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Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:58

UAE to send rover to the Moon in 2022

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Despite being a newcomer to the world of space exploration, the UAE is quickly making its mark—in February, its "Hope"
Despite being a newcomer to the world of space exploration, the UAE is quickly making its mark—in February, its "Hope" probe successfully entered Mars' orbit in an Arab first feted with light shows across Dubai

Lunar exploration firm iSpace said Wednesday it will transport a United Arab Emirates unmanned rover to the Moon next year, as the Gulf state seeks to expand its space sector.

The UAE—made up of seven emirates including the capital Abu Dhabi and freewheeling Dubai—announced in September 2020 that it planned to launch the "Rashid" rover by 2024.

The rover "will be transported to the Moon on iSpace's " during a mission in 2022, the Japanese company said in a statement.

Tuesday, 13 April 2021 06:55

Fly your software in space

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OPS-SAT in orbit

What would you do with a powerful space computer that can learn, react, photograph our planet and send and receive information in a variety of forms? The test of all knowledge is experiment, as Richard Feynman once said, and OPS-SAT is the first ESA spacecraft that you can apply to experiment with. Tell us your ideas for new OPS-SAT experiments via the Open Space Innovation Platform (OSIP).

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Process of capture

Josef Aschbacher and Simonetta di Pippo discuss space debris

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North Shields UK (SPX) Apr 14, 2021
Leading satellite communications provider Satcom Global is delighted to announce a strategic partnership with software specialist AnsuR Technologies (AnsuR). The collaboration will enable Satcom Global to support its maritime and remote-land based communications customers with access to innovative visual technology, globally. AnsuR develops software solutions for use in challenging environ
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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 11, 2021
Approaches to busy airports are often noisier and less fuel-efficient than they could be. This is because aircraft have to be configured in an individual process before touchdown. Pilots reduce speed, set flaps, extend slats and finally deploy the landing gear. However, air traffic control restricts the flight profile, and pilots often have limited information about weather conditions. Thu
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Mainz, Germany (SPX) Apr 14, 2021
Extremely precise measurements are possible using atom interferometers that employ the wave character of atoms for this purpose. They can thus be used, for example, to measure the gravitational field of the Earth or to detect gravitational waves. A team of scientists from Germany has now managed to successfully perform atom interferometry in space for the first time - on board a sounding rocket.
Tuesday, 13 April 2021 12:28

Google unveils $2bn data hub in Poland

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Warsaw (AFP) April 14, 2021
US tech giant Google on Wednesday launched a new cloud data hub in Warsaw - its first in Central and Eastern Europe - with an investment of nearly $2.0 billion (1.7 billion euros). Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki hailed the new hub saying it would ensure "better service from private and public entities" and strengthen security because the data would be stored in Poland. "We hope that
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 14, 2021
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide an unprecedented window into the infrared universe when it launches in the mid-2020s. One of the mission's planned surveys will use a quirk of gravity to reveal thousands of new planets beyond our solar system. The same survey will also provide the best opportunity yet to definitively detect solitary small black holes for the first time
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Jerusalem, Israel (SPX) Apr 14, 2021
The "three-body problem," the term coined for predicting the motion of three gravitating bodies in space, is essential for understanding a variety of astrophysical processes as well as a large class of mechanical problems, and has occupied some of the world's best physicists, astronomers and mathematicians for over three centuries. Their attempts have led to the discovery of several important fi
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 14, 2021
The Ingenuity team has identified a software solution for the command sequence issue identified on Sol 49 (April 9) during a planned high-speed spin-up test of the helicopter's rotors. Over the weekend, the team considered and tested multiple potential solutions to this issue, concluding that minor modification and reinstallation of Ingenuity's flight control software is the most robust path for
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