French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu walks out the Elysee Palace after the last weekly cabinet meeting of the year, in Paris, Dec 22, 2022. (FRANCOIS MORI / AP) PARIS – France and Poland have signed a deal for the sale of two French observation satellites to Poland, French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Twitter. […]
A routine spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station was called off as it was about to begin after flight controllers noticed a stream of liquid spewing from a docked Soyuz spacecraft, a NASA webcast showed. The spray of fluid, which was visible in NASA's live video feed as a torrent of […]
Undated artwork provided by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California depicts a quantum experiment that observes traversable wormhole behavior. (INQNET / A. MUELLER (CALTECH) / HANDOUT VIA REUTERS) WASHINGTON – In science fiction – think films and TV like "Interstellar" and "Star Trek" – wormholes in the cosmos serve as portals through […]
A photograph shows the European spacecraft JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) in a clean room at the ESA (European Space Agency) headquarters in Toulouse, southwestern France, on 5 April, 2022. (LIONEL BONAVENTURE / AFP) PARIS – European ministers are meeting in Paris to negotiate a more than 25 percent funding boost for space over the […]
This undated composite handout image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) released by NASA and STScl, shows the Protostar within the dark cloud L1527 with ejections from the star above and below appear orange and blue in infrared view. (HANDOUT / ESA, NASA, CSA, STSCI / AFP) LOS ANGELES – NASA's James […]
Spectators watch as the Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket lifts off from launch pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Nov 16, 2022. (JIM WATSON / AFP) CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA's towering next-generation moon rocket blasted off from Florida early on Wednesday on its debut flight, a crewless voyage inaugurating […]
TOKYO & PARIS & KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 24, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Japan’s only international payment brand JCB Co., Ltd. (“JCB”) has launched “JCBDC” (JCB Digital Currency) pilot project with identity technologies no. 1 IDEMIA and the world’s leading fintech company Soft Space Sdn. Bhd. (“Soft Space”). JCBDC pilot will develop a […]
The silhouette of US engineer and NASA astronaut Megan McArthur is seen past the NASA logo in the Webb Auditorium at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2022. (STEFANI REYNOLDS / AFP) LOS ANGELES – For the first time, astronomers have measured and mapped polarized X-rays from the remains of an exploded star, […]
KARIYA, JAPAN, Oct 13, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – In September 2022, NTT DATA Corporation (“NTT DATA”) and DENSO Corporation (“DENSO”) started to build an industry-wide ecosystem for electric vehicle (EV) batteries to create a global trusted dataspaces where only necessary data can be shared, while also protecting private data. Overview of the […]
(From left to right) Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina, NASA astronaut Josh Cassada, NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata arrive ahead of the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew5 Dragon, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct 5, 2022. (JIM WATSON / AFP) A four-member SpaceX Crew […]
The Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket sits on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center on Sept 2, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) WASHINGTON – NASA said on Saturday that it was scrapping Tuesday's plans to launch Artemis, the US return to the moon after five decades, noting concerns about a tropical storm headed […]
The Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket sits on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center on Sept 2, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla – For the second time in a week, NASA on Saturday aborted an attempt to launch its giant, next-generation rocketship, citing a stubborn fuel leak that the space […]
The NASA moon rocket stands ready at sunrise on Pad 39B before the Artemis 1 mission to orbit the moon at the Kennedy Space Center, Aug 29, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (JOEL KOWSKY/NASA VIA AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida – An engine problem forced NASA on Monday to postpone for at least four days the […]
The Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket sits on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Aug 28, 2022, ahead of its expected launch on Aug 29. (CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida – NASA's colossal next-generation rocketship was set for its long-awaited debut launch on Monday on an […]
In this still picture from a NASA TV broadcast, the James Webb Space Telescope separates from Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket after launching from Europe’s Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, on Dec 25, 2021. (AFP / NASA TV) LOS ANGELES – NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first clear evidence […]
Toyota City, Japan, Aug 23, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announces today that it has commenced sales of its completely redesigned Sienta minivan in Japan on August 23. Sienta Z 7-seater 2WD hybrid model; Model with options shown Highlights:– Evolving the Sienta’s key features of the driving ease of […]
This undated file photo shows the International Space Station. (PHOTO/ XINHUA) MOSCOW – Two Russian astronauts ended their spacewalk earlier than planned on Wednesday as one of them had a battery issue with his spacesuit, Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos said. During the spacewalk, the Russian astronauts continued to prepare for the work of the […]
NASA's Artemis I Moon rocket is rolled out to Launch Pad Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Aug 16, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) NASA's gigantic Space Launch System moon rocket, topped with an uncrewed astronaut capsule, began an hours-long crawl to its launchpad Tuesday night ahead of the behemoth's […]
A silhouette of a firefighter is pictured during a wildfire in Manteigas, central Portugal, on Aug 10, 2022. (PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP) HOSTENS, France – European nations sent firefighting teams to help France tackle a "monster" wildfire on Thursday, while forest blazes also raged in Spain and Portugal and the head of the […]
This handout video grab taken and released on Aug 9, 2022 by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos shows the Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the Khayyam satellite blasting off from a launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. (YURI KADOBNOV / AFP) MOSCOW – Russia launched an Iranian satellite into orbit on Tuesday from southern Kazakhstan, just three weeks […]