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  Jiuquan, China (XNA) Dec 01, 2022 China has made breakthroughs in the development of the new-generation crewed spaceship, new-generation manned carrier rocket, moon lander, and moon landing spacesuit, stepping closer to its moon landing goal, according to the China Manned Space Agency on Monday. China has completed key technology research and validation of the manned lunar exploration project, forming a moon landing implementation plan with "Chinese characteristics," said Ji Qiming, an assistant to the agency's director, at a pres ... read more |
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Pulsar Fusion funded by the UK Govt to construct a nuclear based space engineLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 Pulsar Fusion, a UK rocket company that has seen its advanced space engines tested in the UK and Switzerland earlier this year, has been awarded funding from the UK Space Agency to develop 'Integrat ... more 
China's six astronauts in two missions make historic gathering in spaceBeijing (XNA) Dec 01, 2022 The six Chinese astronauts from the Shenzhou XIV and Shenzhou XV missions marked a historic moment on Wednesday as they met inside the country's Tiangong space station. It was the first time t ... more  
ONERA acquires two satellite platforms from NanoAvionics for its nanosat FlyLab missionVilnius, Lithuania (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 French aerospace lab ONERA (Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales) has signed a contract with NanoAvionics, a space mission integrator and satellite manufacturer, for the procureme ... more 
Arianespace supporting the European Union's Copernicus program with Vega CParis (ESA) Dec 01, 2022 On November 29, 2022, Arianespace announced having signed with the European Commission (Directorate General for Defence, Industry and Space), a contract for the procurement of five launch services w ... more |
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Arianespace Ariane 6 to launch Intelsat satellitesToulouse, France (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 Arianespace signed a contract with longtime customer Intelsat to launch two satellite payloads, IS-41 and IS-44, using the heavy-lift Ariane 64 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana in 2025. This ... more 
SpaceX again postpones Japanese moon lander launchWashington (AFP) Dec 1, 2022 SpaceX on Wednesday postponed the launch of the world's first private lander to the Moon, a mission undertaken by Japanese firm ispace. ... more  
At NASA, France's Macron and US vow strong space cooperationWashington (AFP) Nov 30, 2022 Paris and Washington pledged Wednesday to reenforce their cooperation in space, particularly on exploration and climate, during a visit by France's Emmanuel Macron to NASA headquarters alongside US Vice President Kamala Harris. ... more 
Tiangong space station open to worldBeijing (XNA) Dec 01, 2022 Over the past 19 years, from China's first manned space mission Shenzhou V to the latest Shenzhou XV launch, the nation's space endeavors have progressed from a single-astronaut mission to the long- ... more |
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HFES releases Policy Statement on Human Space FlightWashington DC (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) has issued a new Policy Statement on Human Space Flight and Exploration Programs. As both government and commercial space operations continue to evolv ... more 
China latest astronaut crew docks at the Tiangong Space StationBeijing (AFP) Nov 30, 2022 China on Tuesday launched the Shenzhou-15 spacecraft carrying three astronauts to its space station, where they will complete the country's first-ever crew handover in orbit, state news agency Xinhua reported. ... more 
SpaceX resupply cargo capsule docks with International Space StationWashington DC (UPI) Nov 27, 2021 SpaceX's 26th resupply mission for NASA docked successfully at the International Space Stattion on Sunday morning, a day after liftoff aboard the Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Station in Florida. ... more 
Momentus signs contract with Australian Research Centre to place satellite in orbitSan Jose CA (SPX) Nov 29, 2022 Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) has signed a contract with the CUAVA Training Centre at the University of Sydney to deploy the CUAVA-2 CubeSat in low-Earth orbit in October 2023. CUAVA is the Aus ... more |
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USC works with Polaris Dawn to study in-flight space medicineLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 29, 2022 Today's spaceflights typically last a few days to a few months, so onboard medical treatment is mostly limited to first aid. But researchers are increasingly exploring new terrain-known as in-flight ... more 
Phantom Space wins 4 new NASA Task OrdersTucson AZ (SPX) Nov 26, 2022 Phantom Space Corp. has been awarded four new NASA task orders to launch CubeSat satellites into space as part of the new VADR contract. NASA's VADR missions (for Venture-class Acquisition of ... more 
NASA selects Rocket Lab to launch TROPICS MissionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 24, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has been selected by NASA to launch the Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) miss ... more 
Airbus and ArianeGroup sign Ariane 6 transition batch contract in SpainMadrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 23, 2022 Airbus and ArianeGroup have signed a contract for the next transition batch of Ariane 6 large carbon fibre structures. The contract includes the manufacturing and supply of innovative, large, lightw ... more 
Japan space agency says research team tampered with ISS experimentTokyo (UPI) Nov 26, 2022 Japan's space agency said Friday that a research team had tampered with data from an experiment simulating life on the International Space Station. The team, headed by astronaut Satoshi Furuka ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 
at AWS re:Invent 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it successfully ran a suite of AWS compute and machine learning (ML) software on an orbiting satellite, in a first-of-its-kind space experiment. The experiment, conducted over the past 10 months in low Earth orbit (LEO), was designed to test a faster, more efficient method for customers to collect and analyze valuable space data dir ... more |
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 Duluth GA (SPX) Nov 21, 2022 
DataPath, Inc., a leading provider of advanced and secure communications solutions and technical support services, has announced the delivery of its transformative more mobile Deployable Ku Band Earth Terminal (DKET) satellite communications terminal to the U.S. Space Force. The technological enhancement, along with the greatly improved transportability of this third generation DKET, has made th ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 21, 2022 
Shipping is the most energy efficient form of transport, and more than 80% of goods traded globally are carried via the oceans, with a doubling in volume during the last quarter of a century. Recognising the global need for seamless maritime navigation, ESA's Navigation Innovation and Support Programme, NAVISP - inventing the future of navigation with more than 200 R and D projects initiated to ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Nov 28, 2022 
A former US military pilot has been placed under "extreme" restrictions inside an Australian prison while fighting a secretive extradition battle with the Department of Justice in Washington, his lawyer said following a court hearing Monday.
Ex-Marine Daniel Edmund Duggan was arrested in New South Wales on October 21, the same week Britain and Australia issued unusually candid warnings about ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 25, 2022 
NIST scientist Gary Zabow had never intended to use candy in his lab. It was only as a last resort that he had even tried burying microscopic magnetic dots in hardened chunks of sugar - hard candy, basically - and sending these sweet packages to colleagues in a biomedical lab. The sugar dissolves easily in water, freeing the magnetic dots for their studies without leaving any harmful plastics or ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 23, 2022 
Rain gauges are plentiful around the United States, but that's not the case elsewhere in the world - particularly over oceans and sparsely populated areas. That means scientists and other data users have to rely on satellite measurements - such as those provided by NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission - to fill in the gaps.
The list of data users now includes the U.S. Air ... more |
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 Iquique, Chile (AFP) Nov 30, 2022  It may be one of the driest places on Earth - a brutal, alien landscape where life seems impossible.
But Chile's massive Atacama desert is a unique and fragile ecosystem that experts say is being threatened by piles of trash dumped there from around the world.
Mountains of discarded clothing, a graveyard of shoes, and rows upon rows of scrapped tires and cars blight at least three regi ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 01, 2022 
The six Chinese astronauts from the Shenzhou XIV and Shenzhou XV missions marked a historic moment on Wednesday as they met inside the country's Tiangong space station.
It was the first time that six Chinese were in a space station at the same time and the first in-orbit gathering of two Chinese crews.
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 24, 2022 
Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, completed a Critical Design Review for the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command's Missile Track Custody, or MTC, program mission payload.
"This initial CDR process marks 18 months of hard design work that is necessary to build the next generation of affordable OPIR sensors that can detect and maintain custody of emerging missile threats," sta ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 
Raytheon Intelligence and Space's sensor payload, for the U.S. Space Force's Missile Track Custody (MTC) program, recently passed the tailored mission payload critical design review on schedule. The MTC program seeks to deploy initial warfighter capability for missile tracking at medium Earth orbit (MEO).
"Our country faces new and diverse missile threats that require a layered approach to ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 10, 2022 
Computer chips are packed with billions of microscopic transistors that enable powerful computation, but also generate a great deal of heat. A buildup of heat can slow a computer processor and make it less efficient and reliable. Engineers employ heat sinks to keep chips cool, sometimes along with fans or liquid cooling systems; however, these methods often require a lot of energy to operate. ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 23, 2022 
Researchers at MIT have made significant steps toward creating robots that could practically and economically assemble nearly anything, including things much larger than themselves, from vehicles to buildings to larger robots. The new work, from MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), builds on years of research, including recent studies demonstrating that objects such as a deformable airplane wi ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 
The US government on Tuesday announced the approval of a $1 billion sale of FS-LIDS counter-drone systems and other equipment to Qatar.
"The proposed sale will improve Qatar's capability to meet current and future threats by providing electronic and kinetic defeat capabilities against Unmanned Aircraft Systems," the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said in a statement.
"The ... more |
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