Science News Roundup: SpaceX targets Dec 28 for launch of US navy’s secretive X-37B spaceplane; US-China science pact renewal ‘not a given’ -US envoy

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Science News Roundup: SpaceX targets Dec 28 for launch of US navy’s secretive X-37B spaceplane; US-China science pact renewal ‘not a given’ -US envoy

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December 18, 2023

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Science News Roundup: SpaceX targets Dec 28 for launch of US navy’s secretive X-37B spaceplane; US-China science pact renewal ‘not a given’ -US envoy

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“Now targeting no earlier than Thursday, December 28 for Falcon Heavy to launch USSF-52 to orbit from Florida,” SpaceX stated in a put up on X on Friday, after it stood down on the launch earlier this week to carry out further system checkouts. US-China science pact renewal ‘not a given’ -US envoy U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns stated on Friday he had began talks with Beijing on renewing a landmark scientific cooperation settlement, and whereas the deal wanted to be modernized, prospects for a brand new one had been unsure.

Devdiscourse News Desk

Updated: 18-12-2023 02:33 IST | Created: 18-12-2023 02:27 IST

Following is a abstract of present science information briefs.

SpaceX targets Dec 28 for launch of US navy’s secretive X-37B spaceplane

SpaceX stated it was focusing on Thursday, Dec. 28 for the launch of the U.S. navy’s X-37B robotic spaceplane on its seventh mission to orbit. “Now targeting no earlier than Thursday, December 28 for Falcon Heavy to launch USSF-52 to orbit from Florida,” SpaceX stated in a put up on X on Friday, after it stood down on the launch earlier this week to carry out further system checkouts.

US-China science pact renewal ‘not a given’ -US envoy

U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns stated on Friday he had began talks with Beijing on renewing a landmark scientific cooperation settlement, and whereas the deal wanted to be modernized, prospects for a brand new one had been unsure. Controversy over the renewal of the U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement (STA) – the primary accord between the 2 nations signed in 1979 after the official institution of diplomatic ties – has grown amid U.S. accusations of China’s theft of U.S. scientific and industrial achievements.

(With inputs from businesses.)