
EU plans data shakeup to boost home-grown innovation
Brussels (AFP) Nov 25, 2020 - The EU on Wednesday unveiled proposals for rules covering the transfer of valuable data as it aims to create an innovation hub on a par with the US and China.
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Brussels (AFP) Nov 25, 2020 - The EU on Wednesday unveiled proposals for rules covering the transfer of valuable data as it aims to create an innovation hub on a par with the US and China.
Nov 25, 2020

Paris (ESA) Nov 25, 2020 - As a month of celebrating 20 years of continuous human habitation of the International Space Station draws to a close, we look back on the first mission of the next ESA astronaut to travel to the Sp
Nov 25, 2020

Washington DC (UPI) Nov 24, 2020 - SpaceX launched one of its Falcon 9 first-stage boosters for a record seventh time Tuesday night as the company launched more of its Starlink satellites from Florida.
Nov 24, 2020

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 24, 2020 - Relativity Space, the first company to 3D print an entire rocket and build the largest metal 3D printers in the world, has announced it closed a $500 million Series D equity funding round. The round
Nov 24, 2020

Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 24, 2020 - A space station is thought of as an orbital vehicle capable of supporting one or more humans for an extended period of time. These generally lack major propulsion, reentry and landing systems. Such
Nov 24, 2020

Houston TX (SPX) Nov 24, 2020 - NASA and SpaceX managers conducted a Flight Readiness Review (FRR) Monday, Nov. 23, for SpaceX's 21st Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-21) mission to the International Space Station. To enabl
Nov 24, 2020

Washington DC (UPI) Nov 22, 2020 - California-based Rocket Lab successfully launched more than two dozen small satellites into space on Thursday night from New Zealand and became just the second company to land an orbital rocket boos
Nov 22, 2020

Bonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 22, 2020 - In 1838, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel won the race to measure the first distance to a star other than our Sun via the trigonometric parallax - setting the first scale of the universe. Recently, Ma
Nov 22, 2020

Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 22, 2020 - NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will propel the Orion spacecraft on a journey beyond the Moon and back to Earth during an uncrewed flight test known as Artemis I. Well before liftoff, a grou
Nov 22, 2020

Vandenberg CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2020 - Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, the latest in a series of spacecraft designed to monitor our oceans, was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020.
Nov 21, 2020

Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 20, 2020 - Hailing from Decatur, Alabama, Johnny Heflin, recently celebrated his 30th anniversary working with NASA, where he serves as the Space Launch System (SLS) liquid engines manager, at Marshall Space F
Nov 20, 2020

Denver CO (SPX) Nov 20, 2020 - Voyager Space Holdings has announced its intent to acquire The Launch Company, subject to customary closing conditions. The Launch Company specializes in developing standardized hardware, ground sup
Nov 20, 2020
Nanjing (XNA) Nov 20, 2020 - China's second-generation space tracking ship Yuanwang 3 left here Thursday for missions concerning the Chang'e 5 lunar probe, according to sources with the country's satellite maritime tracking and
Nov 20, 2020

Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 19, 2020 - The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) has installed a patch on a crack in Russian module Zvezda, which will stop the air leak, a Roscosmos spokesperson told Sputnik. Earlier, cosmo
Nov 19, 2020

Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 19, 2020 - With the upcoming launch of ocean monitoring satellite Sentinel-6, two new Precise Orbit Determination Receivers (PODRIX) from RUAG Space will make their maiden flight. PODRIX achieves a very high,
Nov 19, 2020

Washington DC (UPI) Nov 19, 2020 - Two cosmonauts re-entered the International Space Station late Wednesday afternoon EST after a spacewalk that used an airlock on a Russian module for the first time. NASA astronaut Kate Rubins
Nov 19, 2020