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  Burlington VT (SPX) Aug 09, 2022 With hybrid vehicle sales at an all-time high on Earth, Benchmark Space Systems has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation (AASC)'s electric propulsion technologies to help power hybrid spacecraft designed to ultimately run on in-space resources and repurposed space debris. Benchmark's turn-key hybrid chemical + electric propulsion systems will leverage the high thrust capabilities of its non-toxic chemical Halcyon HTP propulsion systems and the precision ... read more |
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Reusable experimental spacecraft put into orbitBeijing (XNA) Aug 08, 2022 China launched a Long March 2F carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China's Gobi Desert early on Friday morning, sending a reusable experimental spacecraft into orbit, ... more 
Northrop Grumman teams with Firefly to further develop Antares launcherChandler AZ (SPX) Aug 09, 2022 Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and Firefly Aerospace have joined forces to provide an American-built first-stage upgrade for the Antares rocket and a new medium launch vehicle to serve com ... more 
Wentian's small mechanical arm completes in-orbit testsBeijing (XNA) Aug 08, 2022 The small mechanical arm mounted with Wentian, the first lab module of China's space station, has successfully completed in-orbit tests, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). With ... more 
SpaceX debris discovered in Australian sheep paddockSydney (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 A charred chunk of space junk found jutting from a paddock by an Australian sheep farmer was part of one of Elon Musk's SpaceX missions, authorities confirmed Thursday. ... more |
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Blue Origin sends first Egyptian and Portuguese nationals to spaceWashington (AFP) Aug 5, 2022 Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin on Thursday launched six people to space, including the first from Egypt and Portugal, on the company's sixth crewed flight. ... more 
Virgin Galactic secures land for new astronaut campus and training facilityTustin CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) has secured land to move forward with a new astronaut campus and training facility in the State of New Mexico, near the Company's commercial operations he ... more 
SpaceX rocket fueled for launch this week to send Korean mission to moonWashington DC (UPI) Aug 1, 2021 South Korea and SpaceX are fueled and ready to send a spacecraft on a long journey this week that will ultimately take it around the moon. ... more 
CAA launches consultation on UK space launch from CornwallLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 28, 2022 The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has launched a consultation for the public and businesses to have their say on the assessment of environmental effects made by both Virgin Orbit and Spaceport C ... more |
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China's Tianzhou-3 cargo craft re-enters atmosphere under controlBeijing (XNA) Jul 28, 2022 China's Tianzhou-3 cargo craft re-entered the atmosphere in a controlled manner at 11:31 a.m. (Beijing Time) Wednesday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). Most of the spacecraf ... more 
China launches six new satellitesJiuquan (XNA) Jul 28, 2022 China on Wednesday sent six new satellites into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The satellites, including a new space technology test satellite and a test sa ... more 
NASA prepares for Space Launch System rocket services contractWashington DC (SPX) Jul 27, 2022 As NASA prepares for the first integrated flight test of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft to the Moon this summer as part of Artemis, the agency is moving toward a servi ... more 
China's space tracking ship Yuanwang-3 back from missionsBeijing (XNA) Jul 27, 2022 China's space tracking ship Yuanwang-3 returned to its homeport on Monday morning after completing three maritime monitoring missions. During the 60-day voyage, the vessel has sailed more than ... more |
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Researchers: Chinese rocket stage to hit Earth in uncontrolled descentWashington DC (UPI) Jul 27, 2021 A hunk of Chinese space rocket junk weighing roughly 25 tons will fall back to Earth on Sunday, according to researchers at the Aerospace Corp.'s Center for Orbital Re-entry and Debris Studies. ... more 
New Chinese rocket makes debut flightBeijing, China (SPX) Jul 27, 2022 The ZK 1A, a new model of carrier rocket, conducted its debut flight at noon on Wednesday at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, becoming the country's largest and most powerf ... more 
China releases images of Martian satelliteBeijing (XNA) Jul 26, 2022 China's Tianwen-1 probe beamed back high-resolution images of Mars' natural satellite Phobos on Saturday, marking the second anniversary of the launch. Phobos and Deimos are two natural satell ... more 
Chinese astronauts set up new lab on space stationBeijing (AFP) July 25, 2022 Astronauts entered the new lab module of China's space station for the first time Monday, in a major step towards completing the orbital outpost by the end of the year. ... more 
China successfully launches lab to Tiangong space stationWashington DC (UPI) Jul 25, 2021 China has successfully launched a laboratory to its space station orbiting Earth, the Asian nation's space agency said. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 08, 2022 
Images and data downlinked Thursday from Perseverance show that we've successfully cored, sealed, and stored our 12th sample of the mission. As the team always does, images of several sample collection system components were taken after completion of the coring activity.
In those images, two small pieces of debris were visible - a small object on the coring bit (stored in the bit carousel) ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 
When NASA's Orion spacecraft travels beyond the Moon during Artemis I, boosted by the Space Launch System rocket on its maiden voyage, the spacecraft will carry a host of mementos for educational engagement and posterity in the Official Flight Kit.
NASA spacecraft, both crewed and uncrewed, have carried mementos from Earth since the 1960s. NASA's Voyager probe carried with it a gold record ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2022 
Because it's bigger, Jupiter ought to have larger, more spectacular rings than Saturn has. But new UC Riverside research shows Jupiter's massive moons prevent that vision from lighting up the night sky.
"It's long bothered me why Jupiter doesn't have even more amazing rings that would put Saturn's to shame," said UCR astrophysicist Stephen Kane, who led the research.
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 Toowoomba, Australia (SPX) Aug 08, 2022 
If you close your eyes and imagine a system of planets orbiting a distant star, what do you see?
For most people, such thoughts conjure up systems that mirror the Solar System: planets orbiting a host star on near-circular orbits - rocky planets closer in, and giants such as Jupiter in the icy depths.
However, the more we study the cosmos, the more we begin to realise planetary syste ... more |
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 Burlington VT (SPX) Aug 09, 2022 
With hybrid vehicle sales at an all-time high on Earth, Benchmark Space Systems has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation (AASC)'s electric propulsion technologies to help power hybrid spacecraft designed to ultimately run on in-space resources and repurposed space debris.
Benchmark's turn-key hybrid chemical + electric propulsion systems will lev ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 08, 2022 
The small mechanical arm mounted with Wentian, the first lab module of China's space station, has successfully completed in-orbit tests, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
With the support of the ground team, the small mechanical arm has completed a series of in-orbit function and performance tests. All indexes performed well, achieving expected results, said the CMSA.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 
Following the successful launch of NASA's Lucy spacecraft on Oct. 16, 2021, a group of engineers huddled around a long conference table in Titusville, Florida. Lucy was mere hours into its 12-year flight, but an unexpected challenge had surfaced for the first-ever Trojan asteroids mission.
Data indicated that one of Lucy's solar arrays powering the spacecraft's systems - designed to unfurl ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 21, 2022 
Dragonfire, the UK's Laser Directed Energy Programme (LDEW) led by MBDA, has successfully begun a series of trials to prove the accuracy and power of the novel laser weapon.
The first of these trials recently conducted by the Dragonfire consortium - a joint industry and UK MOD collaboration between MBDA, Leonardo, QinetiQ and Dstl - at low power proved the system can successfully track air ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 04, 2022  United Launch Alliance launched a missile warning satellite for the U.S. Space Force on Thursday morning. ULA launched SBIRS GEO-6, into orbit on its Atlas V rocket on time at 6:29am. The SBIRS GEO-6 is an enhanced satellite built by Lockheed Martin that uses the LM 2100 Combat Bus to provide "even greater resiliency and cyber-hardening against growing threats" ... more |
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 Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Aug 09, 2022 
Saturn will soon be at its biggest and brightest of the year, and Lowell Observatory is celebrating with nightly public telescope viewing. For the next several weeks, visitors will be able to gaze at this gas giant and see its dazzling system of rings, as well as some of its larger moons.
This Saturn viewing season centers around the planet's August 14 opposition. The term opposition indic ... more |
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 Tokushima, Japan (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 
Raman spectroscopy, an optical microscopy technique, is a non-destructive chemical analysis technique that provides rich molecular fingerprint information about chemical structure, phase, crystallinity, and molecular interactions. The technique relies on the interaction of light with chemical bonds within a material.
However, since light is a wave, optical microscopes are unable to resolve ... more |
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 Bethlehem PA (SPX) Aug 08, 2022 
There are four fundamental forces that describe every interaction in nature: electromagnetism, the weak force, the strong force and gravity.
While gravity, the mutual attraction that brings objects with mass together, may be the most familiar, there is still much to learn about its fundamental nature. Insights into gravity could lead to greater understanding of phenomena as abstract as the ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 09, 2022 
According to the standard model of cosmology, the vast majority of galaxies are surrounded by a halo of dark matter particles. This halo is invisible, but its mass exerts a strong gravitational pull on galaxies in the vicinity. A new study led by the University of Bonn and the University of Saint Andrews (Scotland) challenges this view of the Universe. The results suggest that the dwarf galaxies ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 
What's the difference between deep space and the deep sea? For a robot, the answer is: not much. Both environments are harsh and demanding, and, more importantly, both are far removed from the machine's operator.
That's why a team of roboticists from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston decided to apply their expertise to designing a shape-changing submersible robot that will cut costs f ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 2, 2022 
Notorious Al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by two missiles fired at his Kabul home - but pictures showed no sign of an explosion, and US officials say no one else was harmed.
That points to the use again by the United States of the macabre Hellfire R9X, a warhead-less missile believed equipped with six razor-like blades extending from the fuselage that slices through its target bu ... more |
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