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  London, UK (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 UK rocket company Skyrora has taken another important stride towards achieving a sovereign orbital launch from British soil by opening a new manufacturing and production facility, the largest of its kind in the UK. After recently opening its engine test facility in Midlothian, this new facility in Cumbernauld allows the company to concentrate its launch development practices in custom-built domestic facilities, further strengthening Skyrora's status as the leader in the UK space race. The pr ... read more |
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Vega-C completes inaugural flightKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 14, 2022 Flight VV21 lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 15:13 CEST on Wednesday 13 July (14:13 BST/10:13 Kourou local time). This mission lasted about 2 hours and 15 minutes from liftoff ... more  
AI CubeSat headed to Van Allen Belts on Vega-CParis (ESA) Jul 14, 2022 An ESA-financed nanosatellite, due to lift off aboard the inaugural flight of Vega-C Wednesday, will operate an AI system in the harsh, radiation-wracked environment of the Van Allen Belts. The shoe ... more  
NASA Highlights Climate Research on Cargo Launch, Sets CoverageKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 NASA and SpaceX are targeting 8:44 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 14, to launch the agency's next investigation to monitor climate change to the International Space Station. The mission, NASA's Earth Surfa ... more 
To Sicily and beyond: ESA, partners debate future of space transportationParis (ESA) Jul 12, 2022 How can Europe exploit its technical, industrial and financial strengths to ensure it remains a leader in space transportation in the 2030s and beyond? How can ESA, Europe's national space agencies ... more |
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Short space trips for paying passengers on the wayBeijing (XNA) Jul 14, 2022 CAS Space, a Beijing-based rocket company owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is designing a set of reusable rocket and spacecraft, with the aim of sending paying passengers on short trips int ... more 
Maiden Flight of Vega-C: Top of new European rocket from Beyond GravityZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 13, 2022 Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space) delivered the payload fairing, the top of the new medium-lift European rocket Vega-C, which will launch tomorrow. Beyond Gravity also produced the launcher compu ... more 
First encounter between the Ariane 6 central core and launch pad for combined testsKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 13, 2022 The Ariane 6 central core (composed of the core stage and upper stage), assembled on 23 June, left the Launcher Assembly Building for the first time, en route to its new launch pad, which was built ... more 
Hypersonics: Developing and defending against missiles far faster than soundTucson AZ (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 The challenges of the hypersonic era in military operations are immense. But so are the abilities of innovators who work together to solve them. That was the message when Wes Kremer, president ... more |
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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  
Operational Fires Program completes first flight testWashington DC (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 DARPA's Operational Fires (OpFires) program has successfully executed its first flight test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The OpFires system achieved all test objectives, including fir ... more  
US drone strike kills Islamic State Syria chief: PentagonWashington (AFP) July 12, 2022 A man who US officials called the leader of the Islamic State militant group in Syria was killed Tuesday in a drone strike while riding a motorcycle in the northern part of the country, the Pentagon and local organizations said. ... more 
Russia seeks Iran drones after losses in Ukraine: White HouseWashington (AFP) July 12, 2022 A senior US official said Tuesday that Russia's plan to acquire hundreds of combat drones from Iran shows its urgent need to reinforce due to heavy losses four months after invading Ukraine. ... more |
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Lockheed Martin Delivers First Modernized M270A2 To US ArmyJoint All Domain Operations (JADO) Camden AK (SPX) Jul 13, 2022 Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered the first Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) M270A2 launcher to the U.S. Army in a ceremony at the Precision Fires Center of Exc ... more  
Third Tianlian II-series satellite launchedBeijing (XNA) Jul 13, 2022 China launched a Tianlian II-series satellite early on Wednesday morning to form a global network of the country's second-generation relay satellites. A Long March 3B carrier rocket blasted of ... more 
Ariane 6 central core transferred to mobile gantryKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 13, 2022 The Ariane 6 launch pad at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana now hosts the first example of ESA's new heavy-lift rocket. This Ariane 6 combined tests model will be used to validate the entire laun ... 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 |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 
US Naval Research Laboratory scientists launched the second Strontium Iodide Radiation Instrument (SIRI-2) instrument in December 2021 onboard Space Test Program (STP) Sat-6. SIRI-2, a gamma-ray spectrometer, will demonstrate the performance of europium-doped strontium iodide gamma ray detection technology with sufficient active area for Department of Defense (DoD) operational needs.
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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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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 13, 2022 
Planet Labs has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Planet Labs Germany GmbH, has signed a new contract with the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) to provide the agency with daily, high-resolution satellite data for crisis response, environmental and nature conservation, as well as forest and agricultural monitoring.
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 Prague (AFP) July 13, 2022 
The war in Ukraine has destroyed forests, polluted fields and filled them with mines, and contaminated water, a Kyiv official told EU environment ministers who pledged help on Wednesday.
At an informal EU meeting in Prague, which holds the rotating EU presidency, Ukrainian Environment Minister Ruslan Strilets said the Russian invasion had damaged three million hectares of Ukrainian forests. ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 13, 2022 
China launched a Tianlian II-series satellite early on Wednesday morning to form a global network of the country's second-generation relay satellites.
A Long March 3B carrier rocket blasted off at 12:29 am from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China's Sichuan province and then placed the Tianlian II-03 satellite into a geostationary orbit, according to China Aerospace Sc ... 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.
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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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 Bangalore, India (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 
Where are those flowers and how far away are they? This is the crux of the 'waggle dance' performed by honeybees to alert others to the location of nectar-rich flowers. A new study in Frontiers in Robotics and AI has taken inspiration from this technique to devise a way for robots to communicate. The first robot traces a shape on the floor, and the shape's orientation and the time it takes to tr ... 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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