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June 01, 2015

LightSail reestablishes communication with mission control
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jun 1, 2015
More than a week after it went silent, its software having crashed, the LightSail is communicating once again with mission controllers. "Our LightSail called home! It's alive!" Bill Nye, CEO of the Planetary Society, the group responsible for the mission, said in a press release. "Our LightSail spacecraft has rebooted itself, just as our engineers predicted. Everyone is delighted. We were ready for three more weeks of anxiety." The craft stopped talking to ground controllers more than a ... read more

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Corruption tarnishes Russia's new showpiece cosmodrome Designed to showcase a revamped space industry and divert attention from recent failures, Russia's multi-billion-dollar project to build its own space launch pad to take over from Soviet-era Baikonur has been mired in corruption scandals. ... more		Cassini to make final pass by Saturn's odd-shaped Hyperion moon Launched from Earth nearly 20 years ago, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make its final close proximity flyby of Saturn's moon Hyperion on Sunday - coming within 19,000 nautical miles of the ringed planet's irregularly-shaped satellite. ... more		Space Station remodelling The International Space Station's Permanent Multipurpose Module was detached and moved by the main robotic arm to another place on the orbiting laboratory yesterday. This delicate operation required ... more
				A bubbly cosmic celebration This new image from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile shows a spectacular red cloud of glowing hydrogen gas behind a collection of blue foreground stars. Within RCW 34 - located in the south ... more		Microbes Can Survive In Meteorites If Shielded From UV Radiation Outer space might be the toughest environment for life, but some hearty microbes have been able to survive in it for surprising amounts of time. How long they can do so and why they are able to with ... more

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NASA Telescopes Set Limits on Space-time Quantum "Foam" A team of scientists has used X-ray and gamma-ray observations of some of the most distant objects in the Universe to better understand the nature of space and time. Their results set limits on the ... more		Commercial Crew Milestones Met; Partners on Track for Missions in 2017 NASA has taken another step toward returning America's ability to launch crew missions to the International Space Station from the United States in 2017. The Commercial Crew Program ordered it ... more		Russia launches dozens of drones as Ukraine claims 'important success' Russian jets violate Estonian air space in 'brazen intrusion' U.S. defense in free fall		Space age mice are thin-skinned Scientists have found skin abnormalities among three mice that recently spent 91 days aboard the International Space Station. The results bolster mounting evidence suggesting animals (humans included) aren't built for life in space. ... more
				JPL's RoboSimian to compete in DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals RoboSimian, the ape-like robot developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, will compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals at the Fairplex in Pomona, California, June 5 ... more		Shedding Light on Untapped Information in Photons Conventional optical imaging systems today largely limit themselves to the measurement of light intensity, providing two-dimensional renderings of three-dimensional scenes and ignoring significant a ... more

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Study shows influence on climate of fresh water during last ice age A new study shows how huge influxes of fresh water into the North Atlantic Ocean from icebergs calving off North America during the last ice age had an unexpected effect - they increased the product ... more		How supercooled water is prevented from turning into ice Water behaves in mysterious ways. Especially below zero, where it is dubbed supercooled water, before it turns into ice. Physicists have recently observed the spontaneous first steps of the ice form ... more		Fossil fuels harm health from 'cradle to grave': report Trash, mulch and security: All jobs for troops in Washington Rising oceans to threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050: report		The Arctic: Interglacial period with a break Scientists at the Goethe University Frankfurt and at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre working together with their Canadian counterparts, have reconstructed the climatic devel ... more
Northern ice caused southern rain during last ice age Armadas of icebergs that broke off the Greenland ice sheet into the northern Atlantic Ocean during the Last Glacial Period - between about 110,000 and 12,000 years ago - often increased methane prod ... more		Large Hadron Collider Smashes its own Particle-Smashing Record As the Large Hadron Collider, humanity's most colossal science experiment, approaches its relaunch date, test runs are already making waves. On Thursday, the unimaginably massive machine broke its o ... more		Squeezed quantum cats Quantum physics is full of fascinating phenomena. Take, for instance, the cat from the famous thought experiment by the physicist Erwin Schrodinger. The cat can be dead and alive at once, since its ... more		Disney develop 2-legged robot that walks like an animated character When Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse, he didn't give much thought to how he might bring his character to life in the real world. But robotics now puts that possibility within reach, so Disney resea ... more

	On-demand X-rays at synchrotron light sources Consumers are now in the era of "on-demand" entertainment, in which they have access to the books, music and movies they want thanks to the internet. Likewise, scientists who use synchrotron light s ... more		Researchers develop intelligent handheld robots What if handheld tools know what needs to be done and were even able to guide and help inexperienced users to complete jobs that require skill? Researchers at the University of Bristol have develope ... more

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