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April 22, 2015
LAUNCH PAD
SpaceX: We Know Why Our Rocket Crashed
Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2015
Though SpaceX's last attempt to launch and safely re-land a rocket used to resupply the International Space Station were not entirely successful, the company says it can identify the cause of the latest re-landing failure. In January SpaceX - the California-based brainchild of Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk - launched its Falcon9 rocket carrying 1.6 tons of supplies destined for the ISS. Though the Dragon spacecraft carrying the supplies was successfully launched into orbit, the rocket did not m ... read more
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MOON DAILY

Russia Planning Manned Flight Around Moon in 2025
Russia is planning to carry out a manned mission around the Moon in 2025 and conduct a manned landing on the Earth's natural satellite in 2029, according to a draft Federal Space program for 2016-20 ... more
STATION NEWS

Political Tensions Between Russia, US Irrelevant Aboard ISS
Current geopolitical tensions between Russia and the United States have no impact on the work at the International Space Station (ISS), ISS crew members Mikhail Korniyenko and Scott Kelly said in a ... more
RUSSIAN SPACE

Russia Cuts Budget for New Space Program by $15Bln Due to Crisis
Russia's draft Federal Space Program for 2016-2025 envisions budget cuts by more than 800 billion rubles ($15 bln) to 2 trillion rubles ($37 bln), Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Wednesday. ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Test missile crashes on launch in northern Russia
A surface-to-air missile crashed shortly after being launched in northern Russia on Wednesday, Russian news agencies said, in a failed test that will be seen as an embarrassment for the country's military forces. An official speaking on condition of anonymity initially told AFP the incident had involved an experimental military rocket, but state-owned weapons manufacturer Almaz-Antey was later quoted as saying it was an Antey-2500 missile that fell back to the ground. ... more


ROCKET SCIENCE

Russia Abandons Plans to Build Super-Heavy Carrier Rocket From Scratch
Russia will not develop a super-heavy space launch vehicle in the near future, but will modify a heavy Angara-A5 rocket to lift super-heavy loads, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Wednesday. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Can we find an ancient Earth-like planet with a dying biosphere?
Our Sun will evolve into a red giant star billions of years from now. The increased heat from the expanding Sun will scorch the Earth with dire effects to life. Climate models can be used to predict ... more
EXO LIFE

Viruses Help Microbial Hosts Cope with Life at the Extremes
A new study reveals that viruses lend a surprisingly helpful hand to microbes eking out a living near deep-sea hydrothermal vents. When they infect the vent's resident bacteria and archaea, the viru ... more
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EXO LIFE

"Venus Zone" Narrows Search for Habitable Planets
Long before the hunt began to find Earth lookalikes around other stars, one planet in the Solar System had already been named Earth's twin. With its similar size and mass, Venus measures very close ... more
TIME AND SPACE

MIT physicists develop new tabletop particle detector
The Large Hadron Collider is the largest particle collider in the world. Its circular tunnel boasts a 17-mile circumference to accelerate particles toward collision inside a detector. The latest particle detector from the labs of MIT is not much bigger than a coffee cup. ... more
RUSSIAN SPACE

Russia to Increase Orbital Grouping to 181 Satellites
Russia's orbital grouping will be expanded to 181 satellites as a result of the implementation of the new Federal Space Program for 2016-2025, the head of the Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, said o ... more
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UAV NEWS

Navy's Triton drone flies with new radar system
A U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial system has flown for the first time with a new search radar system that provides enhanced surveillance capabilities. ... more
WATER WORLD

Vampire squid discovery shows how little we know of the deep sea
Among soft-bodied cephalopods, vampire squid live life at a slower pace. At ocean depths from 500 to 3,000 meters, they don't swim so much as float, and they get by with little oxygen while consumin ... more
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'Just staggering': UN says households waste 1 bn meals a day
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EARLY EARTH

Oldest fossils controversy resolved
New analysis of world-famous 3.46 billion-year-old rocks by researchers from the University of Bristol, the University of Oxford and UWA (the University of Western Australia) is set to finally resol ... more
EARLY EARTH

Uranium isotopes carry the fingerprint of ancient bacterial activity
The oceans and other water bodies contain billions of tons of dissolved uranium. Over the planet's history, some of this uranium was transformed into an insoluble form, causing it to precipitate and ... more
ENERGY TECH

Cobalt film a clean-fuel find
A cobalt-based thin film serves double duty as a new catalyst that produces both hydrogen and oxygen from water to feed fuel cells, according to scientists at Rice University. The inexpensive, ... more
ENERGY TECH

Engineer improves rechargeable batteries with MoS2 nano 'sandwich'
The key to better cellphones and other rechargeable electronics may be in tiny "sandwiches" made of nanosheets, according to mechanical engineering research from Kansas State University. Gurpr ... more
ENERGY TECH

Beyond the lithium ion -- a significant step toward a better performing battery
The race is on around the world as scientists strive to develop a new generation of batteries that can perform beyond the limits of the current lithium-ion based battery. Researchers at the Universi ... more

ENERGY TECH

Better battery imaging paves way for renewable energy future
In a move that could improve the energy storage of everything from portable electronics to electric microgrids, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers have de ... more
TECH SPACE

Technique could slash energy used to produce many plastics
A new material developed at the University of Colorado Boulder could radically reduce the energy needed to produce a wide variety of plastic products, from grocery bags and cling wrap to replacement ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Ceres' Bright Spots Come Back Into View

SPACE SCOPES

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TIME AND SPACE

Astronomers reveal supermassive black hole's intense magnetic field

EXO WORLDS

White Dwarf May Have Shredded Passing Planet

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Giant galaxies die from the inside out

TECH SPACE

Tethers Unlimited to recycle ISS plastic waste into 3D printer filament

TIME AND SPACE

Detector at the South Pole explores the mysterious neutrinos

MERCURY RISING

NASA Spacecraft Achieves Unprecedented Success Studying Mercury

IRON AND ICE

Dawn Glimpses Ceres' North Pole

MOON DAILY

Dating the moon-forming impact event with meteorites

Telit GNSS module enables high-performance position reporting

$2B Patriot order for Raytheon

Japan to land probe on the moon in 2018

Engineers now understand how complex carbon nanostructures form

Graphene looking promising for future spintronic devices

Unraveling the origin of the pseudogap in a charge density wave compound

Inventing a 2-D liquid

New understanding of electromagnetism could enable 'antennas on a chip'

Control of quantum bits in silicon paves way for large quantum computers

How many gold atoms make gold metal?

Search for advanced civilizations finds nothing obvious in 100,000 galaxies

Hubble, the telescope that revolutionized our view of space

Japan planning moon mission: space agency

Spitzer, OGLE spot planet deep within our galaxy

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Meteorites key to the story of Earth's layers

Rosetta and Philae find comet not magnetised

Glitter Cloud May Serve as Space Mirror

"Hubble" - One Word Says It All

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