Новости за 18.10.2022

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 13, 2022
NASA has selected two companies - Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) USA of Denver and SpaceLink Corporation of McLean, Virginia - to develop capability studies to explore and demonstrate communications and navigation services in support of Artemis missions to the Moon. The awards, under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 (NextSTEP-2) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA

London, UK (SPX) Oct 13, 2022
Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) has hosted a Strategic Update on the proposed combination with OneWeb, announced in July 2022. Eutelsat and key OneWeb shareholders signed a Memorandum of Understanding in July 2022, with a view to combining Eutelsat and OneWeb in an all-share transaction, whereby Eutelsat and OneWeb shareholders will each hold 50% of the Eutelsat shares2. The

Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Oct 17, 2022
Satellites are increasingly becoming network nodes of the internet. Terrestrial nodes are integrated via fibre optic networks, and satellites can only keep up with current developments on the ground if they are also optically networked. European Commission programmes such as the 'Secure Connectivity Initiative' depend on this technology, as do many commercial networks such as Starlink or Oneweb,

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2022
Phase Four, the creator of the radio-frequency thruster for satellite propulsion, reports that it will expand its Maxwell turn-key plasma propulsion line and offer satellite manufacturers an industry-first high performance engine using an inexpensive, domestically sourced iodine-based propellant. Max-V leverages the Maxwell Block 2 engine's innovative architecture and builds on the radio-frequen

Leiden, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 13, 2022
An additional six of Airbus' Sparkwing solar panels have been selected by Aerospacelab to accommodate their ramp up towards higher satellite production volumes. The panels are designed and produced at Airbus' Dutch site in Leiden. The ordered configuration, consisting of two single panel wings, each measuring 1070x570mm, is identical to the set recently delivered by Airbus for the first flight m

San Francisco (AFP) Oct 17, 2022
The United States said Monday that President Xi Jinping was leading China in a more "aggressive" direction but renewed eagerness to cooperate on shared interests as he prepares for a historic third term. Xi on Sunday hailed his own response on Covid and corruption as he launched a Communist Party Congress that is set to give him another five years at the helm of the billion-plus nation.

Beijing (AFP) Oct 17, 2022
China said Monday it will delay the release of economic growth figures, as the country's leadership gathers for a major meeting set to hand President Xi Jinping a historic third term in office. The announcement comes a day before analysts had expected Beijing to publish some of its weakest quarterly growth figures since 2020 with the economy hobbled by Covid-19 restrictions and a real estate

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2022
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has been selected by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to supply solar panels that will power NASA's shoe-box-sized mobile robots as part of the Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Explorers (CADRE) program. The solar panels will use Rocket Lab's inverted metamorphic multi-junction (IMM) solar cells that are more efficient and lighter weight

Pego, Portugal (AFP) Oct 17, 2022
As the UN steps up calls to make the switch to renewable energy to fight the global climate emergency, Portugal is among the first European Union countries to abandon coal. It will share the lessons it has learned so far at November's COP27 UN climate summit in Egypt. It has been nearly a year now since smoke has trailed up from the cooling towers of the coal plant in Pego, 120 kilometre

Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Oct 17, 2022
To assess damage caused to the ozone layer by charged particles in space that surround the Earth, an international team of researchers from Japan, the United States, and Canada studied a type of aurora called an "isolated proton aurora". They found more damage than predicted by simulations, suggesting a new factor to consider when assessing damage to the ozone layer. Along with solar radia

Storrs CT (SPX) Oct 17, 2022
When the sun goes down and lights go on - or not - a multitude of data can be gathered by satellite from the night sky, giving insights into the dynamic human activities happening at the surface. With remote sensing, things like land use changes, urban development, and forest management can be reliably and accurately measured by daylight. At nighttime, we can gather different kinds of data

San Francisco CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2022
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, reports that NASA has exercised an option to extend its contract with Planet under the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program through September 2023. Planet has been providing data to NASA scientists and federally funded researchers under this program since 2018 and the company looks forward

SAINTS boss Ralph Hasenhuttl insisted Gary O’Neil had done an “incredible job” in picking Cherries up off the canvas to mastermind a six-game unbeaten run in the Premier League.

The news is a huge blow for Howe and the player, who has only featured three times since his arrival from Real Sociedad in August.

The SXS market is booming, with many new players entering this field daily.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Tagansky District Court in Moscow fined Amazon a total of 4 million rubles ($64,800) on Tuesday over the IT giant's refusal to take down restricted content on illegal drugs and methods of suicide.

Rupee opened at 82.21 against the U.S. dollar and closed at 82.37, down seven paise from its previous close of 82.30 against the American currency

The European Union (EU) should approve additional ship recycling facilities outside Europe to meet the demands of the global shipping industry, a report commissioned by BIMCO shows.

Australia's state-owned wholesaler NBN has picked Nokia to supply long-range mmWave equipment for its fixed-wireless access (FWA) upgrade.

Meanwhile, Henry Cavill be seen as Superman opposite Dwayne Johnson in the upcoming DCEU movie ‘Black Adam’

Mr. Sisodia claimed that out of the 48,000 government schools in Gujarat, 32,000 were in bad condition, as per a mapping of schools done by an AAP team

From Spider-Man to "Stranger Things," Google Trend's FrightGeist lets everyone know if your costume is a popular pick this year.

“It’s the government which decides over the permission of the team visiting Pakistan so we won’t comment on that but for the 2023 Asia Cup it’s decided that the tournament will be held at some neutral venue,” said Jay Shah

The bodies of four men have been identified as those who went missing last week, turning a missing persons case into a murder investigation.