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May 06, 2015

Successful SpaceX escape test 'bodes well for future'
Miami (AFP) May 6, 2015
SpaceX's Dragon capsule sailed through the first flight test of its emergency astronaut escape feature Wednesday, a critical step toward launching people into space from US soil in the next two years. Not only did the abort test go according to plan, it also gave the California-based company a chance to showcase a spacecraft that it says could one day carry cargo to deep space destinations like Mars and beyond. The US space agency described the test as "an important step in NASA's endeavor to re ... read more

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UAE says on track to send probe to Mars in 2021 Oil-rich United Arab Emirates said Wednesday it was pressing ahead with plans to send the first Arab unmanned probe to Mars by 2021, naming it "Hope". ... more		Russia's space cargo ship to burn up in atmosphere Friday Russia said an unmanned supply ship set for the International Space Station will fall back to Earth Friday and burn up in the atmosphere, after the spacecraft suffered a communications failure. ... more		Chicxulub and the deccan eruptions: Just a coincidence? In a new paper published online by GSA Bulletin on 30 April, researchers Mark Richards and colleagues address the "uncomfortably close" occurrence of the Chicxulub impact in the Yucatan and the most ... more
				NASA Aids Response to Nepal Quake NASA and its partners are gathering the best available science and information on the April 25, 2015, magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal, referred to as the Gorkha earthquake, to assist in relief and ... more		Traffic Around Mars Gets Busy NASA has beefed up a process of traffic monitoring, communication and maneuver planning to ensure that Mars orbiters do not approach each other too closely. Last year's addition of two new spacecraf ... more

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India to launch 6 more satellites in 2015-16 India will launch six more satellites - two communication satellites, three navigation satellites and a space science satellite - in 2015-16, parliament was informed on Thursday. "Six more satellite ... more		Successful testing of High Thrust Cryogenic Engine A major milestone in the development of ISRO's next generation launch vehicle, GSLV MkIII, was achieved on successful long duration hot test (635 seconds) of high thrust cryogenic engine (CE20) on 2 ... more		U.S. defense in free fall Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact Brazil, Chile sign defense agreement		Pad Abort Test a Unique Evaluation Opportunity SpaceX and NASA teams will gain important insight into how the Crew Dragon spacecraft and its abort system perform during a test slated for May 6, engineers said. Next week's flight test is to see a ... more
				New exoplanet too big for its star The Australian discovery of a strange exoplanet orbiting a small cool star 500 light years away is challenging ideas about how planets form. "We have found a small star, with a giant planet the size ... more		Pulsar with widest orbit ever detected A team of highly determined high school students discovered a never-before-seen pulsar by painstakingly analyzing data from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescop ... more

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MOU between ISRO Department of Land Resources to beef up EO capacity A function for signing the MOU between Department of Land Resources and NRSC for developing the Bhuvan Geoportal - Srishti and the mobile application Drishti was organized on 29.4.2015 in presence o ... more		Fire and Ice: A MESSENGER Recap The planet closest to the Sun is, ironically, one of the coldest. That's just one of many mind-bending discoveries about Mercury that NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft beamed back to Earth over the past 7 ... 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		ILS And Dauria announce Proton/Angara dual launch services agreement International Launch Services (ILS) and Dauria Aerospace (Dauria), of Moscow, Russia, have signed an agreement to collaborate on opportunities to launch spacecraft utilizing an ILS Proton or Angara ... more
Tesla unveils battery to 'transform energy infrastructure' Electric car pioneer Tesla unveiled a "home battery" Thursday which its founder Elon Musk said would help change the "entire energy infrastructure of the world." ... more		Two-dimensional semiconductor comes clean In 2013 James Hone, Wang Fong-Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia Engineering, and colleagues at Columbia demonstrated that they could dramatically improve the performance of graphen ... more		Northwestern scientists develop first liquid nanolaser Northwestern University scientists have developed the first liquid nanoscale laser. And it's tunable in real time, meaning you can quickly and simply produce different colors, a unique and useful fe ... more		Students develop electricity-producing leg brace Phone need charging? Whose doesn't? With the energy-generating leg brace developed by researchers at Rice University, a power boost is only a walk around the block. ... more

	Synthesis of silicon oxides opens 'new world in a grain of sand' In an effort that reaches back to the 19th-century laboratories of Europe, a discovery by University of Georgia chemistry researchers establishes new research possibilities for silicon chemistry and ... more		Eta Aquarid meteor shower to hit its peak, debris from Halley's Comet viewable worldwide Every year, the Eta Aquarid meteor shower lights up the sky as Earth spirals through the debris from Halley's Comet. This year's peak occurs on Tuesday at about 9 a.m. EDT, according to NASA. ... more

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French-Italian military communications satellite launched

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India Test-Fires Dhanush Missile From Ship

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New technique for exploring structural dynamics of nanoworld

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Strong Evidence For Coronal Heating Theory

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Nepal earthquake on the radar

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