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August 29, 2016

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Mars 2020 Rover Mission
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 29, 2016
NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC of Centennial, Colorado, to provide launch services for a mission that will address high-priority science goals for the agency's Journey to Mars. Mars 2020 is targeted for launch in July 2020 aboard an Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rover will conduct geological assessments of its landing site on Mars, determine the habitability of the environment, search for signs of ancient Martian l ... read more

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SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship splashes down in Pacific SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 11:47 a.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 26, southwest of Baja California with more than 3,000 pounds of NASA cargo, science and technology demonstration samples from the International Space Station. The Dragon spacecraft will be taken by ship to a port near Los Angeles, where some cargo will be removed and returned to NASA immediately. Dragon then will be prepared for a return trip to SpaceX's test facility in McGregor, Texas, for processing. ... more		Scientists Discover A 'Dark' Milky Way Using the world's most powerful telescopes, an international team of astronomers has found a massive galaxy that consists almost entirely of dark matter. The galaxy, Dragonfly 44, is located in the ... more		Jupiter's Extended Family? A Billion or More Our galaxy is home to a bewildering variety of Jupiter-like worlds: hot ones, cold ones, giant versions of our own giant, pint-sized pretenders only half as big around. Astronomers say that in our g ... more
				China Sends Country's Largest Carrier Rocket to Launch Base Beijing sent on Friday its largest carrier rocket dubbed Long March-5 (Changzheng-5 in Chinese) to the country's southern province of Hainan, where the launch base is situated. Two rocket-carr ... more		Intelsat 33e, the Second Intelsat EpicNG Satellite, Launched into Orbit Intelsat S.A. reports that Intelsat 33e, the second of seven planned Intelsat EpicNG high throughput satellites, was launched successfully from French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle. Lifto ... more

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Russian Carrier Rocket for Sea Launches Will Replace Ukraine's Zenit Russian engineers will invent a new carrier rocket to replace Ukraine's Zenit-SL system for launches from the Sea Launch floating space pad. A new carrier rocket will be developed in Russia to ... more		Study: Only larger stars boast gas-rich disks Recent observations made by Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, ALMA, suggest larger stars host significant carbon monoxide gas reservoirs. ALMA astronomers were surprised by the finding. ... more		China emphasizes commitment to peaceful space activities ICEYE secures substantial growth investment to bolster its SAR satellite fleet Interconnected quantum system boosts long-distance secure communication		Positioning exact to the millimeter How many millimeters has the sea level risen? How fast are the continents moving? How big is the impact of high and low pressure areas on the altitude of landmasses? In order to answer these questio ... more
				Intelsat "doubles down" with Arianespace for an Ariane 5 dual success Two telecommunications relay satellites were orbited for Intelsat on an Ariane 5, extending Arianespace's 30-plus-year partnership with this U.S. operator while continuing the workhorse launcher's t ... more		Science set to upstage fiction with Fantastic Voyage Fifty years to the day after the film Fantastic Voyage was first shown in theatres, the Polytechnique Montreal Nanorobotics Laboratory is unveiling a unique medical interventional infrastructure dev ... more

2nd Integrated Air and Missile Defense - Securing the Complex Air Domain: Requirements for Sustainable, Global, and Reliable Solutions to Next Generation Air & Missile Threats - 28-30 September, 2016 | Washington D.C.

The World's Largest Commercial Drone Conference and Expo - Sept 7-9 - Las Vegas

Arctic gives clues on worst mass extinction of life 96 percent of marine species, and 70 percent of terrestrial life died off in the Permian-Triassic extinction event, as geologists know it. It is also known as The Great Dying Event for obvious reaso ... more		The relationship between erosion and tectonics in the Himalayas Earth's climate interacts with so called surface processes - such as landslides or river erosion - and tectonics to shape the landscape that we see. In some regions, the sheer force of these process ... more		Tracing life's origins: Cambridge team explores early Earth conditions Satellite technology from Surrey University aids Mauritius in illegal fishing detection West Antarctic ice shelf stability threatened by feedback loop		New electrical energy storage material shows its power A powerful new material developed by Northwestern University chemist William Dichtel and his research team could one day speed up the charging process of electric cars and help increase their drivin ... more
Study reveals new physics of how fluids flow in porous media One of the most promising approaches to curbing the flow of human-made greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is to capture these gases at major sources, such as fossil-fuel-burning power plants, and ... more		Streamlining accelerated computing for industry Scientists and engineers striving to create the next machine-age marvel - whether it be a more aerodynamic rocket, a faster race car, or a higher-efficiency jet engine - depend on reliable analysis ... more		Understanding nature's patterns with plasmas Patterns abound in nature, from zebra stripes and leopard spots to honeycombs and bands of clouds. Somehow, these patterns form and organize all by themselves. To better understand how, researchers ... more		Unraveling the crystal structure of a -70C Celsius superconductor For the first time in the world, a research group led by Osaka University, Japan, clarified the crystal structure of hydrogen sulfide in its superconducting phase at the high temperature of -70C. Th ... more

	Lehigh engineer discovers a high-speed nano-avalanche Charles McLaren, a doctoral student in materials science and engineering at Lehigh University, arrived last fall for his semester of research at the University of Marburg in Germany with his languag ... more		New microchip demonstrates efficiency and scalable design Princeton University researchers have built a new computer chip that promises to boost performance of data centers that lie at the core of online services from email to social media. Data cent ... more

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Lockheed Martin delivers NOAA's GOES-R weather satellite to launch site		Northrop Grumman to Provide Navigation System for German Satellite		Tech issues cause most drone accidents		Cybersecurity researchers design a chip that checks for sabotage		Northland College signs joint UAV deal with Northrop Grumman

Spherical tokamak as model for next steps in fusion energy

Grandpa astronaut breaks US space record

A better way to learn if Alien Planets have the Right Stuff

Rocky planet found orbiting habitable zone of nearest star

35 years later Voyager's legacy continues at Saturn

NASA selects university partners for Small Spacecraft Collaboration

Most distant galaxy clusters ever found

Space Station's orbit adjusted Wednesday

Cosmic neighbors inhibit star formation, even in the early-universe

Test for damp ground at Mars' seasonal streaks finds none

China unveils Mars probe, rover for ambitious 2020 mission

WISE, Fermi missions reveal a surprising blazar connection

Can 1 cosmic enigma help solve another

Russia to spend big upgrading rocket engine reliability

Kourou busy with upcoming Arianespace missions

Massive galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter

Fossilized rivers suggest warm, wet ancient Mars

Researchers suggest life on Earth may be early in cosmic terms

China unveils 2020 Mars rover concept: report

N. Korea submarine missiles not ready until 2018: experts

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