Новости за 14.03.2023

On Monday, the Princess of Wales joined the rest of the Royal Family for the King's first Commonwealth Day service as monarch.

‘Maybe you can invite me to your home’, says US president on PM’s Santa Monica pad

Herndon VA (SPX) Mar 08, 2023
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) won a $150+ million competitive contract to provide advanced space-based tactical GEOINT-as-a-service to an international ministry of defense customer. "BlackSky is taking real-time, space-based tactical GEOINT to the next level with industry-leading rapid revisit capabilities and fully automated low-latency delivery of AI-derived mission intelligence,

Covington LA (SPX) Mar 13, 2023
Globalstar, Inc. (NYSE American: GSAT) has unveiled Realm Cloud, an agile mobile device and data management (MDM) platform designed to enable VARs and customers with all the capabilities required to solve speed-to-market needs for deploying and building customized asset tracking and telematics solutions while lowering the cost of ownership. Designed for an ever-evolving future, Realm Cloud

Paris, France (SPX) Mar 13, 2023
Ecosystem Restoration Standard (ERS) has launched a next-generation standard to certify restoration projects on the Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCMs). The standard assesses and monitors the impact of restoration projects on climate, biodiversity, and local livelihoods. After an extensive pilot phase, ERS has secured 5M europ in seed funding from top-tier investors to support the development

Ithaca NY (SPX) Mar 13, 2023
Growing commercial crops on solar farms can both increase commercial food production and improve solar panel performance and longevity, according to new Cornell University research published in the journal Applied Energy. "We now have, for the first time, a physics-based tool to estimate the costs and benefits of co-locating solar panels and commercial agriculture from the perspective of i

Washington DC (SPX) Mar 13, 2023
NASA held a virtual showcase last week to demonstrate the agency's efforts in transforming aviation to become more innovative and sustainable. The event called ImaginAviation focused on different areas of aerospace development, featuring NASA's subject matter experts in each area. One of the focus areas of the event was the use of drones for disaster response, specifically for persistent w

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 13, 2023
In places across the U.S., tree cover is shrinking - forests are burned by wildfires on the West Coast and drowned by rising sea levels along the East. From the ground, it's hard to assess the scale of the losses and the effects disappearing trees have on atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and climate change. NASA research scientist Jon Ranson is working to improve new technologies for stud

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2023
A NASA Earth-observing satellite has helped researchers track carbon dioxide emissions for more than 100 countries around the world. The pilot project offers a powerful new look at the carbon dioxide being emitted in these countries and how much of it is removed from the atmosphere by forests and other carbon-absorbing "sinks" within their borders. The findings demonstrate how space-based tools

Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 13, 2023
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, is producing a Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator (HEX), a fully-autonomous hybrid-electric vertical-take-off-and-landing (eVTOL) prototype. With a maximum gross weight of more than 7,000-pounds, the uncrewed aircraft will serve as a flying test-bed to evaluate large aircraft design, novel propulsion systems and control architectures for sustained hover, and ranges

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 10, 2023
Following their historical journey around the Moon as part of NASA's Artemis I mission, the radiation-measuring mannequins, Helga and Zohar, are back in Cologne. On 9 March 2023, the two female astronaut phantoms were presented to the media by the German Aerospace Center at its Institute of Aerospace Medicine for the first time since their flight. Once evaluated, the data from the Matroshka Astr

Dubai, UAE (SPX) Mar 10, 2023
EMURGO Africa and Kepple Africa Ventures has announced the establishment of a business joint venture EMURGO Kepple Ventures to further accelerate its strategic partnership investing in African Web3 businesses. EMURGO Africa and Kepple signed an MoU in September 2022 to jointly spearhead Web3 investment opportunities including token investments in Africa. Despite recent challenges such as the cry

McLean VA (SPX) Mar 06, 2023
Intelsat, operator of one of the world's largest integrated satellite and terrestrial networks, and Sure South Atlantic, an international telecommunications service provider, have signed an expanded agreement to enable Sure to improve the capability and reliability of communications for residents of the Falkland Islands, Saint Helena and Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. As the

Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 09, 2023
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers are collaborating with NASA to send human heart "tissue-on-a-chip" specimens into space as early as March. The project is designed to monitor the tissue for changes in heart muscle cells' mitochondria (their power supply) and ability to contract in low-gravity conditions. The tissue samples will be launched into space aboard SpaceX CRS-27, a resupply miss

Germantown MD (SPX) Mar 10, 2023
Hughes Network Systems reports that Stargroup, a Mexican telecommunications, has selected the Hughes JUPITER System and managed satellite broadband to extend LTE service to customers in rural communities. As part of the Mexican government's Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos initiative to help bridge the digital divide, Stargroup is connecting hundred

Bristol UK (SPX) Mar 14, 2023
One of the first practical applications of the much-hyped but little-used quantum computing technology is now within reach, thanks to a unique approach that sidesteps the major problem of scaling up such prototypes. The invention, by a University of Bristol physicist, who gave it the name 'counterportation', provides the first-ever practical blueprint for creating in the lab a wormhole tha

Paris (ESA) Mar 14, 2023
A year has passed since the launch of the ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover mission was put on hold, but the work has not stopped for the ExoMars teams in Europe. In this programme, the ESA Web TV crew travel back to Turin, Italy to talk to the teams and watch as new tests are being conducted with the rover's Earth twin Amalia while the real rover remains carefully stored in an ultra-clean roo

The Lagos State Pension Commission has denied a report (not by The PUNCH) that the state government failed to make payments to retirees in October, November and December 2022. In a statement made available to our correspondent, the agency said the sum of N1.062bn was paid to 288 retirees on October 14, 2022, and the

At least seven of eight people killed when two boats capsized in shallow but turbulent surf off the San Diego coast were Mexican migrants, Mexican officials said Monday.

New Delhi [India], March 14 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice to Dev Inder Bhalla, a Singapore-based businessman on the Enforcement Directorate plea challenging the trial Court order which denied remand for the accused. ED has moved Delhi High Court challenging Rouse Avenue Court order stating that the arrest of the accused Dev Inder Bhalla, a Singapore-based businessman is not legal and granted interim

The Global Combat Air Program is the country’s first major military development plan with partners other than the U.S. since World War II.

Draper secured a straight sets victory to advance to the fourth round

(Telecompaper) GlasfaserPlus, the joint venture between Deutsche Telekom and Australian fund manager IFM Investor, plans to build fibre networks in the municipalities of Tangermuende, Teuschnitz and Mitwitz...

The Duchess of York talked up "family unity" and the importance of "compromise" in a new TV interview.

A CIVIL war has erupted at the BBC after bosses apologised to Gary Lineker following a row over his inflammatory migrant tweets.