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  London, UK (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 Four shoebox-sized and Government-backed satellites, including two supercomputers, were launched Monday 28 September. The 'nanosatellites', which are built in Glasgow and are no larger than a microwave, will join a fleet of nearly 100 objects in low Earth orbit that monitor shipping movements, helping predict global trade and making business more cost effective and efficient. Like mobile phones, satellites are also getting smaller and smarter and nanosatellites are roughly the size of a shoe ... read more |
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Machine-learning nanosats to inform global tradeParis (ESA) Sep 29, 2020 The latest batch of tiny satellites to monitor trade on Earth from space have launched. The Glaswegian-built nanosatellites join a fleet of about 100 objects in low Earth orbit that help to pr ... more 
NanoAvionics launches second satellite for Lacuna Space's growing IoT satellite constellationHarwell Campus UK (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 NanoAvionics, a multinational nanosatellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, announced the successful launch of another Lacuna Space IoT satellite, and a third one being ready for launch at ... more  
Nanocrystals can trigger explosive volcanic eruptionsWashington DC (UPI) Sep 24, 2020 The presence of tiny crystals in magma can cause volcanoes to violently explode, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Science Advances. ... more  
Hyperbolic metamaterials exhibit 2T physicsWashington DC (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 Metamaterials - nanoengineered structures designed for precise control and manipulation of electromagnetic waves - have enabled such innovations as invisibility cloaks and super-resolution microscop ... more |
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GITAI and Nanoracks demonstrate GITAI robot inside the Nanoracks Bishop AirlockTokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 In 2021, space robotics start-up GITAI, in collaboration with Nanoracks, will conduct a technical demonstration of a GITAI robot executing versatile tasks inside the Nanoracks' Bishop Airlock Module ... more 
HyperScout 2 is in spaceKourou, French Guiana (SPX) Sep 04, 2020 On 3 September 2020 at 03:51 CEST, a Vega launch vehicle carried two FSSCat nanosatellites into orbit, one of which houses the brand new HyperScout 2 instrument. This advanced remote sensing system ... more  
Machine-learning nanosatellites to monitor global tradeGlasgow UK (SPX) Sep 08, 2020 Nanosatellites, built in Glasgow, will join a fleet of more than 100 objects in low Earth orbit that help to predict the movement of the world's resources, so that businesses and governments can mak ... more  
Nano particles for healthy tissueParis (ESA) Sep 07, 2020 "Eat your vitamins" might be replaced with "ingest your ceramic nano-particles" in the future as space research is giving more weight to the idea that nanoscopic particles could help protect cells f ... more 
ESA launches small Belgian satellite carrying VTT's remote sensing technology into spaceHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Sep 07, 2020 The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched 42 tiny satellites aboard a Vega rocket. It took off from ESA's launch site in French Guiana on 2 September local time. One of the launched nanosatellite ... more |
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 Hybrid nanomaterials hold promise for improved ceramic composites  
No limit yet for carbon nanotube fibersHouston TX (SPX) Aug 18, 2020 Carbon nanotube fibers made at Rice University are now stronger than Kevlar and are inching up on the conductivity of copper. The Rice lab of chemical and biomolecular engineer Matteo Pasquali ... more |
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PredaSAR chooses SpaceX to launch its first synthetic aperture radar satelliteBoca Raton FL (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 PredaSAR Corporation, has announced that its first of 48 advanced commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites will launch on SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, ... more 
Momentus to Launch Dodona Nanosat for Lockheed USC La Jument ProgramSanta Clara CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 Momentus and Lockheed Martin have announced a launch service agreement for a 3U satellite in Lockheed Martin and SERC (Space Engineering Research Center) University of Southern California's (USC) sm ... more  
New fabrication method brings single-crystal perovskite devices closer to viabilitySan Diego CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Nanoengineers at UC San Diego developed a new method to fabricate perovskites as single-crystal thin films, which are more efficient for use in solar cells and optical devices than the current state ... more 
Sateliot and Danish Gatehouse to offer global 5G via its LEO Nano-satellitesMadrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 Sateliot, the first satellite telecommunications operator to provide continuous global connectivity to the Internet of Things (IoT) universe under a 5G architecture, has sealed an agreement with the ... more 
Spaceflight Inc chooses Tethers Unlimited's Terminator Tape to deorbit of Orbit Transfer VehicleBothell WA (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI) is pleased to announce that Spaceflight Inc. has selected TUI's NanoSat Terminator Tape Deorbit System for end-of life disposal of its new Sherpa-FX orbit transfer vehi ... more |
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 Dubai (AFP) Sept 29, 2020 
The United Arab Emirates announced Tuesday it will launch an unmanned rover to the moon by 2024 as it seeks to expand its space sector.
The UAE - a collection of seven emirates better known for its skyscrapers, palm-shaped islands and opulent mega attractions - is a newcomer to the world of space exploration but quickly making its mark.
In September 2019, the oil-rich country sent the ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 23, 2020 
NASA chief Jim Bridenstine told lawmakers Wednesday it was crucial for the US to maintain a presence in Earth's orbit after the International Space Station is decommissioned so that China does not gain a strategic advantage.
The first parts of the ISS were launched in 1998 and it has been continuously lived in since 2000.
The station, which serves as a space science lab and is a partners ... more |
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 Vancouver (AFP) Sept 29, 2020 
The Canadian government on Tuesday asked a judge to reject Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's argument that the bid to extradite her to the US should be quashed because it omitted key facts.
Crown counsel Robert Frater, speaking on a second day of hearings this week into whether Meng should be handed over to US authorities, explained that the evidentiary bar is much lower in extradition ... more |
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Dubai (AFP) Sept 29, 2020
The United Arab Emirates announced Tuesday it will launch an unmanned rover to the moon by 2024 as it seeks to expand its space sector.
The UAE - a collection of seven emirates better known for its skyscrapers, palm-shaped islands and opulent mega attractions - is a newcomer to the world of space exploration but quickly making its mark.
In September 2019, the oil-rich country sent the ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 07, 2020 
"Eat your vitamins" might be replaced with "ingest your ceramic nano-particles" in the future as space research is giving more weight to the idea that nanoscopic particles could help protect cells from common causes of damage.
Oxidative stress occurs in our bodies when cells lose the natural balance of electrons in the molecules that we are made of. This is a common and constant occurrence ... more |
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 Taiyuan, China (XNA) Sep 29, 2020 
China has successfully launched two environmental monitoring satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on Sunday.
A Long March-4B rocket carrying the HJ-2A and HJ-2B satellites took off at 11:23 a.m. (Beijing Time), according to the launch center.
They will replace the HJ-1A and HJ-1B, the previous generation of environmental monitoring satellite ... more |
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Paris (ESA) Sep 07, 2020
"Eat your vitamins" might be replaced with "ingest your ceramic nano-particles" in the future as space research is giving more weight to the idea that nanoscopic particles could help protect cells from common causes of damage.
Oxidative stress occurs in our bodies when cells lose the natural balance of electrons in the molecules that we are made of. This is a common and constant occurrence ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 18, 2020 
George Konidaris still remembers his disheartening introduction to robotics. "When you're a young student and you want to program a robot, the first thing that hits you is this immense disappointment at how much you can't do with that robot," he says.
Most new roboticists want to program their robots to solve interesting, complex tasks - but it turns out that just moving them through space ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
In January this year, the U.S. Navy deployed Northrop Grumman's MQ-4C Triton to Guam. The deployment is a first for the high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system.
The Guam deployment is part of an early operational capability (EOC) and will enable the U.S. Navy to further develop concepts of operation for employment of the syst ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 28, 2020 
Shares in China's biggest chipmaker tumbled Monday on reports that the United States had imposed export controls on the company, the latest salvo in the countries' battle for technological dominance.
In a new blow for China's advanced tech ambitions, the US Commerce Department reportedly ordered companies to seek permission before selling equipment to Semiconductor Manufacturing Internationa ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 29, 2020 
The Chang'e-4 lunar lander touched down on the far side of the Moon on 3 January 2019, with a German instrument for measuring space radiation on board. Since then, the Lunar Lander Neutron and Dosimetry (LND) instrument has been measuring temporally resolved cosmic radiation for the first time. Earlier devices could only record the entire 'mission dose'.
In its current issue, the scientifi ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 23, 2020 
On the night he made a failed attempt to flee to Taiwan by speedboat, 16-year-old Hong Konger Hoang received a phone call, signalling it was time to leave at once.
The teenager is the youngest of a dozen Hong Kong activists now in mainland Chinese custody after trying to escape prosecution over last year's huge democracy protests, their boat captured by the Chinese coastguard.
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2020  Fairy circles are one of nature's greatest enigmas and most visually stunning phenomena. An international research team led by the University of Gottingen has now, for the first time, collected detailed data to show that Alan Turing's model explains the striking vegetation patterns of the Australian fairy circles. In addition, the researchers showed that the grasses that make up these patterns a ... more |
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 Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Sep 29, 2020  Gravitational wave detectors have opened a new window to the universe by measuring the ripples in spacetime produced by colliding black holes and neutron stars, but they are ultimately limited by quantum fluctuations induced by light reflecting off of mirrors. LSU Ph.D. physics alumnus Jonathan Cripe and his team of LSU researchers have conducted a new experiment with scientists from Caltech and ... more |
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 Golden CO (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
Hybrid systems of floating solar panels and hydropower plants may hold the technical potential to produce a significant portion of the electricity generated annually across the globe, according to an analysis by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
The researchers estimate that adding floating solar panels to bodies of water that are a ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
Swarm Technologies, developer of the world's lowest-cost global satellite communications network, has announced details and pricing of its hardware and network services. Device connectivity remains inaccessible for millions of people worldwide and is prohibitively expensive for many industries.
Swarm's commercial satellite network solves this problem. From the shipping lanes of the Bosphor ... more |
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