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March 13, 2015

Japan firm marks one small step for solar energy in space
Tokyo (AFP) March 13, 2015
A major Japanese machinery company said Friday that it has succeeded in transmitting energy wirelessly, marking a step toward making solar power generation in space a reality. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said it used microwave technology to send 10 kilowatts of power - enough to run a set of conventional kitchen appliances - through the air to a receiver 500 metres (1,640 feet) away. Wireless power transmission is currently under development as the core technology to tap the vast amount of sol ... read more

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NASA launches satellites to track 'magnetosphere' Four identical satellites which will study the interactions between solar winds and the Earth's magnetic fields blasted off into Space on Thursday and settled into orbit begin a two-year study, NASA said. ... more		Exploring the Depths of Titan's Seas In our solar system, there are only two planetary bodies with liquid lakes and seas-Earth and Titan, a moon of Saturn. But instead of water, Titan lakes are made of liquid methane with temperatures ... more		New material captures carbon at half the energy cost UC Berkeley chemists have made a major leap forward in carbon-capture technology with a material that can efficiently remove carbon from the ambient air of a submarine as readily as from the pollute ... more
				Liquid Metal Robots Are Almost Here The Chinese researchers hope to create a non-rigid robot resembling the fictional T-1000 from Terminator 2, however, the robot would be used mostly to observe environmental changes or to deliver mat ... more		Saturn moon's ocean may have hydrothermal activity A new study by a team of Cassini mission scientists led by the University of Colorado Boulder have found that microscopic grains of rock detected near Saturn imply hydrothermal activity is taking pl ... more

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MMS: Studying Magnetic Reconnection Near Earth The Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission is scheduled to launch into space on March 12, 2015. The mission consists of four spacecraft to observe a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection - whi ... more		Solving the riddle of neutron stars It has not yet been possible to measure the gravitational waves predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity. They are so weak that they get lost in the noise of the measurements. But thanks ... more		UK charges three for allegedly assisting Hong Kong intel services China accused of targeting overseas citizens for political activism China accused of targeting overseas citizens for political activism		Webb Conversations: James Webb Space Telescope Coming Together This is the third installment in a four-part series of conversations with Paul Geithner Deputy Project Manager - Technical for Webb telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Mary ... more
				Rare split images of supernova put Johns Hopkins astronomer in the spotlight A Johns Hopkins astronomer played a key role in the recent discovery of a distant exploding star whose light split into four distinct images in a display seen for the first time by scientists using ... more		Hot water activity on icy moon's seafloor Tiny grains of rock detected by the international Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn point to hydrothermal activity on the seafloor of its icy moon Enceladus. The finding adds to the tantalising pos ... more

NASA's Soil Moisture Mapper Takes First 'SMAPshots' Fresh off the recent successful deployment of its 20-foot (6-meter) reflector antenna and associated boom arm, NASA's new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory has successfully completed a ... more		NASA Challenge Invites Students to Help Design Journey to Mars Systems College students have the opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation for NASA's journey to Mars by designing systems for future space habitats and exploration systems through the agency's Expl ... more		Identity crisis: Climate destroying wonders that gave US parks their names In US national parks, a historical wound begins to heal Loss and hope: US park rangers' climate crisis fight		NASA Goddard Provides Superfast Sensors for New MMS Mission Scheduled to lift off on March 12, 2015, NASA's new Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission consists of four identical spacecraft that each carry 25 sensors with unprecedented observational speed ... more
Queen's astronomers discover fastest ever unbound star in our galaxy A fast-moving unbound star discovered by astronomers at Queen's University Belfast has broken the galactic speed record. The unbound star, named US708, is travelling at 1,200 kilometres per second - ... more		UK skies set to dim in decade's deepest solar eclipse On 20 March a total eclipse of the Sun will take place, visible from the North Atlantic Ocean. Observers in the UK and Ireland will see a partial solar eclipse, with up to 97% of the Sun blocked out ... more		The world's largest radio telescope takes a major step towards construction At their meeting last week at the SKA Organisation Headquarters near Manchester, UK, the SKA Board of Directors unanimously agreed to move the world's largest radio telescope forward to its final pr ... more		A grand extravaganza of new stars At the centre of the image is the open star cluster NGC 6193, containing around thirty bright stars and forming the heart of the Ara OB1 association. The two brightest stars are very hot giant stars ... more

	Mysterious Phenomena in a Gigantic Galaxy-Cluster Collision Researchers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have produced the most detailed image yet of a fascinating region where clusters of hundreds of galaxies are colliding, creating a rich va ... more		Getting to the origins of photosynthesis One of the most important areas in all of biology is the evolution of photosynthesis. Some species of single celled cyanobacteria, through photosynthesis, forever changed the atmosphere of the early ... more

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Spaceflight Industries Raises $20 Million to Accelerate Growth

Comet mission in bid to contact dormant Philae probe

ISRO plans to launch navigation satellite by March-end

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