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China's space exploration spurred by helping humanity![]() Beijing (XNA) Jan 04, 2023 All of China's activities in outer space are intended for the country's social, economic and technological development rather than for the "space race" with other nations, said insiders in China's space industry. "We carry out spaceflights to develop high technology and improve economic growth and people's living standard. We don't take part in the space race with any other countries because competition in this regard is meaningless," said Yang Yuguang, a senior space industry observer in Beijing ... read more |
Space contractors release China's launch plans for 2023Beijing (XNA) Jan 05, 2023 China plans to carry out around 60 launch missions this year, according to the country's major space contractors. China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation's leading space contra ... more
Sidus Space awarded Bechtel Cable Assembly contract for Mobile Launcher 2Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jan 04, 2023 Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service company focused on mission critical hardware manufacturing combined with commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection t ... more
Artemis I Orion spacecraft returns to Kennedy Space CenterHouston TX (SPX) Jan 01, 2023 After its 1.4-million-mile mission beyond the Moon and back, the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission arrived back at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Dec. 30. The capsule splashed down in the Paci ... more
China not in 'space race', industry insiders sayBeijing (XNA) Jan 04, 2023 All of China's activities in outer space are intended for the country's social, economic and technological development rather than for a "space race" with other nations, according to insiders in Chi ... more |
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SpaceX rocket carries 114 satellites in first launch of 2023Washington DC (UPI) Jan 03, 2023 SpaceX's first rocket launch of 2023 blasted off Tuesday morning, sending more than 100 satellites into space that will provide various services for agriculture, maritime monitoring and radio scruti ... more
China sets multiple records in space duringBeijing (XNA) Jan 01, 2023 For China's space sector, 2022 was a year of substantial progress and remarkable new records. China completed more than 60 space launches this year, a record high. Among these missions, 53 wer ... more
Latest launch marks 64th mission for China in 2022Beijing (XNA) Jan 01, 2023 China launched a Long March 3B carrier rocket on Thursday afternoon to transport an experimental satellite into space, completing the busiest year in terms of launch numbers for the country's space ... more
Last SpaceX launch of 2022 carries Israeli reconnoissance satellite into orbitWashington DC (UPI) Dec 30, 2021 An Israeli reconnaissance satellite was carried into orbit during the final SpaceX launch of the year. ... more |
Falcon 9 rocket launches 54 Starlink satellitesWashington DC (UPI) Dec 28, 2021 A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 54 Starlink Internet satellites launched from Florida on Wednesday as part of a mission to begin populating a new orbital shell authorized by federal regulators. ... more
Virgin Orbit' Launcherone Systems given green light for upcoming missionNewquay UK (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 The U.K. Civil Aviation Authority has issued launch and range control licenses to Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) to undertake the first satellite launch from UK soil. The granting of these licenses rep ... more
Inauguration of mainland Europe's first satellite launch complexEsrange, Sweden (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 On 13 January 2023, the Swedish head of state, King Carl XVI Gustaf, together with European and Swedish political dignitaries will visit Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden to cut the ribbon of ... more
UK space regulator issues Virgin Orbit licenses ahead of UK launchLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 The UK Civil Aviation Authority has issued the final remaining licences to Virgin Orbit ahead of a planned UK launch after requirements were met within 15 months. The licences were issued following ... more |
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Young ESA team prepare Ariane 6 passengerParis (ESA) Dec 22, 2022 ESA Young Graduate Trainee Vedant Paul inspecting the Young Professionals Satellite on a shaker table for vibration testing at the Agency's Mechanical Systems Laboratory. The two cameras seen at the ... more
Europe's access to space in jeopardy after Vega-C rocket failureKourou (AFP) Dec 21, 2022 Flights of the new European Vega-C rocket have been suspended pending an investigation into an overnight launch failure, French firm Arianespace said Wednesday, leaving Europe with few avenues into space. ... more
Vega-C rocket lost shortly after lift-off in French GuianaKourou (AFP) Dec 21, 2022 Europe's new Vega-C rocket was lost shortly after lift-off from French Guiana overnight with two satellites on board, in the latest blow to European space efforts. ... more
Musk says will step down as Twitter CEO once successor foundSan Francisco (AFP) Dec 21, 2022 Elon Musk said Tuesday he would resign as chief executive of Twitter once he finds a replacement, in apparent response to a poll he launched that suggested users wanted him to step down. ... more Nanjing, China (SPX) Dec 20, 2022 China's space-tracking ship, Yuanwang 3, set sail on Sunday for a new round of spacecraft monitoring missions. The ship, which is a second-generation vessel and responsible for monitoring high-, med ... more |
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A Scuff for the New Year: Sols 3699-3702 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 01, 2023
Curiosity has executed two out of the ten sols we planned on Wednesday to cover the rover's activities through the holidays, so the three sols we planned today (sols 3699-3671) won't actually execute on Mars for several days.
The activities we included in the remaining eight sols of Wednesday's ten-sol plan don't involve any driving or arm activities, so we picked up today's planning knowi ... more |
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Exotic clasts in Chang'e-5 samples indicate unexplored terrane on moon Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 01, 2023
The Chang'e-5 mission touched down in the Mons Rumker region of the northern Oceanus Procellarum of the Moon and returned 1.731 kg of lunar regolith.
Recognizing exotic clasts (i.e., non-Chang'e-5 locally derived materials) in the Chang'e-5 regolith could provide critical information about the lithological diversity and regolith gardening process in the young mare region of the Moon.
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PSI Io Input/Output observatory discovers large volcanic outburst on Jupiter's moon Io Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 04, 2023
A large volcanic outburst was discovered on Jupiter's moon Io by Jeff Morgenthaler of the Planetary Science Institute using PSI's Io Input/Output observatory (IoIO).
PSI Senior Scientist Morgenthaler has been using IoIO, located near Benson, Arizona to monitor volcanic activity on Io, since 2017. The observations show some sort of outburst nearly every year, but the largest yet was seen in ... more |
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Assembly begins on NASA's next tool to study exoplanets Washington DC (SPX) Dec 22, 2022
Scientists have discovered more than 5,000 exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. As technologies for studying these worlds continue to advance, researchers may someday be able to search for signs of life on exoplanets that are similar in size, composition, and temperature to Earth. But to do that they'll need new tools, like those being tested on the Coronagraph Instrument on NASA's N ... more |
Artemis I Orion spacecraft returns to Kennedy Space Center Houston TX (SPX) Jan 01, 2023
After its 1.4-million-mile mission beyond the Moon and back, the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission arrived back at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Dec. 30. The capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 11 and was transported by truck across the country from Naval Base San Diego in California to Kennedy's Multi Payload Processing Facility in Florida.
Now that Orion is back at ... more |
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Space contractors release China's launch plans for 2023 Beijing (XNA) Jan 05, 2023
China plans to carry out around 60 launch missions this year, according to the country's major space contractors.
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation's leading space contractor, has more than 50 launch missions planned in 2023, said its annual work report.
The report, presented by Zhang Zhongyang, general manager of the State-owned conglomerate, at the company's a ... more |
Construction Begins on NASA's Next-Generation Asteroid Hunter Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2022
A space telescope designed to search for the hardest-to-find asteroids and comets that stray into Earth's orbital neighborhood, NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor) recently passed a rigorous technical and programmatic review. Now the mission is transitioning into the final design-and-fabrication phase and establishing its technical, cost, and schedule baseline.
The mission sup ... more |
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Lockheed Martin and Rafael collaborate on high-energy laser system 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 |
France sends air defence missiles to Ukraine: Macron Amman (AFP) Dec 20, 2022 France has delivered more air defence missile systems and other weapons to Ukraine and will send more early next year, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview aired Tuesday.
"In recent days, France has sent Ukraine more arms, rocket launchers, Crotale (air defence batteries), equipment beyond what we had already done," Macron told France's TF1 and LCI television.
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Webb Space Telescope, Keck team up to study Saturn's moon Titan 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 |
New system designs nanomaterials that conduct heat in specific ways 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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Underground Italian lab searches for signals of quantum gravity Washington DC (SPX) Dec 20, 2022
For decades physicists have been hunting for a quantum-gravity model that would unify quantum physics, the laws that govern the very small, and gravity. One major obstacle has been the difficulty in testing the predictions of candidate models experimentally. But some of the models predict an effect that can be probed in the lab: a very small violation of a fundamental quantum tenet called the Pa ... more |
Physicists confirm effective wave growth theory in space Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Jan 06, 2023
A team from Nagoya University in Japan has observed, for the first time, the energy transferring from resonant electrons to whistler-mode waves in space. Their findings offer direct evidence of previously theorized efficient growth, as predicted by the non-linear growth theory of waves. This should improve our understanding of not only space plasma physics but also space weather, a phenomenon th ... more |
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As AI rises, lawmakers try to catch up Paris (AFP) Jan 01, 2023 From "intelligent" vacuum cleaners and driverless cars to advanced techniques for diagnosing diseases, artificial intelligence has burrowed its way into every arena of modern life.
Its promoters reckon it is revolutionising human experience, but critics stress that the technology risks putting machines in charge of life-changing decisions.
Regulators in Europe and North America are worri ... more |
Ukraine shoots down 45 drones: air force Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Jan 1, 2023
Ukraine shot down 45 Russian drones overnight as the pro-Western country rang in the New Year, the air force said on Sunday.
In a New Year's Eve assault, Moscow attacked Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with missiles and Iranian-made drones.
Ukraine's air force said in a statement that air defences destroyed 45 "Shahed" drones.
Thirteen drones were shot down at the end of 2022 and an ... more |
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