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November 26, 2015
MARSDAILY
ExoMars prepares to leave Europe for launch site
Paris (ESA) Nov 26, 2015
The two ExoMars spacecraft of the 2016 mission are being prepared for shipping to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ahead of their launch in March. A joint endeavour with Russia's Roscosmos space agency, ExoMars comprises two missions. The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Schiaparelli make up the 2016 mission, while the 2018 mission will combine a rover and a surface science platform. Both missions will be launched on Russian Proton rockets from Baikonur. TGO and Schiaparelli are undergoing f ... read more
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IRON AND ICE

President Obama signs bill recognizing asteroid resource property rights into law
Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company, applauds President Obama who signed the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (H.R. 2262) into law. This law recognizes the right of U.S. ... more
ROBO SPACE

China dreams of electric sheep at robot conference
In a martial artist's white silk pyjamas, a man practised tai-chi in harmony with a motorised arm at a Beijing exhibition showcasing a vision of robots with Chinese characteristics. ... more
GPS NEWS

China to set up BDS international maritime surveillance center
China is planning to build an international maritime surveillance center for the Beidou Navigation Satellite System(BDS), an alternative to U.S.-operated GPS, authorities with the Ministry of Transp ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Rocket launch demonstrates new capability for testing technologies
An UP Aerospace SpaceLoft sounding rocket soared into the sky Nov. 6 from Spaceport America, New Mexico, carrying four technology experiments for NASA's Flight Opportunities Program that funded the ... more


TECH SPACE

SSL selected to provide new high throughput satellite to Telesat
Space Systems Loral (SSL) has announced that it has been selected to build a powerful, high throughput communications satellite for Telesat, one of the world's top satellite operators. The new ... more

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IRON AND ICE

Comet fragments best explanation of mysterious dimming star
Was it a catastrophic collision in the star's asteroid belt? A giant impact that disrupted a nearby planet? A dusty cloud of rock and debris? A family of comets breaking apart? Or was it alien megas ... more
LAUNCH PAD

Vega receives the LISA Pathfinder payload for its December 2 flight
Another Vega launcher has completed its assembly process, marking a major milestone as preparations continue for Arianespace's 11th mission of the year from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
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Aerospacelab and Xona Unite to Transform Satellite Navigation
GITAI's robotic system triumphs in ISS demo
MARSDAILY

Tracking down the 'missing' carbon from the Martian atmosphere
Mars is blanketed by a thin, mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere--one that is far too thin to prevent large amounts of water on the surface of the planet from subliming or evaporating. But many researc ... more
SPACE TRAVEL

Aerojet Rocketdyne tapped for spacecraft's crew module propulsion
A propulsion system for a crew service module for a spacecraft is to be designed, developed, qualified and produced by Aerojet Rocketdyne. ... more
CYBER WARS

Scientists design a QKD-based quantum private query with no failure
Cryptography is the approach to protect data secrecy in public environment. Certain cryptographic communications require not only the security of the transmitted message against eavesdropping from a ... more
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TECH SPACE

Advancing the Design and Modeling of Complex Systems
Complex interconnected systems are increasingly becoming part of everyday life in both military and civilian environments. In the military domain, air-dominance system-of-systems concepts, such as t ... more
NUKEWARS

Russia Develops New Tactical Missiles for Iskander-M System
Russia's defense industry is developing new missile types for the Iskander-M system, the Army's missile forces chief said on Sunday. Russia is developing new types of ballistic missiles for the Iska ... more
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MISSILE NEWS

India test fires ship-based nuclear-capable missile
The Indian armed forces successfully test-fired a new short range, nuclear-capable ballistic missile, Indo-Asian News Service reports, citing the country's military R and D agency DRDO. The mi ... more
WATER WORLD

Better catalysts will remove carcinogenic chlorine compounds from water
The Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw has just unveiled two new catalysts developed in close cooperation with the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and the ... more
TECH SPACE

A new symmetry underlies the search for new materials
A new symmetry operation developed by Penn State researchers has the potential to speed up the search for new advanced materials that range from tougher steels to new types of electronic, magnetic, ... more
CARBON WORLDS

Electron partitioning process in graphene observed
Graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite with a carbon-layered structure, has been drawing much attention because of its abundant electronic properties and the possibilities of application due to ... more
TECH SPACE

Puffed rice compaction unveils new materials science phenomenon
There's more to the snap, crackle and pop of Rice Krispies than meets the ear. A recent study by San Diego State University civil engineering professor Julio Valdes used the breakfast cereal to disc ... more

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CHIP TECH

Flexoelectricity is more than Moore
The information revolution is synonymous with the traditional quest to pack more chips and increase computing power. This quest is embodied by the famous "Moore's law", which predicts that the numbe ... more
TECH SPACE

Bringing the chaos in light sources under control
Noise is an issue in optical telecommunications. And findings means of controlling noise is key to physicists investigating light-emitting diodes or lasers. Now, an Italo-Iraqi team has worked on a ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Blue Origin lands booster rocket

EARTH OBSERVATION

Earth's magnetic field is not about to flip

MARSDAILY

Mars to lose its largest moon, Phobos, but gain a ring

MILTECH

Raytheon moves forward with Multi-Object Kill Vehicle program

WOOD PILE

NASA study suggests carbon content of temperate forests overestimated

LAUNCH PAD

Rocket launch demonstrates new capability for testing technologies

UAV NEWS

Developing new standards of drone operations

ICE WORLD

Operation IceBridge Completes Twin Polar Campaigns

IRON AND ICE

NEOWISE observes carbon gases in comets

EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA plans twin sounding rocket launches over Norway this winter

Aerojet Rocketdyne to restart development of new rocket engine

Tracking new missions from down under

Newtec expands Astra Connect broadband service for Africa's Oil and Gas Sector

India test fires Advanced Air Defense missile

Thales sub-contracted for NATO BMD test activities

Study links deep-time dust with major impacts on carbon cycling

New detector perfect for asteroid mining, planetary research

Russian-US Space Collaboration Intact Despite Chill in Bilateral Ties

NASA selects Northeastern for humanoid robot research

United Launch Alliance Reveals Transformational CubeSat Launch Program

Where Alice in Wonderland Meets Albert Einstein

Next-generation infrared detectors win NSF funding

Planetary nebulae map of the Milkyway gets distancing tweak

How DSCOVR Could Help in Exoplanet Hunting

Retro Exo and Its Originators

New Horizons documents one rotation of Charon

Construction of China's mega radio telescope enters final stage

New arrivals in Antarctica

Photons on a chip set new paths for secure communications

Supercomputing the strange difference between matter and antimatter


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