Beijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2022 - China's Tiangong space station is scheduled to be completed before the end of this year and will become a massive spacecraft stack with a combined weight of nearly 100 metric tons, according to a pr
Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 07, 2022 - A review paper by scientists at the Beijing Institute of Technology summarized recent advancements in use of intelligent biohybrid micro- and nanorobots for human medical applications. The new revie
Amman (AFP) March 6, 2022 - In the age of Covid, Jordanian mechanical engineer Saliba Taimeh pondered how to deal with one contaminated everyday surface: the handrails of escalators in shopping malls and transport hubs.
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 04, 2022 - Earlier in the week, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin refuted claims that the Russian space agency had allegedly lost control of its satellites, stressing that any cyberattacks against the country's
Cape Canaveral (SPX) Mar 03, 2022 - The Artemis I Moon rocket is getting closer to rolling out of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first time. The first two of 20 platforms su
Moscow (AFP) March 2, 2022 - Russia's space agency on Wednesday demanded legal guarantees from Europe's Arianespace and OneWeb that satellites Moscow is set to launch this year will not be used for military purposes.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 02, 2022 - NASA's 2022 Student Launch rocketry challenge will provide both in-person and virtual opportunities for the competition's culminating event. The in-person option will include a two-day event, with h
Hamilton, Canada (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 - New research by the inventors of a promising pathogen-repellent wrap has confirmed that it sheds not only bacteria, as previously proven, but also viruses, boosting its potential usefulness for inte
Long Beach CA (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 - Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) has selected Wallops Island, Virginia, as the location for its first launch site and extensive manufacturing and operations facilities, for its 8-ton payload class
Mahia, New Zealand (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 - Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB), a leading launch and space systems company, has successfully deployed a second Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite to orbit for data and solutions provider S
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 - NASA has awarded three additional missions to Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, for crew transportation services to the International Space Station as par
Beijing (XNA) Mar 01, 2022 - China's deep space exploration laboratory has been officially inaugurated, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Co-established by the CNSA, Anhui Province and the Unive
Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 - China's next-generation rocket designed to carry astronauts will be multifunctional and partly reusable, according to a senior rocket scientist. Wang Xiaojun, president of the China Academy of
Paris (ESA) Feb 28, 2022 - Happy 100 days in space to ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer. The first-time space flier marked the milestone on 19 February 2022 and what a busy 100-days it been. In a Twitter post marking the mi
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 - An astronaut steps into a body scanner and, hours later, walks on Mars in a custom-made spacesuit, breathing oxygen that was extracted from Mars' carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere. On Venus, an inflata
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 - In 2002, the European Space Agency launched Envisat, the largest civilian satellite (at the time) to go to low Earth orbit (LEO). For a decade, it observed our planet and sent back valuable data on
