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  Washington DC (UPI) Jun 12, 2022 NASA said a rocket carrying two small weather satellites failed Sunday, preventing the inauguration of a technology that would have helped better forecast hurricanes. The rocket by California-based Astra lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, but the rocket's second stage malfunctioned before reaching orbit and lost the shoebox-sized technology. "After a nominal first stage flight, the upper stage of the rocket shut down early and failed to deliver the TROPICS CubeSats ... read more |
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Momentus First Demonstration Mission Update #3San Jose CA (SPX) Jun 14, 2022 Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) has provided its third Mission Update since the launch of its Vigoride-3 spacecraft on May 25. As we previously stated in earlier updates on the inaugural flight o ... more  
Left in the dust: The first golden age of citizen travel to outer spaceAlbuquerque NM (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 The first civilian in space was a Japanese newspaper reporter in 1990, Toyohiro Akiyama. Then, six months later, Helen Sharman, a distinguished British chemist won a radio contest, beating out more ... more 
Women in space analogues demonstrate more sustainable leadershipKaunas, Lithuania (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 A new study based on Mars Desert Research Station commanders' reports reveals differences in female and male leadership behaviour. Although both genders are task-focused, women tend to be more posit ... more 
Artemis II engine section moves to final assemblyNew Orleans LA (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 On May 24, 2022, the core stage production team moved the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket engine section for Artemis II to the core stage final integration area at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility ... more |
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Venus Aerospace unveils mach 9 hypersonic spaceplane StargazerHouston TX (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 Venus Aerospace, a startup developing hypersonic aircraft, introduced the "Stargazer", the company's first conceptual vehicle design, at the Up.Summit in Bentonville, Arkansas. The Venus Vehic ... more 
Terran Orbital concludes Fleet Space CENTAURI-5 bus commissioningBoca Raton FL (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries, reports that it has completed bus co ... more  
Shenzhou XIV taikonauts to conduct 24 medical experiments in spaceBeijing (XNA) Jun 10, 2022 Taikonauts of the Shenzhou XIV crew will carry out 24 in-orbit medical experiments during their six-month stay in China's space station, according to the China Manned Space Agency on Thursday. ... more 
NASA Marshall Team Delivers Tiny, Powerful 'Lunar Flashlight' Propulsion SystemHuntsville AL (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, have built some of the largest rocket engines ever to light up the icy reaches of space. Now Marshall and its commercial part ... more |
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SpaceX launches Nilesat 301 satellite, recovers Falcon 9 first stageWashington DC (UPI) Jun 8, 2021 SpaceX on Wednesday launched a communications satellite and recovered its Falcon 9 rocket at sea. ... more 
Dragon Mission on Hold as Astronauts Conduct Eye Exams, Spacesuit WorkWashington DC (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 NASA and SpaceX are standing down from this week's Falcon 9 launch of the CRS-25 cargo mission to the International Space Station. Officials from NASA and SpaceX met today to discuss an issue identi ... more 
What the Voyager probes can teach humanity about immortality and legacyMiami, FL (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar sp ... more  
Commercial UAV Expo - Las Vegas September 6 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 13, 2022 Commercial UAV Expo is the world's leading trade show and conference focusing on the integration and operation of commercial UAS with more exhibitors than any other commercial drone event. Ind ... more |
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Raytheon Intelligence and Space conducts Troposcatter comms test for US ArmyFort Bliss TX (SPX) Jun 14, 2022 Raytheon Intelligence and Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, successfully demonstrated the next-generation, transportable beyond-line-of-sight, or BLOS, Troposcatter communications system est ... more 
AFRL leads effort to develop, test Hybrid Halvorsen Aircraft Loader PrototypeWright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Jun 14, 2022 The Air Force Research Laboratory is leading a Department of the Air Force effort to develop and test a diesel-electric mobility aircraft cargo loader, the hybrid Halvorsen prototype. Airlift ... more  
Air-breathing hypersonic weapon delivers value and performanceLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 14, 2022 Two core technologies are at the heart of the U.S. pursuit of hypersonic weapons, or those that travel Mach 5 or faster: scramjets, which derive propulsion from the air around them, and boost-glide ... more  
Scientists craft living human skin for robotsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 From action heroes to villainous assassins, biohybrid robots made of both living and artificial materials have been at the center of many sci-fi fantasies, inspiring today's robotic innovations. It' ... more 
ReOrbit and VENG signs agreement for satellite manufacturingFalda Del Carmen, Argentinia (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 ReOrbit and VENG, an Argentinian-based company, signed an agreement to manufacture satellites in Argentina to serve the Latin America market. The directors of both organisations met at the Argentina ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) June 9, 2022  A mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope was struck by a micrometeoroid last month but is expected to continue to function normally, NASA said Thursday.
"After initial assessments, the team found the telescope is still performing at a level that exceeds all mission requirements despite a marginally detectable effect in the data," the US space agency said.
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Raytheon Intelligence and Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, successfully demonstrated the next-generation, transportable beyond-line-of-sight, or BLOS, Troposcatter communications system establishing high bandwidth, high stability communication links for the U.S. Army.
The wireless, point-to-point communications system delivers voice and command and control information to decision ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 10, 2022 
Ahead of Galileo satellites like this one going to space, they are switched on as if already operating there within ESA's Maxwell EMC Facility. This test procedure is a check of the satellite's 'electromagnetic compatibility', with all its systems running together to detect any harmful interference between them.
Once Maxwell's main door is sealed, its metal walls form a 'Faraday Cage', scr ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 
Venus Aerospace, a startup developing hypersonic aircraft, introduced the "Stargazer", the company's first conceptual vehicle design, at the Up.Summit in Bentonville, Arkansas.
The Venus Vehicle Engineering Team has been working on this iteration since the company's founding in 2020. Backed by leading Venture Capitalists and with $1M in government funding, Venus has since raised over $33M ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 
Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have improved the coherence time of a previously developed quantum membrane dramatically. The improvement will expand the usability of the membrane for a variety of different purposes. With a coherence time of one hundred milliseconds, the membrane can for example store sensitive quantum information for further processing in a qu ... more |
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 Grenoble, France (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 
Lynred, a leading global provider of high-quality infrared (IR) detectors for the aerospace, defense and commercial markets, today announces the launch of two multispectral linear array IR detectors for application in a range of Earth observation missions. Pega and Capyork are designed for integration into imaging satellites, tracking and measurement instruments used in water cycle observation a ... more |
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 New York (AFP) June 13, 2022 
After a period of blissful silence overhead due to the Covid-19 pandemic, New Yorkers are dealing again with a familiar problem: noisy helicopters.
"With the bigger helicopters, my apartment vibrates," said Melissa Elstein, who campaigns to ban non-essential chopper flights.
"They pollute our air, creating noise pollution which has negative health impacts," the 56-year-old told AFP.
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 10, 2022 
Taikonauts of the Shenzhou XIV crew will carry out 24 in-orbit medical experiments during their six-month stay in China's space station, according to the China Manned Space Agency on Thursday.
These space medical experiments are mainly designed to study how the weightless environment and spaceflights affect taikonauts, said Li Yinghui, deputy chief designer of China's manned space program ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) May 19, 2022 
Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday his country bought Iskander nuclear-capable missiles and S-400 anti-aircraft anti-missile systems from Russia.
The announcement came on the 85th day of Russia's military campaign in Ukraine, with thousands killed. Belarus, Moscow's main ally, has allowed Russian troops to use the country bordering Ukraine as a rear base.
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 14, 2022 
Two core technologies are at the heart of the U.S. pursuit of hypersonic weapons, or those that travel Mach 5 or faster: scramjets, which derive propulsion from the air around them, and boost-glide systems, which use a rocket motor to reach the edge of space and then descend to their target.
Raytheon Missiles and Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business, is making significant investments ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) May 18, 2022 
Scientists have demonstrated a new material that conducts heat 150% more efficiently than conventional materials used in advanced chip technologies. The device - an ultrathin silicon nanowire - could enable smaller, faster microelectronics with a heat-transfer-efficiency that surpasses current technologies.
Electronic devices powered by microchips that efficiently dissipate heat would in t ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 
From action heroes to villainous assassins, biohybrid robots made of both living and artificial materials have been at the center of many sci-fi fantasies, inspiring today's robotic innovations. It's still a long way until human-like robots walk among us in our daily lives, but scientists from Japan are bringing us one step closer by crafting living human skin on robots. The method developed, pr ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 13, 2022 
Commercial UAV Expo is the world's leading trade show and conference focusing on the integration and operation of commercial UAS with more exhibitors than any other commercial drone event.
Industries covered include Construction; Drone Delivery; Energy and Utilities; Forestry and Agriculture; Infrastructure and Transportation; Mining and Aggregates; Public Safety and Emergency Services; Se ... more |
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