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August 10, 2022
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CST signs agreement with Gilmour Space for the launch of 50kg to LEO



Logan UT (SPX) Aug 10, 2022
Commercial Space Technologies Ltd (CST) has signed an agreement with Australian launch provider, Gilmour Space Technologies, to offer a launch capacity of up to 50 kilograms on their Eris Block 1 vehicle. The combination of Gilmour Space's orbital launch services and full CST oversight will offer an affordable launch solution to satellite customers needing access to custom low earth orbits. Depending on your requirements, the following services would be included: Alan Webb, Managing Director ... read more

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Wentian's small mechanical arm completes in-orbit tests
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 ... more
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SpaceX debris discovered in Australian sheep paddock
Sydney (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 space
Washington (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
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Virgin Galactic secures land for new astronaut campus and training facility
Tustin 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
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Northrop Grumman teams with Firefly to further develop Antares launcher
Chandler 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
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J-Space partners with Virgin Orbit to bring sovereign air-launch capability to South Korea
Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Aug 10, 2022
Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB), a leading launch provider, announced it has signed an agreement with South Korean investment group J-Space. The agreement will allow the companies to assess candidate sp ... more
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Private rocket company completes third orbital mission
Beijing (XNA) Aug 10, 2022
Galactic Energy, a carrier rocket maker in Beijing, carried out the third flight of its Ceres 1 rocket on Tuesday, becoming the first private Chinese company with a commercially ready launch vehicle ... more
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The space economy gets major tech advancement with hybrid mobility packages
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 tech ... more
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Reusable experimental spacecraft put into orbit
Beijing (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
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SpaceX rocket fueled for launch this week to send Korean mission to moon
Washington 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
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CAA launches consultation on UK space launch from Cornwall
London, 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 control
Beijing (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

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China launches six new satellites
Jiuquan (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
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NASA prepares for Space Launch System rocket services contract
Washington 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
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China's space tracking ship Yuanwang-3 back from missions
Beijing (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 descent
Washington 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
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New Chinese rocket makes debut flight
Beijing, 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
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Chinese astronauts set up new lab on space station
Beijing (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
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China successfully launches lab to Tiangong space station
Washington 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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Marine Management Organisation opens consultation on Virgin Orbit launch site
London, UK (SPX) Jul 25, 2022
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is consulting on the determination of a marine licence application from Virgin Orbit, proposing to launch a satellite from Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay. ... more
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China's space station expanding nation technology base
Beijing (XNA) Jul 25, 2022
The Wentian space lab will help to greatly advance scientific research and the development of technology in China, providing a unique platform for experiments that are difficult or impossible to be ... more
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Northrop Grumman and NASA test SLS booster
Promontory UT (SPX) Jul 22, 2022
Northrop Grumman and NASA have conducted a full-scale static fire of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket motor, known as Flight Support Booster-2. The five-segment solid rocket booster is the wo ... more
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NASA's Perseverance cores 12th sample, team assessing rover's coring bit
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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Artemis 1 becomes cultural, educational time capsule for trip around moon
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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+ South Korea's first lunar orbiter launched by SpaceX
+ Additional Artemis I test objectives to provide added confidence in capabilities
+ ESA names first 'astronaut' to fly on the Artemis I lunar mission
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Why Jupiter doesn't have rings like Saturn
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. "If Jupiter did ... more
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A cosmic tango points to a violent and chaotic past for distant exoplanet
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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+ Super-earth skimming habitable zone of red dwarf
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Virgin Galactic secures land for new astronaut campus and training facility
Tustin 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 headquarters. The land, located in Sierra County, will be home to a new, first of its kind astronaut campus, for exclusive use by Virgin Galactic Future Astronauts and up to three of their guests ... more
+ SpaceX debris discovered in Australian sheep paddock
+ Blue Origin sends first Egyptian and Portuguese nationals to space
+ CST signs agreement with Gilmour Space for the launch of 50kg to LEO
+ J-Space partners with Virgin Orbit to bring sovereign air-launch capability to South Korea
+ The space economy gets major tech advancement with hybrid mobility packages
+ Private rocket company completes third orbital mission
+ Northrop Grumman teams with Firefly to further develop Antares launcher




Wentian's small mechanical arm completes in-orbit tests
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. ... more
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+ China launches six new satellites
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+ Researchers: Chinese rocket stage to hit Earth in uncontrolled descent
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+ China releases images of Martian satellite
NASA team troubleshoots asteroid-bound Lucy across the solar system
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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Dragonfire proving trials underway
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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Lockheed Martin's next gen interceptor achieves communications testing milestone
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 09, 2022
Lockheed Martin recently validated prototype communications radio technology for the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) during a recent test milestone. The NGI's mission is to protect the U.S. homeland from increasing and evolving intercontinental ballistic missile threats. Critically, the interceptor and its components must be able to receive and share data from the ground and throughout t ... more
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Lowell Observatory points telescopes at Saturn during closest annual approach
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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+ Scientists model landscape formation on Titan, revealing an Earth-like alien world
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Towards stable, sustained Raman imaging of large samples at the nanoscale
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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Lehigh physicists to probe gravity's secrets at the smallest scales
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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No trace of dark matter halos
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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Researchers create the first artificial vision system for both land and water
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 05, 2022
Giving our hardware sight has empowered a host of applications in self-driving cars, object detection, and crop monitoring. But unlike animals, synthetic vision systems can't simply evolve under natural habitats. Dynamic visual systems that can navigate both land and water, therefore, have yet to power our machines - leading researchers from MIT, the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology ( ... more
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Zawahiri death: did US use secret 'flying ginsu' missile?
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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