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  London, UK (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 UK rocket company Skyrora has taken another important stride towards achieving a sovereign orbital launch from British soil by opening a new manufacturing and production facility, the largest of its kind in the UK. After recently opening its engine test facility in Midlothian, this new facility in Cumbernauld allows the company to concentrate its launch development practices in custom-built domestic facilities, further strengthening Skyrora's status as the leader in the UK space race. The pr ... read more |
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Vega-C completes inaugural flightKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 14, 2022 Flight VV21 lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 15:13 CEST on Wednesday 13 July (14:13 BST/10:13 Kourou local time). This mission lasted about 2 hours and 15 minutes from liftoff ... more 
To Sicily and beyond: ESA, partners debate future of space transportationParis (ESA) Jul 12, 2022 How can Europe exploit its technical, industrial and financial strengths to ensure it remains a leader in space transportation in the 2030s and beyond? How can ESA, Europe's national space agencies ... more 
Maiden Flight of Vega-C: Top of new European rocket from Beyond GravityZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 13, 2022 Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space) delivered the payload fairing, the top of the new medium-lift European rocket Vega-C, which will launch tomorrow. Beyond Gravity also produced the launcher compu ... more 
First encounter between the Ariane 6 central core and launch pad for combined testsKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 13, 2022 The Ariane 6 central core (composed of the core stage and upper stage), assembled on 23 June, left the Launcher Assembly Building for the first time, en route to its new launch pad, which was built ... more |
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Hypersonics: Developing and defending against missiles far faster than soundTucson AZ (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 The challenges of the hypersonic era in military operations are immense. But so are the abilities of innovators who work together to solve them. That was the message when Wes Kremer, president ... more  
Third Tianlian II-series satellite launchedBeijing (XNA) Jul 13, 2022 China launched a Tianlian II-series satellite early on Wednesday morning to form a global network of the country's second-generation relay satellites. A Long March 3B carrier rocket blasted of ... more 
Ariane 6 central core transferred to mobile gantryKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 13, 2022 The Ariane 6 launch pad at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana now hosts the first example of ESA's new heavy-lift rocket. This Ariane 6 combined tests model will be used to validate the entire laun ... more 
Shenzhou-14 Taikonauts conduct in-orbit science experiments, prepare for space walksBeijing (XNA) Jul 08, 2022 Scientific endeavors aboard China's space station are expected to bear fruits, as the Shenzhou-14 taikonauts have devoted more time to microgravity experiments on the orbiting core module Tianhe sin ... more |
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Rocket Lab Introduces Responsive Space ProgramLong Beach CA (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced it is introducing a Responsive Space Program designed to on-ramp commercial and government satellite operators to the Company's 24/7 rapid call-up l ... more 
Australia's space future blasts off from NhulunbuySydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 Australia has taken another step towards becoming a serious contributor to the global space economy with the launch of a NASA sounding rocket from the Arnhem Space Center at Nhulunbuy in the Norther ... more 
Construction of China's first commercial spacecraft launch site starts in HainanHaikou (XNA) Jul 07, 2022 Construction of China's first commercial spacecraft launch site started Wednesday in Wenchang City, south China's island province of Hainan. As a major project of the Hainan free trade port co ... more 
Wheels on China's Zhurong rover keep stable with novel materialBeijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2022 New material has been maintaining high stability of the rover Zhurong on China's Tianwen-1 probe, according to the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The researche ... more |
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Elon Musk had twins with company exec last year: reportWashington (AFP) July 7, 2022 Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk had twins last year with an executive at one of his companies, online outlet Insider reported Wednesday, citing Texas court documents. ... more 
SpaceX ties record for reused Falcon 9 rocket on 50th Starlink launchWashington DC (UPI) Jul 7, 2021 SpaceX launched one of its Falcon 9 rockets for the 13th time Thursday morning, tying a company record for the reusable rocket. ... more 
Commercial space launch site begins constructionBeijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2022 China's first space launch site dedicated to commercial missions started construction in Wenchang, a coastal city in Hainan province, on Wednesday, according to the provincial government. The ... more
Musk says doing 'best' to boost birth ratesNew York (AFP) July 7, 2022 Elon Musk said Thursday that he was helping combat falling birth rates after it was reported that he had twins last year with an executive at one of his companies. ... more 
Boeing subsidiary to build two new Virgin Galactic mothershipsWashington DC (UPI) Jul 6, 2021 Virgin Galactic confirmed Wednesday it is retaining Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to build two next generation motherships, the company announced on Wednesday. ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Jul 13, 2022 
New Curtin-led research has pinpointed the exact home of the oldest and most famous Martian meteorite for the first time ever, offering critical geological clues about the earliest origins of Mars.
Using a multidisciplinary approach involving a machine learning algorithm, the new research - published in Nature Communications - identified the particular crater on Mars that ejected the so-ca ... more |
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 Maxwell AFB AL (The Conversation) Jul 10, 2022 
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson recently expressed concerns over China's aims in space, and in particular, that China would, in some way, claim ownership over the Moon and stop other countries from exploring it. In an interview with a German newspaper, Nelson cautioned, "We must be very concerned that China is landing on the Moon and saying: 'It's ours now and you stay out.'" China immediately de ... more |
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 Minneapolis MN (SPX) Jun 23, 2022 
A new citizen science project, led by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities with support from NASA, allows volunteers to play an important role in helping scientists learn more about the atmosphere on Jupiter. Citizen scientists can help astrophysicists categorize tens of thousands of stunning images taken from the Juno spacecraft with just a web browser.
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 
New climate models have found that the amount and location of land on a planet's surface can significantly impact its habitability. Astronomers have identified substantial differences in surface temperature, sea ice and water vapour across a planet's surface for different land configurations. The work will be presented on Monday 11 July at the National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2022) by Evelyn Macd ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 
The challenges of the hypersonic era in military operations are immense. But so are the abilities of innovators who work together to solve them.
That was the message when Wes Kremer, president of Raytheon Missiles and Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business, spoke to investors about how teams are working across the company to solve the myriad science and engineering problems that come wi ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 13, 2022 
China launched a Tianlian II-series satellite early on Wednesday morning to form a global network of the country's second-generation relay satellites.
A Long March 3B carrier rocket blasted off at 12:29 am from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China's Sichuan province and then placed the Tianlian II-03 satellite into a geostationary orbit, according to China Aerospace Sc ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 13, 2022 
Like corn kernels popping in a frying pan, tiny grains of dust may hop around on the surface of asteroids, according to a new study from physicists at CU Boulder.
That popcorn-like effect may even help to tidy up smaller asteroids, causing them to lose dust and look rough and craggy from space.
The researchers published their results July 11 in the journal Nature Astronomy. Their fin ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) recently completed the preliminary design review for a high-energy laser prototype that will feature an architecture scalable to more than a megawatt for the U.S. Department of Defense. The review establishes the company's technical approach for precise, low-cost, speed-of-light technology for military operations.
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 Ottawa (AFP) June 20, 2022  Canada's defense minister announced upgrades to Arctic air and missile defenses with the United States on Monday, citing growing threats from Russia and new technologies such as hypersonic missiles.
At a news conference at Canada's largest air base in Trenton, Ontario, Minister Anita Anand outlined Can$4.9 billion (US$3.8 billion) in military spending over the next six years.
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jun 22, 2022 
A new SwRI study describes how unique populations of craters on two of Saturn's moons could help indicate the satellites' age and the conditions of their formation. Using data from NASA's Cassini mission, SwRI postdoctoral researcher Dr. Sierra Ferguson surveyed elliptical craters on Saturn's moons Tethys and Dione for this study, which was co-authored by SwRI Principal Scientist Dr. Alyssa Rhod ... more |
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 Innsbruck, Austria (SPX) Jun 30, 2022 
Levitated nanoparticles are promising tools for sensing ultra-weak forces of biological, chemical or mechanical origin and even for testing the foundations of quantum physics. However, such applications require precise position measurement. Researchers at the Department of Experimental Physics of the University of Innsbruck, Austria, have now demonstrated a new technique that boosts the efficien ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 
Researchers at ETH Zurich have redetermined the gravitational constant G using a new measurement technique. Although there is still a large degree of uncertainty regarding this value, the new method offers great potential for testing one of the most fundamental laws of nature.
The gravitational constant G determines the strength of gravity - the force that makes apples fall to the ground o ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 
Sometime around 400 million years after the birth of our universe, the first stars began to form. The universe's so-called dark ages came to an end and a new light-filled era began. More and more galaxies began to take shape and served as factories for churning out new stars, a process that reached a peak about 4 billion years after the Big Bang.
Luckily for astronomers, this bygone era ca ... more |
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 Bangalore, India (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 
Where are those flowers and how far away are they? This is the crux of the 'waggle dance' performed by honeybees to alert others to the location of nectar-rich flowers. A new study in Frontiers in Robotics and AI has taken inspiration from this technique to devise a way for robots to communicate. The first robot traces a shape on the floor, and the shape's orientation and the time it takes to tr ... more |
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 Siauliai, Lithuania (AFP) July 6, 2022 
Lithuania on Wednesday showed off a crowdfunded Turkish-made military drone that it plans to send to Ukraine to help the war-torn country fight Russia's invasion.
"This weapon... will be delivered to Ukraine immediately," Lithuanian Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas told reporters at the Baltic state's northern air base in Siauliai.
People in the NATO member country raised 5.9 million ... more |
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