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  Washington (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 An uncrewed Blue Origin rocket carrying research payloads crashed shortly after liftoff from Texas on Monday, but the capsule carrying experiments escaped and floated safely back to Earth. The incident marked a setback for Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos' company as well as the space tourism sector, though observers were encouraged by the fact that had people been aboard, they would have likely survived. Blue Origin tweeted a short video clip showing the moment when the capsule fir ... read more |
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Blue Origin rocket suffers booster failure, prompting emergency abort systemWashington DC (UPI) Sep 12, 2021 Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket suffered a booster failure after lifting off Monday morning, causing an emergency abort system to separate the capsule from the booster. ... more  
LeoLabs awarded contract from US Dept of Commerce to support space traffic management prototypeMenlo Park CA (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 LeoLabs, Inc., the world's leading commercial provider of low Earth orbit (LEO) mapping and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services, has announced an award to provide data and services to the US ... more 
SpaceX launches 34 more Starlink satellites, AST SpaceMobile satelliteWashington DC (UPI) Sep 10, 2021 Elon Musk's SpaceX launched 34 more Starlink satellites with AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 satellite to low-Earth orbit on Saturday. ... more 
Harris talks with space station astronauts, introduces new initiativesWashington DC (UPI) Sep 9, 2021 Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to astronauts serving on the International Space Station on Friday as she convened the meeting of the National Space Council at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. ... more |
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Momentus First Demonstration Mission Status Update #5San Jose CA (SPX) Sep 09, 2022 Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), a U.S. commercial space company that plans to offer transportation and other in-space infrastructure services, has provided its fifth Mission Update on its inaugural Vi ... more 
Why do we always need to wait for launch windows to get a rocket to spaceMelbourne, Australia (The Conversation) Sep 09, 2022 Earlier this week, the Artemis I Moon mission was scrubbed again; now we have to wait for a new launch window. Just 40 minutes before the Space Launch System rocket was set to take off from Ke ... more 
UK built Prometheus 2 imaging and monitoring cubesats on track for UK launchLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 The Prometheus 2 satellites, which have been jointly designed by Airbus and In-Space Missions, are on track for their UK launch from Newquay, Cornwall, later this year with environmental testing com ... more 
Surrey Satellite opens new Australian officeAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 SSTL has announced that on the 13th September it will open an office in Australia in Adelaide. The announcement follows the meeting on Friday 2nd September between the Rt. Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan M ... more |
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Ariane 5 launches EUTELSAT KONNECT VHTS satelliteKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Sep 08, 2022 On Wednesday, September 7th, 2022 at 6:45 pm local time, an Ariane 5 launcher, operated by Arianespace, successfully lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana (South America), carr ... more 
Space launch from Australia to use satellite tracking from InmarsatGold Coast, Australia (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications has signed an agreement with Gilmour Space Technologies to support space launches from Australia using Inmarsat's InRange system ... more  
NASA manages astronaut health with effective diagnostics researchCleveland OH (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 As NASA prepares to send astronauts further into space for longer durations, managing and maintaining their health is a top priority. Researchers and engineers are currently testing a suite of medic ... more
Teams continue to review options for next Artemis I launch attemptKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Sep 07, 2022 After standing down on Saturday's Artemis I launch attempt when engineers could not overcome a hydrogen leak in a quick disconnect, an interface between the liquid hydrogen fuel feed line and the Sp ... 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 
Uncrewed Blue Origin rocket crashes, capsule recoveredWashington (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 An uncrewed Blue Origin rocket carrying research payloads crashed shortly after liftoff on Monday, but the capsule carrying experiments escaped and floated safely back to Earth, Jeff Bezos' space company said. ... more  
Airbus to provide satellite communications for Armed Forces of Czech Republic and the NetherlandsParis, France (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 Airbus has signed contracts with the Ministries of Defence of Czech Republic and the Netherlands to provide satellite communications for a 15 year period. The Armed Forces of Czech Republic and the ... more 
SciTec awarded US Space Force contract for mission data processing application providerBoulder CO (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 SciTec, Inc. was awarded a $272M contract by U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) for Mission Data Processing Application Provider (MDPAP) to deliver critical applications for the Space Forc ... more 
Lockheed Martin, AT&T demonstrate 5G high speed transfer of Black Hawk data to 5G.MIL Pilot NetworkStratford CT (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and AT&T* securely and rapidly transferred UH-60M Black Hawk health and usage data through an AT&T 5G private cellular network and Lockheed Martin's 5G.MIL multi-site pil ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 07, 2022 
On the rooftop of an MIT Lincoln Laboratory building sits a 38-foot-wide dome-shaped radio antenna enclosure, or radome. Inside the climate-controlled environment, shielded from the New England weather, a steel structure supports a 20,000-pound, 20-foot diameter satellite communications (SATCOM) antenna. The antenna - called the Multi-Band Test Terminal (MBTT) - can rotate 15 degrees per second, ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 
SciTec, Inc. was awarded a $272M contract by U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) for Mission Data Processing Application Provider (MDPAP) to deliver critical applications for the Space Force's missile warning mission as part of the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) program.
The FORGE program supports the continued operations of legacy Space Based Infrared Sys ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 02, 2022 
Europe's latest Galileo satellites in space have joined the operational constellation, transmitting navigation signals to three billion users across planet Earth as well as relaying distress calls to rescuers. Their entry into service follows a summer test campaign and will result in a measurable increase in positioning accuracy and improved data delivery performance of the overall Galileo syste ... more |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) Sept 6, 2022 
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid warned arch-foe Iran not to test his country's "long arm" in a video on Tuesday as he stood next to an F-35 stealth bomber.
Iran has been engaged in talks with major powers to restore a 2015 agreement that gave it sanctions relief in return for guarantees it would not obtain nuclear weapons, a goal it has always denied pursuing.
Israel, which views the d ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 06, 2022 
Lateral flow assays (LFA) tests have become ubiquitous within the general public; they are the format for standard home pregnancy and Covid-19 tests, indicating a positive result with a colored line, and a negative result with no colored line. In their current iteration, these tests are largely qualitative and binary in their outputs.
Various attempts to make a quantitative LFA have yielde ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 
A new foundation model dubbed RingMo has been developed to improve accuracy for remote sensing image interpretation, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Remote sensing images has been successfully applied in many fields, such as classification and change detection, and deep learning approaches have contributed to the rapid dev ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Sept 10, 2022 
Scientists said Saturday they had identified the mechanism through which air pollution triggers lung cancer in non-smokers, a discovery one expert hailed as "an important step for science - and for society".
The research illustrated the health risk posed by the tiny particles produced by burning fossil fuels, sparking fresh calls for more urgent action to combat climate change.
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 Wenchang, China(XNA) Sep 05, 2022 
A Long March-5B Y4 rocket, tasked with sending China's space station lab module Mengtian into orbit, has been transported to the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern province of Hainan, the China Manned Space Agency said Saturday.
The rocket will undergo final assembly and testing together with the Mengtian lab module, which arrived earlier.
Preparations for the launch mis ... 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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 New 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.
The unarmed BrahMos surface-to-surface supersonic missile was accidently launched from a secret military base in northern India in early March before the projectile landed roughly 125 kilometers inside Pakist ... more |
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 Raleigh NC (SPX) Sep 06, 2022 
Researchers looking to synthesize a brighter and more stable nanoparticle for optical applications found that their creation instead exhibited a more surprising property: bursts of superfluorescence that occurred at both room temperature and regular intervals. The work could lead to the development of faster microchips, neurosensors, or materials for use in quantum computing applications, as wel ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 6, 2021 
Scientists in Japan are tapping into solar power to harness cockroaches and their ability to access hard-to-reach areas for environmental monitoring, as well as search-and-rescue in the event of a natural disaster, according to a new study.
The cyborg cockroach study, published Monday in the journal npc Flexible Electronics, outlines how researchers at Riken research institute were able ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 
The technology multinational GMV has been awarded a contract for the design, development, production, and logistic support of the Ground Flight Control Computer (GFCC) for the Eurodrone Programme, thus providing AIRBUS with a reliable safety critical computer to command and control the Eurodrone Unmanned Aerial System (UAS).
The Eurodrone Programme is undoubtedly the most challenging coope ... more |
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