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May 01, 2015

NASA pushes back against proposal to slash climate budget
Washington (AFP) May 1, 2015
NASA pushed back Thursday against a congressional proposal to slash more than $300 million in funding from its branch focused on climate issues. The proposal would cut funding to NASA's Earth Sciences division, which researches the planet's natural systems and processes - including climate change, severe weather and glaciers. Republican Lamar Smith, who chairs the House of Representatives' Science, Space and Technology Committee presented the proposal earlier in the week. NASA administrator ... read more

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Telenor satellite begins post-launch maneuvers according to plan Space Systems/Loral reports that a satellite designed and built for Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc), was successfully launched and is performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The sa ... more		Strong Evidence for Coronal Heating by Nanoflares The Sun's surface is blisteringly hot at 6,000 kelvins or 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit - but its atmosphere is another 300 times hotter. This has led to an enduring mystery for those who study the Sun: ... more		Arianespace at the EU-Japan Business Round Table Arianespace Chairman and CEO Stephane Israel took an active role in this week's meetings of the EU-Japan Business Round Table, which seeks to further strengthen relations between the European Union ... more
				Russia to Create World's First Rocket Engine Manufacturing Holding Russia's United Rocket and Space Corporation (URSC) is drafting a proposal on creation a unique holding, which is set to unite several manufacturers of engines for rockets and missiles, Russia's dai ... more		Technologies enable ambitious MMS mission It was unprecedented developing a mission that could fly four identically equipped spacecraft in a tight formation and take measurements 100 times faster than any previous space mission - an achieve ... more

Space Tech Expo - Design - Build - Test - Long Beach CA - May 19-21, 2015

The World's Largest Commercial Drone Conference and Expo - Sept 9 - Las Vegas

Human 2 Mars Conference Mat 5-7 2015 - Washington DC

Seeing Stars Through The Cloud SKA Organisation and AWS are launching the AstroCompute in the Cloud grant programme to accelerate the development of innovative tools and techniques for processing, storing and analysing the global ... more		Arianespace to launch HellaSat-4/SGS-1 for Arabsat and KACST Arianespace, Arabsat and King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) have announced the signature of a launch service contract for the Hellasat-4/Saudi Geo Satellite-1 satellite. The sat ... more		U.S. defense in free fall Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact Brazil, Chile sign defense agreement		First proton collisions should start in early June First collisions of protons at the world's largest science experiment are expected to start the first or second week of June, according to a senior research scientist with CERN's Large Hadron Collid ... more
				Turkish firm joins NATO BMD support effort Turkish defense electronics company Aselsan has joined a multinational industry team for engineering support of NATO's Ballistic Missile Defense program. ... more		Tidal tugs on Teflon faults drive slow-slipping earthquakes Unknown to most people, the Pacific Northwest experiences a magnitude-6.6 earthquake about once a year. The reason nobody notices is that the movement happens slowly and deep underground, in a part ... more

Army Network Modernization 2015 - Washington DC June 23-25

Ascent or no ascent Gigantic volumes of hot material rising from the deep earth's mantle to the base of the lithosphere have shaped the face of our planet. Provided they have a sufficient volume, they can lead to break ... more		Aerospace Defense Force detects recon sats spying on Russia Russia's Aerospace Defense Force (VKO) has recently detected on the orbit a group of reconnaissance satellites spying on Russia, commander of the Space Command Maj. Gen. Oleg Maidanovich said Sunday ... more		GUARDIAN Tsunami Detection Tech Catches Wave in Real Time Galileo daughter mission named Celeste to strengthen navigation resilience How quantum computers can be validated when solving unsolvable problems		Rapid Innovation Fund Award to the Remote Sensing Systems Directorate The Space and Missile Systems Center Remote Sensing Systems Directorate was recently selected for a Rapid Innovation Fund award of $3 million to support Space Based Infrared System data exploitation ... more
MIPT researchers grow cardiac tissue on 'spider silk' substrate Genetically engineered fibers of the protein spidroin, which is the construction material for spider webs, has proven to be a perfect substrate for cultivating heart tissue cells, MIPT researchers f ... more		From metal to insulator and back again New work from Carnegie's Russell Hemley and Ivan Naumov hones in on the physics underlying the recently discovered fact that some metals stop being metallic under pressure. Their work is published i ... more		Electron spin brings order to high entropy alloys Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered that electron spin brings a previously unknown degree of order to the high entropy alloy nickel iron chromium cobalt (NiFeCrCo) - and ... more		Successful Commissioning Of SylWin1 HVDC Grid Connection Prysmian Group has announced the successful commissioning of the High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore grid connection project SylWin1 realised off the North Sea coast of Germany in a contract ... more

	Nanotubes with 2 walls have singular qualities Rice University researchers have determined that two walls are better than one when turning carbon nanotubes into materials like strong, conductive fibers or transistors. Rice materials scientist En ... more		Drexel materials scientists putting a new spin on computing memory Ever since computers have been small enough to be fixtures on desks and laps, their central processing has functioned something like an atomic Etch A Sketch, with electromagnetic fields pushing data ... more

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Russia loses control of unmanned spacecraft		First Version of Newest USNO Star Catalog Released		X-37B Goes Fourth		Sentinel-2A payload processing begins for Vega launch in June		Possible Polar Cap on Pluto Detected
Riddle of Galactic Thin-Thick Disk Solved		MESSENGER executes last orbit-correction maneuver ahead of impact		ADS to build first Franco-German Earth observation satellite MERLIN		Lightweight membrane can significantly reduce in-flight aircraft noise		Progress Incident Not Threatening Orbital Station, Work of Crew

General Dynamics Integrates NASA's SGSS Infrastructure

Egyptian Space Authority Denies Losing Control of EgyptSat Two Satellite

NASA's ATLAS thermal testing: You're hot, then you're cold

Russia Ready to Help Brazil Develop Space Centers, Rockets

NASA, Boeing ecoDemonstrator set anti-bug research

Next Polar-orbiting weather sat ready for instrument integration

Ariane 5's first launch of 2015

Orbit Logic Awarded Air Force Space Superiority Contract Extension

An improvement to the global software standard for analyzing fusion plasmas

Advances in molecular electronics: Lights on - molecule on

Computer faces poker pros in no-limit Texas Hold'em

Astrophysicists draw most comprehensive map of the universe

CMACast and MICAPS systems help Nepal to combat earthquake

The Mysteries of Astronautics

Solar telescope peers into Sun to track the origins of space weather

DigitalGlobe offers high resolution satellite map of Aafrica

Water could have been abundant in the first billion years

US, Japan widen defense ties in historic sea change

Robotically discovering Earth's nearest neighbors

Lockheed Martin opens center for interceptor missile technology

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