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WASHINGTON — Apple formally announced its long-anticipated partnership with Globalstar Sept. 7 to provide satellite messaging services for new iPhones and becoming Globalstar’s biggest customer. At an event to unveil new iPhone and other products, Apple said the new iPhone 14 series will include an “Emergency SOS” feature that will allow users to send emergency

Tracking treatment response: Cardiac amyloid deposits are monitored using cardiovascular MR with extracellular volume (ECV) mapping. Scans performed at baseline (top row), and after six months (middle row) and one year of chemotherapy (bottom row), reveal progressive reductions in CMR (T1; column two) and ECV (column four) over the course of treatment. (Courtesy: UCL) For

WASHINGTON — A joint U.S.-French Earth science mission is ready to be delivered to California for a launch now scheduled for early December, a slight delay caused in part because of transportation issues. Thales Alenia Space, the prime contractor for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft, said Sept. 6 it is making final

The company recently formed a partnership with two Australian space companies — HEX20 and QL Space — as part of six industry-to-industry collaboration deals between India and Australia. SEOUL, South Korea —Skyroot Aerospace, an Indian rocket startup that aims to launch its solid-fueled Vikram 1 satellite launcher by year’s end,  has raised $51 million in

Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923) was a woman of formidable intellect and skill – and many labels. She was scientist, inventor, mathematician, engineer and suffragette, and her achievements touched the lives of many. Here, science writer Anita Chandran and historian Elizabeth Bruton, from University College Dublin, talk about Ayrton’s remarkable life, highlighting her considerable contributions to science

The cooperative research and development agreement was signed with U.S. Transportation Command WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab announced Sept. 7 it has signed a cooperative agreement with the U.S. military to explore the possibility of using the company’s space launch vehicles to transport cargo around the world. The cooperative research and development agreement known as a

HELSINKI — China conducted its 36th and 37th orbital launches of 2022 within a couple of hours of each other starting late Monday, using the Jiuquan and Xichang spaceports. A Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket lifted off into clear skies from a transport erector launcher at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 10:24

Diamond detection: a sensor based on NV centres has been used to measure electrical currents in the heart of a rat. (Courtesy: iStock/Gizmo) A diamond-based sensor that maps out the subtle electrical currents inside the heart has been developed by researchers in Japan. Led by Takayuki Iwasaki at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the team

The company won a $540,000 small business contract known as a TACFI, or Tactical Funding Increase WASHINGTON — Saber Astronautics announced Sept. 5 the U.S. Space Force has extended the company’s contract to develop a space domain awareness tool designed for satellite operators. The company won a $540,000 small business contract known as a TACFI,

HELSINKI — Work to assemble a Long March 5B heavy-lift rocket is underway at Wenchang spaceport as China prepares to complete the construction of its Tiangong space station. Components of the 849-metric-ton Long March 5B rocket were recently delivered to Wenchang, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced Sept. 3. The rocket is now being

Galactic voyage: artist’s impression of the Milky Way showing its spiral arms. (Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESO/R Hurt) The rate at which Earth’s continental crust builds up goes through cycles, peaking around every 200 million years when the solar system travels through one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms. That is the conclusion of an international team of

Privateer and Scout are “looking into how we can best combine our capabilities” WASHINGTON — Space-tracking startup Scout Space announced Sept. 1 it is partnering with Privateer Space, a new venture also focused on space situational awareness services for satellite operators. Scout is based in Alexandria, Virginia; Privateer is located in Maui, Hawaii. “The collaboration

Satellite terminals in Alaska will be the main connection to the new EPS-R payloads that will launch in 2023 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has started building a gateway site at Clear Space Force Station, Alaska, where it will operate two new polar communications payloads scheduled to launch in 2023 on a Space Norway

Entangled pairs: in this artistic representation of the experiment, a beam of free electrons (yellow) passes next to a ring-shaped microresonator (black). The evanescent interaction between an electron and the microresonator creates a photon (turquoise) that is entangled with the electron. (Courtesy: Ryan Allen/Second Bay Studios) The quantum entanglement of a free electron with a

Updated 6:20 p.m. Eastern with comments from post-scrub briefing. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — NASA called off a second attempt to conduct the inaugural launch of the Space Launch System Sept. 3 after failing to resolve a liquid hydrogen leak during fueling of the rocket, potentially delaying the mission until October. NASA scrubbed the launch,

TITUSVILLE, Fla — NASA has completed an agreement for a second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station with Axiom Space, the only company that bid on the opportunity. NASA announced Aug. 31 that it signed a “mission order” with Axiom Space for the mission, scheduled for the second quarter of 2023. The Ax-2

Full of beans: multispectral images of coffee beans were acquired using this system and then processed using machine-learning models. (Courtesy: Winston Pinheiro Claro Gomes) Some physicists take the quality of their coffee very seriously while others will settle for any old bean as long it keeps them alert during an overnight experimental run. Now, they

SAN FRANCISCO – Spire Global is adding propulsion to its multipurpose Lemur satellite constellation. French startup ThrustMe announced plans Sept. 1 to provide seven I2T5 iodine cold gas propulsion systems for Spire three-unit cubesats scheduled to launch later this year on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission. “Incorporating propulsion into our satellites will increase the