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Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
Vodafone utilizes US satellite array for milestone mobile call
London, UK (SPX) Feb 04, 2025
Vodafone, a leading British telecommunications company, has completed the nation's first satellite video call using a standard mobile phone. The achievement aims to tackle persistent "dead zones" across remote regions where conventional cell tower signals are either weak or nonexistent.
On Wednesday, engineers placed the space-based call from a mountainside in west Wales using Android devi

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Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
UK Gains Advanced Space Simulation Facility from Amentum
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2025
Amentum (NYSE: AMTM) has been chosen to equip the United Kingdom with specialized technology that replicates space-like conditions to optimize microgravity procedures and strengthen mission safety.
Its robotics team will craft an in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing gravity offload platform intended for those who build and operate satellites and spacecraft.
Following a com

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Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
Orbex lands D-Orbit deal prior to first mission this year
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2025
UK-based launch services provider Orbex has finalized a new commercial agreement with D-Orbit, a leading name in space transportation and logistics. This move highlights Orbex's advancing role in the industry as it prepares for its first commercial launch later this year.
Under the arrangement, D-Orbit will secure two launch opportunities on Orbex Prime, the company's eco-conscious micro-l

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Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
EdgeCortix unveils SAKURA-I with proven radiation immunity for orbital and lunar ventures
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2025
EdgeCortix(R) Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor provider focused on low-power Artificial Intelligence (AI) computation at the edge, reports that its SAKURA-I AI Accelerator has shown strong radiation endurance and is primed for space missions in Earth orbit and on the lunar surface. NASA's Electronic Parts and Packaging Program (NEPP) performed two rounds of testing on EdgeCortix(R) Inc.'s h

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Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
Astroscale second generation docking plate gains flight heritage
London, UK (SPX) Feb 04, 2025
Astroscale Limited has reached a critical threshold with the first in-space deployment of its second-generation (Gen 2) docking plate. This hardware, now traveling aboard SpaceX's Transporter-12 rideshare mission that launched on Jan 14, 2025, sets the stage for more robust satellite servicing capabilities.
Integrated on an Astro Digital Corvus-XL bus, the Gen 2 docking plate showcases for

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Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
Space experiment aims to reveal hidden cosmic mass
London UK (SPX) Feb 04 2025
A space-based effort could soon uncover the nature of dark matter, one of the universe's most perplexing forces. Although invisible, this substance composes nearly 85 percent of cosmic mass, challenging scientists for decades.
Now, a group at the University of Southampton has outlined a strategy to track dark matter by measuring faint disturbances in zero gravity. Researchers plan to fire

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Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
Scientists measure Earth's cosmic detectability
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2025
A team of researchers led by Dr. Sofia Sheikh from the SETI Institute, in collaboration with the Characterizing Atmospheric Technosignatures project and the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center, investigated whether an extraterrestrial society with technology akin to ours might detect Earth and the evidence of humanity. They sought to identify which signals would be visible and how fa

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Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
Meteor collision shakes Mars recorded by InSight
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 04, 2025
A space rock crashed into the martian surface in February 2021, generating seismic waves that extended 1640 km to reach NASA's InSight lander. The collision carved out a crater about 21 m wide and disturbed roughly 1400 m. ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), through its Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS), captured the explosive moment.
Marsquakes, the martian counterparts

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Tuesday, 04 February 2025 08:00
Webb investigates a dusty and dynamic disc

This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month presents HH 30 in unprecedented detail. This target is an edge-on protoplanetary disc that is surrounded by jets and a disc wind, and is located in the dark cloud LDN 1551 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud.
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Tuesday, 04 February 2025 13:00
Wobbling stars reveal hidden companions in Gaia data

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