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  Washington DC (UPI) Feb 5, 2021 SpaceX will delay the launch of the Hispasat Amazonas Nexus mission until Monday at 5:32 p.m. EST, after unfavorable weather conditions held up Sunday's planned launch. The rocket was scheduled to lift off at 5:32 p.m. EST on Sunday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. It was initially delayed by two hours as conditions were 30% favorable for lift off, SpaceX said. It was delayed by another two hours, slated for 9:32 p.m. EST, before being called off for the day. "Standing ... read more |
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Poland's SatRev signs on for future Virgin Orbit flightsLong Beach CA (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 Virgin Orbit (NASDAQ: VORB) and Poland-based satellite manufacturer SatRev announced a follow-on launch services agreement (LSA) for additional launches of SatRev's satellites in 2023 and beyond. ... more  
Design a spacesuit for ESAParis (ESA) Feb 03, 2023 As humankind's technology becomes more advanced, and the possibilities for human space travel are realised, it is important to think about what types of conditions we may encounter on the surfaces o ... more  
Scientists track tropical landslide creeping below an African cityPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 03, 2023 Creeping from just a finger's width up to a few feet per year, slow-moving landslides occur naturally throughout the world. They typically are detected inching downslope in rocky areas with high sea ... more  
Legged robots need more testing before real-world useColumbus OH (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 When it comes to the evolution of mobile robots, it may be a long time before legged robots are able to safely interact in the real world, according to a new study. Led by a team of researcher ... more |
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First step toward predicting lifespan of electric space propulsion systemsChicago IL (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 Electric space propulsion systems use energized atoms to generate thrust. The high-speed beams of ions bump against the graphite surfaces of the thruster, eroding them a little more with each hit, a ... more 
Setting sail for safer spaceParis (ESA) Feb 03, 2023 The camera view from a satellite after it unfurled a sail like a ship of old - although its purpose was not to start a journey but only hasten its fall back to Earth. The Drag Augmentation Deo ... more 
UAE 'Sultan of Space' grapples with Ramadan fast on ISSDubai (AFP) Feb 2, 2023 The second Emirati to journey into space, martial arts enthusiast Sultan AlNeyadi, weighed up Thursday performing Ramadan in orbit - and promised to pack his jiu-jitsu suit for the ride. ... more 
NASA names first person of Hispanic heritage as chief astronautWashington DC (UPI) Feb 2, 2023 Veteran astronaut Joe Acaba made history on Thursday when he was named chief of the Astronaut Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. ... more |
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SpaceX successfully launches 53 Starlink satellitesWashington DC (UPI) Feb 2, 2023 SpaceX successfully launched 53 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit early Thursday from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. ... more 
NASA announces finalists in challenge to design future astronaut foodHuntsville AL (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 NASA has selected 11 finalists in Phase 2 of the Deep Space Food Challenge, a public competition to extend the limits of humans in space - through food. A fir ... more  
Studies on hibernating squirrels may help astronautsFairbanks AK (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 Can studying sleeping Arctic ground squirrels help astronauts and further NASA's mission? Dr. Kelly Drew and her students studied hibernating squirrels and their ability to retain muscle and bone ma ... more  
US looks for Chinese balloon debrisWashington (AFP) Feb 6, 2023 US navy personnel worked to recover on Sunday the debris of a suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down after it floated over North America for days. ... more |
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Beijing says second balloon flying over Latin America is ChineseBeijing (AFP) Feb 6, 2023 Beijing confirmed on Monday a balloon spotted flying over Latin America is Chinese, while the United States worked to recover what it claimed was an unmanned spy craft it shot down at the weekend. ... more  
New long-range weapons will not target Russia: Ukraine defence ministerKyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Feb 5, 2023 Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said Sunday that Kyiv would not use new long-range weapons from the West to strike targets in Russia. ... more  
A balloon clouds US view on Xi's ChinaWashington (AFP) Feb 4, 2023 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had planned a rare visit to Beijing to manage tensions but also to answer a question - was there substance behind a new, seemingly more conciliatory tone in Beijing? ... more 
China says it 'regrets' unmanned airship's entry into US airspaceBeijing (AFP) Feb 3, 2023 Beijing said on Friday it regretted an "unintended" breach of US airspace by what it described as an unmanned civilian airship, after the Pentagon said it was tracking a Chinese spy balloon. ... more 
US sending longer-range precision rockets to UkraineWashington (AFP) Feb 3, 2023 A new $2.2 billion US arms package for Ukraine includes a new rocket-propelled precision bomb that could nearly double Kyiv's strike range against the Russians, the Pentagon said Friday. ... more |
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 Glasgow, Scotland (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 
The 'mirrors' exist for only a fragment of time but could help to reduce the size of ultra-high power lasers, which currently occupy buildings the size of aircraft hangars, to university basement sizes.
They have potential to be developed into a variety of plasma-based, high damage-threshold optical elements that could lead to small footprint, ultra-high-power, ultra-short pulse laser syst ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Jan 27, 2023 
GIT Satellite Communications (GIT) announced has become an Iridium Certus service provider and will support U.S. government customers with hardware platforms, airtime, and data services.
A long-time Iridium government service provider for narrowband voice and data services, GIT has now expanded its offering with Iridium Certus global satellite L-band broadband and midband connectivity. In ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 25, 2023 
Galileo's capabilities have grown with the addition of a new High Accuracy Service, freely available worldwide to anyone with a suitably equipped receiver. Delivering horizontal accuracy down to 20 cm and vertical accuracy of 40 cm, the High Accuracy Service is enabled through an additional level of real-time positioning corrections, delivered through a new data stream within the existing Galile ... more |
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 Bogota (AFP) Feb 5, 2023  Colombia said an "object" had overflown its territory after Washington warned that a suspected Chinese spy balloon similar to the one shot down off the US coast had been spotted over Latin America.
Colombia's Air Force said the object with "characteristics similar to those of a balloon" was detected on Friday and "monitored until it left the national air space."
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 Innsbruck, Austria (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 
Trapped ions are one of the leading systems to build quantum computers and other quantum technologies. To link multiple such quantum systems, interfaces are needed through which the quantum information can be transmitted.
In recent years, researchers led by Tracy Northup and Ben Lanyon at the University of Innsbruck's Department of Experimental Physics have developed a method for doing thi ... more |
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 Luxembourg (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 
Kleos Space has reached the milestone of daily product delivery collected from a strategically critical area of interest to its early adopter customers. RF data is collected by the Vigilance Mission (KSF1) satellites and is then processed through Kleos systems to generate intelligence products.
The Vigilance Mission RF data collection satellites are in a sun synchronous low Earth orbit ena ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 
It is understood that plastic pollution is one of the great environmental problems of our time, but do we not know enough to solve it already? In Plastic Pollution in the Global Ocean, a number of foremost researchers in the field of environmental contamination, polar research, hydrology, oceanography, ecotoxicology and more, explore this complex topic in an accessible and engaging way; explaini ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 31, 2023 
China's Deep Space Exploration Lab (DSEL) said Monday that it is inviting top global talents to apply for the 2023 Overseas Outstanding Young Talents Program, to promote the development of deep-space exploration.
According to the DSEL, the program, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, aims to attract outstanding young scholars from overseas, who have made achievement ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 
The Kremlin refused to say Friday whether Russia was preparing for strikes on the capital after images of missile defence systems on several Moscow rooftops circulated on social media.
The pictures appeared to show a Pantsir anti-aircraft system installed on the defence ministry building along the Moskva River, which was visible Friday on the main ministry building in the capital.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 31, 2023 
The joint DARPA and U.S. Air Force Hypersonic Airbreathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) completed yet another successful flight test. The Lockheed Martin version of the missile, with its Aerojet Rocketdyne scramjet, capped a program that accomplished all of its initial objectives. It was the final flight test for HAWC, which is providing critical data to inform Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) hype ... 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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 Columbus OH (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 
When it comes to the evolution of mobile robots, it may be a long time before legged robots are able to safely interact in the real world, according to a new study.
Led by a team of researchers at The Ohio State University, the study published recently in the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022 describes a framework for testing and characterizing ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 3, 2023  Beijing said on Friday it regretted an "unintended" breach of US airspace by what it described as an unmanned civilian airship, after the Pentagon said it was tracking a Chinese spy balloon.
"The airship is from China," a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. "It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes."
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