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August 02, 2014
SPACE TRAVEL
Perlan partners with Airbus to fly glider to edge of space
Oshkosh WI (SPX) Aug 01, 2014
Perlan Project is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Airbus Group - a global leader in aerospace - to fly a glider to the edge of space (+90,000 feet - 27,432 metres). Airbus Perlan Mission II was unveiled at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh fly-in convention, the largest annual gathering of aviation enthusiasts and professionals in the U.S., by Jean Botti, Chief Technical Officer at Airbus Group, and Einar Enevoldson, Chairman, Founder and Pilot at Perlan. Project Inc. Tom Enders, CEO ... read more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

New NASA Studies to Examine Climate/Vegetation Links
NASA has selected proposals for two new instruments, including one from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, that will observe changes in global vegetation from the International ... more
IRON AND ICE

New NASA Research Shows Giant Asteroids Battered Early Earth
New research shows that more than four billion years ago the surface of Earth was heavily reprocessed - or melted, mixed, and buried - as a result of giant asteroid impacts. A new terrestrial bombar ... more
SPACEMART

Spaceflight Eyes Small-Satellite Data Communications Market
Spaceflight has announced it is expanding its services to include Spaceflight Networks, a business dedicated to cost-effective spacecraft communications and operations for small-satellite customers. ... more
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SPACEMART

Airbus Defence and Space to build EUTELSAT 172B
Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, has just been awarded a contract by Eutelsat, one of the world's leading satellite operators, to design and build a highly innovat ... more


SPACE TRAVEL

NEEMO 18 Aquanauts Complete Underwater Mission
Four astronauts splashed up from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean on July 29, bringing to a successful close the 18th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) expedition. "Splashup" took ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

ALMA Finds Double Star with Weird and Wild Planet-forming Discs
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs around the two young stars in the binary system HK Tauri. These new AL ... more
SPACEWAR

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency taps BAE Systems for assist
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's effort to transform its intelligence data and products is being assisted by BAE Systems. ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
US lawmaker warns of military 'misunderstanding' risk with China
Spain approves 'total' arms embargo against Israel
Khamenei says Iran 'won't yield' to pressure to abandon uranium enrichment
NUKEWARS

N. Korea may be closer to full ICBM test: US think-tank
Fresh satellite images suggest North Korea might be wrapping up engine trials on an intercontinental ballistic missile, fuelling speculation of a full-scale flight test to come, a US think-tank said Wednesday. ... more
SPACEWAR

US launches 2 spy geo-satellites to track 'nefarious capability' of other nations
The US Air Force has successfully orbited two geosynchronous satellites to monitor all other space devices operating on the same strategic orbit, because of the "nefarious capability" other nations ... more
MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS

U.S. government using commercial Inmarsat 5 satellite
Military Ka-band satellite communications service from a commercial satellite is being provided by Boeing to a U.S. government entity. ... more
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MISSILE NEWS

Russia has violated arms treaty by testing cruise missile: US
The United States has found that Russia violated a 1987 arms control treaty by testing a ground-launched cruise missile, a senior US official said late Monday, calling the matter "very serious." ... more
TIME AND SPACE

Mapping the optimal route between 2 quantum states
As a quantum state collapses from a quantum superposition to a classical state or a different superposition, it will follow a path known as a quantum trajectory. For each start and end state t ... more
24/7 News Coverage
Typhoon Ragasa hits south China after killing 15 in Taiwan
Toxic homes a lasting legacy of Los Angeles fires
Climate change causing havoc with global water cycle: UN
TIME AND SPACE

Scientists separate a particle from its properties
Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology have performed the first separation of a particle from one of its properties. The study, carried out at the Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL) and pub ... more
TECH SPACE

Tough foam from tiny sheets
Tough, ultralight foam of atom-thick sheets can be made to any size and shape through a chemical process invented at Rice University. In microscopic images, the foam dubbed "GO-0.5BN" looks like a n ... more
TECH SPACE

Building the Foundation for Future Synthetic Biology Applications with BRICS
The development of increasingly sophisticated techniques and tools to sequence, synthesize and manipulate genetic material has led to the rapidly maturing discipline of synthetic biology. To date, w ... more
TECH SPACE

A new way to make microstructured surfaces
A team of researchers has created a new way of manufacturing microstructured surfaces that have novel three-dimensional textures. These surfaces, made by self-assembly of carbon nanotubes, could exh ... more
PHYSICS NEWS

Lifetime of gravity measurements heralds new beginning
Although ESA's GOCE satellite is no more, all of the measurements it gathered during its life skirting the fringes our atmosphere, including the very last as it drifted slowly back to Earth, have be ... more

SPACE TRAVEL

Orion Tests Set Stage for Mission
NASA's Orion spacecraft is not quite ready for liftoff, but the spacecraft thinks it's already flown six missions. Since Orion's crew module was stacked on top of its service module in June, the veh ... more
MARSDAILY

Mars 2020 rover will carry tools to make oxygen
The suite of space-age tools loaded on NASA's next robotic vehicle, bound for the Red Planet in 2020, will include a device for making oxygen out of carbon dioxide. ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

Early Earth suffered 500-million-year asteroid storm

TECH SPACE

Printing the Metals of the Future

EXO WORLDS

Young binary star system may form planets with weird and wild orbits

MOON DAILY

Tidal forces gave moon its shape

MARSDAILY

NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before

MERCURY RISING

Mercury's magnetic field tells scientists how its interior is different from Earth's

MERCURY RISING

MESSENGER Gets Closer to Mercury than Ever Before

MARSDAILY

Los Alamos Laser Selected for 2020 Mars Mission

SOLAR SCIENCE

Solar Probe Plus, Highest Energy Mission Ever

SPACEMART

$248 Billion for Manufacture and Launch of 1,155 Satellites Over Next Decade

First synthetic biological leaf could allow humans to colonize space

NASA's IceCube No Longer On Ice

New characteristics of complex oxide surfaces revealed

New Approach to Form Non-Equilibrium Structures

Discovery is key to metal wear in sliding parts

US aerospace firm outlines New Zealand-based space program

Our galaxy is way smaller than previous estimates

Astronomers measure weight of galaxies, expansion of universe

Riddle of bulging Moon solved at last

United Launch Alliance Marks 85th Successful Launch

Mysterious molecules in space

Boeing Resells Inmarsat-5 Satellite Bandwidth to US Government

Revolutionary Microshutter Technology Hurdles Significant Challenges

The Quantum Cheshire Cat: Scientists separate a particle from its properties

Gaia: 'Go' for science

Europe's Fifth and Final Resupply Ship Launches to Station

Fifty years of European cooperation in space

US Launches Two Surveillance Satellites From Cape Canaveral

Perseid Meteors vs. the Supermoon

Europe launches last resupply ship to space station

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