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Northrop Grumman's rocket development reaches new heights![]() Falls Church VA (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 When you think of a rocket launch, you probably imagine a glistening white cylinder emerging from a cloud of smoke and fire making its way into outer space. But while the sight of a launch may only last a few minutes, not many see the dedication, long hours and incredible team effort that made it all possible. "It's not the hardware or the software-it's the people on the launch vehicle team and their expertise that are the keys to our continued success," said Mark Ogren, director of strategy and t ... read more |
Rocket Lab Prepares to Launch Synspective Satellite on 30th Electron LaunchLong Beach CA (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) is preparing to launch its 30th Electron rocket and 150th satellite to space during a dedicated mission for Japanese Earth-imaging company Synspective on Wednesda ... more
Uncrewed Blue Origin rocket crashes in setback for space tourismWashington (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 An uncrewed Blue Origin rocket carrying research payloads crashed shortly after liftoff from Texas on Monday, but the capsule carrying experiments escaped and floated safely back to Earth. ... more
Blue Origin rocket suffers booster failure, prompting emergency abort systemWashington DC (UPI) Sep 12, 2021 Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket suffered a booster failure after lifting off Monday morning, causing an emergency abort system to separate the capsule from the booster. ... more
SpaceX launches 34 more Starlink satellites, AST SpaceMobile satelliteWashington DC (UPI) Sep 10, 2021 Elon Musk's SpaceX launched 34 more Starlink satellites with AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 satellite to low-Earth orbit on Saturday. ... more |
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Why do we always need to wait for launch windows to get a rocket to spaceMelbourne, Australia (The Conversation) Sep 09, 2022 Earlier this week, the Artemis I Moon mission was scrubbed again; now we have to wait for a new launch window. Just 40 minutes before the Space Launch System rocket was set to take off from Ke ... more
Ariane 5 launches EUTELSAT KONNECT VHTS satelliteKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Sep 08, 2022 On Wednesday, September 7th, 2022 at 6:45 pm local time, an Ariane 5 launcher, operated by Arianespace, successfully lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana (South America), carr ... more
Space launch from Australia to use satellite tracking from InmarsatGold Coast, Australia (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications has signed an agreement with Gilmour Space Technologies to support space launches from Australia using Inmarsat's InRange system ... more
Uncrewed Blue Origin rocket crashes, capsule recoveredWashington (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 An uncrewed Blue Origin rocket carrying research payloads crashed shortly after liftoff on Monday, but the capsule carrying experiments escaped and floated safely back to Earth, Jeff Bezos' space company said. ... more |
Teams continue to review options for next Artemis I launch attemptKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Sep 07, 2022 After standing down on Saturday's Artemis I launch attempt when engineers could not overcome a hydrogen leak in a quick disconnect, an interface between the liquid hydrogen fuel feed line and the Sp ... more
ISRO demonstrates new technology with Inflatable Aerodynamic DeceleratorNew Delhi, India (SPX) Sep 06, 2022 An IAD, designed and developed by VSSC, has been successfully test flown in a Rohini sounding rocket from TERLS, Thumba at 12.20 pm Saturday Sep 3. The IAD was initially folded and kept inside the p ... more
China launches new test satellites via Kuaizhou 1A carrier rocketJiuquan (XNA) Sep 06, 2022 China sent two new test satellites into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China on Tuesday. The CentiSpace 1-S3/S4 test satellites were launched by a Kuaizhou 1A carr ... more
Duo undertake 7-hour spacewalkBeijing (XNA) Sep 05, 2022 Chinese astronauts on the Shenzhou XIV mission have carried out their first spacewalk, also known as an extravehicular activity, which finished early on Friday morning, according to the China Manned ... more |
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Rocket to carry Mengtian space lab module arrives at launch siteWenchang, China(XNA) Sep 05, 2022 A Long March-5B Y4 rocket, tasked with sending China's space station lab module Mengtian into orbit, has been transported to the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern province of Hainan, t ... more
NASA unsure next Moon rocket launch attempt possible this monthKennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) Sept 4, 2022 After scrapping a second attempt to get its new 30-story lunar rocket off the ground due to a fuel leak, NASA officials said Saturday it may not be possible to try again this month. ... more
NASA says weather, SLS rocket look good for Artemis I launch on SaturdayWashington DC (UPI) Sep 2, 2021 NASA says it will try again on Saturday to send its giant moon rocket and a space capsule to the moon and back - the first Artemis mission - after multiple problems that spoiled the first attempt were fixed. ... more
NASA Moon rocket ready for second attempt at liftoffKennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) Sept 3, 2022 After technical issues halted its first launch attempt, NASA will try again on Saturday to get its new 30-story rocket off the ground and send its unmanned test capsule towards the Moon. ... more
China's Shenzhou-14 astronauts carry out spacewalkBeijing (AFP) Sept 2, 2022 Two astronauts on board China's Tiangong space station successfully completed a six-hour spacewalk Friday, the national human spaceflight agency said. ... more |
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Glaciers flowed on ancient Mars, but slowly Nantes, France (SPX) Sep 08, 2022
The weight and grinding movement of glaciers has carved distinctive valleys and fjords into Earth's surface. Because Mars lacks similar landscapes, researchers believed ancient ice masses on the Red Planet must have been frozen firmly to the ground. New research suggests they were not stuck in place, but just moved very slowly.
Motion is part of the definition of a glacier. On Earth, meltw ... more |
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NASA taps Axiom Space for first Artemis lunar spacesuits Houston TX (SPX) Sep 08, 2022
NASA has selected Axiom Space to deliver a moonwalking system for the Artemis III mission, which will land Americans on the surface of the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. This award - the first one under a competitive spacesuits contract - is for a task order to develop a next generation Artemis spacesuit and supporting systems, and to demonstrate their use on the lunar surface during ... more |
NASA's Juno Mission Reveals Jupiter's Complex Colors San Antonio TX (SPX) Sep 02, 2022
NASA's Juno spacecraft observed the complex colors and structure of Jupiter's clouds as it completed its 43rd close flyby of the giant planet on July 5, 2022.
Citizen scientist Bjorn Jonsson created these two images using raw data from the JunoCam instrument aboard the spacecraft. At the time the raw image was taken, Juno was about 3,300 miles (5,300 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops, ... more |
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Two new rocky worlds around an ultra-cool star Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 08, 2022
An international research team, with the participation of the University of Bern and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS, discovered two "super-Earth" exoplanets. One is located at just the right distance from its star to potentially hold liquid water on its surface.
Most of the planets that have been discovered around other stars - also known as exoplanets - are b ... more |
SpaceX launches 34 more Starlink satellites, AST SpaceMobile satellite Washington DC (UPI) Sep 10, 2021
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched 34 more Starlink satellites with AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 satellite to low-Earth orbit on Saturday.
The satellites were launched by a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida after targeting a 9:20 p.m. liftoff due to weather.
The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas ... more |
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Rocket to carry Mengtian space lab module arrives at launch site Wenchang, China(XNA) Sep 05, 2022
A Long March-5B Y4 rocket, tasked with sending China's space station lab module Mengtian into orbit, has been transported to the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern province of Hainan, the China Manned Space Agency said Saturday.
The rocket will undergo final assembly and testing together with the Mengtian lab module, which arrived earlier.
Preparations for the launch mis ... more |
DART sets sights on asteroid target Washington DC (SPX) Sep 08, 2022
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft recently got its first look at Didymos, the double-asteroid system that includes its target, Dimorphos. On Sept. 26, DART will intentionally crash into Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet of Didymos. While the asteroid poses no threat to Earth, this is the world's first test of the kinetic impact technique, using a spacecraft to deflect an as ... more |
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Lockheed Martin delivers integrated multi-mission laser weapon system to US Navy San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2022
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered to the U.S. Navy a 60+ kW-class high energy laser with integrated optical-dazzler and surveillance (HELIOS), the first tactical laser weapon system to be integrated into existing ships and provide directed energy capability to the fleet.
Integrated and scalable by design, the multi-mission HELIOS system will provide tactically relevant laser weapon sys ... more |
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 |
'Naturally insulating' material emits pulses of superfluorescent light at room temperature Raleigh NC (SPX) Sep 06, 2022
Researchers looking to synthesize a brighter and more stable nanoparticle for optical applications found that their creation instead exhibited a more surprising property: bursts of superfluorescence that occurred at both room temperature and regular intervals. The work could lead to the development of faster microchips, neurosensors, or materials for use in quantum computing applications, as wel ... more |
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Back in Bordeaux with the A310 ZERO G Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 07, 2022
The 39th parabolic flight campaign of the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is taking place in Bordeaux for the first time in two years, from 29 August to 8 September 2022.
"We're delighted to be returning to the 'old home' of DLR parabolic flights after four campaigns that took place from the airport in Paderborn due to the ... more |
Strength of results consistency and agreement Torun, Poland (SPX) Sep 06, 2022
Researchers from the Institute of Physics at the Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) in Torun (Poland): dr Katarzyna Bielska, dr habil. Agata Cygan, NCU Prof., Prof. dr habil. Roman Ciurylo and Prof. dr habil. Daniel Lisak participated in the research into the intensities of the overtone lines. Teams from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA and the Physikalisch-Technis ... more |
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Solar-powered cyborg cockroaches could rescue humans, study says Washington DC (UPI) Sep 6, 2021
Scientists in Japan are tapping into solar power to harness cockroaches and their ability to access hard-to-reach areas for environmental monitoring, as well as search-and-rescue in the event of a natural disaster, according to a new study.
The cyborg cockroach study, published Monday in the journal npc Flexible Electronics, outlines how researchers at Riken research institute were able ... more |
GMV wins the contract for the EURODRONE flight control Computer Madrid, Spain (SPX) Sep 08, 2022
The technology multinational GMV has been awarded a contract for the design, development, production, and logistic support of the Ground Flight Control Computer (GFCC) for the Eurodrone Programme, thus providing AIRBUS with a reliable safety critical computer to command and control the Eurodrone Unmanned Aerial System (UAS).
The Eurodrone Programme is undoubtedly the most challenging coope ... more |
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