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November 07, 2014

Virgin Galactic could resume test flights in six months
London, UK (AFP) Nov 08, 2014
Virgin Galactic could resume test flights with a new spaceship within six months, the company said Friday, a week after the fatal crash of SpaceShipTwo in the Californian desert. The United States' National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accident, which has called into question Virgin chief Richard Branson's dream of tourist flights to the edge of space. "It's possible that test flights for the next spaceship could begin within six months, before the investigation is expect ... read more

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Orion launch to test human flight risks in deep space With memories still fresh of two commercial space flight accidents in the past 10 days, NASA is readying its first test flight of the Orion spacecraft that could one day carry humans to Mars. ... more		NASA wants to put Lytro cameras in their probes Digital camera company Lytro is making buzz in the tech world this week, having announced partnerships with NASA, the Defense Department, and a number of companies in the energy and healthcare industries. ... more		Dark matter may be massive The physics community has spent three decades searching for and finding no evidence that dark matter is made of tiny exotic particles. Case Western Reserve University theoretical physicists suggest ... more
				EIAST and AUS launch UAE's first CubeSat Mission Nayif-1 The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST), in partnership with American University of Sharjah (AUS), launched the UAE's first CubeSat Mission, a Nanosatellite that offers ... more		Russia Test-Fires Topol-M Intercontinental Ballistic Missile The Russian Strategic Missile Forces test-fired on Saturday a Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile from a launch site in northwestern Russia, the country's Defense Ministry said. "The (M ... more

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Poland to buy armed drones amid Ukraine crisis NATO member Poland said Tuesday it will acquire combat drones as part of a multi-billion-euro revamp of its armed forces amid heightened tensions with Russia over its role in the Ukraine crisis. ... more		Disorder + disorder = more disorder? If you took the junk from the back of your closet and combined it with the dirty laundry already on your floor, you would have an even bigger mess. While this principle will likely always hold true ... more		Despite Western pressure, China in no hurry to reduce Russia support N. Korea fires ballistic missiles after denying Russia arms transfers Taiwan's Lai to bolster 'porcupine' defence against China threat		Two photons strongly coupled by glass fiber Two photons in free space do not interact. Light waves can pass through each other without having any influence on each other at all. For many applications in quantum technology, however, interactio ... more
				Ultracold disappearing act A disappearing act was the last thing Rice University physicist Randy Hulet expected to see in his ultracold atomic experiments, but that is what he and his students produced by colliding pairs of B ... more		ADS boosts EO portfolio with the addition of DMC Data Airbus Defence and Space announced that the data and application services of DMC International Imaging Ltd. (DMCii), UK, will now be available through its Geo-Intelligence programme line, thus furth ... more

Startup in the Land of the Rising Sun; A Japanese Solar Venture - by Bradley L. Bartz

India votes against U.N. draft resolution on nuke pact India has voted against the provisions of draft resolutions calling for signing of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), ruling out the possibility of joining the treaty as a non-nuclear weapo ... more		NASA Installs Giant Composite Material Research Robot Kathy Barnstorff It looks like something out of a "Transformers" movie - a huge robotic arm that moves and spins to pick up massive heads filled with spools of carbon fibers, then moves in preprogr ... more		For sale: unique piece of land in strategic Arctic archipelago Daily ice loss in Greenland tracked by new GPS method Brazil's Porto Alegre: a flood disaster waiting to happen		Gilat and HISPASAT Enhance VNO Activity Gilat Satellite Networks has announced that its Virtual Network Operations (VNO) program with Spanish satellite operator HISPASAT has signed on two new ISPs who intend to provide Internet services v ... more
ISS Agency Heads Issue Joint Statement The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met in Paris, France, on Nov. 4, 2014. The following is a joint statement issued ... more		Rice chemists gain edge in next-gen energy Rice University scientists who want to gain an edge in energy production and storage report they have found it in molybdenum disulfide. The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has turned molybdenum disul ... more		Outsmarting Thermodynamics in Self-assembly of Nanostructures If you can uniformly break the symmetry of nanorod pairs in a colloidal solution, you're a step ahead of the game toward achieving new and exciting metamaterial properties. But traditional thermodyn ... more		New way to make batteries safer Every year, nearly 4,000 children go to emergency rooms after swallowing button batteries - the flat, round batteries that power toys, hearing aids, calculators, and many other devices. Ingesting th ... more

	NMSU chemistry research could contribute to multiple applications New Mexico State University's Gary A. Eiceman has received funding of $399,000 from the National Science Foundation for research to be conducted on "Chemical Orthogonality in Tandem Differential Mob ... more		Raising cryptography's standards Most modern cryptographic schemes rely on computational complexity for their security. In principle, they can be cracked, but that would take a prohibitively long time, even with enormous computatio ... more

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Plasma: Casimir and Yukawa mesons		Orbital likely to discontinue using Russian rocket engine		Peering into Planetary Atmospheres		How to Land on a Comet		The Little Engine that Could
African states endorse installation of a mega radio telescope		UCLA astronomers solve puzzle about bizarre object at the center of our galaxy		ESA space ferry moves ISS to avoid debris		US to Continue Space Cooperation With Russia After Spacecraft Crashes		Spaceflight partners with JAMSS to loft 8 CubeSats on JAXA mission

Orion Takes Big Step Before Moving to the Launch Pad

MAVEN Continues Mars Exploration Begun 50 Years Ago by Mariner 4

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Finds Mineral Match

Station Trio Prepares for Departure amid Ongoing Science

String field theory could be the foundation of quantum mechanics

Fireball lights up Japanese skies

Farewell 'J', hello Agilkia

Application of NovelSat tech on AFRICASAT-1A generates big savings

Risk-taker Branson battles to protect Virgin brand

NTSB reveals spaceship crash timeline, fingers lever

To Agilkia... and beyond: Comet landing site is named

Fireball lit up the sky across Midwest and East Coast Monday night

Planetary Atmospheres a Key to Assessing Possibilities for Life

NASA-Funded Sounding Rocket to Gather 1,500 Sun Images in 5 Minutes

Solving the mystery of life by exploring Churyumov-Gerasimenko

SpaceShipTwo Manufacturer May Face Setback After Crash in California

Eye-catching space technology restoring sight

Canadian astronaut's 'Space Oddity' video back on YouTube

NASA Program Enhances Climate Resilience at Agency Facilities

China gears up for lunar mission after round-trip success

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