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September 16, 2015
ROCKET SCIENCE
First manned flight of NASA's Orion may be delayed to 2023
Miami (AFP) Sept 16, 2015
NASA's Orion spaceship, which is being built to one day carry astronauts to deep space, may not launch with crew on board until 2023, the US space agency said Wednesday. The delay could set back the mission - which is costing NASA $6.77 billion - nearly two years. After the latest mission review in August, NASA has "much lower confidence" that the current target date of 2021 can be met and is considering the possibility of launching no later than April 2023, said NASA associate administrator R ... read more
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LAUNCH PAD

Boeing rejects Aerojet bid for United Launch Alliance
Boeing has rejected an offer by Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. to buy the United Launch Alliance, the company's top official announced on Wednesday. ... more
EXO WORLDS

Study: 'Hot Jupiter' exoplanets formed extremely rapidly
For years, astronomers have been stumped by a rare type of exoplanet known as "hot Jupiters." Hot Jupiters are gas giants which orbit unusually close to their stars. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to launch from Cape Canaveral this decade
The commercial space race got a little more crowded Tuesday when the aerospace company Blue Origin, headed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, said it will begin launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, later this decade. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Scientists conduct most precise test of light speed
The speed of light is a constant. A new test - the most precise test of a photon's speed - confirms it. ... more


STATION NEWS

US astronaut misses fresh air halfway through year-long mission
Halfway into a year in space - the longest ever attempted at the International Space Station - American astronaut Scott Kelly said Monday he misses fresh air but is adapting well. ... more
Integrated Air and Missile Defense Nuclear Decommissioning And Used Fuel Market 2015
Make SMRs a commercial reality Turn key solar systems for domestic and commercial installations
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SOLAR SCIENCE

NASA's SDO catches a double photobomb
On Sept. 13, 2015, as NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, kept up its constant watch on the sun, its view was photobombed not once, but twice. Just as the moon came into SDO's field of view o ... more
SATURN DAILY

Under Saturnian moon's icy crust lies a 'global' ocean
Cornell University researchers have learned that a global ocean lies beneath the moon's thick icy crust by measuring with precision the tiny wobbles of Saturn's moon Enceladus - whose cosmic quavers ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
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
IRON AND ICE

Solar Observatory discovers its 3,000th comet
On Sept. 13, 2015, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory - a joint project of the European Space Agency and NASA - discovered its 3,000th comet, cementing its standing as the greatest comet finder ... more
SPACEMART

Russia Puts Telecoms Satellite Into Orbit
Russia's Express-AM8 communications satellite, which lifted off on Monday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on a Proton-M space rocket, separated from the DM-03 booster and was put into o ... more
SPACE TRAVEL

Making a difference with open source science equipment
Open source lab equipment is the focus of a new study, published in Science and Public Policy. Joshua Pearce, an associate professor of materials science and engineering as well as electrical and co ... more
Nuclear Operations and Maintenance Efficiency Summit USA 2015
EXO WORLDS

Europlanet 2020 launches new era of planetary collaboration in Europe
A 9.95 million euro project to integrate and support planetary science activities across Europe has been launched. The Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure (RI) is funded under the European Commi ... more
VSAT NEWS

KVH extends marine satcom choices with TracPhone Fleet One
KVH Industries has introduced the TracPhone Fleet One marine satellite communications antenna system, a 28 cm (11 in) diameter unit designed for vessels needing global satellite phone service and ba ... more
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MOON DAILY

NASA's LRO discovers Earth's pull is 'massaging' our moon
Earth's gravity has influenced the orientation of thousands of faults that form in the lunar surface as the moon shrinks, according to new results from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spac ... more
GPS NEWS

Battery-free smart camera nodes determine own pose and location
Scientists at Disney Research and the University of Washington (UW) have shown that a network of energy-harvesting sensor nodes equipped with onboard cameras can automatically determine each camera' ... more
EXO WORLDS

Nearby Red Dwarfs Could Reveal Planet Secrets
An accidental find of a collection of young red dwarf stars close to our solar system could give us a rare glimpse of slow-motion planet formation. Astronomers from The Australian National Uni ... more
TIME AND SPACE

Stellar discovery by Queen's researcher
PhD candidate Matt Shultz has discovered the first massive binary star, epsilon Lupi, in which both stars have magnetic fields. A binary star is a star system consisting of two or more stars, orbiti ... more
EXO LIFE

Advanced alien civilizations rare or absent in the local Universe
Advanced civilisations harnessing energies on galactic scales (so-called Kardashev Type III civilisations) are expected to be detectable in the mid-Infrared part of the spectrum via the emission of ... more
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CHIP TECH

Super-stretchable metallic conductors for flexible electronics
Washington State University researchers have discovered how to stretch metal films used in flexible electronics to twice their size without breaking. The discovery could lead to dramatic impro ... more
CHIP TECH

Researchers in Basel develop ideal single-photon source
With the help of a semiconductor quantum dot, physicists at the University of Basel have developed a new type of light source that emits single photons. For the first time, the researchers have mana ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Untangling the mechanics of knots

ENERGY TECH

Hyperloop: Transport into the Future

TECH SPACE

A close-up view of materials as they stretch or compress

MICROSAT BLITZ

LauncherOne: Big Value for Small Satellites

LAUNCH PAD

Arianespace targets record year of new business and launch operations in 2015

EXO WORLDS

Rocky planets may be habitable depending on their 'air conditioning system'

SPACE TRAVEL

NASA, Harmonic Launch First Non-Commercial UHD Channel in NAmerica

TECH SPACE

NASA Completes High Ice Water Content Radar Flight Campaign in Florida

ROCKET SCIENCE

Construction Begins on Test Version of Important Connection for SLS

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Hidden in Plain Sight

Neurotechnology Provides Near-Natural Sense of Touch

Astronomers peer into the 'amniotic sac' of a planet-hosting star

Arianespace to launch BSAT-4a - 30th GEO launch contract for Japan

Ultrafast uncoupled magnetism in atoms

First superconducting graphene created by UBC researchers

Half diamond, half cubic boron, all cutting business

Realizing carbon nanotube integrated circuits

Metallic gels produce tunable light emission

Globally unique double crater identified in Sweden

Extreme pressure causes osmium to change state of matter

NIST physicists show 'molecules' made of light may be possible

New Pluto Images from New Horizons: It's Complicated

Andreas Mogensen lands after a busy mission on Space Station

Next Ariane 5 mission readied for fast-paced 2015 launch cadence

New photos reveal Pluto's stunning geological diversity: NASA

Team Continues to Operate Rover in RAM Mode

Mars Panorama from Curiosity Shows Petrified Sand Dunes

Best precision yet for neutrino measurements at Daya Bay

Robotic landing gear could enable helicopters to take off and land anywhere

Ridley Scott's 'The Martian' takes off in Toronto

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