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Supply of key minerals for clean energy crucial: IEA
May 05, 2021 (AFP)
Failing to do so could lead to bottlenecks in supply hampering the development of electric vehicles, wind turbines and other projects designed to help countries...
China's Long March-5B rocket booster set for uncontrolled reentry
May 05, 2021 (UPI)
Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Astrophysics Center at Harvard University, said it is possible some parts of the rocket will survive re-entry and ca...
GMV supplies a Galileo 2nd gen radio frequency constellation simulator
May 05, 2021 (SPX)
GMV will lead from Portugal the development and supply of the Radio Frequency Constellation Simulator to support Galileo Second Generation Engineering and Exper...
ESA to build second deep space dish in Australia
May 04, 2021 (ESA)
The 620-tonne antenna will be a new model complementing the existing deep space antenna on the site, with novel functionality and support for additional communi...
US must embrace human augmentation or fall behind competitors
May 04, 2021 (Sputnik)
He was speaking at the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Inspire event. "In the last century, Western civilization transformed from an industrial-based soc...
Fortnite maker girds for epic court clash with Apple
May 02, 2021 (AFP)
The case opening in federal court comes with Apple feeling pressure from a wide range of app makers over its tight control of the App Store, which critics say r...
VR ER: tech helps UK medical students learn safely
May 01, 2021 (AFP)
But, owing to teaching disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, medical students at Musgrove Park Hospital in the main town of Taunton are tapping in to v...
SSTL signs up Space-Eyes for NovaSAR data
Apr 29, 2021 (SPX)
SSTL will lease imaging payload capacity to Space-Eyes for the lifetime of the satellite, designed to be in excess of 7 years, and will retain ownership of the ...
Setting sail for sustainable space
Apr 29, 2021 (ESA)
The risk of collision with debris and even functioning satellites is increasing, especially in low-Earth orbit, putting many of Earth's climate, ocean and land ...
Space law and the fight against space debris
Apr 29, 2021 (The Conversation)
Large satellite constellations such as Starlink are becoming more common, infuriating astronomers and baffling casual skywatchers. In the coming decade, we may ...
Hot and cold space radio testing
Apr 29, 2021 (ESA)
The recently completed facility is called the Low-temperature Near-field Terahertz Chamber , or Lorentz. Based at ESTEC in the Netherlands, it can test high-fre...
York Space Systems begins production of larger LX-CLASS platform
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
It will feature York's innovative man-out-of-the-loop autonomous operation capability and utilize the same cybersecurity and encryption systems developed for Yo...
Energy-saving gas turbines from the 3D printer
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
Gas turbine buckets have to withstand extreme conditions: under high pressure and at high temperatures they are exposed to tremendous centrifugal forces . In or...
Microchip expands its range of radiation-hardened arm microcontrollers for space systems
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
"Spacecraft and satellites are expanding in complexity to provide commercial and military operators with robust new communication and data capabilities, greater...
Microsoft profits jump as cloud services keep momentum
Apr 27, 2021 (AFP)
Profits in the three months to March 31 jumped 44 percent from the same period a year ago to $15.5 billion while revenues increased 19 percent to $41.7 billion....
Molecular Tomographer algorithm maps gene expression in space
Apr 26, 2021 (SPX)
One way of mapping genes into tissues is a technique called in situ hybridization. Simply put, a target gene is tagged ("hybridized") with a fluorescent marker ...
Radar satellites can better protect against bushfires and floods
Apr 24, 2021 (SPX)
The research used Synthetic Aperture Radar data obtained by the European Space Agency Sentinel-1 satellite, amongst others, to evaluate Australia-specific case ...
Rocket to lift space station core moves to launch tower
Apr 23, 2021 (XNA)
The agency said in a brief statement that the rocket with the core capsule inside will begin pre-launch examinations. The launch mission, the second flight for ...
Experts issue call to regulate space debris as levels of junk mount
Apr 23, 2021 (UPI)
Edinburgh University researchers said in a study published Friday in the journal Nature Astronomy the debris is troublesome, potentially affecting "professional...
US-British firm to build 3.5 bn euro data centre in Portugal
Apr 23, 2021 (AFP)
The company -- "start campus" -- has chosen a site in the port of Sines, southwestern Portugal, near a decommissioned coal power plant, and will "have a net zer...
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