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February 02, 2015

NASA hails spending boost under Obama budget proposal
Miami (AFP) Feb 2, 2015
NASA on Monday hailed a proposal by President Barack Obama to boost spending for the US space agency and announced plans for a mission to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa. The agency's administrator, Charles Bolden, said at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that NASA has made strides in the journey toward Mars - where a human mission is planned for 2024 - with a "near-flawless" flight test of its new Orion deep space vehicle. He also heralded success in handing over International Space Station ... read more

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Iran launches first satellite since 2012 Iran launched an observation satellite Monday - its first since 2012 - with President Hassan Rouhani declaring it safely entered orbit and that he had personally ordered the mission. ... more		Mini Models Fire Up for SLS Base Heating Tests It may be cold in upstate New York, but NASA engineers are turning up the temperature in Buffalo for a series of tests that will provide critical data on the heating conditions at the base of NASA's ... more		Russia launches British comms satellite into space Russia on Sunday carried out its first space launch of the year, using its commercial Proton rocket to send a British satellite into orbit. ... more
				How spaceflight ages the immune system prematurely As the world waits to see if Mars One can establish a human colony on Mars, scientists are working to determine the long-term consequences of living in low or no-gravity conditions, such as those th ... more		Eyes In The Sky: Britain's GCHQ Sets Sights on Space The British surveillance agency GCHQ is collecting enormous amounts of satellite telephone data and sharing them with its sister agency in the US, via its ground station at Bude in southwest England ... more

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Iran Launches Satellite Into Space, First Since 2012 Iran has launched its Fajr (Dawn) observation satellite, using a Safir-2 rocket, the country's Fars news agency reported, its first launch since 2012 and declared that it has safely entered orbit. T ... more		Vega receives Spaceplane payload for Feb 11 suborbital mission The fourth Vega has completed its build-up at the Spaceport in French Guiana, preparing this lightweight member of Arianespace's launcher family for final checkout ahead of its February 11 liftoff w ... more		Russia offers to extend nuclear arms limits with US Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact Brazil, Chile sign defense agreement		Meteorite may represent 'bulk background' of Mars' battered crust NWA 7034, a meteorite found a few years ago in the Moroccan desert, is like no other rock ever found on Earth. It's been shown to be a 4.4 billion-year-old chunk of the Martian crust, and according ... more
				Still doubts on gravitational waves Third (and most probably not the last) chapter in the ongoing story about the "first direct image of gravitational waves through the primordial sky". In March last year the BICEP2 team announced tha ... more		The Strange Way Fluids Slosh on the International Space Station The next time you pour yourself a glass of water, pause before you drink it. First, swirl the clear liquid around the glass. Gently slosh it back and forth. Tap the glass on the tabletop, and watch ... more

Moog Supports Delta 2 of SMAP satellite Moog Space and Defense Group provided propulsion control to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft that launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ... more		Spire unveils nanosatellite to make weather predictable to navigate Spire has unveiled the world's first network of commercial satellites to provide unparalleled insight into weather and climate changes. The satellites, which are booked to launch this year, aim to t ... more		Ex-US climate envoy: Trump threatening 'consensus science' worldwide How did an Indian zoo get the world's most endangered great ape? Australian scientists grapple with 'despicable' butterfly heist		New pathway to valleytronics A potential avenue to quantum computing currently generating quite the buzz in the high-tech industry is "valleytronics," in which information is coded based on the wavelike motion of electrons movi ... more
Researchers use oxides to flip graphene conductivity Graphene, a one-atom thick lattice of carbon atoms, is often touted as a revolutionary material that will take the place of silicon at the heart of electronics. The unmatched speed at which it can m ... more		NASA Launches Groundbreaking Soil Moisture Mapping Satellite b>Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Supports ULA Delta II Launch of Soil Moisture Active Passive Satellite for NASA br> /b>Sacramento, CA - Aerojet Rocketdyne has helped propel the United Launch Allian ... more		Japan Successfully Launches New Spy Satellite Japan successfully completed the launch of a radar reconnaissance satellite on Sunday morning, the Kyodo news agency reports. The launch was performed from the Tanegashima Space Center in the Kagosh ... more		The tell-tale signs of a galactic merger The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking view of spiral galaxy NGC 7714. This galaxy has drifted too close to another nearby galaxy and the dramatic interaction has twisted its ... more

	Lofar's record-sharp image gives new view of galaxy M 82 An international team of astronomers led from Chalmers University of Technology has used the giant radio telescope Lofar to create the sharpest astronomical image ever taken at very long radio wavel ... more		Could a new proposed particle help to detect dark matter? Researchers at the University of Southampton have proposed a new fundamental particle which could explain why no one has managed to detect 'Dark Matter', the elusive missing 85 per cent of the Unive ... more

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Satellites can improve regional air quality forecasting		NASA's New Radiometer Tunes In to Soil's Frequency		CAT scan of nearby supernova remnant reveals frothy interior		Russian Satellites Prohibited for Emergency 911 Calls in US		US Senator says GPS often fails to track emergency calls
Satellite study identifies water bodies important for biodiversity conservation		Sundance doc examines real-life Close Encounter		Scientists: Evidence of Big Bang theory fails to space dust		Infrared imaging technique operates at high temperatures		Breakthrough promises secure communications and faster computers

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Arctic sea ice loss expected to be bumpy in the short term

Habitable Evaporated Cores

Cassini Catches Titan Naked in the Solar Wind

UNH Scientists Launch "CubeSats" into Radiation Belts

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British Satellite to Be Launched by Russian Proton-M Carrier Rocket

NASA Engineer Advances New Daytime Star Tracker

NASA's New Radiometer Tunes In to Soil's Frequency

STRATCOM, Germany make arrangement to share space services, data

Maintaining INF Treaty is Russian, US Interest

A new instrument to study the extreme universe

Large-scale analytics system for predicting major events described

Missing link in metal physics explains Earth's magnetic field

membrane will make batteries safer, thinner

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