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  Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 09, 2022 Recently, the Russian space agency Roscosmos declared that Russia would depart the International Space Station program �after 2024�, while the US Congress authorized NASA to extend the program to 2030. In that same week, Russians circulated a horrific video of a Ukrainian soldier being castrated before his murder by Putin�s invading troops, while dozens of other Ukrainian POWs were slaughtered while being held in Russian captivity. ... read more |
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Exposed! International Space Station tests organisms, materials in spaceHouston TX (SPX) Aug 11, 2022 Space may look empty, but it contains extreme temperatures, high levels of background radiation, micrometeoroids, and the unfiltered glare of the Sun. In addition, materials and equipment on the out ... more  
J-Space partners with Virgin Orbit to bring sovereign air-launch capability to South KoreaSeoul, South Korea (SPX) Aug 10, 2022 Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB), a leading launch provider, announced it has signed an agreement with South Korean investment group J-Space. The agreement will allow the companies to assess candidate sp ... more 
Private rocket company completes third orbital missionBeijing (XNA) Aug 10, 2022 Galactic Energy, a carrier rocket maker in Beijing, carried out the third flight of its Ceres 1 rocket on Tuesday, becoming the first private Chinese company with a commercially ready launch vehicle ... more  
NASA Announces New CubeSat Launch Initiative Partnership OpportunitiesWashington DC (SPX) Aug 10, 2022 NASA has announced a new round of opportunities through the agency's CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) for CubeSat developers, including educational institutions, to conduct scientific investigations ... more |
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CST signs agreement with Gilmour Space for the launch of 50kg to LEOLogan UT (SPX) Aug 10, 2022 Commercial Space Technologies Ltd (CST) has signed an agreement with Australian launch provider, Gilmour Space Technologies, to offer a launch capacity of up to 50 kilograms on their Eris Block 1 ve ... more 
NASA's Moon-observing CubeSat ready for launchWashington DC (SPX) Aug 09, 2022 NASA's water-scouting CubeSat is now poised to hitch a ride to lunar orbit. Not much bigger than a shoe box, Lunar IceCube's data will have an outsized impact on lunar science. The satellite i ... more 
NASA Goddard's 'Web Around Asteroid Bennu' Shows in SIGGRAPH Film FestGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 08, 2022 Alongside cultural heavyweights such as Disney's "Encanto" and Warner Brothers' "The Batman," a short film created at Goddard shares the screen next week at a festival honoring standout works of com ... more  
Wentian's small mechanical arm completes in-orbit testsBeijing (XNA) Aug 08, 2022 The small mechanical arm mounted with Wentian, the first lab module of China's space station, has successfully completed in-orbit tests, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). With ... more |
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One Hundred days of MinervaParis (ESA) Aug 08, 2022 ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti was launched to the International Space Station on 27 April as a part of Crew-4 for her second mission, Minerva. One hundred days in, mission Minerva is still go ... more 
SpaceX debris discovered in Australian sheep paddockSydney (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 A charred chunk of space junk found jutting from a paddock by an Australian sheep farmer was part of one of Elon Musk's SpaceX missions, authorities confirmed Thursday. ... more 
ISS tests organisms, materials in spaceHouston TX (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 Space may look empty, but it contains extreme temperatures, high levels of background radiation, micrometeoroids, and the unfiltered glare of the Sun. In addition, materials and equipment on the out ... more 
Blue Origin sends first Egyptian and Portuguese nationals to spaceWashington (AFP) Aug 5, 2022 Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin on Thursday launched six people to space, including the first from Egypt and Portugal, on the company's sixth crewed flight. ... more |
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3 in Blue Origin crew set new world records aboard New Shepard spaceflightWashington DC (UPI) Aug 4, 2021 Private space company Blue Origin completed its sixth private human spaceflight on Thursday, carrying an American woman and two others who set a new Guinness World Record on the trip. ... more  
Turkish defence delegation to visit US for jet talksAnkara (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 A Turkish delegation will visit Washington next week to follow up on US President Joe Biden's pledge to deliver F16 fighter jets for Turkey's ageing air force, Ankara said Tuesday. ... more 
Philippines cancels Russia helicopter deal over US sanctionsManila (AFP) Aug 10, 2022 The Philippines has scrapped an order for 16 Russian military helicopters, an official confirmed Wednesday, following reports former president Rodrigo Duterte decided to cancel it due to US sanctions on Moscow. ... more 
Northrop Grumman invests in new solid rocket motor manufacturing facilities in Magna, UtahMagna UT (SPX) Aug 11, 2022 Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is expanding its solid rocket motor manufacturing facilities with the groundbreaking of new state-of-the art facilities to support nearly every phase of soli ... more 
NanoAvionics extends its satellite bus range enabling advanced space missionsLogan UT (SPX) Aug 11, 2022 Global mission integrator NanoAvionics has added two microsatellite buses, the MP42H and the MP42D, to its product line based on its flagship MP42 bus. Capable to host customer payloads of up to 145 ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 10, 2022 
With thousands of satellites and countless debris bound for busy orbits, Kayhan Space has unveiled its next-gen Pathfinder spaceflight safety platform to enable satellite and mission operators to better manage operational risks and make preemptive maneuvers based on precision analytics to avoid pileups in space.
Capella Space, Globalstar, and Lynk Global are among an initial group of leadi ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) July 26, 2022 
French and British satellite operators Eutelsat and OneWeb announced Tuesday plans to merge and create a "global champion" in broadband internet, rivalling US giants such as Elon Musk's Starlink.
Eutelsat and OneWeb said in a joint statement that they have signed a memorandum of understanding to join forces to become "a leading global player in connectivity... in an all-share transaction." ... more |
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 Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Jul 15, 2022 
Space Systems Command awarded Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company the contract to deliver operations and sustainment support services for the Global Positioning System IIR/IIR-M/III/IIIF. The support contract provides specialized sustainment services to maintain the GPS IIR/IIR-M/III/IIIF space vehicles and signal in space, and meet evolving requirements for a resilient system for the joint wa ... more |
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 Manila (AFP) Aug 10, 2022 
The Philippines has scrapped an order for 16 Russian military helicopters, an official confirmed Wednesday, following reports former president Rodrigo Duterte decided to cancel it due to US sanctions on Moscow.
Manila - a longtime Washington ally - agreed in November to pay 12.7 billion pesos ($228 million) for the Mi-17 helicopters, as it seeks to modernise its military hardware.
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 
President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday a multibillion dollar bill boosting domestic semiconductor and other high-tech manufacturing sectors that US leaders fear risk being dominated by rival China.
The Chips and Science Act includes around $52 billion to promote production of microchips, the tiny but powerful and relatively hard-to-make components at the heart of almost every modern pie ... more |
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 
A UNSW Canberra Space satellite mission, known as M2, is now delivering Australia's first high-resolution remote sensing image of the Earth. UNSW Canberra Space Director Professor Russell Boyce said the capture of the image is an important step forward for Australia's sovereign space capabilities, with the same mission also successfully collecting and transmitting commercial aviation identificat ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 8, 2022 
Eating fruits and vegetables is better for the planet than eating meat and cheese, but a new study by scientists released Monday showed chips and sugary drinks also have a very low environmental impact.
Scientists analyzed some 57,000 products sold in supermarkets in Britain and Ireland, in a large study published by the scientific journal PNAS.
The researchers, who hope that their stud ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 08, 2022 
The small mechanical arm mounted with Wentian, the first lab module of China's space station, has successfully completed in-orbit tests, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
With the support of the ground team, the small mechanical arm has completed a series of in-orbit function and performance tests. All indexes performed well, achieving expected results, said the CMSA.
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 09, 2022 
Lockheed Martin recently validated prototype communications radio technology for the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) during a recent test milestone.
The NGI's mission is to protect the U.S. homeland from increasing and evolving intercontinental ballistic missile threats. Critically, the interceptor and its components must be able to receive and share data from the ground and throughout t ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 26, 2022 
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) successfully completed the third captive flight test of its prototype missile development series. The internally funded air-launched missile demonstrates capabilities relevant for multiple services, missions and platforms.
Completed at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, the internally funded test successfully validated the capabil ... more |
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 Tokushima, Japan (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 
Raman spectroscopy, an optical microscopy technique, is a non-destructive chemical analysis technique that provides rich molecular fingerprint information about chemical structure, phase, crystallinity, and molecular interactions. The technique relies on the interaction of light with chemical bonds within a material.
However, since light is a wave, optical microscopes are unable to resolve ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 
Giving our hardware sight has empowered a host of applications in self-driving cars, object detection, and crop monitoring. But unlike animals, synthetic vision systems can't simply evolve under natural habitats. Dynamic visual systems that can navigate both land and water, therefore, have yet to power our machines - leading researchers from MIT, the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology ( ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 2, 2022 
Notorious Al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by two missiles fired at his Kabul home - but pictures showed no sign of an explosion, and US officials say no one else was harmed.
That points to the use again by the United States of the macabre Hellfire R9X, a warhead-less missile believed equipped with six razor-like blades extending from the fuselage that slices through its target bu ... more |
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