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  Washington DC (UPI) Jun 13, 2021 The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday said SpaceX will be required to make more than 75 changes to the orbital launch program at its Starbase launch site in Texas after determining there would be some environmental impacts to the surrounding area. Elon Musk's SpaceX must obtain either an experimental permit or a vehicle operator license from the FAA for Starship and Super Heavy launch operations from the Boca Chica facility. "One step closer to the first orbital flight test of St ... read more |
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Sun-like star identified in the region where the Wow! Signal originatedCambridge UK (SPX) Jun 14, 2022 On May 6, the International Journal of Astrobiology of Cambridge University Press published a paper titled 'An approximation to determine the source of the Wow! Signal', authored by Alberto Caballer ... more  
Air-breathing hypersonic weapon delivers value and performanceLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 14, 2022 Two core technologies are at the heart of the U.S. pursuit of hypersonic weapons, or those that travel Mach 5 or faster: scramjets, which derive propulsion from the air around them, and boost-glide ... more  
Amsterdam physicists build an atom laser that can stay on foreverAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 Imagining our everyday life without lasers is difficult. We use lasers in printers, CD players, pointers, measuring devices, and so on. What makes lasers so special is that they use coherent waves o ... more  
Airbus brings leading-edge digital capabilities to Multi-Domain Military OperationsParis, France (SPX) Jun 14, 2022 In today's world of rapidly evolving global security challenges, the ability to collect, analyse and utilise data for decision-making and response is more important than ever. By applying its ... more |
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Momentus First Demonstration Mission Update #3San Jose CA (SPX) Jun 14, 2022 Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) has provided its third Mission Update since the launch of its Vigoride-3 spacecraft on May 25. As we previously stated in earlier updates on the inaugural flight o ... more  
ESA centre to develop Europe's space economy and promote commercialisationParis (ESA) Jun 14, 2022 Entrepreneurs, fledgling firms and established space companies are to receive a boost with the launch of the European Centre for Space Economy and Commerce. The ESA centre aims to create jobs ... more 
AST SpaceMobile to launch BlueWalker 3 for Direct-to-Cell Phone Connectivity TestingMidland TX (SPX) Jun 14, 2022 AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) has confirmed it plans to launch its BlueWalker 3 test satellite from Cape Canaveral, FL during the week of August 15, 2022. The actual launch date remains ... more 
Smartphone technology provides satellites with increased computing powerBraunschweig, Germany (SPX) Jun 14, 2022 Reliable and powerful computers play a central role in spaceflight - for example, computer systems in satellites enable sophisticated Earth observation missions. The German Aerospace Center is devel ... more |
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Study reveals how some high-energy particle 'jets' lose energyUpton NY (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 Scientists studying particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have revealed how certain particle-jets lose energy as they traverse the unique form of nuclear matter created i ... more 
You can hear every event twice in a three-dimensional quantum gasCambridge UK (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 If you could immerse yourself in a quantum fluid, you would hear every event twice, because they support two sound waves with different speeds. The researchers in their experiment have realize ... more  
Emulator reveals the intricacies of light behavior in complex evolving systemsOrlando FL (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 University of Central Florida researchers are part of a team who have revealed, for the first time, the intricacies of how light behaves in advanced dynamical optical systems with configurations kno ... more 
Elusive particle discovered in a material through tabletop experimentBoston MA (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 An interdisciplinary team led by Boston College physicists has discovered a new particle - or previously undetectable quantum excitation - known as the axial Higgs mode, a magnetic relative of the m ... more |
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Iris system to digitalise airspace goes globalParis (ESA) Jun 10, 2022 A space-enabled system to help clear congested skies while reducing carbon emissions is going global, following a deal signed between satellite communications provider Inmarsat and ESA. Passen ... more 
ReOrbit and VENG signs agreement for satellite manufacturingFalda Del Carmen, Argentinia (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 ReOrbit and VENG, an Argentinian-based company, signed an agreement to manufacture satellites in Argentina to serve the Latin America market. The directors of both organisations met at the Argentina ... more 
Isar Aerospace and EXOTRAIL partner on cloud-based simulation software ExoOPSTMMunich, Germany (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 The launch service provider Isar Aerospace signs in as the latest ExoOPSTM - Mission Design customer, Exotrail's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution dedicated to space mission simulation and analy ... more  
Studying grassland from spaceLeipzig, Germany (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 The Sentinel-2 space mission began with the launch of Earth observation satellite Sentinel-2A in June 2015, and Sentinel-2B was launched in March 2017. Since then, these two satellites have been orb ... more 
Earth's magnetic poles not about to flipLund, Sweden (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 The emergence of a mysterious area in the South Atlantic where the geomagnetic field strength is decreasing rapidly, has led to speculation that Earth is heading towards a magnetic polarity reversal ... more |
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 Kaunas, Lithuania (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 
A new study based on Mars Desert Research Station commanders' reports reveals differences in female and male leadership behaviour. Although both genders are task-focused, women tend to be more positive. The genders also differ in their approach toward their team - while men focus on accomplishments, women emphasise mutual support. According to the author of the study, Inga Popovaite, a sociologi ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 12, 2022 
NASA said a rocket carrying two small weather satellites failed Sunday, preventing the inauguration of a technology that would have helped better forecast hurricanes.
The rocket by California-based Astra lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, but the rocket's second stage malfunctioned before reaching orbit and lost the shoebox-sized technology.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 10, 2022 
Perseverance has a number of moving parts, including the robotic arm, drill, mast, instrument covers, high gain antenna, and mobility system. An unintended collision with the rover body or Martian terrain during motion could cause irreparable damage. In addition, the SuperCam instrument shoots the LIBS laser at the surface to create a plasma and perform spectroscopy, and we also want to prevent ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 10, 2022 
Taikonauts of the Shenzhou XIV crew will carry out 24 in-orbit medical experiments during their six-month stay in China's space station, according to the China Manned Space Agency on Thursday.
These space medical experiments are mainly designed to study how the weightless environment and spaceflights affect taikonauts, said Li Yinghui, deputy chief designer of China's manned space program ... more |
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AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) has confirmed it plans to launch its BlueWalker 3 test satellite from Cape Canaveral, FL during the week of August 15, 2022.
The actual launch date remains subject to change and is contingent on a number of factors including, but not limited to, final testing, final integration, ground transport, timely readiness of the launch vehicle and other unknowns ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jun 08, 2022  The launch service provider Isar Aerospace signs in as the latest ExoOPSTM - Mission Design customer, Exotrail's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution dedicated to space mission simulation and analysis.
Isar Aerospace, the leading European launch service provider focusing on small and medium satellite deployment, will use ExoOPSTM - Mission Design to answer the thriving demand for flexible ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 14, 2022 
Since the first hot Jupiter was discovered in 1995, astronomers have been trying to figure out how the searing-hot exoplanets formed and arrived in their extreme orbits. Johns Hopkins University astronomers have found a way to determine the relative age of hot Jupiters using new measurements from the Gaia spacecraft, which is tracking more than a billion stars.
Lead author Jacob Hamer, a P ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 08, 2022 
The agency's mission to explore Jupiter's icy moon takes a big step forward as engineers deliver a major component of the spacecraft.
The main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has been delivered to the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Over the next two years there, engineers and technicians will finish assembling the craft by hand before testing it to make ... more |
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 Singapore (AFP) June 12, 2022 
Fiji faces its biggest threat from "devastating climate change" rather than conflict, the country's defence minister warned Sunday at a high-level security summit that has been dominated by geopolitical tensions.
This weekend's Shangri-La Dialogue, which brings together defence ministers from around the world, has seen sparring between Washington and Beijing over Taiwan while delegates also ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 10, 2022 
Ahead of Galileo satellites like this one going to space, they are switched on as if already operating there within ESA's Maxwell EMC Facility. This test procedure is a check of the satellite's 'electromagnetic compatibility', with all its systems running together to detect any harmful interference between them.
Once Maxwell's main door is sealed, its metal walls form a 'Faraday Cage', scr ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 
France is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords, affirming its commitment to sustainable space exploration that follows a common set of principles promoting beneficial use of space for all of humanity.
Philippe Baptiste, president of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) - the French space agency - signed the document during an event hosted by the Ambassador of France to t ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 
The Comet Interceptor mission was formally adopted by the European Space Agency (ESA) at a meeting in Madrid today (Wednesday, 8 June 2022), moving from the design phase to implementation, with the next step to select a contractor to build the spacecraft and a robotic probe.
Due for launch in 2029, it will see one main spacecraft and two robotic probes - the other built by the Japanese Spa ... more |
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 Lund, Sweden (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 
The emergence of a mysterious area in the South Atlantic where the geomagnetic field strength is decreasing rapidly, has led to speculation that Earth is heading towards a magnetic polarity reversal. However, a new study that pieces together evidence stretching back 9,000 years, suggests that the current changes aren't unique, and that a reversal may not be in the cards after all. The study is p ... more |
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 Newark NJ (SPX) Jun 09, 2022  Solar flares are among the most violent explosions in our solar system, but despite their immense energy - equivalent to a hundred billion atomic bombs detonating at once - physicists still haven't been able to answer exactly how these sudden eruptions on the Sun are able to launch particles to Earth, nearly 93 million miles away, in under an hour.
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 14, 2022 
Old and fast spinning neutron stars called millisecond pulsars could be responsible for an unexplained signal from the center of our Milky Way, reports a team of astrophysicists in a new study published in Nature Astronomy.
Back in 2009, gamma-ray data from the Fermi-Large Area Telescope revealed an unexplained, apparently diffuse, signal from the center of the Milky Way. The origin of thi ... more |
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 Krakow, Poland (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 
A phenomenon that directly proves the existence of quark mass has been observed for the first time in extremely energetic collisions of lead nuclei. A team of physicists working on the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider can boast this spectacular achievement - the observation of the dead cone effect.
The objects that make up our physical everyday life can have many different prope ... more |
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