US watching Chinese rocket's erratic re-entry: Pentagon
Thursday, 06 May 2021 07:37
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The Pentagon said Wednesday it is following the trajectory of a Chinese rocket expected to make an uncontrolled entry into the atmosphere this weekend, with the risk of crashing down in an inhabited area.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is "aware and he knows the space command is tracking, literally tracking this rocket debris," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.
China on Thursday launched the first of three elements for its space station, the CSS, which was powered by the Long March 5B rocket that is now being tracked.
The body of the rocket "is almost intact coming down," Kirby said, adding that its re-entry is expected sometime around Saturday.
Space startup Quasar takes off with CSIRO Tech
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 05, 2021
New Australian space startup Quasar Satellite Technologies is set to revolutionise space communication, allowing ground stations to talk to hundreds of satellites at once using technology developed by CSIRO, Australia's national science agency.
Over the next decade, more than 57,000 satellites will be launched worldwide to support a surge in demand for space-derived data, from environmenta
New Australian space startup Quasar Satellite Technologies is set to revolutionise space communication, allowing ground stations to talk to hundreds of satellites at once using technology developed by CSIRO, Australia's national science agency.
Over the next decade, more than 57,000 satellites will be launched worldwide to support a surge in demand for space-derived data, from environmenta Researchers create new lunar map to help guide future exploration missions
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Fayetteville AK (SPX) May 05, 2021
A new map including rover paths of the Schrodinger basin, a geologically important area of the moon, could guide future exploration missions.The map was created by a team of interns at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, including Ellen Czaplinski, a University of Arkansas graduate student researcher at the Arkansas Center for Planetary Sciences and first author of a paper published in The Planet
A new map including rover paths of the Schrodinger basin, a geologically important area of the moon, could guide future exploration missions.The map was created by a team of interns at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, including Ellen Czaplinski, a University of Arkansas graduate student researcher at the Arkansas Center for Planetary Sciences and first author of a paper published in The Planet Start of a new series of tests for plant cultivation on the Moon and Mars
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Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 05, 2021
Nine weeks of darkness and temperatures down to minus 50 degrees Celsius. Under these harsh conditions of Antarctica, NASA and the German Aerospace Center have begun a joint series of experiments on vegetable cultivation techniques for use on the Moon and Mars. Until early 2022, NASA guest scientist Jess Bunchek will research how future astronauts could grow lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers
Nine weeks of darkness and temperatures down to minus 50 degrees Celsius. Under these harsh conditions of Antarctica, NASA and the German Aerospace Center have begun a joint series of experiments on vegetable cultivation techniques for use on the Moon and Mars. Until early 2022, NASA guest scientist Jess Bunchek will research how future astronauts could grow lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers US must embrace human augmentation or fall behind competitors
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Washington DC (Sputnik) May 04, 2021
Mixing human ingenuity with machine efficiency, power, and speed can create superhuman capabilities in the coming decade, and the US must embrace this change in technological era or fall behind global adversaries, Dr. Joel B. Mozer, the Chief Scientist of the US Space Force, said on Wednesday.
He was speaking at the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Inspire event.
"In the last c
Mixing human ingenuity with machine efficiency, power, and speed can create superhuman capabilities in the coming decade, and the US must embrace this change in technological era or fall behind global adversaries, Dr. Joel B. Mozer, the Chief Scientist of the US Space Force, said on Wednesday.
He was speaking at the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Inspire event.
"In the last c Blue Origin opens online auction for seat on 1st crewed flight
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Washington DC (UPI) May 5, 2021
Washington-based spaceflight company Blue Origin opened up an auction Wednesday for a seat on its first crewed flight to the edge of space in July.
The New Shepard suborbital space tourism rocket is expected to be launched July 20 from the company's spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, about 120 miles southeast of El Paso.
Blue Origin, which is owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, said the a
Washington-based spaceflight company Blue Origin opened up an auction Wednesday for a seat on its first crewed flight to the edge of space in July.
The New Shepard suborbital space tourism rocket is expected to be launched July 20 from the company's spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, about 120 miles southeast of El Paso.
Blue Origin, which is owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, said the a Nano flashlight enables new applications of light
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Boston MA (SPX) May 05, 2021
In work that could someday turn cell phones into sensors capable of detecting viruses and other minuscule objects, MIT researchers have built a powerful nanoscale flashlight on a chip.
Their approach to designing the tiny light beam on a chip could also be used to create a variety of other nano flashlights with different beam characteristics for different applications. Think of a wide spot
In work that could someday turn cell phones into sensors capable of detecting viruses and other minuscule objects, MIT researchers have built a powerful nanoscale flashlight on a chip.
Their approach to designing the tiny light beam on a chip could also be used to create a variety of other nano flashlights with different beam characteristics for different applications. Think of a wide spot Confirmation of an auroral phenomenon discovered by Finns
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Helsinki, Finland (SPX) May 05, 2021
A new auroral phenomenon discovered by Finnish researchers a year ago is probably caused by areas of increased oxygen atom density occurring in an atmospheric wave channel. The speculative explanation offered by the researchers gained support from a new study.
Observations made by University of Helsinki researchers increased the validity of a speculative mechanism according to which a type
A new auroral phenomenon discovered by Finnish researchers a year ago is probably caused by areas of increased oxygen atom density occurring in an atmospheric wave channel. The speculative explanation offered by the researchers gained support from a new study.
Observations made by University of Helsinki researchers increased the validity of a speculative mechanism according to which a type OCS delivers military satellite comms package to Israeli Navy
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Netanya, Israel (SPX) May 05, 2021
Orbit Communications Systems Ltd., a leading global provider of maritime and airborne satcom terminals, tracking ground station solutions, and mission-critical airborne audio management systems announced the delivery of an OceanTRx 4 Mil satellite communications system to the Israeli Navy to be installed on the Saar 6-class corvette
"We are proud that the Israeli Navy has chosen the OceanT
Orbit Communications Systems Ltd., a leading global provider of maritime and airborne satcom terminals, tracking ground station solutions, and mission-critical airborne audio management systems announced the delivery of an OceanTRx 4 Mil satellite communications system to the Israeli Navy to be installed on the Saar 6-class corvette
"We are proud that the Israeli Navy has chosen the OceanT GMV supplies a Galileo 2nd gen radio frequency constellation simulator
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Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) May 05, 2021
The technology multinational GMV is playing a key role in the Galileo Second Generation (shortened to G2G). GMV has been selected to lead the consortium that will supply a Radio Frequency Constellation Simulator covering both the 1 st and 2 nd Galileo Generation. Galileo is Europe's global, civil, satellite-based navigation and positioning system. Galileo First Generation (shortened to G1G), run
The technology multinational GMV is playing a key role in the Galileo Second Generation (shortened to G2G). GMV has been selected to lead the consortium that will supply a Radio Frequency Constellation Simulator covering both the 1 st and 2 nd Galileo Generation. Galileo is Europe's global, civil, satellite-based navigation and positioning system. Galileo First Generation (shortened to G1G), run MAMA focuses on 5G space-enabled communications for advanced mobility
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Sterling Heights MIw (SPX) May 05, 2021
The Michigan Aerospace Manufacturers Association (MAMA) has announced it has received the first in a series of investments that will enable Michigan to take a leadership role in developing 5G Space-Enabled Communications for Advanced Mobility, or SECAM, for commercial and government users.
With MAMA as the lead of the public-private collaboration, the SECAM Research and Development Project
The Michigan Aerospace Manufacturers Association (MAMA) has announced it has received the first in a series of investments that will enable Michigan to take a leadership role in developing 5G Space-Enabled Communications for Advanced Mobility, or SECAM, for commercial and government users.
With MAMA as the lead of the public-private collaboration, the SECAM Research and Development Project NASA Marshall team on Earth enables science success in orbit
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Huntsville AL (SPX) May 05, 2021
Inside humanity's orbiting outpost is a buzz of activity as explorers, pilots, doctors, and scientists from around the world conduct experiments, maintain the facility, and develop new technologies.
Recently a group of seven astronauts and cosmonauts completed the largest long-duration crew mission in the space station's history, and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and the astronauts who arrive
Inside humanity's orbiting outpost is a buzz of activity as explorers, pilots, doctors, and scientists from around the world conduct experiments, maintain the facility, and develop new technologies.
Recently a group of seven astronauts and cosmonauts completed the largest long-duration crew mission in the space station's history, and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and the astronauts who arrive Space aged: wine matured aboard ISS expected to sell for $1mn
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New York (AFP) May 4, 2021
If a bottle of Petrus 2000 that Christie's is selling tastes out of this world it might be because it aged for 14 months aboard the International Space Station.
Christie's hopes the bottle, now up for grabs in a private sale, will fetch $1 million, which would make it the most expensive wine ever sold.
The bottle is one of a batch of 12 that European startup Space Cargo Unlimited sent in
If a bottle of Petrus 2000 that Christie's is selling tastes out of this world it might be because it aged for 14 months aboard the International Space Station.
Christie's hopes the bottle, now up for grabs in a private sale, will fetch $1 million, which would make it the most expensive wine ever sold.
The bottle is one of a batch of 12 that European startup Space Cargo Unlimited sent in UBCO researcher uses geology to help astronomers find habitable planets
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Kelowna, Canada (SPX) May 05, 2021
Astronomers have identified more than 4,000, and counting, confirmed exoplanets - planets orbiting stars other than the sun - but only a fraction have the potential to sustain life.
Now, new research from UBC's Okanagan campus is using the geology of early planet formation to help identify those that may be capable of supporting life.
"The discovery of any planet is pretty exciting,
Astronomers have identified more than 4,000, and counting, confirmed exoplanets - planets orbiting stars other than the sun - but only a fraction have the potential to sustain life.
Now, new research from UBC's Okanagan campus is using the geology of early planet formation to help identify those that may be capable of supporting life.
"The discovery of any planet is pretty exciting, Juice arrives at ESA’s technical heart
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The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, has come ‘home’ to ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands to undergo an extreme environment test in Europe’s largest thermal vacuum chamber to prepare for its journey to the outer Solar System.