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  Boca Raton LA (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries, has announced the successful completion of CAPSTONE's first TCM burn (TCM-1). As the first statistical maneuver of the mission, TCM-1 is designed to clean up expected dispersions from the launch vehicle injection - enabling CAPSTONE to continue its pathfinding lunar journey in support of NASA's Artemis program. Terran Orbital Guidance Nav ... read more |
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Australia's space future blasts off from NhulunbuySydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 Australia has taken another step towards becoming a serious contributor to the global space economy with the launch of a NASA sounding rocket from the Arnhem Space Center at Nhulunbuy in the Norther ... more  
Construction of China's first commercial spacecraft launch site starts in HainanHaikou (XNA) Jul 07, 2022 Construction of China's first commercial spacecraft launch site started Wednesday in Wenchang City, south China's island province of Hainan. As a major project of the Hainan free trade port co ... more 
Jacobs Awarded $3.9B Engineering and Science Contract at NASADallas TX (SPX) Jul 10, 2022 Jacobs (NYSE:J) was awarded the JSC Engineering, Technology, and Science (JETS) II contract at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Jacobs is scheduled to begin contract transition on ... more  
Virgin Galactic picks Boeing subsidiary to build two mothershipsWashington (AFP) July 6, 2022 Space travel company Virgin Galactic on Wednesday said it had reached an agreement with Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to build two new air launch carrier aircraft for its spaceships. ... more |
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SpaceX ties record for reused Falcon 9 rocket on 50th Starlink launchWashington DC (UPI) Jul 7, 2021 SpaceX launched one of its Falcon 9 rockets for the 13th time Thursday morning, tying a company record for the reusable rocket. ... more 
Shenzhou-14 Taikonauts conduct in-orbit science experiments, prepare for space walksBeijing (XNA) Jul 08, 2022 Scientific endeavors aboard China's space station are expected to bear fruits, as the Shenzhou-14 taikonauts have devoted more time to microgravity experiments on the orbiting core module Tianhe sin ... more  
Rover plus astronaut complete Mount Etna challengeParis (ESA) Jul 07, 2022 In a complex role-played version of a mission to the Moon, controllers at ESOC combined with a team of geological scientists and ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter to oversee a rover's collection of rock s ... more 
Boeing subsidiary to build two new Virgin Galactic mothershipsWashington DC (UPI) Jul 6, 2021 Virgin Galactic confirmed Wednesday it is retaining Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to build two next generation motherships, the company announced on Wednesday. ... more |
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Commercial space launch site begins constructionBeijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2022 China's first space launch site dedicated to commercial missions started construction in Wenchang, a coastal city in Hainan province, on Wednesday, according to the provincial government. The ... more  
North Korea fires suspected rocket launchers: SeoulSeoul (AFP) July 10, 2022 North Korea fired what appeared to be multiple rocket launchers Sunday, Seoul said, the latest in a series of provocations by the nuclear-armed nation to heighten tensions in the region. ... more 
US announces more Himars precision rocket systems for UkraineWashington (AFP) July 8, 2022 The United States announced Friday it will send Ukraine more Himars rocket systems and new precision artillery shells, boosting its ability to target Russian arms depots and supply chains. ... more  
Safran acquires Orolia and plans to become the world leader in resilient PNTRochester NY (SPX) Jul 10, 2022 After an exclusive negotiation process that began in December 2021, Orolia - a company recognized globally for its positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) and related activities, technologies and e ... more |
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US hopes for G20 action on Ukraine even with Russia presenceTokyo (AFP) July 7, 2022 The United States believes Group of 20 talks in Bali can make progress related to the Ukraine crisis despite the participation of Russia, a senior official said Thursday. ... more 
Northrop Grumman Achieves 100th Coyote Target Vehicle LaunchChandler AZ (SPX) Jul 08, 2022 Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is celebrating the 100th launch of its GQM-163A "Coyote" target vehicle, which continues to support the critical mission of testing ship anti-cruise missile ... more  
Lithuania to send Ukraine crowdfunded combat droneSiauliai, Lithuania (AFP) July 6, 2022 Lithuania on Wednesday showed off a crowdfunded Turkish-made military drone that it plans to send to Ukraine to help the war-torn country fight Russia's invasion. ... more  
Kongsberg to acquire NanoAvionics; AST SpaceMobile sells stakeKongsberg, Norway (SPX) Jul 05, 2022 Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace (Kongsberg) has entered into an agreement to acquire Lithuanian smallsat mission integrator and bus manufacturer NanoAvionics. The planned acquisition expands Kongsbe ... more 
Integrating drones in urban airspaces - European demonstration program begins at CranfieldCranfield UK (SPX) Jul 01, 2022 In the near future city-dwellers can expect to see a variety of drones in the airspace above where they live, perhaps transporting patients to hospitals, helping tackle fires, or simply delivering p ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) July 8, 2022 
From laser beams and wooden satellites to galactic tow-truck services, start-ups in Japan are trying to imagine ways to deal with a growing environmental problem: space debris.
Junk like used satellites, parts of rockets and wreckage from collisions has been piling up since the space age began, with the problem accelerating in recent decades.
"We're entering an era when many satellites w ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 06, 2022 
Airbus U.S. Space and Defense, Inc., has been contracted to provide 42 satellite platforms as well as assembly, integration, and test (AIT), launch, and space vehicle commissioning support services to Northrop Grumman to satisfy the U.S. Space Development Agency's (SDA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer prototype constellation (T1TL) award.
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Jul 10, 2022 
After an exclusive negotiation process that began in December 2021, Orolia - a company recognized globally for its positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) and related activities, technologies and equipment - today joins Safran Electronics and Defense, the European leader and world number three in inertial navigation systems.
Orolia employs more than 435 people in Europe and North America ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) July 6, 2022 
Space travel company Virgin Galactic on Wednesday said it had reached an agreement with Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to build two new air launch carrier aircraft for its spaceships.
These new "motherships" will replace Virgin Galactic's existing carrier plane - the VMS Eve built by Scaled Composites - with the first of the new aircraft due to enter service by 2025. The company ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 
In recent decades, the complexity and functionality of silicon-based technologies has increased exponentially, commensurate with the ever-growing demand for smaller, more capable devices. However, the silicon age is coming to an end. With increasing miniaturisation, undesirable quantum effects and thermal losses are becoming an ever-greater obstacle.
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 Waterloo, Canada (SPX) Jul 06, 2022 
An ozone hole, seven times larger than the Antarctic ozone hole, is currently sitting over tropical regions and has been since the 1980s, according to a Canadian researcher.
In AIP Advances, by AIP Publishing, Qing-Bin Lu, a scientist from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, reveals a large, all-season ozone hole - defined as an area of ozone loss larger than 25% compared with t ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) July 3, 2022 
From ocean depths to mountain peaks, humans have littered the planet with tiny shards of plastic. We have even absorbed these microplastics into our bodies - with uncertain implications.
Images of plastic pollution have become familiar: a turtle suffocated by a shopping bag, water bottles washed up on beaches, or the monstrous "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" of floating detritus.
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 08, 2022 
Scientific endeavors aboard China's space station are expected to bear fruits, as the Shenzhou-14 taikonauts have devoted more time to microgravity experiments on the orbiting core module Tianhe since entering it a month ago.
China's space station is designed to be a versatile space lab, capable of accommodating 25 experiment cabinets for scientific exploration. The China Manned Space Agen ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) June 20, 2022  Canada's defense minister announced upgrades to Arctic air and missile defenses with the United States on Monday, citing growing threats from Russia and new technologies such as hypersonic missiles.
At a news conference at Canada's largest air base in Trenton, Ontario, Minister Anita Anand outlined Can$4.9 billion (US$3.8 billion) in military spending over the next six years.
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 Seoul (AFP) July 10, 2022 
North Korea fired what appeared to be multiple rocket launchers Sunday, Seoul said, the latest in a series of provocations by the nuclear-armed nation to heighten tensions in the region.
The South Korean military detected "flight trajectories" that were suspected to be shots from North Korean artillery, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
"Our military spotted flight trajectories that ar ... more |
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 Innsbruck, Austria (SPX) Jun 30, 2022 
Levitated nanoparticles are promising tools for sensing ultra-weak forces of biological, chemical or mechanical origin and even for testing the foundations of quantum physics. However, such applications require precise position measurement. Researchers at the Department of Experimental Physics of the University of Innsbruck, Austria, have now demonstrated a new technique that boosts the efficien ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jul 07, 2022 
In a complex role-played version of a mission to the Moon, controllers at ESOC combined with a team of geological scientists and ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter to oversee a rover's collection of rock samples. Acting as if he were in lunar orbit, the astronaut was in fact based in a hotel room in Catania, Sicily, with the rover 23 km away and 2 600 m uphill on the volcanic flanks of Mount Etna. As T ... more |
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 Siauliai, Lithuania (AFP) July 6, 2022 
Lithuania on Wednesday showed off a crowdfunded Turkish-made military drone that it plans to send to Ukraine to help the war-torn country fight Russia's invasion.
"This weapon... will be delivered to Ukraine immediately," Lithuanian Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas told reporters at the Baltic state's northern air base in Siauliai.
People in the NATO member country raised 5.9 million ... more |
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