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February 25, 2015

Russia to Build Its Own Orbital Station After 2024
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 25, 2015
Russia will continue using the International Space Station (ISS) until around 2024 and is planning to build its own orbital outpost using the existing ISS modules, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Tuesday. "The configuration of a multi-purpose lab module, a docking module and a scientific-energy module allows us to build an orbital station to ensure Russia's access to outer space," Roscosmos Science and Technology Board said in a statement. In addition, Russia will actively study the Moon ... read more

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Curiosity Self-Portrait at 'Mojave' Site on Mount Sharp This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Mojave" site, where its drill collected the mission's second taste of Mount Sharp. The scene combines dozens of imag ... more		Earth's Moon May Not Be Critical to Life The Moon has long been viewed as a crucial component in creating an environment suitable for the evolution of complex life on Earth, but a number of scientific results in recent years have shown tha ... more		The Cosmic Chemistry That Gave Rise to Water Earth's water has a mysterious past stretching back to the primordial clouds of gas that birthed the Sun and other stars. By using telescopes and computer simulations to study such star nurseries, r ... more
				Last look at Sentinel-2A Before Sentinel-2A is packed up and shipped to French Guiana for its launch targeted on 12 June, media representatives and specialists got one last look at the second satellite for Europe's Copernic ... more		KVH Ships its 5,000th TracPhone System for mini-VSAT Broadband Network KVH Industries recently shipped its 5,000th TracPhone satellite communications antenna system for the mini-VSAT Broadband network, adding more than 1,000 units in the past year and extending the com ... more

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ESA's spaceplane is coming home ESA's IXV spaceplane, launched on a Vega rocket on 11 February, is now on its way to Europe for detailed study in Italy. The mission of only 100 minutes was flawless and ended with a safe splashdown ... more		SOHO Sees Something New Near The Sun An unusual comet skimmed past the sun on Feb 18-21, 2015, as captured by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO. This comet was interesting for ... more		US Space Force renews partnership with L3Harris for space domain awareness Russia fires nine drones at Ukraine, damages hotel in city of Mykolaiv French FM calls for greater cooperation on European defence		Stretch and relax by losing 1 electron magnetism switch The scientists used the unique Nanocluster Trap experimental station at the BESSY II synchrotron radiation source at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and published their results in the Journal Angewandte Ch ... more
				The future of electronics -- now in 2-D The future of electronics could lie in a material from its past, as researchers from The Ohio State University work to turn germanium--the material of 1940s transistors--into a potential replacement ... more		The past might tell what the future holds for Greenland meltdown A team of scientists lead by Danish geologist Nicolaj Krog Larsen have managed to quantify how the Greenland Ice Sheet reacted to a warm period 8,000-5,000 years ago. Back then temperatures were 2-4 ... more

Japan's Robear: Strength of a robot, face of a bear Forget the frightening androids of dystopian sci-fi, the future of robots is cute polar bears that can lift elderly people into and out of bed. ... more		Penn researchers develop new technique for making molybdenum disulfide Graphene, a single-atom-thick lattice of carbon atoms, is often touted as a replacement for silicon in electronic devices due to its extremely high conductivity and unbeatable thinness. But graphene ... more		Dozens of tornadoes plow central US, at least 5 killed Schools closed, warnings issued as Asia swelters in extreme heatwave NASA's ORCA, AirHARP Projects Paved Way for PACE to Reach Space		Getting in shape New research from the Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) looks at how to create various non-spherical particles by releasing dr ... more
Smarter multicore chips Computer chips' clocks have stopped getting faster. To keep delivering performance improvements, chipmakers are instead giving chips more processing units, or cores, which can execute computations i ... more		Direct observation of bond formations A collaboration between researchers from KEK, the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), RIKEN, and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Resear ... more		Simulating superconducting materials with ultracold atoms Using ultracold atoms as a stand-in for electrons, a Rice University-based team of physicists has simulated superconducting materials and made headway on a problem that's vexed physicists for nearly ... more		3-D printing with custom molecules creates low-cost mechanical sensor Imagine printing out molecules that can respond to their surroundings. A research project at the University of Washington merges custom chemistry and 3-D printing. Scientists created a bone-shaped p ... more

	Nanotechnology: Better measurements of single molecule circuits It's nearly 50 years since Gordon Moore predicted that the density of transistors on an integrated circuit would double every two years. "Moore's Law" has turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy ... more		MUOS - a Vital Next Step for Narrowband Satellite Communications All of us at Intelsat General congratulate our government colleagues at SPAWAR PMW-146 on the successful launch of MUOS-3. MUOS, the Mobile User Objective System, is a critical government-operated p ... more

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Modi vows to end India status as top defence importer

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