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  Vilnius, Lithuania (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) has announced the successful launch of Europe's first solar sail mission aboard SpaceX Transporter-6. The 6U nanosatellite nicknamed 'Alpha' was manufactured for France's Gama. It is one of four satellites, built by the Lithuanian smallsat mission integrator for multiple customers, that got sent into low Earth Orbit. It is the first time for NanoAvionics that one of its nanosatellite buses has carried a solar sail payload into space. A second solar sail missio ... read more |
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Rock Robotics Rock Base X offers 1600 channels across multiple constellationsLas Vegas NV (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 ROCK Robotic announced the availability of ROCK Base, a state-of-the-art, triple-band multi-constellation RTK/GNSS base station. ROCK has also joined the Web3 GEODNET initiative, the world's largest ... more 
Bullitt selects Skylo for its newly announced smartphones and two-way messaging serviceLas Vegas MV (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 Skylo, a Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) operator, focused on connecting anything, anywhere, announced that it is partnering with Bullitt Group, the innovative British smartphone manufacturer, as Bull ... more 
Iridium and Qualcomm collaborate to support satellite messaging in smartphonesMcLean VA (SPX) Jan 06, 2023 Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM) has entered into an agreement with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. to enable satellite messaging and emergency services in smartphones powered by Snapdragon Mo ... more  
Once in 50,000-year comet may be visible to the naked eyeParis (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. ... more |
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General Atomics awarded contract from Advanced Space for Cislunar Spacecraft for AFRL Oracle ProgramSan Diego CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) reports that it is under contract to Advanced Space LLC to build an ESPA-Grande class satellite, perform payload integration, and space vehicle test ... more  
Cooling 100 million degree plasma with a hydrogen-neon mixture ice pelletTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 At ITER - the world's largest experimental fusion reactor, currently under construction in France through international cooperation - the abrupt termination of magnetic confinement of a high tempera ... 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 
Scientific samples, hardware return from the space station for more studyHouston TX (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 A radiation protection vest, olive oil, and sutured tissues are among the scientific samples returning from the International Space Station on the 26th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission fo ... more |
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Scientists eager to analyze International Space Station experiments soonWashington DC (UPI) Jan 6, 2023 NASA is preparing for the return of multiple science experiments from the International Space Station in the hopes they might further aid mankind's future exploration of space. ... more  
OneWeb to launch 40 satellites with SpaceXLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 OneWeb, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, will launch 40 satellites with SpaceX no earlier than Sunday, 8 January 2023, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. ... more  
Moving along the Marker Band: Sols 3705-3707Pasadena 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 ... more  
Astronomers use 'little hurricanes' to weigh and date planets around young starsCambridge UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 Little 'hurricanes' that form in the discs of gas and dust around young stars can be used to study certain aspects of planet formation, even for smaller planets which orbit their star at large dista ... more |
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Unpacking the "black box" to build better AI modelsBoston 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. ... more  
New discovery of sunscreen-like chemicals in fossil plants reveals UV radiation played a part in mass extinction eventsNottingham UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 New research has uncovered that pollen preserved in 250 million year old rocks contain compounds that function like sunscreen, these are produced by plants to protect them from harmful ultraviolet ( ... more  
New method helps understand the global organic carbon cycleBremen, Germany (SPX) Jan 05, 2023 Oceans serve as a sink for carbon. This means that carbon from the atmosphere is stored in the oceans. However, a distinction is made between organic and inorganic carbon. The organic carbon bound i ... more  
Retired NASA satellite expected to fall to Earth on SundayWashington DC (UPI) Jan 6, 2023 A retired NASA satellite is expected to fall to Earth on Sunday after spending nearly 40 years in space, space officials said Friday. ... more 
Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?Boston MA (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 The ancient Romans were masters of engineering, constructing vast networks of roads, aqueducts, ports, and massive buildings, whose remains have survived for two millennia. Many of these structures ... more |
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 Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 4, 2023 
The world's biggest tech megashow, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), gets underway in Las Vegas this week, with organizers hoping to recapture the excitement of years past after two years marred by the coronavirus pandemic.
Here are some things to look out for in this year's edition.
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In January 2020, more than 117,000 people attended the Las Vegas extravaganza just w ... more |
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 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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 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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 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 |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 
OneWeb, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, will launch 40 satellites with SpaceX no earlier than Sunday, 8 January 2023, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This launch will be OneWeb's sixteenth to date and its second with SpaceX following a successful launch in December, keeping the company on track to deliver global coverage in 2023.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 
The ancient Romans were masters of engineering, constructing vast networks of roads, aqueducts, ports, and massive buildings, whose remains have survived for two millennia. Many of these structures were built with concrete: Rome's famed Pantheon, which has the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome and was dedicated in A.D. 128, is still intact, and some ancient Roman aqueducts still deliver ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 
Little 'hurricanes' that form in the discs of gas and dust around young stars can be used to study certain aspects of planet formation, even for smaller planets which orbit their star at large distances and are out of reach for most telescopes.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Institute for Advanced Study have developed a technique, which uses observations of these 'hur ... more |
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 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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 Brussels (AFP) Jan 5, 2023 
The EU on Thursday gave a "red card" to Cameroon for failing to cooperate in the international fight against illegal fishing.
The European Commission said in a statement it had identified Cameroon as a "non-cooperating country," earning the "red card" designation, and would ask EU member states to add the country to the bloc's blacklist.
It said that was because Cameroon continues to reg ... more |
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 Las Vegas NV (SPX) Jan 06, 2023 
Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, has launched three new combo antennas to help IoT solution designers and developers optimize device performance.
Each new combo antenna has been designed to offer maximized choice and performance for IoT deployments so customers can ensure their devices can access the connectivity they need across a variety of wireless technologi ... more |
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 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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 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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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 03, 2023 
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today successfully launched 36 SuperDove satellites, its Flock 4y, to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Planet team has established contact with all 36 SuperDoves and has kicked off their automated commissioning process. This marks the company's 32nd successful launch, totaling over 500 satellites lau ... more |
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 Olso, Norway (SPX) Jan 06, 2023 
KBR has selected KSAT to provide all Outside the Continental United States (OCONUS) SWFO Antenna Network (SAN) services. The KBR and KSAT team are developing a blended network including U.S. government ground station sites with KSAT-owned capabilities delivered as a service.
Increased solar activity in recent weeks has provided opportunities for many in the Northern Hemisphere to view the ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Jan 06, 2023 
New images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars - elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks - at a time when the universe was a mere 25% of its present age. The finding of so-called barred galaxies, similar to our Milky Way, this early in the universe will require astrophysicists to ref ... more |
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 Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Jan 01, 2023 
One of the mysteries of the universe is that Einstein's general relativity, which is a relativistic theory of Newton's universal law of gravity, requires large amount of dark matter in individual galaxies and in the vast space of the universe. Dark matter inferred by general relativity has never been identified in non-gravitational experiments.
This opens up the possibility that gravity's ... more |
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