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  Orlando FL (UPI) Jun 26, 2020 SpaceX scrubbed Friday's plan to launch additional Starlink satellites in a mission that had another paying customer on board - what SpaceX calls its ride-share program. The change in plans was not weather-related. "Standing down from Friday's Starlink mission; team needed additional time for pre-launch checkouts, but Falcon 9 and the satellites are healthy. Will announce new target launch date once confirmed on the Range," SpaceX said in a tweet. A Falcon 9 rocket was set to lift off ... read more |
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USSF Commercial SATCOM Office announces development of new security programPeterson AFB CO (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 The U.S. Space Force Commercial Satellite Communications Office recently announced the development of its Infrastructure Asset Pre-Assessment Program. The objective of the IA-PRE Program is to ... more  
NGC and US Army team up for combined missile defense testWhite Sands Missile Range NM (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 Every day, Rafael Miranda leaves his hotel room before 6 a.m. to begin his long drive across White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in New Mexico. Miranda is a military training manager for Northrop ... more 
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Completes Second Flight from Spaceport AmericaLas Cruces NM (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. has reported the successful completion of the second SpaceShipTwo test flight from Spaceport America. This flight follows the completion of the first test flight from ... more  
Russia plans to take first tourist on space walk in 2023Moscow (AFP) June 25, 2020 Russia's Energia space corporation said Thursday it will take the first tourist on a space walk in 2023, under the terms of a new contract with a US partner. ... more |
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First contract signed for tourist space walk reports RoscosmosMoscow (Sputnik) Jun 26, 2020 Roscosmos and Space Adventures have been cooperating in space tourism since 2001, when the first space tourist, Dennis Tito, went into orbit. Since then, a total of seven people have been in space u ... more 
NASA completes Artemis SLS structural testing campaignHuntsville AL (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 span class="BDL">Video: a href="https://youtu.be/sSEh_oKLCAw">Water Gushes From SLS Rocket Propellant Tank As Engineers Break It On Purpose /a> /span> On June 24, 2020, engineers completed the Sp ... more 
Virgin Galactic's Unity completes final test before adding rocket powerWashington DC (Sputnik) Jun 26, 2020 According to a Thursday statement by Virgin Galactic, the space company's second gliding test of its Unity spacecraft appears to have been a success. Now, the air-deployed spaceplane will move on to ... more  
This Hopping Robot Could Explore the Solar System's Icy MoonsPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2020 Steam locomotion may sound like an antiquated way to get around, but it might be getting a science fiction makeover as we expand our reach into the solar system. A novel robotic concept being ... more 
Gilmour Space achieves 45-second milestone in latest hybrid rocket engine test fireGold Coast, Australia (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 Australia's leading rocket company has reached another milestone in its mission to launch small satellites to space by 2022. Rocket engineers at Gilmour Space Technologies in Queensland, Austr ... more |
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Thales Alenia Space will provide two key pressurized elements for Axiom commercial space stationTurin, Italy (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 Thales Alenia Space, Joint Venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %) announced the signature of an ATP (Authorization To Proceed) with Axiom Space of Houston, Texas to initiate the developme ... more  |
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Final Beidou launch marks major milestone in China's space effortBeijing (XNA) Jun 24, 2020 The final satellite to complete the third-generation network of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System was launched on Tuesday morning, marking a milestone in the nation's space endeavor. ... more  
Beidou system sees wide application across the countryBeijing (XNA) Jun 24, 2020 China's domestically developed Beidou Navigation Satellite System has been widely used in many public and private fields at home and abroad, according to official figures. By the end of 2019, ... more 
Raytheon Missiles and Defense awarded $2.3B production contract for missile defense radarsTucson AZ (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 Raytheon Missiles and Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business (NYSE: RTX), received a $2.3 billion U.S. Missile Defense Agency production contract for seven gallium nitride (GaN)-based AN/TPY-2 ra ... more 
Lockheed Martin PAC-3 MSE Achieves Test SuccessDallas TX (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 A Lockheed Martin PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptor successfully detected, tracked and intercepted a tactical ballistic missile target in a test at White Sands Missile Range, New M ... more  
Sweden tests new ground-to-air defense missileWashington DC (UPI) Jun 26, 2020 Sweden's ground-launched short-range air defense missile, the RBS 98, was successfully tested this week, the Swedish armed forces announced on Friday. ... more |
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 Hawthorne CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
ThinKom Solutions, Inc., has announced its Ku3030 aero satellite antennas have been installed on more than 1,550 commercial aircraft of 16 major airlines. The antennas have accrued over 17 million flight hours and have achieved in excess of 100,000 hours mean-time-before-failure (MTBF) while supporting industry-leading 98 percent end-to-end system availability.
The Ku3030, underpinned by T ... more |
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 Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
The U.S. Space Force Commercial Satellite Communications Office recently announced the development of its Infrastructure Asset Pre-Assessment Program.
The objective of the IA-PRE Program is to advance the security posture of current and future commercial satellite communications procurements for the Department of Defense. As the sole authority for procurement of COMSATCOM services for all ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 24, 2020 
China's domestically developed Beidou Navigation Satellite System has been widely used in many public sectors and business fields at home and abroad, according to the China Satellite Navigation Office.
By the end of 2019, more than 100 million Beidou-based navigation chips, modules and other products had been sold.
The system had by then been applied to nearly 6.6 million taxis, buse ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 21, 2020 
Commercial flight trials that use satellite-enabled communications to reduce the environmental impact of flying are scheduled to commence once normal traffic levels resume.
As nations begin to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and airports start to reopen in Europe, satellite communications provider Inmarsat and consultancy firm CGI will be conducting real-world trials of the Iris air ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 21, 2020 
Optical frequency synthesizers - systems that output laser beams at precise and stable frequencies - have proven extremely valuable in a variety of scientific endeavors, including space exploration, gas sensing, control of quantum systems, and high-precision light detection and ranging (LIDAR).
While they provide unprecedented performance, the use of optical frequency synthesizers has larg ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
Heading to the lake this summer? While harmful algal blooms can cause health problems for lake visitors, satellite data can provide early detection of harmful algae, resulting in socioeconomic benefits worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from one harmful algal bloom event, a new study finds. A Resources for the Future (RFF) and NASA VALUABLES Consortium study published in GeoHealth examines t ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) June 28, 2020 
Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel said on Sunday it had stopped the discharge of wastewater from one of its Arctic facilities, one month after an unprecedented fuel leak nearby sparked a state of emergency.
The incident occurred at the Talnakh enrichment plant near the Arctic city of Norilsk, the company said, when liquids used to process minerals were "discharged from a reservoir".
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 24, 2020 
The final satellite to complete the third-generation network of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System was launched on Tuesday morning, marking a milestone in the nation's space endeavor.
As the countdown ticked down to zero at 9:43 am at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, eight engines on the first stage and four boosters of a Long March 3B carrier rocket spat or ... more |
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 White Sands Missile Range NM (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
Every day, Rafael Miranda leaves his hotel room before 6 a.m. to begin his long drive across White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in New Mexico.
Miranda is a military training manager for Northrop Grumman's Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS). After tag-ups every morning with U.S. Army leaders and his team of trainers, Miranda visits each of six IBCS Engageme ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 26, 2020 
The U.S. Senate's defense bill adds $120 million to the Defense Department's space-based anti-hypersonic weapons program, despite no request for an increase.
The Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor, a constellation of satellites dedicated to locating the firing and direction of enemy missiles capable of achieving 5,000 miles-per-hour speeds, is a part of the Defense Departmen ... more |
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 Dubendorf, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 
The smallest motor in the world - consisting of just 16 atoms: this was developed by a team of researchers from Empa and EPFL. "This brings us close to the ultimate size limit for molecular motors," explains Oliver Groning, head of the Functional Surfaces Research Group at Empa. The motor measures less than one nanometer - in other words it is around 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2020 
Steam locomotion may sound like an antiquated way to get around, but it might be getting a science fiction makeover as we expand our reach into the solar system.
A novel robotic concept being investigated at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California would use steam propulsion to hop across the sort of icy terrains found on Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus. Bo ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 
Since the dawn of flight, pilots have used acrobatic maneuvers to test the limits of their airplanes. The same goes for flying drones: Professional pilots often gage the limits of their drones and measure their level of mastery by flying such maneuvers in competitions
Working together with microprocessor company Intel, a team of researchers at the University of Zurich has now developed a q ... more |
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