Новости за 11.06.2023

Reston VA (SPX) Jun 08, 2023
SES Space and Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has announced the availability of flexible, secure, and reliable satellite-powered network connectivity for AWS Modular Data Center. AWS Modular Data Center makes it easy for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to deploy modular data centers managed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in infrastructure-limited locations. In February 2023, AWS an

Reston VA (SPX) Jun 09, 2023
Science Applications International has been selected for a $64 million award from the Space Development Agency (SDA) to develop, implement and maintain the Battle Management Command, Control and Communications (BMC3) Application Factory for the agency's constellation of low-earth orbit satellites called the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). "The BMC3 component of the PWSA

Oslo, Norway (SPX) Jun 09, 2023
Marlink, the smart network and digital solutions company, is enabling Japanese Shipping Company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) to evaluate the impact of LEO Internet services on business sustainability and crew welfare. Under an agreement struck at the end of 2022, the leading Japanese shipping company will assess past, present and future user experiences and explore access how Internet access

Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jun 09, 2023
In recent years, the world has focused on shifting away from fossil fuels, with the goal of using renewable energy sources as the future means of powering the globe. Currently, 22% of global energy production comes from various renewable energy sources, like photovoltaic devices, which are a fast-growing contributor to solar energy solutions. To create more energy-efficient photovoltaic de

Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 09, 2023
Recently on Mars, Perseverance wrestled with sampling a crumbly rock and continued our boulder-bonanza! We've been exploring the Onahu outcrop for the past 3 weeks, having previously performed an abrasion named Ouzel Falls. We saw from this abrasion that the rock is most likely a conglomerate worth sampling, but was also likely to be crumbly. The team therefore elected to drive and r

Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Jun 09, 2023
Neumann Space, a technology leader of in-space electric propulsion today announced that it has signed a contract with Space Inventor, a leading European manufacturer of microsatellites that will enable it to gain greater access to space as part of its program of in-orbit demonstration (IOD). As part of the contract, Space Inventor will provide Neumann Space with the opportunity to integrat

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 09, 2023
Space Systems Command (SSC) recently assigned 12 National Security Space Launch (NSSL) service missions under the NSSL Phase 2 Launch Service Procurement contract for Fiscal Year 2023. Six missions were awarded to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) for the Space Development Agency (SDA) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer (T1TL)-B, SDA T1TL-C, SDA T1TL-D, SDA T1TL-E, SDA T1TR-C, and U.S. Space F

Carlsbad CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2023
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications company, has announced it was selected by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate (RV) to provide on-orbit space relay connectivity for its ARBALEST program, which aims to support a future space-based demonstration of operational capabilities for the Department of Defense (DoD). The future AFRL mission will illustrat

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2023
This blog covers two planning shifts this week, June 7 and Friday, June 9, 2023, for a total of four sols of activities. Curiosity has been trying to work her way to the top of a canyon towards an interesting cluster of craters. Unfortunately the current terrain is extremely challenging, and the drives have been stopping short of their intended distance. After multiple attempts to get uphi

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 08, 2023
Early data shows the greatest net gain of water over the winter in nearly 22 years, but the state's groundwater levels still suffer from the effects of years of drought. After years of intense drought and diminishing groundwater, California just saw its greatest year-over-year water gains in two decades, according to data from the GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On

Beijing (XNA) Jun 09, 2023
During a recent space launch, China tested a parachute system that can help guide fallen rocket boosters into targeted areas, the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology said on Friday. The system was used on a Long March-3B rocket carrying a BeiDou navigation satellite into orbit on May 17 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province, according to the academy. Dev

Coventry UK (SPX) Jun 09, 2023
Researchers are working on sustainable technology to harvest solar power in space - which could supplement life support systems on the Moon and Mars. In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists assess a new technique which could convert renewable, green energy from outside the Earth's atmosphere. They are taking advantage of photosynthesis - the chemical process plants underg

Bonn (AFP) June 8, 2023
The head of the upcoming COP28 climate summit, who also is the chief executive of the UAE's national oil company, acknowledged Thursday that a reduction in the use of fossil fuels is inescapable. "The phase down of fossil fuels is inevitable," Sultan al-Jaber said on the sidelines of technical climate talks six months ahead of the summit. "The speed at which this happens depends on how q

Washington DC (UPI) Jun 8, 2023
Considerable gains in renewable energy are apparent in the energy sector, though natural gas remains the single largest source of power, the U.S. government said. The U.S. Energy Information Administration, the Energy Department's data cruncher, said it expects a large component of the increase in electric power generation will come from solar, wind and natural gas. Coal's share

Hong Kong (AFP) June 9, 2023
Stocks rallied again in Asia on Friday, fired by renewed optimism that the Federal Reserve will hold off lifting interest rates next week as fresh data indicated further tightening in the US labour market. Expectations the central bank will stand pat next week - for the first time since starting its hiking cycle last year - have pushed equities higher for most of the month, helped by the e

New York (AFP) June 8, 2023
Tesla will open its North American electric vehicle charging network to cars from rival General Motors beginning in 2024, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and GM Chief Mary Barra announced Thursday. Under the agreement - which is similar to a collaboration unveiled last month between Ford and Tesla - GM vehicle owners will have access to Tesla's 12,000 "superchargers," said a GM news release. The T

Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 06, 2023
The world's first 5-meter-resolution Broadband Multi-spectral Satellite Dataset (JLS-5M) was officially opened to global users for sharing during the 6th Asia-Oceania Group on Earth Observations (AOGEO) Workshop, which held in the University of Macau from May 29 to 31, 2023. The data is available through the National Earth Observation Data Center. The dataset, jointly developed by Changgua

San Francisco (AFP) June 4, 2023
Ever since the poem churning ChatGPT burst on the scene six months ago, expert Gary Marcus has voiced caution against artificial intelligence's ultra-fast development and adoption. But against AI's apocalyptic doomsayers, the New York University emeritus professor told AFP in a recent interview that the technology's existential threats may currently be "overblown." "I'm not personally th

Bangalore, India (SPX) Jun 02, 2023
Pixxel, a leader in cutting-edge hyperspectral earth-imaging technology, announced $36 Million in a Series B funding round with participation from new investors such as Google, along with existing investors Radical Ventures, Lightspeed, Blume Ventures, growx, Sparta and Athera. The new funds will advance Pixxel's mission to build the world's first and highest-resolution hyperspectral satel

Washington DC (SPX) Jun 09, 2023
DARPA has selected performers for the In the Moment (ITM) program to create the foundation for trusted algorithmic decision-making in challenging domains, such as medical triage. ITM has two phases that address decision-making at different degrees of complexity. The first phase will look at triage for small military units in austere environments, and the second phase will scale up the comp

Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 09, 2023
In a study published online in Nano Letters, the team led by Prof. LI Chuanfeng and Dr. XU Jinshi from the University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences made progress in enhancing the fluorescence of single silicon carbide spin defects. The researchers leveraged surface plasmons to markedly boost the fluorescence brightness of single silicon carbide double vaca

Castelldefels, Spain (SPX) Jun 11, 2023
Quantum information (QI) processing may be the next game changer in the evolution of technology, by providing unprecedented computational capabilities, security and detection sensitivities. Qubits, the basic hardware element for quantum information, are the building block for quantum computers and quantum information processing, but there is still much debate on which types of qubits are actuall

Pohang, South Korea (SPX) Jun 11, 2023
Like the brakes that stop cars, a molecular brake exists that can prevent semiconductor chains from slipping, enabling the creation of more groundbreaking devices. Recently, a joint research team led by Professor Kilwon Cho and PhD candidates Seung Hyun Kim and Sein Chung from the Department of Chemical Engineering at POSTECH, and Professor Boseok Kang from the Department of Nano Engineering at

Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 09, 2023
A team led by Academician GUO Guangcan from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), with collaborative efforts from the University of Manchester, and Nanyang Technological University, has achieved new progress in applying quantum technologies in complex systems modeling. The results were published in Nature Communications on May 6.

Bologna, Italy (SPX) Jun 11, 2023
An international research team has succeeded for the first time in measuring the electron spin in matter - i.e., the curvature of space in which electrons live and move - within "kagome materials", a new class of quantum materials. The results obtained - published in Nature Physics - could revolutionise the way quantum materials are studied in the future, opening the door to new developmen