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April 15, 2015

Boeing-Lockheed team for Vulcan rocket with reusable engine
Bethesda, Md. (UPI) Apr 14, 2015
United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, on Monday announced plans to replace its current military space rocket models with a new design featuring a cost-cutting reusable engine. The Vulcan rocket will take the best parts of the Atlas V and Delta IV launch vehicles but will cut costs dramatically through a recyclable first-stage booster engine known as Sensible, Modular, Autonomous Return Technology (SMART), ULA said in an online statement. After lift-o ... read more

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Rocket tips over after SpaceX recycle attempt SpaceX's latest attempt at recycling its Falcon 9 rocket by landing it upright on an ocean platform failed Tuesday, after a successful launch of its cargo mission to space. ... more		Scientists hold breath for comet lander to wake Europe's comet lander Philae has remained obstinately silent since a new bid was launched to communicate with it, mission chiefs said Tuesday, but chances for contact were improving daily. ... more		Comet 67P springs magnetic surprise In a new twist in a landmark exploration, Europe's comet-chasing Rosetta mission has found that its target, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, has no magnetic field, scientists reported Tuesday. ... more
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Russia's Angara launcher becomes cheaper to manufacture Russia's brand new eco-friendly Angara space launch vehicle will be produced at a plant in the city of Omsk using cutting-edge solutions for manufacturing process, said Andrei Kalinovsky, the head o ... more		Pluto, now blurry, will become clear with NASA flyby The best picture we have of Pluto is a blurry, pixelated blob, but that is about to change when a NASA spacecraft makes the first-ever flyby of the dwarf planet. ... more		NATO chief says Ukraine can beat Russia; As exhausted troops await resupply Ahead of feared Rafah invasion, Palestinians mourn bombardment dead Poland, Lithuania say can help return military-aged men to Ukraine		New clue sheds some light on mysterious 'dark matter' Scientists on Tuesday said they had found tantalising evidence suggesting "dark matter" - the mysterious substance believed to comprise most of the Universe's mass - may be more dynamic than thought. ... more
				NASA Experiments With 'Building Blocks' of Life in Lab A group of scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are studying the origin of life on Earth, and they've made a major breakthrough, discovering that the building blo ... more		Astronaut Hadfield to release first space album Astronaut Chris Hadfield is taking music to intergalactic heights with the first album written and recorded in space. ... more

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Unprecedented Life Story of Milky Way Galaxy Evolution Picture, if you will, the ultimate universal home movie if not parental keepsake and life story: our Milky Way Galaxy, starting out as but a wee collection of young stars some 12 billion years ago, ... more		Demonstration of ultra-cold neutrino experiment a success An international team of nuclear physicists announced the first scientific results from the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) experiment. CUORE, located at the INFN Gran Sass ... more		U.S. Special Operations Command orders MUOS-capable radios U.S. Special Operations Command has given Harris Corporation an order for additional Falcon III radios for its wideband tactical communications network. ... more		DARPA programs simultaneously test limits of technology, credulity Less than one week after releasing Breakthrough Technologies for National Security, DARPA's latest summary of the Agency's mission, accomplishments and funding priorities for extending its legacy of ... more

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