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  London (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. A Virgin Orbit Boeing 747 carrying the 70-foot (21-metre) rocket took off from a spaceport in Cornwall, southwest England, at 2202 GMT. The rocket then detached from the aircraft and ignited as planned at a height of 35,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean to the south of Ireland at around 2315 GMT. But in a series of tweets as the rocket was du ... read 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  
Webb reveals wide diversity of galaxies in the early universeRochester 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 i ... more  
U.N. panel says ozone layer will recover in about 40 yearsWashington DC (UPI) Jan 9, 2023 Earth's ozone layer is on track to recover within four decades thanks to the 1987 Montreal Protocol, then a landmark multinational environmental agreement, a United Nations-supported panel said on Monday. ... more  
Mitsubishi Electric announce the AnyMile logistics operations management platformLas Vegas NV (SPX) Jan 06, 2023 Mitsubishi Electric US, Inc. has announced its drone-based logistics operations management platform, called AnyMile, a holistic solution that is designed to enable businesses and fleet operators to ... more |
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Planet Labs completes acquisition of Salo SciencesSan Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 10, 2023 Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, has announced the completion of its acquisition of Salo Sciences, a San Francisco-based climate technology comp ... 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  
Chinese scientists discover ubiquitous, increasing ferric iron on lunar surfaceGuangzhou, 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 whe ... more  
Speedcast wins contract renewal for Asia-Pacific Teleport ServicesSydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 10, 2023 Speedcast, a leading communications and IT services provider, has been awarded a contract extension by Airbus to provide gateway hosting services offering secure access to its SKYNET military satell ... more |
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Blue Canyon Technologies provides small satellite critical technologies on Transporter-6 LaunchLafayette CO (SPX) Jan 10, 2023 Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies, LLC ("BCT" or "Blue Canyon"), a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, has announced its contributions to the first ... 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  
Webb reveals links between galaxies near and farGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2023 A new analysis of distant galaxies imaged by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows that they are extremely young and share some remarkable similarities to "green peas," a rare class of small galax ... more  
Fossil pollen 'sunscreen' proves role of ozone depletion in largest mass extinctionNanjing, China (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 Scientists from China, Germany and the UK led by Prof. LIU Feng from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) have revealed that pollen preserve ... more |
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Sentinel-1 and AI uncover glacier crevassesParis (ESA) Jan 10, 2023 Scientists have developed a new Artificial Intelligence, or AI, technique using radar images from Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite mission, to reveal how the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue in W ... more  
NASA space missions pinpoint sources of CO2 emissions on EarthPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 10, 2023 A duo of Earth-observing missions has enabled researchers to detect and track carbon dioxide (CO2) emission changes from a single facility, using the world's fifth-largest coal-fired power plant as ... more 
IXPE Team Profile; LASP at Colorado-BoulderHuntsville AL (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 As NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission explores black holes, neutron stars, and other cosmic phenomena - helping to answer fundamental questions about extreme space environments - it r ... 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 
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 |
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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.
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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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 Washington 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.
The U.S. Defense Department has predicted that the 5,400-pound Earth Radiation Budget Satellite will reenter the atmosphere sometime within a 17-hour window of 6:40 p.m. EST on Sunday, NASA said in a statement.
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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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 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 |
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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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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 9, 2023  Earth's ozone layer is on track to recover within four decades thanks to the 1987 Montreal Protocol, then a landmark multinational environmental agreement, a United Nations-supported panel said on Monday.
The Montreal Protocol regulated the consumption and production of nearly 100 manmade chemicals that researchers complained created ozone depletion. The panel on Monday said that 99% of ... 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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2023 
A new analysis of distant galaxies imaged by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows that they are extremely young and share some remarkable similarities to "green peas," a rare class of small galaxies in our cosmic backyard.
"With detailed chemical fingerprints of these early galaxies, we see that they include what might be the most primitive galaxy identified so far. At the same time, we ... 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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