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China launches new satellite via Kuaizhou 1A carrier rocket![]() Xichang (XNA) Aug 23, 2022 China on Tuesday successfully launched a new satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China's Sichuan province. The Chuangxin-16 satellite, developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was launched at 10:36 am (Beijing Time) by a Kuaizhou 1A carrier rocket and entered the planned orbit successfully. The satellite will mainly be used for scientific experiments and verification of new technologies. The launch was the 16th mission by Kuaizhou 1A series r ... read more |
103rd successful rocket launch breaks recordBeijing, China (SPX) Aug 23, 2022 The Long March carrier rocket family, China's backbone launch vehicle fleet, has set a new record for successful consecutive launches after a Long March 2D launch over the weekend, according to the ... more
Skyrora completes second stage static fire engine testEdinburgh, Scotland (SPX) Aug 23, 2022 The first vertical rocket launch from British soil moved a vital step closer this month as UK rocket company Skyrora successfully completed the static fire test of the second stage of its flagship S ... more
US Navy military sealift command awards Inmarsat 10-year wideband follow-on contractWashington DC (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 Inmarsat Government has announced that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has awarded Inmarsat Government the U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command (MSC) Next Generation Wideband (NGW) Follo ... more
45 years after launch, NASA's Voyager probes still blazing trails billions of miles awayWashington DC (UPI) Aug 22, 2021 Forty-five years ago, NASA launched the first part of its most ambitious deep space mission in its history - a spacecraft called Voyager 2, which is still communicating with scientists on Earth at a distance of more than 12 billion miles away. ... more |
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First of NASA's SunRISE smallsats rolls off production linePasadena CA (JPL) Aug 19, 2022 Building a 6-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) telescope in space may sound like science fiction. But through the combined power of six toaster-size satellites, that's what NASA's SunRISE will be: a hug ... more
Track NASA's Artemis I mission in real timeHouston TX (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 Join NASA's Orion spacecraft on its first mission around the Moon using the Artemis Real-time Orbit Website (AROW) to track the spacecraft's flight as it happens. During Artemis I, Orion will ... more
Vector Space Biosciences offers tools countering stressors during spaceflightSan Francisco CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 To establish a lunar base or go to Mars, understanding how to protect and repair the human body during spaceflight is imperative. Countermeasures against diseases associated to stressors during spac ... more
China's commercial rocket CERES-1 Y3 launches three satellitesJiuquan (XNA) Aug 09, 2022 China on Tuesday launched its CERES-1 Y3 carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The rocket blasted off at 12:11 pm (Beijing Time) Aug 9, 2022 from the laun ... more |
US should end ISS collaboration with RussiaHuntsville 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. ... more
Russian spacewalk cut short due to issue with suitWashington (AFP) Aug 17, 2022 A spacewalk by two Russians on Wednesday was ended abruptly due to a problem with the battery in cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev's suit, though at no point was he in any danger, the US and Russian space agencies said. ... more
NASA's new rocket on launchpad for trip to MoonWashington (AFP) Aug 17, 2022 NASA's giant new SLS rocket arrived at its launchpad Wednesday in Cape Canaveral ahead of a planned flight to the Moon in less than two weeks. ... more
Rocket Lab to launch 150th satellite with upcoming Synspective SAR launchLong Beach CA (SPX) Aug 18, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced its upcoming 30th Electron launch will deliver its 150th payload and 300th Rutherford engine to space. The mission is a dedicated launch for Japanese ... more |
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Chinese space-tracking ship docks at Sri Lanka's Hambantota portColombo (XNA) Aug 18, 2022 China's space-tracking ship Yuanwang-5 has docked at Sri Lanka's Hambantota International Port (HIP) for replenishment purposes. Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong, Sri Lankan governm ... more
Shenzhou XIV astronauts to conduct their first spacewalk in coming daysBeijing (XNA) Aug 15, 2022 China's Shenzhou XIV astronauts will conduct extravehicular activities (EVAs) for the first time in the next few days, China Media Group reported on Saturday. The three-member crew has been wo ... more
Harvest from heavenly breedingBeijing (XNA) Aug 15, 2022 When China's Shenzhou-14 spaceship returns to Earth late this year, it will bring home some unusual packages - brewer's yeast grown in space. It will be part of the harvest of a 6-month-long b ... more
Chinese commercial carrier rocket Smart Dragon-3 completes ground testsBeijing (XNA) Aug 15, 2022 China's new carrier rocket Smart Dragon-3 (SD-3), designed for commercial use, has completed large-scale ground tests, its developer said on Thursday. The rocket was developed by the China Roc ... more
Modified X-62 helps accelerate tactical autonomy developmentWright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Aug 23, 2022 The Air Force Research Laboratory Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office has invested $15 million upgrading a decades-old workhorse to make it relevant for 21st century warfighter ... more |
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Wobbling droplets in space confirm late professor's theory Ithaca NY (SPX) Aug 19, 2022
At a time when astronomers around the world are reveling in new views of the distant cosmos, an experiment on the International Space Station has given Cornell researchers fresh insight into something a little closer to home: water.
Specifically, the space station's microgravity environment illuminated the ways that water droplets oscillate and spread across solid surfaces - knowledge that ... more |
US Navy military sealift command awards Inmarsat 10-year wideband follow-on contract Washington DC (SPX) Aug 19, 2022
Inmarsat Government has announced that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has awarded Inmarsat Government the U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command (MSC) Next Generation Wideband (NGW) Follow-On (FO) Contract for worldwide end-to-end commercial satellite communications services.
An Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, the ceiling value of the award is $578M ove ... more |
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MariaDB reimagines how databases deliver geospatial capabilities with acquisition Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Aug 19, 2022
MariaDB Corporation has announced it has acquired CubeWerx, leaders in geospatial solutions, for an undisclosed amount. With the acquisition, MariaDB adds cloud-native, scalable geospatial capabilities that the company plans to offer through its fully managed cloud service MariaDB SkySQL. Applications that leverage geospatial data are truly transformative, enabling businesses to offer new produc ... more |
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Taiwan shows off most advanced fighter jet after China drills Hualien, Taiwan (AFP) Aug 17, 2022
Taiwan displayed on Wednesday its most advanced fighter jet, the missile-equipped F-16V, in a rare nighttime demonstration in the wake of China's unprecedented military drills around the island.
Beijing staged days of air and sea drills in the Taiwan Strait this month after visits by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a congressional delegation to the self-ruled island territory.
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Biden signs major semiconductors investment bill to compete against China 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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Launch Schedule for 3rd StriX-1 SAR satellite Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 19, 2022
Synspective Inc., a SAR satellite data and analytic solutions provider, reports that the official launch schedule of StriX-1, the company's third SAR satellite.
StriX-1 has a launch window starting from mid-September (UTC). Exact lift-off target date and time will be confirmed soon.
Please note that the launch may be postponed or canceled due to unforeseen weather conditions or compl ... more |
Polish firemen pull tonnes of dead fish from Oder river Warsaw (AFP) Aug 16, 2022
Polish firefighters said Tuesday they had recovered 100 tonnes of dead fish from the Oder river running through Germany and Poland, deepening concerns of an environmental disaster.
"We'd never had an operation of this scope on a river before," said Monika Nowakowska-Drynda from the national firefighter press office.
She confirmed that around 100 tonnes (220,500 pounds) of dead fish had b ... more |
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103rd successful rocket launch breaks record Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 23, 2022
The Long March carrier rocket family, China's backbone launch vehicle fleet, has set a new record for successful consecutive launches after a Long March 2D launch over the weekend, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the country's leading space contractor.
The rocket blasted off at 1:37 am Saturday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province and l ... more |
Lockheed Martin's next gen interceptor achieves communications testing milestone 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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Russia deploys hypersonic missiles to Kaliningrad Moscow (AFP) Aug 18, 2022
Russia on Thursday relocated three warplanes equipped with hypersonic missiles to its exclave of Kaliningrad on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
Wedged between EU and NATO members Lithuania and Poland that have firmly backed Ukraine in the conflict with Moscow, the heavily militarised region of Kaliningrad does not share a land border with Russia.
On Thursday, "three Mig-31i aircraft with ... more |
Towards stable, sustained Raman imaging of large samples at the nanoscale 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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Researchers create the first artificial vision system for both land and water 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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Modified X-62 helps accelerate tactical autonomy development Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Aug 23, 2022
The Air Force Research Laboratory Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office has invested $15 million upgrading a decades-old workhorse to make it relevant for 21st century warfighter challenges. AFRL's Autonomous Aircraft Experimentation team is using a highly modified Air Force Test Pilot School NF-16, an aircraft recently designated the X-62, to accelerate the development of ta ... more |
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