Новости за 21.06.2025

Kananaskis, Canada (AFP) June 18, 2025
At their first face-to-face meeting on the sidelines of the G7 leaders summit in Canada, the leaders of South Korea and Japan vowed Wednesday to boost cooperation in the face of growing threats from the nuclear-armed North. Newly-elected South Korean President Lee Jae-myung met his Japanese counterpart Shigeru Ishiba, saying he hoped the talk would mark "the beginning of a more forward-looki

Le Bourget, France (AFP) June 16, 2025
US group Boeing said Monday it would focus on supporting its customers at the Paris Air Show instead of the traditional announcements of plane orders, in the aftermath of Air India's 787 Dreamliner crash. The sales rivalry between Boeing and European aerospace giant Airbus usually drives the headlines as the world's top civilian planemakers announce many of their biggest orders at the air sh

Princeton NJ (SPX) Jun 16, 2025
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory unveils a machine with unmatched capabilities to explore the phenomenon known as magnetic reconnection In a spacious room with towering ceilings, a gleaming device resembling a metal barrel the size of an SUV lies on its side, ready to perform some science. Known as the Facility for Laboratory Reconnection Experiments (FLARE), the machine represent

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 16, 2025
SkyFi and ICEYE US have launched a strategic partnership to incorporate ICEYE's synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data into the SkyFi Earth observation platform. The agreement initiates a broader collaboration aimed at expanding access to commercial radar imaging, with ICEYE tasking and archive features set to appear soon in SkyFi's web and mobile tools. ICEYE operates the largest commercial

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2025
Zenno Astronautics has partnered with Wellington UniVentures and the Paihau-Robinson Research Institute to propel New Zealand into global prominence in superconducting magnet technology for space applications. This formal collaboration brings together top-tier innovation, research translation, and superconducting science to position New Zealand as a hub for advanced space tech. Zenno leads

Jerusalem (AFP) June 19, 2025
The Israeli army said Thursday it had struck an "inactive nuclear reactor" in Arak in Iran during overnight raids that also saw the Islamic republic's Natanz nuclear site targeted again. A statement said "the nuclear reactor in the area of Arak in Iran was targeted, including the structure of the reactor's core seal, which is a key component in plutonium production". It said the strike o

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
Northrop Grumman Corporation is deepening its collaboration with NVIDIA by integrating the NVIDIA Omniverse simulation platform into space applications and utilizing the NVIDIA Isaac Lab framework to advance AI for autonomous spacecraft operations. The aerospace company plans to develop a comprehensive AI robotics architecture capable of supporting a broad range of complex space environmen

Paris, France (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
New research from the University of Bern reveals that tidal forces from the Sun may have significantly contributed to the formation of Mercury's hills and cliffs, challenging the long-standing belief that these features resulted solely from planetary cooling and contraction. The findings draw on models of Mercury's orbit and rotation, and future studies will be supported by data from ESA and JAX

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
SkyMapper has partnered with the SETI Institute to create a decentralized astronomical data network aimed at providing continuous, real-time sky observations to scientists, educators, and citizen astronomers worldwide. The initiative will allow sky-observing stations and telescopes, including the SETI Institute's LaserSETI, CAMS, and Unistellar programs, to receive and respond to live obse

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
New research led by the University of Texas at Austin reveals that thick layers of clay on Mars likely formed in ancient, stable lakebeds, creating environments that could have supported early life. These clay-rich regions, often spanning hundreds of feet, owe their formation to abundant water and minimal geological disruption, according to findings published in Nature Astronomy. The study

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
Redwire Corporation has completed integration of its Hammerhead spacecraft platform for the European Space Agency's upcoming ALTIUS mission, marking a key milestone at its satellite processing facility in Kruibeke, Belgium. Redwire serves as the prime contractor for the mission. The Hammerhead spacecraft, designed for low Earth orbit applications, will next undergo system-level testing and

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center is preparing for the first hypersonic test flights of its Fiber Optic Sensing System (FOSS), a compact and lightweight technology that measures temperature and strain on high-speed vehicles. These upcoming rocket launches, scheduled for summer 2025, mark a key milestone in the advancement of hypersonic research. On March 26, Armstrong engineers condu

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
Southwest Research Institute and Yale University scientists have compiled recent advancements in understanding how late-stage accretion shaped the evolution of the solar system's rocky planets. Their review in Nature emphasizes how the final stages of planetary growth dramatically influenced geophysical, chemical and potentially habitable conditions on worlds like Earth, Mars, Venus and Mercury.

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
A European-led team of astronomers has identified a colossal, high-temperature filament of gas stretching across 23 million light-years and connecting four galaxy clusters. The discovery sheds light on the elusive warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), a form of matter suspected to contain a significant portion of the universe's missing normal matter. Utilizing the Japanese Suzaku and Europ

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
Firefly Aerospace has unveiled a new lunar imaging service called Ocula, set to debut as early as 2026 aboard its Elytra spacecraft. Enabled by high-resolution ultraviolet and visible spectrum telescopes from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Ocula will support mineral detection, landing site scouting, and enhanced cislunar domain awareness. "Ocula will be one of the first, if

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
ArianeGroup has signed a new agreement with the French Space Agency (CNES) to spearhead the development and validation of next-generation, high-thrust rocket engines. These engines are expected to deliver between 200 and 300 tons of thrust-twice the output of the Vulcain 2.1, which powers today's Ariane 6 launch vehicle. The project will focus on creating advanced technologies tailored for

The former Top Gear presenter has opened up his bustling Oxfordshire pub to the public - but those hoping to secure a reservation may be left disappointed

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The JEECUP is scheduled to announce the UPJEE Polytechnic 2025 results today, June 21, following the objection window for the provisional answer key. Qualified candidates will then participate in counselling by paying ₹250, where seats will be allotted based on merit.

European stocks saw gains after a three-day slump. This followed a pause in US involvement in Middle East tensions. European officials are pushing for diplomatic talks between Israel and Iran. Travel and leisure stocks performed well, led by TUI. Energy shares declined as oil prices fell. BofA Global Research increased its year-end target for the STOXX 600.

News of the press's demise, which was reported earlier by the The Bookseller, came as a shock to authors who were swayed by the possibility that 8th Note could help engineer bestsellers with elaborate marketing campaigns on TikTok. Instead, 8th Note has started taking down digital editions of their books, effectively unpublishing them.

Cultural institutions throughout the country are coping with closures amid the war.

Jeffrey Springs was dominant in his victory over the Cleveland Guardians Friday in West Sacramento. | Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images

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The winning numbers in Friday's drawing of the "Washington Hit 5" game were: 20, 23, 24, 27, 37