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October 09, 2015

NASA unveils missing pieces in journey to Mars
Miami (AFP) Oct 9, 2015
NASA on Thursday outlined the many challenges that remain before humans can set foot on Mars, calling the problems "solvable" but setting no firm date for an astronaut mission to the Red Planet. Updated details of the US space agency's Mars strategy were contained in a 36-page document released to the public ahead of upcoming talks with Congress about budgets for space exploration and a major international meeting of the space industry to be held in Jerusalem next week. The United States is "cl ... read more

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New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto The first color images of Pluto's atmospheric hazes, returned by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft last week, reveal that the hazes are blue. "Who would have expected a blue sky in the Kuiper Belt? It' ... more		Pluto's Small Moons Nix and Hydra This week's beautiful Charon images remind us that Pluto is not just one body; it's a whole system of worlds. Pluto and its largest moon Charon dance around each other, making circles around their common center of mass, which lies in an empty space ... more		Blue skies, frozen water detected on Pluto Pluto has blue skies and patches of frozen water, according to the latest data out Thursday from NASA's unmanned New Horizons probe, which made a historic flyby of the dwarf planet in July. ... more
				Russia Develops Portable Aerosol Cloud Generator to Conceal Missiles An aerosol generator is designed for creating aerosol curtains, or artificial clouds, to hide road-mobile missile complexes, according to Aleksei Solodovnikov, a lecturer at the Peter the Great Stra ... more		GSSAP reaches initial operational capability General John E. Hyten, commander of Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), declared Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for the first two Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) spacec ... more

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Scientists present, discuss latest data from experiments smashing nuclei Scientists intent on unraveling the mystery of the force that binds the building blocks of visible matter are gathered in Kobe, Japan, this week to present and discuss the latest results from "ultra ... more		China launches cube satellites for civil aircraft tracking China has successfully launched three cube satellites (CubeSats), which are expected to help track civil aircraft and ships and avoid tragedies like missing flight MH370. The three CubeSats in ... 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		Both passengers for next Ariane 5 mission arrive in French Guiana The Arabsat-6B and GSAT-15 telecommunications satellites are now in French Guiana - setting the stage for Arianespace's next heavy-lift mission, which is scheduled for an early November liftoff. ... more
				Mysterious ripples found racing through planet-forming disc Using images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered never-before-seen structures within a dusty disc surrounding a nearby star. The fast ... more		Indonesia launches indigenous satellite Indonesia launched its indigenous satellite codenamed Lapan A2 on Monday, using rockets and launching pad in Satish Dhawan Space Center, India, highly expected as a milestone for Indonesia to master ... more

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NASA announces Challenge for Methods of Assessing Damage to Space Suits Astronauts venturing beyond the controlled environment of a spacecraft require protection from the harsh conditions in space. They get that protection from a space suit, which is a multilayer garmen ... more		Curiosity Rover Team Confirms Ancient Lakes on Mars A new study from the team behind NASA's Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity has confirmed that Mars was once, billions of years ago, capable of storing water in lakes over an extended period of time. ... 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		Kick-off for a new era of precision astronomy The MICADO camera, a first light instrument for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), has entered a new phase in the project: by agreeing to a Memorandum of Understanding, the partners in ... more
NASA Prepares to Test Orion Service Module Lockheed Martin technicians lift the Orion Crew Module Adapter Structural Test Article at NASA Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook Station. The adapter will connect Orion's crew module to a ser ... more		Seaspan chooses KVH's mini-VSAT Broadband solution for container ships Seaspan has selected for 18 of its newest vessels the complete mini-VSAT Broadband 2.0 maritime communications solution from KVH Industries. The solution includes KVH's global TracPhone V11-IP satel ... more		ASU Mars images star in 'The Martian' Images of Mars taken by a visual and infrared camera designed at Arizona State University take a star turn in the new hit movie "The Martian." Last November, the film production company for "The Mar ... more		NASA Challenge Seeks Ways to Use Mars' Natural Resources for Astronauts Living off the land is different when the land is 140 million miles away, so NASA is looking for innovative ideas to use in situ (in place) Martian resources to help establish a human presence on th ... more

	Wet paleoclimate of Mars revealed by ancient lakes at Gale Crater We have heard the Mars exploration mantra for more than a decade: follow the water. In a new paper published October 9, 2015, in the journal Science, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team presents ... more		NASA's vapor tracers to turn the night sky into a rainbow In an effort to better understand "the naturally occurring flows of ionized and neutral particles" in the upper atmosphere, NASA is releasing a series of colorful vapor tracers 130 miles above the Earth. ... more

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