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  Esrange Space Centre, Sweden (AFP) Jan 13, 2023 As the mercury drops to minus 20 Celsius, a research rocket lifts off from one of the world's northernmost space centres, its burner aglow in the twilight of Sweden's snowy Arctic forests. Hopes are high that a rocket like this could carry a satellite next year, in what could be the first satellite launch from a spaceport in continental Europe. Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday inaugurated "Spaceport Esrange", an extension to the Esran ... read more |
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Update on "Start Me Up" mission anomalyLong Beach CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2023 Preliminary analysis of data from the Start Me Up mission has begun to shed light on the outcome of the January 9th flight and next steps to follow. The Start Me Up mission was the first orbit ... more 
SpaceX capsule lands safely on return from ISSWashington DC (UPI) Jan 11, 2023 SpaceX confirmed Wednesday its Dragon cargo spacecraft successfully splashed down off the coast of Florida after returning from the International Space Station. ... more 
UK space chiefs vows to try again after failed rocket launchLondon (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. ... 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 |
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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 
Sweden opens Mainland Europe's first satellite launch spaceportWashington DC (UPI) Jan 13, 2023 Sweden on Friday inaugurated and officially opened Mainland Europe's first space facility for satellite launches. ... more 
Rocket Lab sets new date for first Electron launch from U.S. soilWallops Island VA (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced the launch window for its first Electron mission from U.S. soil is scheduled to open on January 23, 2023 with back-up dates extending through early F ... more |
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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 
Private U.S. space company ABL fails to launch from AlaskaWashington DC (UPI) Jan 11, 2023 An effort to put a satellite launcher into low-Earth orbit from Alaska's Kodiak Island failed after the rocket crashed back to the launchpad, destroying the facility, private U.S. company ABL Space Systems said. ... 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 
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 |
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Virgin Orbit completes final End-to-end Rehearsal for first UK launch Newquay 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 
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 
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 
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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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2023  NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has acquired a new image using its high-resolution color camera. The camera, which is mounted in the helicopter's fuselage and pointed approximately 22 degrees below the horizon, was used during the 38th flight of Ingenuity on January 11, 2023 (Sol 667 of the Perseverance rover mission). During the flight, Ingenuity traveled a horizontal distance of ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 13, 2023 
NASA's Lunar Flashlight mission successfully launched on Dec. 11, 2022, to begin its four-month journey to the Moon, where the small satellite, or SmallSat, will test several new technologies with a goal of looking for hidden surface ice at the lunar South Pole. While the SmallSat is largely healthy and communicating with NASA's Deep Space Network, the mission operations team has discovered that ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 
In June 2021, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew close to Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, observing evidence of magnetic reconnection. A team led by Southwest Research Institute used Juno data to examine the electron and ion particles and magnetic fields as the magnetic field lines of Jupiter and Ganymede merged, snapped and reoriented, heating and accelerating the charged particles in the region. ... more |
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 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.
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 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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 Beijing (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 off at 1:04 pm from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert and placed the satellites into a preset orbit shortly after, the company announced in a news release.
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 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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 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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 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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 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) 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 |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 13, 2023 
Two teams of astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope have observed repeated outbursts of light from inactive black holes that partially destroy stars again and again. This discovery is unexpected, since outbursts of black holes usually appear only once when a black hole consumes a star.
Supermassive black holes lie at the centres of most galaxies. Their masses range from hundred ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 
Hot startup OpenAI on Wednesday initiated a waitlist for a professional and paid version of its software ChatGPT, which has sparked debate about artificial intelligence and the future of work.
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman teased an upcoming version of ChatGPT "geared for professional use" as media reports swirled that Microsoft plans to invest $10 billion in the startup.
Microsoft, wh ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 13, 2023 
Deployed on a scale never seen before to carry out both surveillance and strikes, drones ranging from small commercially-available models to larger aircraft have become a defining feature of the Ukraine conflict.
Drones have been a part of warfare for years, employed extensively by the United States during the "War on Terror," and they have played important roles in conflicts including in Ir ... more |
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