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  Forres, UK (SPX) Aug 24, 2022 UK-based launch services company Orbex is hiring an additional fifty staff members over the next six months. The new team members will support the company's final push to prepare for the first vertical rocket launch from UK soil over the coming months. Many of the new roles will support 'integrated testing' of the complete rocket at the Orbex LP1 launch platform test facility at Kinloss. The facility allows for full 'dress rehearsals' of rocket launches at Kinloss, situated a few miles from the Or ... read more |
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China's space tracking ship sails for monitoring missionsBeijing (XNA) Aug 24, 2022 China's space tracking ship Yuanwang-3 set sail for monitoring missions from its home port on Monday morning, according to China Science Daily. The vessel has prepared for the new missions as ... more 
China launches new satellite via Kuaizhou 1A carrier rocketXichang (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 C ... 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  
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 |
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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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Iran to launch mass military drone drillsTehran (AFP) Aug 23, 2022 Iran's armed forces will on Wednesday launch large scale drone drills across the country involving 150 unmanned aerial vehicles to show off its "power", state media reported Tuesday. ... more  
Compact QKD system paves the way to cost-effective satellite-based quantum networksHefei, China (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 Researchers report an experimental demonstration of a space-to-ground quantum key distribution (QKD) network using a compact QKD terminal aboard the Chinese Space Lab Tiangong-2 and four ground stat ... more 
Solar-powered drone crashes in US after record 64-day flightWashington (AFP) Aug 23, 2022 An unmanned solar-powered aircraft has crashed after flying for 64 days, more than doubling the record for a pilotless plane, the US Army and media sources said Tuesday. ... more  
India sacks officers over Pakistan missile misfireNew Delhi (AFP) Aug 23, 2022 The Indian air force on Tuesday sacked three officers for the accidental firing of a cruise missile into nuclear-armed rival Pakistan following a months-long investigation by New Delhi. ... more  
US to donate 8 helicopters to Czech RepublicPrague (AFP) Aug 19, 2022 The United States said Friday it will donate eight combat and multi-purpose helicopters to the Czech Republic, a NATO member. ... more |
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 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 |
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 Hefei, China (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 
Researchers report an experimental demonstration of a space-to-ground quantum key distribution (QKD) network using a compact QKD terminal aboard the Chinese Space Lab Tiangong-2 and four ground stations. The new QKD system is less than half the weight of the system the researchers developed for the Micius satellite, which was used to perform the world's first quantum-encrypted virtual teleconfer ... more |
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 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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 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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 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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 Camarillo CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 
Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading global supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced a collaboration with New Zealand's IoT Ventures and global connectivity provider Lacuna Space.
IoT Ventures has used Semtech's LoRa devices to develop its Drought Early Warning System, a network of low-cost rainwater tank and rain monit ... more |
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 Berlin (AFP) Aug 22, 2022  Toxic algae has been found in samples from the Oder river, where huge masses of dead fish have sparked concerns of an environmental disaster, Poland and Germany said on Monday.
More than 100 tonnes (220,000 pounds) of dead fish have been recovered since July from the river which flows through both countries since July, sparking tensions after Berlin accused Warsaw of failing to communicate t ... more |
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 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 |
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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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 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 |
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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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 San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 
Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE: NOC) MQ-8C Fire Scout, the U.S. Navy's autonomous, runway-independent helicopter system, successfully completed operations under the Expeditionary Advance Base Operations (EABO) concept, providing persistent intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting (ISR&T) capabilities.
"Fire Scout is the Navy's only unmanned helicopter with the ability ... more |
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