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August 20, 2015

Will Rockets Ever Be Reliable
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 20, 2015
It's a fact of life. Rockets sometimes fail. The curse of the rocketeer strikes all, regardless of size, type, nationality or purpose. The history of rocket failures is older than spaceflight itself. It shows no signs of stopping in the future. The spaceflight community has ways of dealing with this. Test and check. Stop if there's a serious problem before launch. Launch if you can. If it fails, pick up the pieces (sometimes literally) and try to work out what happened. Do your best to make sure i ... read more

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Japan sends cargo to International Space Station A Japanese rocket blasted off Wednesday carrying emergency supplies in an unmanned cargo vessel bound for the International Space Station. ... more		NASA: There is No Asteroid Threatening Earth Numerous recent blogs and web postings are erroneously claiming that an asteroid will impact Earth, sometime between Sept. 15 and 28, 2015. On one of those dates, as rumors go, there will be an impa ... more		Mystery of exploding stars yields to astrophysicists A longstanding mystery about the tiny stars that let loose powerful explosions known as Type Ia supernovae might finally be solved. For decades, astronomers have debated whether one white dwarf star ... more
				NASA funds development of a better battery for space exploration A research team from the University of Maryland Energy Research Center (UMERC) has been awarded $1 million in NASA funding for its Garnet Electrolyte Based Safe, Lithium-Sulfur Energy Storage projec ... more		Mars Rover Moves Onward After 'Marias Pass' Studies NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is driving toward the southwest after departing a region where for several weeks it investigated a geological contact zone and rocks that are unexpectedly high in silica ... more

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IAU Signs Agreements for Five New Coordinating Offices of Astronomy The International Astronomical Union's (IAU) Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) has established new coordinating offices in Armenia, Colombia, Jordan, Nigeria and Portugal. Supporting the use ... more		Planetary pebbles were building blocks for the largest planets Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Queen's University in Canada have unraveled the mystery of how Jupiter and Saturn likely formed. This discovery, which changes our view of how ... more		Japan, US sign agreement to develop hypersonic missile interceptor Xi, Putin hail ties as 'stabilising' force in chaotic world US forces lose strategic African position in Niger		AAC and Garvey Spacecraft Deliver First Rocket Motor to Kodiak Alaska Aerospace Corporation (AAC) and Garvey Spacecraft Corporation (GSC) achieved an important milestone in their collaborative venture to path-find operations for a commercial nanosat launch vehi ... more
				Russian Anti-Missile Warning System Protects on Multiple Tiers The Russian anti-missile warning system has the primary task to detect a missile attack and pass on the data to the anti-missile defense system. Based on the system of missile warning the info ... more		Russian Missile Warning System Can Detect Mass Launch of Ballistic Missiles The missile early warning system can detect any launch from any direction, said Chief of Staff of the Main Centre for Missile Warning of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Colonel Viktor Tymoshenko. ... more

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High-precision control of nanoparticles for digital applications For the first time ever, researchers have succeeded in creating arrangements of colloids - tiny particles suspended in a solution - and, importantly, they have managed to control their motion with h ... more		Springer retracts 64 scientific papers with fake peer reviews Springer, a major science and medical publisher, recently announced the retraction of 64 articles from 10 of its journals. The articles were retracted after editors found the authors had faked the peer-review process using phony e-mail addresses. ... more		Hot Destination: Soviet Nuclear Test Site Opens to Tourists Twenty years after the last nuclear device was destroyed at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, on the Kazakh steppe, tours of the 18,500 square kilometer area have begun for intrepid visitors. Kazakhstan' ... more		Technology CubeSat hitch-hiker on today's HTV launch Today's HTV supply launch from Japan to the International Space Station also marks the arrival in orbit of one of ESA's smallest missions yet - a CubeSat which will test miniaturised technologies fo ... more

	Advancing the Next Revolution of "Stuff" For millennia, materials have mattered-so much so that entire eras have been named for them. From the Stone Age to the Bronze Age to the Iron Age and beyond, breakthroughs in materials have defined ... more		Formation of swarms in nanosystems One of the striking features of self-organization in biomolecular systems is the capacity of assemblies of filamentous particles for synchronous motion. Physicists of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet ... more

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