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September 09, 2015

Comet Hitchhiker Would Take Tour of Small Bodies
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 09, 2015
Catching a ride from one solar system body to another isn't easy. You have to figure out how to land your spacecraft safely and then get it on its way to the next destination. The landing part is especially tricky for asteroids and comets, which have low gravitational pull. A concept called Comet Hitchhiker, developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, puts forth a new way to get into orbit and land on comets and asteroids, using the kinetic energy - the energy of motion - ... read more

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				Dark matter: CRESST searches for 'lightweights' The Earth, planets, stars, and galaxies form only the visible portion of the matter in the universe. Greater by far is the share accounted for by invisible "dark matter". Scientists have searched fo ... more		Soyuz ready for liftoff with two Galileo satellites The launcher for this week's Arianespace Soyuz mission is now ready for the countdown to its September 10 liftoff, having been "topped off" with the payload of two European Galileo satellites at the ... more

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Volunteer black hole hunters as good as the experts Trained volunteers are as good as professional astronomers at finding jets shooting from massive black holes and matching them to their host galaxies, research suggests. Scientists working on ... more		China Plans Lunar Rover For Far Side of Moon China hopes to send a rover to the far side of the moon, which would be the first time humanity lands a lunar probe there, a scientist from the Chinese government's moon exploration department said ... 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		JAXA and UNOOSA to Offer Small Satellite Deployment Opportunity The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) agreed to cooperate in providing opportunities to deploy cube satellites (CubeSats) from ... more
				Nordnet Orders Gilat SkyEdge II-c HTS Consumer Kits for High-Speed Internet Access in France Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. reports that Nordnet, a leading Internet service provider in France, ordered Gilat's SkyEdge II-c consumer kits for the delivery of high-speed Internet access to househ ... more		Soyuz set to launch 2 Galileo navigation satellites The 12th Soyuz to be operated from the Spaceport is now in the launch zone following this workhorse medium-lift vehicle's rollout in French Guiana on a mission to orbit two more European Galileo nav ... more

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China's Xi stands tall but challenges mounting: analysts China's front pages were plastered Friday with images of President Xi Jinping reviewing a giant military parade, but analysts say the show of untrammelled power is undermined by signs of disquiet within Communist ranks and fears the economy is eluding its control. ... more		Replica of most powerful nuclear bomb ever goes on display in Moscow Eight metres long and weighing 25 tonnes, a replica of the so-called Tsar Bomb, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated, has gone on display for the first time in Russia, in the midst of an ongoing standoff with the West over Ukraine. ... 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		China's anti-ship missile and troop cuts highlight shifting power China's unveiling of "carrier-killer" missiles and cuts in troop numbers on Thursday underlined its shift towards naval strength amid growing Pacific rivalry with the US, analysts said. ... more
China Interested in Russian Icebreaker Technology Alexey Rakhmanov, the head of Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation, said that there is 'a great desire' to start technological cooperation in the area of building and operating icebreaker ships ... more		Ice sheets may be more resilient than thought Sea level rise poses one of the biggest threats to human systems in a globally warming world, potentially causing trillions of dollars' worth of damages to flooded cities around the world. As surfac ... more		Customizing 3-D printing The technology behind 3-D printing is growing more and more common, but the ability to create designs for it is not. Any but the simplest designs require expertise with computer-aided design (CAD) a ... more		Making fuel from light Refined by nature over a billion years, photosynthesis has given life to the planet, providing an environment suitable for the smallest, most primitive organism all the way to our own species. ... more

	DNA-guided 3-D printing of human tissue is unveiled A UCSF-led team has developed a technique to build tiny models of human tissues, called organoids, more precisely than ever before using a process that turns human cells into a biological equivalent ... more		Intel putting $50 mn into quantum computing research US chip colossus Intel on Thursday said that it will put $50 million and engineering resources into an alliance on quantum computing that could radically advance complex problem-solving. ... more

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