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  Space Coast FL (SPX) Feb 23, 2023 Relativity Space announced on Twitter that their expendable Terran 1 rocket has secured a launch license and is targeting liftoff on March 8 from Space Launch Complex 16 (SLC-16), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS), Florida. The launch window is between 1:00-4:00 p.m. ET (1800-2100 GMT). The 110-foot (33-meter) Terran 1 will undergo a crucial launch test on the "Good Luck, Have Fun" (GLHF) mission before it launches commercial payloads. According to Relativity, the rocket is "the lar ... read more |
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Farming on the MoonParis, France (SPX) Feb 23, 2023 Sooner or later, settlers on the Moon will have to become farmers. A new ESA Discovery project led by Norway's Solsys Mining is looking into the treatment of lunar soil to create fertiliser for grow ... more 
NASA, SpaceX delay Sunday Crew-6 flight until MondayWashington DC (UPI) Feb 22, 2023 NASA and SpaceX announced that its manned Crew-6 flight scheduled to liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday has been delayed 24 hours so engineers can work their way through what has been described as "minor issues." ... more 
Russia claims Progress leak caused by an "external impact" Space Coast FL (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 Roscosmos on Tuesday blamed an "external impact," not a manufacturing defect, for a coolant leak from an unmanned Russian supply ship docked at the International Space Station on February 11. ... more 
Flight Crew Arrives at NASA's Kennedy Space Center for Crew-6 MissionSpace Coast FL (SPX) Feb 21, 2023 The crew arrived on a NASA Gulfstream business jet from their home base at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and safely landed at the Launch and Landing Fac ... more |
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Russian rescue mission for three space station astronauts set this weekWashington DC (UPI) Feb 21, 2023 Russia's space agency Roscosmos' delayed rescue mission to send a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station and bring three astronauts back to Earth is scheduled to lift off Thursday night EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. ... more
SpaceX Endeavour's crew arrive at KSC ahead of launchWashington DC (UPI) Feb 21, 2023 An international team of astronauts and scientists arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, ahead of a six-month science mission to the International Space Station set to blast off on Sunday. ... more 
SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from Florida, part of Inmarsat programWashington DC (UPI) Feb 18, 2023 SpaceX on Friday completed its second launch of the day, sending a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit from Florida as part of its Inmarsat program. ... more 
Inmarsat-6 F2 marks 12th SpaceX launch of 2023Space Coast FL (SPX) Feb 19, 2023 SpaceX completed a launch doubleheader Friday night, February 17. When an Airbus-built communications satellite soared into orbit at 10:59 p.m. EST (0359 GMT on February 18) Friday from Cape Canaver ... more |
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NuSpace and GomSpace signs MoU to develop an extended value proposition in Singapore NewSpaceAalborg, Denmark (SPX) Feb 20, 2023 GomSpace, a satellite company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NuSpace Pte. Ltd, a Singapore-based company providing space-based infrastructure services. The partnership will all ... more 
NASA, Boeing target April for manned Starliner test flightWashington DC (UPI) Feb 17, 2023 NASA and Boeing said Friday they aim to launch the first manned test flight mission of the CST-100 Starliner to the International Space Station in April. ... more
Russia 'expected' to launch rescue ship to ISS on Feb 24: officialMoscow (AFP) Feb 18, 2023 Russia's space agency said Saturday it was planning to send a rescue ship on February 24 to bring home three astronauts whose return vehicle was damaged by a tiny meteoroid. ... more 
SpaceX launches 51 Starlink satellites from CaliforniaWashington DC (UPI) Feb 17, 2023 SpaceX launched 51 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Friday. The payload lifted off as scheduled aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 11:12 a.m. PT, 2:12 p.m. ET. ... more |
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Northrop Grumman to manufacture US Marine Corps next generation handheld targeting systemApopka FL (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 The US Marine Corps awarded Northrop Grumman the initial production and operations contract for the Next Generation Handheld Targeting System (NGHTS). NGHTS is a compact targeting system that provid ... more  
China accuses Biden of 'saying one thing, doing another' over balloon spatBeijing (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 China on Wednesday accused Joe Biden of "saying one thing and doing another" in a direct rebuke of the US president's decision to shoot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon this month. ... more 
SpaceX faces a $175,000 penalty for failure to report launch data to FAASpace Coast FL (SPX) Feb 19, 2023 The United States' Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed a $175,000 civil penalty to SpaceX for failing "to submit launch collision analysis trajectory data directly to the FAA before t ... more 
Ukrainian soldiers take German tank course in double timeMunster, Germany (AFP) Feb 21, 2023 For 12 hours a day and six days a week, a few hundred Ukrainian soldiers are cramming an intensive course on operating tanks in Germany, knowing full well they have no time to waste. ... more 
US reaffirms pledge to deliver jets to TurkeyAnkara (AFP) Feb 20, 2023 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday underlined Washington's commitment to delivering F-16 jets to Turkey as he wrapped up a visit during which he pledged solidarity with the earthquake-hit country. ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 
Axelspace Corporation has successfully developed a Ka-band radio for Earth observation microsatellites. The radio operates with less than half the power consumption of conventional radio. The collaborative research was jointly developed with Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech). With key collaborators Atsushi Shirane of the Laboratory for Future Interdisciplinary Research of Science and Pr ... more |
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 Space Coast FL (SPX) Feb 16, 2023 
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded Babcock International Group a six-year contract to manage and operate Skynet, the MOD's military satellite communications system, on February 15.
The contract is called Skynet Service Delivery Wrap (SDW), it is valued at 400 million pounds ($486.6 million), and it is expected to support 400 jobs in Corsham, Bristol, and Plymouth, U ... more |
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 Wuhan, China (SPX) Feb 16, 2023 
China will employ BeiDou satellite-based augmentation system (BDSBAS) to provide high-precision positioning service in railway survey and construction, according to the China Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group Co., Ltd.
Four satellite-based and 12 ground-based observation stations will be set up along the Wufeng-Enshi railway section in central China's Hubei Province.
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 Berlin (AFP) Feb 17, 2023 
German manufacturer Rheinmetall said Friday it had reached an agreement with US arms company Lockheed Martin to supply components for the F-35 fighter jet, which Germany has chosen to replace its ageing Tornado fleet.
The two companies have signed a letter of intent for Rheinmetall to produce "centre fuselage" parts for the aircraft, the German group said in a statement.
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Feb 23, 2023 
Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have created a new type of quantum material whose atomic scaffolding, or lattice, has been dramatically warped into a herringbone pattern.
The resulting distortions are "huge" compared to those achieved in other materials, said Woo Jin Kim, a postdoctoral researcher at the Stanford Instit ... more |
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 Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 
Satellite Applications Catapult, SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), and the UK Government have announced a new space supply chain mapping tool to showcase the United Kingdom (UK) and Australian space sector capabilities. Enabled by the Space Bridge, an alliance between the UK and Australia that enhances cooperation across both nations to boost respective space industries, this mapping t ... more |
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 Oxford (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 
A new paper in Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that watching nature documentaries makes people more interested in plants, potentially provoking an involvement in botany and ecology.
Some 40% of plant species are under threat of extinction. Plants that are not directly useful to humans are particularly vulnerable. People often do not recognize how important ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 16, 2023 
Multiple engineering experiments are currently underway, or poised to begin, at a cabinet on China's space station which is in a near-Earth orbit. These experiments aim to acquire know-how that can support more experimental possibilities and human survival in outer space.
The Space Basic Experiment Cabinet mounted on the country's space lab module Mengtian is carrying its first group of fi ... more |
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 Bratislava (AFP) Feb 9, 2023 
Germany will give Bratislava two sets of the MANTIS air defence system to protect Slovakia's eastern border with Ukraine, the Slovak defence ministry said Thursday.
"Slovakia will receive the systems free of charge and permanently," the ministry spokeswoman Martina Kakascikova told AFP.
"The training of Slovak soldiers to use the system will begin in the coming months," Slovak Defence M ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Feb 18, 2023 
A North Korean missile that is believed to have landed in Japan's exclusive economic zone on Saturday was intercontinental ballistic missile-class, the government in Tokyo said.
Pyongyang "fired one ICBM-class ballistic missile toward the east. It flew for about 66 minutes," chief government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters.
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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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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 14, 2023  Researchers at Cornell University have developed and are testing an artificial intelligence tool that can track online conversations in real time, alerting a person before conversations get too heated.
Named ConvoWizard, the AI tool can "detect when tensions are escalating and nudge users away from using incendiary language," the university said in a statement Tuesday.
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 18, 2023 
The United States has ended its search for debris from an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon it shot down earlier this month as well as two other objects downed near Alaska and on Lake Huron, the military's Northern Command said Friday.
"Recovery operations concluded February 16 off the coast of South Carolina, after US Navy assets assigned to US Northern Command successfully located and r ... more |
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