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August 27, 2014
STATION NEWS
Russia May Continue ISS Work Beyond 2020
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 26, 2014
Russia may continue working at the International Space Station (ISS) beyond 2020, Izvestia newspaper reported Monday. "The issue of Russia's participation at the ISS after 2020 remains open, but there is a 90-percent chance that the state's leadership will agree to participate in the project further," the paper wrote citing a source at Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos. Russian space enterprises continue to make new modules for the space station according to the schedule, the paper sai ... read more
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Regulating Asteroid Mining
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GPS NEWS

Australia approves GPS project
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TECH SPACE

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OUTER PLANETS

New Horizons Crosses Neptune Orbit On Route To First Pluto Flyby
NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has traversed the orbit of Neptune. This is its last major crossing en route to becoming the first probe to make a close encounter with distant Pluto on Ju ... more


TECH SPACE

Singapore launches world's first ZigBee inter-satellite comms system
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TECH SPACE

Officials expand space-tracking website
Defense Department officials announced additions to its space situational awareness program's Space-Track.org website. In a recent telephone interview with DOD News, Maj. Gen. David D. Thompso ... more
MARSDAILY

Opportunity Mars Rover Suffers a Series of Resets
Opportunity is moving south along the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a putative location for abundant clay minerals. More recently, the incidence of Flash memo ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Landing site search for Rosetta narrows
Using detailed information collected by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft during its first two weeks at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, five locations have been identified as candidate sites to set down the ... more
DRAGON SPACE

Same-beam VLBI Tech monitors Chang'E-3 movement on moon
By using the same-beam VLBI technology, differential phase delay successfully monitored the lunar rover's movement during the Chang'E-3 mission when rover and lander was carrying out the tasks of se ... more
EXO LIFE

How Titan's Haze Help Us Understand Life's Origins
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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Completes Battery of Tests on Composite Cryotank
NASA has completed a complex series of tests on one of the largest composite cryogenic fuel tanks ever manufactured, bringing the aerospace industry much closer to designing, building, and flying li ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA Rainfall Satellite Out Of Fuel, but Continues to Provide Data
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SPACE TRAVEL

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MISSILE NEWS

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The US military had to detonate a hypersonic weapon seconds after lift-off Monday due to a technical problem, cutting short a flight test for the experimental project, officials said. ... more
GPS NEWS

Experts probe launch failure for EU's satnav project
Experts are racing to identify and fix a problem that saw two satellites from Europe's troubled Galileo satnav programme sent into the wrong orbit. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE

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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS

General Hyten takes control of AFSPC
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ROBO SPACE

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EXO LIFE

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SPACEMART

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SPACEWAR

AFSOUTH strengthens space ties with partner nations

ROBO SPACE

Russia's First Exoskeleton to Help Physically Impaired

EARTH OBSERVATION

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CARBON WORLDS

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NUKEWARS

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EARTH OBSERVATION

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AEROSPACE

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EARTH OBSERVATION

Ice sheet highs, lows and loss

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Artificial Cells Act Like the Real Thing

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Europe sees five possible sites for comet landing

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Galileo navigation satellites lose their way in space

SpaceX rocket explodes during test flight

Sea Launch Takes Proactive Steps to Address Manifest Gap

Indian orbiter to reach Mars in 33 days

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Russia to develop scavenger to collect cosmic debris by 2025

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Hubble Sees a Silver Needle in the Sky

Mitsubishi Electric Ready to Deliver Himawari-8 to Tanegashima

Japan mulls enhancing missile detecting capability

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