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18 SDS, France's COSMOS integrate SDA knowledge during 'Operator Exchange'

Oct 27, 2022 (SPX)

The 4-day event, facilitated by the 18 SDS's Space Situational Awareness Partnership and Coalition Engagement (SPACE) office, aimed to advance global SDA betwee...

Will Africa's metals boom suffer the same curse as oil

Oct 25, 2022 (AFP)

"We're lucky here in Moanda. We find it about five to six metres (about 18 feet) below the surface," said manager Olivier Kassibi, whose mine yields 36 tonnes o...

'We don't eat lithium': S. America longs for benefits of metal boon

Oct 25, 2022 (AFP)

A key component of batteries used in electric cars, demand has exploded for lithium -- the "white gold" found in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia in quantities larg...

Relativity Space maps path to Terran production at scale with 3D printers

Oct 25, 2022 (SPX)

The newest Stargate printer technology defies traditional printing constraints by moving horizontally as it feeds multiple wires into a single print head to pri...

Greening global economy brings dependence on critical minerals

Oct 24, 2022 (AFP)

Control over most of these essential elements is concentrated in a handful of countries, none more than China, they note. - Which metals are key for the energy ...

US Space Command to Transfer Space Object Tracking to Department of Commerce

Oct 24, 2022 (SPX)

"My current priority is to invest in space domain awareness. To ... gain a better understanding of the activities in space," Army Gen. James Dickinson said. "Ou...

Imerys to open lithium mine in France

Oct 24, 2022 (AFP)

France's Imerys said its surveys had confirmed sufficient concentrations and quantities of lithium at the site in the central Allier region to produce 34,000 to...

Argonne lays the groundwork for its next-generation supercomputer

Oct 21, 2022 (SPX)

Occupying the space of two professional basketball courts and weighing 600 tons, the massive Aurora exascale supercomputer is taking shape at the U.S. Departmen...

Reprogrammable materials selectively self-assemble

Oct 21, 2022 (SPX)

However, the way nature does assembly is ubiquitously bottom-up; animals and plants are self-assembled at a cellular level, relying on proteins to self-fold int...

D-Orbit announces launch contract with Elecnor Deimos for ALISIO-1

Oct 21, 2022 (SPX)

The satellite's payload, fully developed by IAC, is an upgraded version of DRAGO (Demonstrator for Remote Analysis of Ground Observations), a short-wave infrare...

Europe's police keep wary eye on threat from 3D-printed guns

Oct 20, 2022 (AFP)

For now, interest among far-right activists may be limited, say analysts -- and fears of a society awash with print-it-yourself weapons remain far-fetched. But ...

Climate change to increase lifetime of space pollution

Oct 19, 2022 (SPX)

As society becomes ever more dependent on satellites for navigation systems, mobile communications and monitoring Earth, collisions could cause major problems i...

DLR's new optical ground station inaugurated

Oct 17, 2022 (SPX)

At the core of this technology are optical satellite links, which have been designed, developed and tested at the Institute of Communications and Navigation of ...

Hounded at home, China's video game firms welcomed in Europe

Oct 16, 2022 (AFP)

Europe is embroiled in long-running disputes with Beijing over trade, environment, education, raw materials, intellectual property -- but so far video games are...

Europe's police keep wary eye on threat from 3D-printed guns

Oct 14, 2022 (AFP)

For now, interest among far-right activists may be limited, say analysts -- and fears of a society awash with print-it-yourself weapons remain far-fetched. But ...

NASA awards contracts to assess near-space communications capabilities

Oct 13, 2022 (SPX)

The awards, under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 (NextSTEP-2) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Appendix O, are firm fixed-price miles...

Heat-proof chaotic carbides could revolutionize aerospace technology

Oct 13, 2022 (SPX)

Plasmonics is a technology that essentially traps the energy of light within groups of electrons oscillating together on a metallic surface. This creates a powe...

Goddard awards contract to SpaceLink for technology demonstration

Oct 13, 2022 (SPX)

SpaceLink is creating a TDRSS-like capability in MEO, to significantly increase throughput, provide persistent links to space-borne assets, and securely deliver...

Record quarterly profit for Indian software giant TCS

Oct 10, 2022 (AFP)

TCS is India's second-most-valuable company by market capitalisation and earns more than 80 percent of its revenues from Western markets. It has been at the for...

Solstar provides assured communications for deorbiting LEO satellites as FCC issues new order

Oct 06, 2022 (SPX)

"When installed on space-based assets prior to launch, Deke Space Communicators will make it simple for satellite operators and constellation owners to communic...