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September 17, 2015

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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				Using lasers to simulate shock effects of meteorite impact on silica Scientists used high-power laser beams at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to simulate the shock effects of a meteorite impact in silica, one of the most abundant mate ... more		Russia, Brazil Sign Contract for Glonass Ground Measuring Station Moscow and Brasilia have signed a contract on the placement and operation of a measuring ground station for the Russian Glonass satellite navigation network in Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Gra ... more

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Record-breaking astronauts return to Earth Expedition 44 to the International Space Station has been successfully completed after three astronauts landed in Kazakhstan. The mission saw a cosmonaut clock up more days in space than any other h ... more		SSTL's DMC Constellation demonstrates 1-metre capability The first 1-metre high resolution optical satellite imagery from the DMC3/TripleSat Constellation satellites has been released. This follows the successful launch of the three Earth Observation mini ... more		Despite Western pressure, China in no hurry to reduce Russia support N. Korea fires ballistic missiles after denying Russia arms transfers Taiwan's Lai to bolster 'porcupine' defence against China threat		A shy galactic neighbor The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, pictured in this new image from the Wide Field Imager camera, installed on the 2.2-metre MPG/ESO telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory, is a close neighbour of our galax ... more
				Dynetics and Rocketdyne perform gas generator test using 3D printer The Dynetics and Aerojet Rocketdyne team recently performed with its NASA partner the second successful gas generator test series of the F-1 engine as part of the Space Launch System (SLS) Advanced ... more		New support for converging black holes in Virgo constellation Earlier this year, astronomers discovered what appeared to be a pair of supermassive black holes circling toward a collision so powerful it would send a burst of gravitational waves surging through ... more

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To Watch and to Strike: Russia Developing Multi Role Heavy Drone Russia is developing a heavy drone that could be used both as reconnaissance and combat aircraft, one of its designers said in an interview Wednesday. The two ton Avius-1 UAV will bristle with ... more		How to spawn an 'exceptional ring' The Dirac cone, named after British physicist Paul Dirac, started as a concept in particle and high-energy physics and has recently became important in research in condensed matter physics and mater ... more		Bubble, bubble ... boiling on the double The boiling of water is at the heart of many industrial processes, from the operation of electric power plants to chemical processing and desalination. But the details of what happens on a hot surfa ... more		Indications of the origin of the Spin Seebeck effect discovered The recovery of waste heat in all kinds of processes poses one of the main challenges of our time to making established processes more energy-efficient and thus more environmentally friendly. The Sp ... more

	Science provides new way to peer into pores Rice University scientists led a project to "see" and measure the space in porous materials, even if that space is too small or fragile for traditional microscopes. The Rice lab of chemist Chr ... more		Improved stability of electron spins in qubits Calculation with electron spins in a quantum computer assumes that the spin states last for a sufficient period of time. Physicists at the University of Basel and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute hav ... more

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