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  Melbourne FL (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 L3Harris Technologies has been selected by Airbus Defence and Space to build a space reflector antenna for a next-generation satellite which will provide mobile telecommunication services throughout the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Central Asia. The geostationary satellite, owned and operated by Yahsat/Thuraya, will carry an L-band payload that will enable high-speed services for all customer segments, including defense, government and enterprise throughout multiple continents. The satellite, e ... read more |
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Gogo announces entry into agreement to sell its Commercial Aviation unit to Intelsat for $400M in CashChicago IL (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 Gogo has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Commercial Aviation (CA) business to Intelsat S.A. for $400 million in cash, subject to customary adjustments. The Gogo Board of Direct ... more 
Altius Space Machines to develop innovative technologies for satellite servicingDenver CO (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 Voyager Space Holdings' subsidiary - Altius Space Machines - has been selected to participate in a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs to ... more  
Starship could attempt near-earth orbit test flight next year, Elon Musk saysWashington (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2020 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says the Starship reusable launch vehicle that his company is developing with the intention of taking humans to the moon and Mars at some point, could fly to the near-Earth orbi ... more  
NASA seeks next class of Flight Directors for human spaceflight missionsWashington DC (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 NASA is looking for leaders for one of the best jobs on Earth for human spaceflight - including missions to the Moon - the position of flight director in mission control at the agency's Johnson Spac ... more |
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Toward a machine learning model that can reason about everyday actionsBoston MA (SPX) Sep 01, 2020 The ability to reason abstractly about events as they unfold is a defining feature of human intelligence. We know instinctively that crying and writing are means of communicating, and that a panda f ... more  
Revised code could help improve efficiency of fusion experimentsPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Sep 01, 2020 An international team of researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has upgraded a key computer code for calculating forces acting on magneti ... more  
Airmen to transfer into Space Force beginning Sept 1Washington DC (AFNS) Sep 02, 2020 Beginning Sept. 1 and continuing throughout the fall, more than 2,400 active-duty Airmen in space operations (13S) and space systems operations (1C6) career fields will transfer into the U.S. Space ... more 
Dragonfly Aerospace emerges from SCS Aerospace GroupCape Town, South Africa (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 Dragonfly Aerospace picks up the flag in the latest chapter in the proud history of South African space engineering and space missions. This history starts with the national space program of t ... more  
Lockheed, York nab $281.6M for new military satellite networkWashington DC (UPI) Sep 01, 2020 The Space Development Agency has awarded two contracts - totaling $281.6 million - to develop two sets of satellites that will serve as the communications backbone for a network designed to enable a range of advanced command and control systems. ... more |
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US warns NKorea still pressing ballistic missile developmentWashington (AFP) Sept 1, 2020 The US government warned Tuesday that North Korea continues to acquire materials and equipment for its ballistic missile program, despite claims in Washington that Pyongyang has pulled back on its nuclear ambitions. ... more  |
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DARPA completes key milestone on Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapons programWashington DC (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 DARPA and the US Air Force (ave announced the successful completion of captive carry tests of two variants of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) and are ready to proceed to first fre ... more 
China pushing to double nuclear warhead arsenal: PentagonWashington (AFP) Sept 1, 2020 The Chinese military is pressing to double its 200-plus nuclear warheads within a decade with the ability to launch them aboard ballistic missiles by land, sea and air, the Pentagon said in a report Tuesday. ... more  
Manchester experts' breakthrough narrows intelligent life search in Milky WayManchester, UK (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 An analytical breakthrough that could significantly improve our chances of finding extra-terrestrial life in our galaxy has been discovered by a team at The University of Manchester. In new re ... more  
NASA's Lucy mission one step closer to exploring the Trojan AsteroidsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 NASA's first mission to explore the Trojan asteroids is one step closer to launch. The Discovery Program's Lucy mission passed a critical milestone and is officially authorized to transition to its ... more 
Boeing's Starliner makes progress ahead of flight test with astronautsKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 NASA and Boeing continue to make progress toward the company's second uncrewed flight test of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft prior to flying astronauts to the International Space Station as part o ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 
NASA is looking for leaders for one of the best jobs on Earth for human spaceflight - including missions to the Moon - the position of flight director in mission control at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Those chosen as NASA flight directors will lead human spaceflight missions to the International Space Station, as American astronauts once again are launching on American ro ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 
DARPA and the US Air Force (ave announced the successful completion of captive carry tests of two variants of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) and are ready to proceed to first free-flight testing within the calendar year. The joint Agency and Service effort seeks to develop and demonstrate critical technologies to enable an effective and affordable air-launched hypersonic crui ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2020 
The Chinese Astronomical Society (CAS) has recently released the list of recommended Chinese names of 1,136 Mars craters on its website.
The data will be available for public use. Users can find the Chinese names at Glossary of Astronomical Terms operated by the National Astronomical Data Center.
Previously, the CAS had released the first batch of recommended Chinese names of 811 Mar ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2020 
China's Tianwen 1 Mars probe had traveled 100 million kilometers as of Friday morning, according to the China National Space Administration.
The administration said in a statement that the spacecraft was in good condition and several of its mission payloads had completed self-examination and sent scientific data back to ground control.
By Friday morning, the robotic probe had flown a ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 
Gogo has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Commercial Aviation (CA) business to Intelsat S.A. for $400 million in cash, subject to customary adjustments.
The Gogo Board of Directors has approved the transaction. Intelsat expects to finance the transaction utilizing cash on hand and borrowings under its $1 billion debtor-in-possession credit facility and has obtained support f ... more |
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 Melbourne FL (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 
L3Harris Technologies has been selected by Airbus Defence and Space to build a space reflector antenna for a next-generation satellite which will provide mobile telecommunication services throughout the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Central Asia.
The geostationary satellite, owned and operated by Yahsat/Thuraya, will carry an L-band payload that will enable high-speed services for all cu ... more |
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 Manchester, UK (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 
An analytical breakthrough that could significantly improve our chances of finding extra-terrestrial life in our galaxy has been discovered by a team at The University of Manchester.
In new research published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the researchers demonstrate a reanalysis of existing data that represents a new milestone in the Search for Extra-terrestri ... more |
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 Kiruna, Sweden (SPX) Aug 24, 2020  The first of two Swedish-led Jupiter instruments has left the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) to take its place on the European spacecraft JUICE. The Radio and Plasma Wave Investigation instrument (RPWI) will measure electric and magnetic fields to identify and map the oceans beneath the frozen ice cover of the moon Ganymede.
In 2013, IRF was sel ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 30, 2020  The French environmental services group Veolia said Sunday it wants to buy 29.9 percent of rival Suez from energy company Engie to build a "world champion in ecological transformation".
Veolia's offer, worth an estimated 2.9 billion euros ($3.5 billion), would leave Engie with a holding of just over two percent in Suez that it could sell later when Veolia makes a planned public offer for the ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 18, 2020 
Global acceptance and application of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System will gather momentum on the back of further integration with telecom technologies like 5G and the internet of things, company executives and experts said.
Their comments came after Beidou started offering full-scale global services on July 31. More importantly, navigation technologies are increasingly intertwin ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Sep 01, 2020 
China's Chang'e 4 probe has survived more than 600 Earth days on the far side of the moon while conducting scientific explorations.
With a variety of scientific gear on board, the Chinese lunar probe observed and measured the exotic land, offering unprecedented views and understanding of the far side of the moon and beyond.
As of last Wednesday, the lander and the rover of the Chang' ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 
NASA's first mission to explore the Trojan asteroids is one step closer to launch. The Discovery Program's Lucy mission passed a critical milestone and is officially authorized to transition to its next phase.
This major decision was made after a series of independent reviews of the status of the spacecraft, instruments, schedule and budget. The milestone, known as Key Decision Point-D (KD ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Sep 01, 2020 
According to a recent research, in the coming years, the global growth of this segment will exceed 11% per year. Climate change, environmental protection, disaster monitoring - these are only a few of many areas where satellite imaging is used. As the technology develops, the quality of images is constantly improving and the cost of getting them is falling, analysts predict a dynamic growth of t ... more |
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 Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 
Solar storms and other space weather events have the potential to impact society on a national or global scale, and University of Michigan researchers lead two multi-million-dollar projects to improve forecasting.
These torrents of charged particles and electromagnetic fields from the Sun can damage power lines and satellites, and even astronauts. The National Science Foundation and NASA a ... more |
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 Cologne, Germany (SPX) Sep 01, 2020 
A team including researchers from the Institute for Astrophysics of the University of Cologne has for the first time directly observed the columns of matter that build up newborn stars. This was observed in the young star TW Hydrae system located approximately 163 light years from Earth.
This result was obtained with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) and its GRAVITY instrument ... more |
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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 
Astronomers have known for two decades that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, but the physics of this expansion remains a mystery. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa have made a novel prediction--the dark energy responsible for this accelerating growth comes from a vast sea of compact objects spread throughout the voids between galaxies. This conclusion ... more |
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