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  Newquay UK (UPI) Dec 6, 2021 A tentative date has been set for Britain's first space launch. A launch window for Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne is scheduled to open Dec. 14, NASA's spaceflight editor Chris Bergin tweeted Tuesday. Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne system has been used on five prior occasions but those missions departed from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. The upcoming LauncherOne mission will take off from Spaceport Cornwall at Cornwall Airport Newquay in England aboard a modified Boeing 747 ... read more |
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China astronauts return from Tiangong space stationBeijing (AFP) Dec 4, 2022 Three Chinese astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sunday after six months aboard the Tiangong space station, state media quoted the country's space agency as saying, with their mission deemed a "complete success." ... more 
Tiangong space station open to worldBeijing (XNA) Dec 01, 2022 Over the past 19 years, from China's first manned space mission Shenzhou V to the latest Shenzhou XV launch, the nation's space endeavors have progressed from a single-astronaut mission to the long- ... more 
China ready to implement moon landing projectJiuquan, China (XNA) Dec 01, 2022 China has made breakthroughs in the development of the new-generation crewed spaceship, new-generation manned carrier rocket, moon lander, and moon landing spacesuit, stepping closer to its moon lan ... more 
Pulsar Fusion funded by the UK Govt to construct a nuclear based space engineLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 Pulsar Fusion, a UK rocket company that has seen its advanced space engines tested in the UK and Switzerland earlier this year, has been awarded funding from the UK Space Agency to develop 'Integrat ... more |
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China's six astronauts in two missions make historic gathering in spaceBeijing (XNA) Dec 01, 2022 The six Chinese astronauts from the Shenzhou XIV and Shenzhou XV missions marked a historic moment on Wednesday as they met inside the country's Tiangong space station. It was the first time t ... more 
Engineer awarded $4.5M to develop AI-powered hypersonic guidance and navigation systemsTucson AZ (SPX) Dec 06, 2022 Roberto Furfaro, a University of Arizona professor of systems and industrial engineering, has been awarded $4.5 million to lead the development of improved guidance, navigation and control systems f ... more 
China's Shenzhou-14 astronauts return safely, accomplishing many "firsts"Beijing (XNA) Dec 06, 2022 Three Chinese astronauts on board the Shenzhou-14 manned spaceship returned to Earth safely on Sunday, after accomplishing many "firsts" during their six-month space station mission. Shenzhou- ... more 
China's deep space exploration laboratory eyes top talents worldwideBeijing (XNA) Dec 06, 2022 China's deep space exploration laboratory, which started operation in June this year, is recruiting top talents from around the world, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on ... more |
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Arianespace Ariane 6 to launch Intelsat satellitesToulouse, France (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 Arianespace signed a contract with longtime customer Intelsat to launch two satellite payloads, IS-41 and IS-44, using the heavy-lift Ariane 64 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana in 2025. This ... more 
SpaceX again postpones Japanese moon lander launchWashington (AFP) Dec 1, 2022 SpaceX on Wednesday postponed the launch of the world's first private lander to the Moon, a mission undertaken by Japanese firm ispace. ... more 
Arianespace supporting the European Union's Copernicus program with Vega CParis (ESA) Dec 01, 2022 On November 29, 2022, Arianespace announced having signed with the European Commission (Directorate General for Defence, Industry and Space), a contract for the procurement of five launch services w ... more 
China latest astronaut crew docks at the Tiangong Space StationBeijing (AFP) Nov 30, 2022 China on Tuesday launched the Shenzhou-15 spacecraft carrying three astronauts to its space station, where they will complete the country's first-ever crew handover in orbit, state news agency Xinhua reported. ... more |
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China to provide training for foreign astronautsBeijing (XNA) Nov 29, 2022 The China Manned Space Agency is doing preparatory work for the training of foreign astronauts to fly aboard the nation's Tiangong space station, said Ji Qiming, assistant director of the agency. ... more 
China recruits new reserve astronauts, open to those from Hong Kong, MacaoJiuquan, China (XNA) Nov 29, 2022 China is projected to recruit 12 to 14 new reserve astronauts, and the selection, which started in September, is open, for the first time, to payload experts from Hong Kong and Macao, according to t ... more 
China to launch Shenzhou XV on TuesdayBeijing (XNA) Nov 29, 2022 China will launch the three astronauts of the Shenzhou XV mission to the space station on Tuesday night, according to a program official. Ji Qiming, assistant director of the China Manned Spac ... more 
China launches 3 astronauts to Tiangong space stationWashington DC (UPI) Nov 29, 2021 China on Tuesday launched its six-month Shenzhou 15 mission, carrying three astronauts to the country's newly completed space station. ... more 
China successfully reignites rocket engineBeijing (XNA) Nov 29, 2022 China's rocket scientists and engineers have been working on creating reusable rockets for several years and have recently made substantial progress. The latest advance was the successful re-ignitio ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 
When NASA's Viking 1 lander touched down on the surface of Mars nearly 50 years ago, its cameras imaged a boulder-strewn surface of elusive origin. New research led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Alexis Rodriguez shows the landing site may be on the margins of a megatsunami deposit, formed when a 3-kilometer asteroid impacted a northern Martian ocean about 3.4 billion years ago. ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 05, 2022 
Today at 17:43 CET (16:43 GMT) the European Service Module for Orion fired its main engine at less than 127 km from the Moon's surface to put the Artemis spacecraft on a collision course with Earth.
Over the last 20 days in space, Orion has ventured farther from Earth than any human-rated spacecraft ever before, and the Artemis spacecraft is now truly on its way home.
The return powe ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 
New Horizons remains healthy from its position deep in the Kuiper Belt, even as it speeds farther from the Earth and Sun by about 300 million miles per year! The spacecraft, which began its second extended mission on Oct. 1, also continues its record-length hibernation that began June 1 and ends March 1.
Hibernation, which takes place in spacecraft "spin mode," saves fuel and wear and tear ... more |
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 Vanderbijlpark, South Africa (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 
Breakthrough Listen has begun observations using a powerful new instrument deployed to the MeerKAT radio telescope in the remote Karoo region of South Africa. The new search for technosignatures - indicators of technology developed by extraterrestrial intelligence - expands the number of targets searched by a factor of 1,000.
The astronomers and engineers on the Breakthrough Listen team ha ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 
Pulsar Fusion, a UK rocket company that has seen its advanced space engines tested in the UK and Switzerland earlier this year, has been awarded funding from the UK Space Agency to develop 'Integrated nuclear fission-based power systems for electric propulsion'
The project will be supported by Southampton and Cambridge Universities and Nuclear AMRC.
Pulsar Fusion, based in Bletchley, Buck ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 01, 2022  The six Chinese astronauts from the Shenzhou XIV and Shenzhou XV missions marked a historic moment on Wednesday as they met inside the country's Tiangong space station.
It was the first time that six Chinese were in a space station at the same time and the first in-orbit gathering of two Chinese crews.
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 
A Martian megatsunami may have been caused by an asteroid collision similar to the Chicxulub impact - which contributed to the mass extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs on Earth 66 million years ago - in a shallow ocean region, according to a study published in Scientific Reports.
Previous research has proposed that an asteroid or comet impact within an ocean in the Martian northern lowla ... more |
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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Dec 06, 2022 
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Ltd., of Israel, have signed a teaming agreement that includes jointly developing, testing and manufacturing High Energy Laser Weapon Systems (HELWS) in the U.S. and Israel. The future joint-development will be based on the assets that have been developed independently by RAFAEL and the Ministry of Defense's Directorate of Defense ... more |
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 Warsaw (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 
Poland's Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak on Tuesday said the EU member would accept Patriot missiles from Germany after earlier calling on Berlin to send them to Ukraine instead.
"After talking to the German defence minister, it is with disappointment that I have accepted the decision to refuse support for Ukraine," Blaszczak said on Twitter.
"Deploying the Patriots in western Ukraine ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has turned its infrared cameras on Saturn's moon Titan, giving astronomers another eye on the largest and one of the most unusual moons in the solar system.
The only satellite with a dense atmosphere, it's also the only world besides Earth that has standing bodies of liquid on its surface, including rivers, lakes and seas - though the liquid is thought ... more |
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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 (SPX) Nov 18, 2022 
The gauge/gravity duality states that gravity and quantum spacetime emerge from a quantum gauge theory, which lives at the boundary between both theories. Over the past 25 years, this duality, with concrete instances uncovered by string theory, has revolutionised our understanding of systems ranging from black holes, to matter made up of strongly interacting quantum particles featuring intricate ... more |
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 Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Dec 06, 2022 
How fast do electrons inside a molecule move? Well, it is so fast that it takes them just few attoseconds (1 as = 10-18 s or one billionth of billionth of a second) to jump from one atom to another. Blink and you missed it - millions of billions of times. So measuring such ultrafast processes is a daunting task.
Scientists at the Australian Attosecond Science Facility and the Centre for Qu ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 
When it comes to making real-time decisions about unfamiliar data - say, choosing a path to hike up a mountain you've never scaled before - existing artificial intelligence and machine learning tech doesn't come close to measuring up to human skill. That's why NASA scientist John Moisan is developing an AI "eye."
Moisan, an oceanographer at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility near Chincoteague, ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) Dec 5, 2022 
Canadian authorities are investigating how Canadian-made parts made it into Iranian drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday.
Local media reported that European think-tank Statewatch and authorities in Kyiv found antenna components from Ottawa-based Tallysman Wireless - among 30 parts produced by Western companies - in Iranian-made Shahed 136 drone ... more |
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