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California-based Rocket Lab has completed systems integration for its Photon spacecraft ahead of the upcoming LOXSAT mission with Eta Space and NASA. Designed to showcase in-orbit cryogenic refueling, the system will now complete environmental testing at Rocket Lab’s facility in Long Beach before launching atop an Electron rocket from New …

Produce Pairs of Weak-Force Carriers  Produce Pairs of Weak-Force CarriersPhysicists from the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have observed production of W bosons, elementary particles that carry the weak force, from photons colliding with photons. This new result confirms one of the main predictions …