Space News From SpaceDaily.Com

July 30, 2015

Russia schedules first Proton rocket launch since crash
Moscow (AFP) July 29, 2015
Russia on Wednesday set a date for the first Proton rocket launch since an engine failure in May saw a Mexican satellite destroyed. Authorities said a Proton-M rocket would blast off from the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan on August 28 carrying a British Inmarsat-5F3 commercial communications satellite. A similar rocket bearing a Mexican satellite fell back to earth on May 16 after suffering an engine malfunction, in one of a string of embarrassing failures for Russia's troubled space progr ... read more

Previous Issues

Jul 29

Jul 28

Jul 27

Jul 24

Jul 23

NASA Mars Orbiter Preparing for Mars Lander's 2016 Arrival With its biggest orbit maneuver since 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will prepare this week for the arrival of NASA's next Mars lander, InSight, next year. A planned 77-second ... more		China's supercomputer to support world's largest radio telescope Supercomputer Skyeye-1, capable of a quadrillion computing operations per second, will support space exploration by the world's largest radio telescope based in southwest China's Guizhou Province. ... more		New Names and Insights at Ceres Colorful new maps of Ceres, based on data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, showcase a diverse topography, with height differences between crater bottoms and mountain peaks as great as 9 miles (15 kilome ... more
				A new litmus test for chaos? Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? This intriguing question - the title of a talk given by MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz at a 1972 meeting - has come to emb ... more		Missouri researcher bakes asteroids to find water A Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher is cooking up something new in the lab - baking meteorites to learn how to produce water and other easily evaporated compounds from asteroi ... more

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

Nuclear Decommissioning And Used Fuel Market 2015

Solar systems for home and business installations

United Launch Alliance Launches WGS-7 A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket has launched the seventh Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force at 8:07 p.m. EDT July 23 from Space Launch Comple ... more		Aerojet Rocketdyne Wideband Global SATCOM Launch Aerojet Rocketdyne (AJRD) played a major role in successfully launching and placing the seventh Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-7) spacecraft into orbit for the U.S. military. The mission lifted off fro ... more		U.S. defense in free fall U.S. and Saudis conduct Middle East's largest counter-drone exercise Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact		Skynet 5A satellite starts move eastwards Airbus Defence and Space has announced that the planned 67,000 km move of the Skynet 5A satellite over the Asia Pacific region is on track. The move from 6 degrees East to 94.8 degrees East will exp ... more
				Airbus Defence and Space UK delivers Sentinel-5 Precursor for testing The Sentinel-5 Precursor platform and the TROPOMI instrument have been integrated together to form the satellite which will be leaving the UK for testing. Airbus Defence and Space, the world's ... more		Chinese military technologies increasingly employed in civil sector Around 1,000 civil products adopted with military technologies are displayed at an exhibition showcasing China's achievements in the integration of military-civilian development. At the exhibition o ... more

Nuclear Operations and Maintenance Efficiency Summit USA 2015

Small oxygen jump helped enable early animals take first breaths If oxygen was a driver of the early evolution of animals, only a slight bump in oxygen levels facilitated it, according to a multi-institutional research team that includes a Virginia Tech geoscient ... more		Object recognition for robots John Leonard's group in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile autonomous robots map their environme ... 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		Insights into catalytic converters Modern catalytic converters for the treatment of exhaust gases in vehicles with a combustion engine have largely contributed to reducing of pollutant emissions. By oxidation or reduction, i.e. the d ... more
Ultra-thin hollow nanocages could reduce platinum use in fuel cells A new fabrication technique that produces platinum hollow nanocages with ultra-thin walls could dramatically reduce the amount of the costly metal needed to provide catalytic activity in such applic ... more		Stretching the limits on conducting wires In the race to produce highly stretchable conductors, researchers have developed a new technique that aligns sheets of layered carbon nanotubes along stretched rubber cores, creating an extremely fl ... more		Spintronics: Molecules stabilizing magnetism Organic molecules allow producing printable electronics and solar cells with extraordinary properties. In spintronics, too, molecules open up the unexpected possibility of controlling the magnetism ... more		Breakthrough in knowledge of how nanoparticles grow A team of researchers from the University of Leicester and France's G2ELab-CNRS in Grenoble have for the first time observed the growth of free nanoparticles in helium gas in a process similar to th ... more

	World's most powerful laser fired in Japan Scientists at Osaka University in Japan say they've fired the world's most powerful laser. The beam was intact for just one picosecond, a trillionth of a second, but brief pulse registered two quadrillion watts of power, or two petawatts. ... more		More efficient process to produce graphene developed Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and University of Western Australia researchers have developed a new process to develop few-layer graphene for use in energy storage and other material appli ... more

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

Early brake deployment caused SpaceShipTwo accident: NTSB		SMC goes "2-for-2" on weather delayed launch		RED epic dragon camera captures riveting images on space station		Bright Basin on Tethys		'Bathtub Rings' Suggest Titan's Dynamic Seas
Undergraduates discover the densest galaxies known		Pillars of destruction reveals impact of cosmic wind on galaxy evolution		Brown dwarfs, stars share formation process		$1.5B contract goes to Lockheed Martin for Patriot interceptors		Scientists track monster waves below the ocean surface

Smarter window materials can control light and energy

ORNL makes scalable arrays of 'building blocks' for ultrathin electronics

Syntactic foam sandwich fills hunger for lightweight yet strong materials

Signboards in Space

Launch, docking returns ISS crew to full strength

NASA researchers find "frozen" recipe for extraterrestrial vitamin

Massive pool for space and deep-sea training to be built in Essex

Multi-Use Firing Room 4 used for Resource Prospector Mission Simulation

Less Algae, Not Clearer Water, Keeps Tahoe Blue

Simulated map of missing satellite galaxies may answer darkmatter puzzle

Assembly of World's Biggest Radio Telescope Gets Underway

Treasure hunting in archive data reveals clues about black holes' diet

Ariane 5 arrives for Sept dual-payload mission

On the way to breaking the terahertz barrier for graphene nanoelectronics

Scalable, direct method for synthesizing graphene in silicon chips

Fast, efficient system to produce graphene for energy storage applications

Cold crystallization has a dual nature

Discovery Of A Mars-Size World Uses Tug-Of-War Technique

Flowing nitrogen ice glaciers seen on Pluto

Speculation grows of looming N. Korea rocket test

Buy Advertising

Media Advertising Kit

Editorial & Other Enquiries

Privacy statement

The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2014 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement All images and articles appearing on Space Media Network have been edited or digitally altered in some way. Any requests to remove copyright material will be acted upon in a timely and appropriate manner. Any attempt to extort money from Space Media Network will be ignored and reported to Australian Law Enforcement Agencies as a potential case of financial fraud involving the use of a telephonic carriage device or postal service.