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  Washington (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 Russia's space agency is discussing with Moscow a continuation of its participation in the International Space Station past 2024, a Roscosmos official said Monday. Sergei Krikalev, head of Russia's human space flight programs, told reporters that Roscosmos had started "to discuss extending our participation in ISS program with our government and hope to have permission to continue next year." With ties between Russia and the West rupturing over the war in Ukraine, Roscosmos chief Yuri Borissov h ... read more |
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NASA resets for Crew-5, Artemis I missions post-IanWashington DC (UPI) Oct 3, 2021 Members of the next crew set to visit the International Space Station have arrived in preparation for a launch from Florida following a delay caused by Hurricane Ian. ... more  
Elon Musk may help NASA extend life for HubbleWashington DC (UPI) Oct 03, 2022 The U.S. space agency, NASA, said it signed an agreement with Elon Musk's SpaceX to study whether the life expectancy of the venerated Hubble Space Telescope can be extended. ... more 
NASA eyes November for launch attempt of Moon rocketWashington (AFP) Oct 03, 2022 NASA said Friday it would try to launch its Moon mega-rocket in November, without committing to a precise date for the much-delayed Artemis 1 mission. ... more 
Firefly Aerospace scrubs launch after rocket engine shuts downWashington DC (UPI) Sep 30, 2021 Firefly Aerospace aborted an attempted launch Friday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California after an unexpected engine shutdown. ... more |
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NRO awards commercial RF Capabilities Contract to Kleos SpaceLuxembourg (SPX) Sep 29, 2022 Kleos Space Inc, a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) and Mission-as-a-Service (MaaS) provider, has been awarded a first stage contract, from the National Reconnai ... more 
HawkEye 360 awarded radio frequency contract by NROHerndon VA (SPX) Sep 29, 2022 HawkEye 360 Inc., the world's leading commercial provider of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, reports it has been awarded a contract from the NRO's Commercial Systems Program Off ... more  
Raytheon and Northrop Grumman to deliver hypersonic air-breathing missile to USSFTucson AZ (SPX) Sep 27, 2022 Raytheon Missiles and Defense, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, in partnership with Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), has been selected to develop the Hypersonic Attack Cruise M ... more  
Trackem Launches New GPS Business Tracking PlatformBrantford, Canada (SPX) Sep 28, 2022 Trackem GPS has officially launched its latest version of its client facing GPS tracking platform. The software launch has been 18 months in the making, for the 18-year-old business GPS fleet tracki ... more |
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NASA postpones Crew-5 mission over Hurricane IanWashington DC (UPI) Sep 29, 2021 NASA is shifting the launch date of its Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station in the wake of Hurricane Ian, the space agency confirmed. ... more 
Three Russian cosmonauts return from space stationMoscow (AFP) Sept 29, 2022 Three Russian cosmonauts touched down Thursday on the steppe of Kazakhstan following a six-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS), Russia's space agency Roscosmos said. ... more 
Satellite Vu signs SpaceX launch contract to deploy thermal monitoring capabilitiesLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 27, 2022 British Earth Observation company, Satellite Vu has signed a second SpaceX launch contract for their second satellite, doubling their thermal data collection capacity, faster than planned, amidst ri ... more 
NASA awards commercial Small Satellite Data Acquisition AgreementWashington DC (SPX) Sep 29, 2022 NASA has selected GHGSat, Inc., of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to provide commercial small constellation satellite products for evaluation to determine the utility for advancing NASA's science and app ... more |
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Cristoforetti becomes first European woman to command ISSParis (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti on Wednesday became the first European woman to take over command of the International Space Station during a ceremony broadcast live from space. ... more 
Taoglas' multi-band GNSS front ends simplify and accelerate product developmentLas Vegas NV (SPX) Sep 29, 2022 Taoglas, a leading provider of advanced components for a smarter world, launches their first in a new series of high precision, multi-band GNSS front ends for autonomous vehicles, precision agricult ... more  
The Perseverance robotic arm tightrope of abrasion proximity sciencePasadena CA (JPL) Sep 22, 2022 The SHERLOC and PIXL proximity science instruments on Perseverance have enabled more detailed observations of Martian chemistry and minerology than ever before. PIXL can isolate features as small as ... more 
Somewear Labs raises $13M Series A roundSan Francisco CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2022 Somewear Labs, the enabler of critical communications for the world's most important organizations, reports it has raised $13.7 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by a grou ... more  
Eyeing China, India unveils high-altitude helicoptersJodhpur, India (AFP) Oct 3, 2022 India unveiled on Monday its first batch of locally-made attack helicopters, designed primarily for use in high-altitude areas like the Himalayas where its troops clashed with China in 2020. ... more |
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 Lafayette CO (SPX) Sep 29, 2022 
With the space economy and critical defense initiatives dependent on safe rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO), Kayhan Space, along with partners Astroscale U.S. and the University of Texas at Austin, reports it has won a U.S. Space Force award to develop an intelligent platform that autonomously enables spacecraft to safely engage with on-orbit support vehicles for services such as refueli ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2022 
Somewear Labs, the enabler of critical communications for the world's most important organizations, reports it has raised $13.7 million in a Series A funding round.
The round was led by a group of over a dozen current and former Fortune 500 CEOs and legendary investors, chaired by David Dorman (former CEO of AT&T and former Chairman of Motorola), and including Egon Durban (Co-CEO of Silver ... more |
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 Brantford, Canada (SPX) Sep 28, 2022 
Trackem GPS has officially launched its latest version of its client facing GPS tracking platform. The software launch has been 18 months in the making, for the 18-year-old business GPS fleet tracking company. The tall task of client migration has begun and is expected to be ongoing for a number of months ahead.
Trackem's new software platform was built to deliver on three main principles, ... more |
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 Helsinki (AFP) Sept 30, 2022 
Fighter jet engines whined this week on a stretch of highway in central Finland, where the military trained on stretches of road that double as spare landing strips.
As one of Finland's dozens of reserve runways, the empty highway near the town of Joutsa, hosted an annual air force exercise with F/A-18 Hornets taking off and landing.
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 Paris, France (SPX) Sep 25, 2022 
CAES, a leader in advanced mission-critical electronics for aerospace and defence, announced that it has won multiple contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development of the GR765 System-on-Chip (SOC), the first user selectable CPU for space. This next-generation, radiation-hardened device will allow users to select between the LEON5 SPARC V8 or NOEL-V RISC-V RV64 processor cor ... more |
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 Herndon VA (SPX) Sep 22, 2022 
HawkEye 360 Inc., the world's leading commercial provider of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, has announced two new signals available as part of its RFGeo signal mapping product: VHF and UHF Flex. RFGeo data and analytics provide a new geospatial data layer that enables RF awareness, utilizing the unique data generated by HawkEye 360's satellite constellation to detect and ge ... more |
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 Berlin (AFP) Sept 30, 2022  Germany said Friday that mass fish deaths in the Oder river were a "man-made environmental disaster", blaming toxic algae growth sparked by the introduction of salt into the waters.
Presenting a report into the disaster that saw at least 300 tonnes of dead fish pulled from the river in Germany and Poland this summer, the German environment ministry said the most likely cause was "a sudden in ... more |
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 Taiyuan, China (XNA) Sep 27, 2022 
China on Tuesday launched a Long March-6 rocket carrying three satellites into space.
The rocket blasted off at 7:50 am (Beijing Time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi and sent the Shiyan 16A, Shiyan 16B and Shiyan 17 satellites into the preset orbit.
Shiyan means "experiment" in Chinese. The Shiyan satellite trio will provide data for land ... 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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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 27, 2022 
Raytheon Missiles and Defense, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, in partnership with Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), has been selected to develop the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM) for the U.S. Air Force (USAF). HACM is a first-of-its-kind weapon developed in conjunction with the Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment (SCIFiRE), a U.S. and Australia p ... more |
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 Halle, Germany (SPX) Sep 28, 2022 
Strong alternating magnetic fields can be used to generate a new type of spin wave that was previously just theoretically predicted. This was achieved for the first time by a team of physicists from (MLU). They report on their work in the scientific journal Nature Communications and provide the first microscopic images of these spin waves.
The basic idea of spintronics is to use a special ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 22, 2022 
The SHERLOC and PIXL proximity science instruments on Perseverance have enabled more detailed observations of Martian chemistry and minerology than ever before. PIXL can isolate features as small as a grain of sand. To achieve this, these instruments on the end of the robotic arm must be placed at a precise distance from the feature of interest - very close, but not too close. PIXL even has a "h ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Sep 25, 2022 
During a technical session at IAC, Michael Vergalla, CTO of Outpost, presented a paper on the findings of Outpost's two successful flight tests on a breakthrough technology of an autonomous paraglider re-entry system to enable industry-leading payload Earth return capabilities from orbit.
The tests, conducted in April 2022, are a huge milestone for Outpost in creating a technology that wil ... more |
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