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February 03, 2016

Space Launch System's first flight will launch small Sci-Tech cubesats
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 03, 2016
The first flight of NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), will carry 13 CubeSats to test innovative ideas along with an uncrewed Orion spacecraft in 2018. These small satellite secondary payloads will carry science and technology investigations to help pave the way for future human exploration in deep space, including the journey to Mars. SLS' first flight, referred to as Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), provides the rare opportunity for these small experiments to reach deep space destina ... read more

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Heliophysics CubeSat to launch on NASA's SLS Just a bit bigger than a box of cereal, one of the first CubeSats to travel in interplanetary space will be NASA's miniature space science station, dedicated to studying the dynamic particles and ma ... more		Lunar Flashlight selected to fly as secondary payload on Exploration Mission-1 NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems Division recently selected the Lunar Flashlight CubeSat as a secondary payload to fly aboard the Space Launch System's Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) flight. Lunar ... more		CuSP will observe solar energetic particles in outer space NASA announced that a miniature solar particle research spacecraft to be built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will launch aboard NASA's Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) rocket in 2018. The ... more
				NASA tests solar sail deployment for asteroid-surveying CubeSat NEA Scout Progress continues on the journey to Mars as NASA plans to send astronauts deeper into space than ever before, including to an asteroid and ultimately to the surface of Mars. Before humans embark on ... more		Saturn's rings: less than meets the eye It seems intuitive that an opaque material should contain more stuff than a more translucent substance. For example, muddier water has more suspended particles of dirt in it than clearer water. Like ... more

China launches 21st Beidou navigation satellite China put a new-generation satellite into orbit to support its global navigation and positioning network at 3:29 p.m. Monday. Launched from Xichang satellite launch center in the southwestern provin ... more		Galileo signals covering more of the sky Europe's ninth and tenth Galileo satellites have started broadcasting working navigation messages. These two satellites were launched together on 11 September last year. Once safely in orbit and the ... more		China warns US military support for Taiwan increases 'risk of conflict' China slams US claims it is fuelling Ukraine war 'China is the winner' in Maldives election		Blast from black hole in a galaxy far, far away The Star Wars franchise has featured the fictitious "Death Star," which can shoot powerful beams of radiation across space. The universe, however, produces phenomena that often surpass what science ... more
				NASA's ICESat-2 equipped with unique 3-D manufactured part NASA's follow-on to the successful ICESat mission will employ a never-before-flown technique for determining the topography of ice sheets and the thickness of sea ice, but that won't be the only fir ... more		Boeing, Northrop Grumman conduct missile system flight test Boeing and Northrop Grumman collaborated with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency to test improvements for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system. ... more

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China's major military restructuring aimed at closing the gap with US The People's Liberation Army is going through a major reorganization on a scale unseen since the 1950s, which is aimed at creating a modern fighting force to "close the gap with US capabilities," Wy ... more		U.S. Army working on universal unmanned aircraft control interface The U.S. Army is working to develop a universal control interface for unmanned aircraft systems to let operators fly more than one type using the same controls. ... more		China advances its earth observation capabilities with new satellite launch Oldest evidence of Earth's magnetic field discovered by researchers Satellite Monitoring Highlights Soil Sealing Challenges in the Mediterranean		Expedition recovers mantle rocks with signs of life An international team of scientists - recently returned from a 47-day research expedition to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean - have collected an unprecedented sequence of rock samples from the shal ... more
Land plant became key marine species The genome of eelgrass (Zostera marina) has now been unveiled. It turns out that the plant, once land-living but now only found in the marine environment, has lost the genes required to survive out ... more		Heavy fermions get nuclear boost on way to superconductivity In a surprising find, physicists from the United States, Germany and China have discovered that nuclear effects help bring about superconductivity in ytterbium dirhodium disilicide (YRS), one of the ... more		Novel 4-D printing method blossoms from botanical inspiration A team of scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has evolved their mi ... more		Clarifying the role of magnetism in high-temperature superconductors A collaboration of scientists from the RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Osaka University, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute have published research clarify ... more

	A step towards keeping up with Moore's Law Along with the fast development of modern information technology, charge-based memories, such as DRAM and flash memory, are being aggressively scaled down to meet the current trend of small size dev ... more		Scientists debate likelihood of finding life on other planets In a debate hosted by the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, six scientists argued whether remote sensing will reveal evidence of extant life on an exoplanet-any planet outside our solar syst ... more

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