth orbit (LEO) nanosatellites to discover critical resources up to 100 times faster than traditional methods.
It also drastically reduces the requirement for environmentally damaging elements of existing surveyance practices such as the use of explosives, noise machines and d ... more |
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 London (AFP) March 21, 2022 
Morad Tahbaz, an environmental campaigner being held in Iran, has gone on hunger strike, his sister said on Monday, accusing the UK government of abandoning him after two other detainees were released.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori flew home last week, at the same time as the UK government repaid a longstanding debt to Tehran.
But Tahbaz, 69, who holds British, US and Ir ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 28, 2022 
China's cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-2 separated from the core module of the country's space station Sunday afternoon, announced the China Manned Space Agency.
At 3:59 pm Beijing Time, Tianzhou-2 left the core module of the Tiangong space station after completing all of its scheduled tasks, said the agency.
During its operation in orbit, Tianzhou-2 carried out a series of extended appli ... more |
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 Berlin (AFP) March 27, 2022 
Germany is looking at buying an Israeli anti-missile shield system that could also offer protective cover for neighbouring EU states, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sunday.
"I can reveal to you that that is certainly among the things that we are discussing, and for good reasons," Scholz told state television channel ARD.
The chancellor's comments confirmed earlier statements from German par ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 20, 2022 
Russia's claim it used a hypersonic missile in Ukraine was a way to reclaim war momentum, but the next-generation weaponry has not proved to be a "game changer," the Pentagon's chief said Sunday.
Moscow has said it has fired two hypersonic missiles in Ukraine, and while US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin would not "confirm or dispute" whether Russia used such weapons, he warned that President ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 07, 2022 
Nanoparticles (which have sizes ranging between 3-500 nm), and sub-nanoclusters (which are around 1 nm in diameter) are utilized in many fields, including medicine, robotics, materials science, and engineering. Their small size and large surface-area-to-volume ratios give them unique properties, rendering them valuable in a variety of applications, ranging from pollution control to chemical synt ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 
A hundred meters below the surface of the moon lie caves untouched by humans. They were discovered about ten years ago, but space agencies want to send robots to investigate these mysterious cavities before astronauts venture in.
"On the moon's surface, the temperature is 150 degrees above zero during the day and 150 degrees below zero at night," says Lucas Froissart, who recently complete ... more |
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 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 
The wind is not just 'wind' - but a complicated arrangement of turbulent features that are influenced by the surrounding environment. Air turbulence is created by the landscape, but also by buildings, roads and wind turbines. In the ESTABLIS-UAS project, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is researching these flow effects. For this purpose, a swarm of dr ... more |
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