Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 11, 2024
China's Tianwen 2 probe is set to launch aboard a Long March 3B rocket in May 2025. This mission aims to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and deliver them to Earth, followed by a journey to study a comet in deep space.
The probe's first target is the near-Earth asteroid 469219, known as Kamo'oalewa in Hawaiian. After reaching the asteroid, Tianwen 2 will perform remote sensing
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 11, 2024
ESA's Hera asteroid mission, designed for planetary defense, has successfully undergone a crucial phase in its test campaign by being placed back in its transport container.
The spacecraft will remain at the ESTEC Test Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, until the end of August. During this period, Hera's container was used for a global leak test to confirm the integrity of its propulsio
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 11, 2024
The recent test flight of the SQX-1 Y8, a commercial carrier rocket developed by the Chinese private aerospace firm i-Space, ended in failure on Thursday.
The rocket launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 7:40 am Beijing Time. Shortly after liftoff, the SQX-1 Y8 exhibited abnormal performance, leading to an unsuccessful mission.
The SQX-1, also known
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2024
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has been awarded a significant contract to continue providing cargo mission engineering and integration services for NASA's International Space Station (ISS) Program and Artemis campaign. The contract, which holds a total potential value of $476 million, includes a base performance period of two years. The primary work will be conducted at Leidos' facilities in Webster, Texas
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 12, 2024
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) has announced the completion of a new manufacturing facility in Phoenix, Arizona. This facility will handle the final assembly of the Company's next-generation Delta spaceships, with production slated to start in Q1 2025.
The initial team, comprising Virgin Galactic's technical operations and manufacturing personnel, is currently preparing the fa
Beijing (AFP) July 12, 2024
China's exports rose sharply in June while imports declined unexpectedly, official figures showed Friday, in further evidence that the world's second-largest economy is charting an uneven recovery.
The customs department said overseas sales of products and services overseas surged 8.6 percent on-year, up from 7.6 percent in May and better than the eight percent forecast in a survey of analys
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) July 11, 2024
The EU on Thursday approved Apple's offer to allow rivals access to the iPhone's ability to tap-to-pay within the bloc, ending a lengthy probe and sparing it a heavy fine.
The case dates back to 2022 when Brussels first accused Apple of blocking rivals from its popular iPhone tap payment system in a breach of EU competition law.
"Apple has committed to allow rivals to access the 'tap and
Belgrade (AFP) July 11, 2024
Serbia's top court on Thursday opened the way for a disputed Rio Tinto lithium mining project to go ahead after ruling against the government's efforts to halt it.
The constitutional court said that a 2022 government decision to revoke permits awarded to the Australian mining giant was "not in line with the constitution and the law".
However, the court added the government "decides on fu
Paris (AFP) July 11, 2024
Melting sea ice in the fast-warming Arctic Ocean is not making it easier for sailors to navigate a legendary shortcut between Europe and Asia despite popular belief, scientists said Thursday.
To the contrary, climate change was causing thicker, more hazardous ice to choke the fabled "northwest passage" long-sought by navigators seeking a faster route from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans.
Copenhagen (AFP) July 11, 2024
Eco-friendly Copenhagen plans to reward visitors and locals for green good deeds - like picking up rubbish or taking the bus - with free food, coffee or cultural activities.
Denmark's capital city is set to launch on Monday its scheme that will allow people to claim rewards by showing proof like a train ticket or a photo of themselves cycling, although the system is mostly trust-based.
Warsaw (AFP) July 11, 2024
A tremor in a coal mine in southern Poland on Thursday left 17 miners injured and two others missing, the mine operator told Polish media.
"There were 78 miners in the affected area. We transported 76 miners out of the area," Leszek Pietraszek, head of the PGG mining group which operates the Rydultowy mine, told reporters.
"Two miners are still being sought by rescue teams," Pietraszek s
Beijing (AFP) July 11, 2024
Revelations that cooking oil has been transported in containers also used to carry fuel have sparked outrage in China, the latest scandal in a country where fears about food safety are widespread.
Local state-backed outlet the Beijing News last week published an investigation into what it called an "open secret" in the transportation industry.
The outlet found that several tanker trucks
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 12, 2024
For a long time, scientists believed that crystal structures were characterized by an ordered arrangement of atoms in a repeating lattice-like pattern, considered the most stable configuration. However, by the 1960s, advancements in crystallography revealed materials that did not fit this traditional model. These materials exhibit a non-periodic or non-repeating pattern and are known as aperiodi
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 12, 2024
Superconductors are materials capable of conducting electricity without resistance when cooled to a specific critical temperature. They are used in various fields such as power grids, maglev trains, and medical imaging. High-temperature superconductors, with higher critical temperatures than typical superconductors, hold great promise for technological advancements. However, the exact mechanisms
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 11, 2024
Researchers at QUT have unveiled an automated system that significantly advances how robots map and navigate their surroundings. This new technique, which enhances the adaptability of vision-based mapping systems across diverse environments, will be presented at the prestigious Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2024 conference in Delft, the Netherlands, next week by Dr. Alejandro Fontan Villaca
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 11, 2024
Prof. Jie Meng from the State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology at Peking University's School of Physics has led a study focusing on the tensor force in nucleon-nucleon (NN) interactions. Dr. Sibo Wang from the Department of Physics and Chongqing Key Laboratory for Strongly Coupled Physics at Chongqing University contributed significantly through numerical modeling and theoretical
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 12, 2024
Understanding the structure of specific molecules and how they interact is a central focus for researchers, who often utilize nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to gain insights. Traditional NMR requires a strong external magnetic field to align the spins of atomic nuclei, which are then excited by an oscillating weak magnetic field. This process generates voltage changes that can be
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 12, 2024
Researchers at European XFEL have developed a new method to analyze warm dense matter with remarkable precision. This state of matter, which exists between condensed matter and plasma physics, can be found in astrophysical objects or created during inertial confinement fusion. This advancement is a significant aid to scientists at the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), who aim to
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 12, 2024
The Higgs boson, discovered over a decade ago in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detectors, remains elusive, with its properties still not fully understood. Recent progress comes from a collaboration between the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN), RWTH Aachen University, and the Max Planck Institute for Physics, providing new insights into its origins.
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German financial regulator BaFin said Friday (July 12) that Solaris SE faces financial penalties if it doesn’t improve its controls. Solaris, which has a banking license in Germany but focuses on providing white-label services to other banks, has not fixed issues as ordered by BaFin in 2022, Bloomberg reported Friday (July 12), citing a statement from BaFin. In addition, new […]
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