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UK space chiefs vows to try again after failed rocket launch![]() London (AFP) Jan 10, 2023 Space sector bosses on Tuesday said they were disappointed by the failure of the country's historic first attempt to launch satellites from UK soil but pledged to investigate and try again. The failure of the mission late on Monday is a blow to the UK's fledgling space sector. Had it been successful, it would have made the UK one of only nine countries able to launch rockets into Earth's orbit. A Virgin Orbit Boeing 747 carrying the 70-foot (21-metre) rocket took off from a spaceport in Corn ... read more |
SpaceX to launch 51 Starlink satellites after weather delayWashington DC (UPI) Jan 10, 2023 SpaceX is counting down to launch another group of Starlink Internet satellites into orbit Tuesday night following a weather delay in California. ... more
SpaceX Dragon capsule to return to Earth on WednesdayWashington DC (UPI) Jan 10, 2023 The SpaceX Drago cargo spacecraft is expected to splash down on Wednesday off the Florida coast after successfully leaving the International Space Station on Monday. ... more
NASA selects experimental space technology concepts for initial studyWashington DC (SPX) Jan 10, 2023 Imagine a future in space where pellet-beam propulsion systems speed up travel to other worlds, pipelines on the Moon transport oxygen between settlements, and Martian bricks grow on their own befor ... more
China's first private sector 2023 rocket launch up, up and awayBeijing (XNA) Jan 10, 2023 Galactic Energy, a private aerospace manufacturer in Beijing, launched its fifth Ceres 1 rocket on Monday afternoon, deploying five small satellites into orbit. The Ceres 1 Y5 rocket blasted o ... more |
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Heat shield inspections underway on Artemis I Orion spacecraftKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 Inside the Multi-Payload Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, engineers and technicians conduct inspections of the heat shield on the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mis ... more
First rocket launch of the New Year leaves Wenchang for spaceBeijing (XNA) Jan 10, 2023 China launched a Long March 7A rocket from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province on Monday morning, sending three satellites into space as part of its first space mission of 2023. ... 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
Historic UK rocket mission ends in failureLondon (AFP) Jan 10, 2023 An attempt to launch the first rocket into orbit from UK soil ended in failure on Tuesday, with scientists reporting an "anomaly" as it neared its goal. ... 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
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's space exploration spurred by helping humanityBeijing (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 s ... more
Virgin Orbit completes final End-to-end Rehearsal for first UK launchNewquay UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 virginorbit.com Partners for the United Kingdom's first orbital launch announced that the initial window for the historic Start Me Up mission will officially open on Monday, 9 January at 22:16 UTC ... more |
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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 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 |
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Moving along the Marker Band: Sols 3705-3707 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 09, 2023
Curiosity is continuing to make the most of the new year - both on Earth and on Mars which recently entered Mars Year 37, only a few days before the new year on Earth. After a successful drive along the slope below the Marker Band, we're ready for a full weekend.
On our first sol, ChemCam has a LIBS observation on the target 'Waimiri' followed by two mosaics on the Marker Band and the dist ... more |
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Chinese scientists discover ubiquitous, increasing ferric iron on lunar surface Guangzhou, China (SPX) Jan 10, 2023
The Moon has been considered extremely reductive since the Apollo era, as estimated by the low ferric iron content in lunar samples returned in the 1970s. In addition, it has long been a mystery whether a large amount of ferric iron exists on the Moon and how it is formed.
Recently, however, a research team led by Profs. XU Yigang and HE Hongping from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistr ... more |
SwRI delivers innovative instrument for NASA's Europa Clipper mission San Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 06, 2023
A groundbreaking new mass spectrometer designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has been delivered for integration onto NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. Scheduled to launch in 2024 and arrive in the Jovian system by 2030, Europa Clipper will conduct a detailed science investigation of the moon Europa and study whether it could harbor conditions suitable for life.
The MAss ... more |
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Distant star's dimming was likely a 'dusty' companion getting in the way, astronomers say Seattle WA (SPX) Jan 11, 2023
By their own admission, Anastasios "Andy" Tzanidakis and James Davenport are interested in unusual stars. The University of Washington astronomers were on the lookout for "stars behaving strangely" when an automated alert from the Gaia survey pointed them to Gaia17bpp. Survey data indicated that this star had gradually brightened over a 2 1/2-year period.
As Tzanidakis will report on Jan. ... more |
NASA selects experimental space technology concepts for initial study Washington DC (SPX) Jan 10, 2023
Imagine a future in space where pellet-beam propulsion systems speed up travel to other worlds, pipelines on the Moon transport oxygen between settlements, and Martian bricks grow on their own before being assembled into homes. Researchers will delve into these ideas and more using NASA grant funding.
The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program fosters innovation by funding early- ... 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 |
Once in 50,000-year comet may be visible to the naked eye Paris (AFP) Jan 7, 2023
A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers have said.
The comet is called C/2022 E3 (ZTF) after the Zwicky Transient Facility, which first spotted it passing Jupiter in March last year.
After travelling from the icy reaches of our Solar System it will come closest to th ... 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 |
Ukraine forces to receive Patriot air defense training in US: Pentagon Washington (AFP) Jan 10, 2023
The United States will train Ukrainian personnel at a base in the state of Oklahoma on how to use and maintain the advanced Patriot air defense system that Washington is providing to Kyiv, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday.
Washington promised a Patriot battery to Ukraine at the end of last year to help counter relentless aerial attacks by Moscow - a significant victory for Kyiv, which had ... more |
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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 |
Webb reveals wide diversity of galaxies in the early universe Rochester NY (SPX) Jan 10, 2023
New data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed that the structures of galaxies in the early universe were much more diverse and mature than previously known. Scientists compared images of hundreds of galaxies taken by JWST for the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey with corresponding images previously taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and presented the res ... more |
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Unpacking the "black box" to build better AI models Boston MA (SPX) Jan 09, 2023
When deep learning models are deployed in the real world, perhaps to detect financial fraud from credit card activity or identify cancer in medical images, they are often able to outperform humans.
But what exactly are these deep learning models learning? Does a model trained to spot skin cancer in clinical images, for example, actually learn the colors and textures of cancerous tissue, or ... more |
US, UK partnership demonstrates artificial intelligence technology Rome NY (SPX) Jan 10, 2023
For the first time, the U.S.'s Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, in partnership with the U.K.'s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, or Dstl, demonstrated state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, or AI, technology at two major back-to-back military exercises.
In November 2022, a team of 30 AI and autonomy experts from the U.K. and U.S. deployed as a joint taskforce to the Proj ... more |
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