Month: October 2022

The companies will perform a Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) mission in 2023 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Systems Command announced Sept. 30 it selected Firefly Space Transport Services and Millennium Space Systems to conduct a demonstration of a rapid-response space mission to low Earth orbit in 2023. The companies will perform a Tactically Responsive Space
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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was welcomed there Friday with a traditional investiture ceremony attended by President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses. Jackson’s formal swearing-in for her lifetime appointment as the first Black woman on Supreme Court came three months after Chief Justice John Roberts conducted her first, official swearing-in.
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With the 2022 Nobel prizes due to be announced, Physics World editors looks at the physicists who’ve won prizes in fields other than their own. Michael Banks examines how Joseph Rotblat bagged the Nobel Peace Prize Nuclear fallout: physicist Joseph Rotblat campaigned for most of his life against the use of nuclear weapons (courtesy: Pugwash Conferences on Science
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WAILEA, Hawaii — The Federal Communications Commission’s adoption of a new rule for disposal of low Earth orbit satellites is well-intentioned but pushing the limits of its authority, says the director of the Office of Space Commerce. In a talk at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference here Sept. 30, Richard
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U.S. President Joe Biden makes remarks about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments on the military conflict in Ukraine after delivering remarks on the federal response to Hurricane Ian at the White House in Washington, September 30, 2022. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Joe Biden sharply warned Russian President Vladimir Putin against making any threat to
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