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November 13, 2015

Space rains junk on Spain
Madrid (AFP) Nov 12, 2015
It's raining space junk in Spain. Rocket fuel tanks, chunks of satellites or something else entirely... In just over one week, three mysterious objects have fallen from the sky onto the country's southeast, prompting bomb disposal agents and experts in hazmat suits to rush over as puzzled locals looked on. First up a strange black beehive-like ball was found in Mula, a town in the region of Murcia last week. Then at the weekend, a similar-looking, smaller object was discovered in Calasparra ... read more

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Orion's European module ready for testing A test version of ESA's service module for NASA's Orion spacecraft arrived in the US yesterday after leaving its assembly site in Italy last weekend. The European Service Module is adapted fro ... more		Crew Dragon Propulsion System Completes Development Testing The propulsion system SpaceX would use to power its Crew Dragon out of danger has been test-fired 27 times as the company refines the design for the demands of operational missions carrying astronau ... more		Close-up view of galaxies prompts re-think on star formation Astronomers have identified for the first time one of the key components of many stars, a study suggests. A type of gas found in the voids between galaxies - known as atomic gas - appears to be part ... more
				Putin on Space Industry: Russian Rockets Must Be Reliable and Competitive President Vladimir Putin on Thursday urged the development of Russia's satellite grouping and the strengthening of Russia's position on space launch market as immediate priorities for the country's ... more		NASA's Beach Ball Coronagraph What's better at blocking sunlight: a traditional flat occulter disk or a beach ball? NASA scientist Phillip Chamberlin is putting his money on the latter. He and his team at NASA's Goddard Space Fl ... more

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A new explanation for the explosive nature of magnetic reconnection Magnetic reconnection, which occurs when magnetic lines of force break apart and reconnect with a violent burst of energy, gives rise to many beautiful and powerful phenomena in the natural world. T ... more		Mercury Gets a Meteoroid Shower from Comet Encke The planet Mercury is being pelted regularly by bits of dust from an ancient comet, a new study has concluded. This has a discernible effect in the planet's tenuous atmosphere and may lead to a new ... 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		Medicines do not seem to degrade faster in space The results of an opportunistic, pilot-scale study led by Virginia Wotring of the Center for Space Medicine and Department of Pharmacology at Baylor College of Medicine in the U.S. suggest that medi ... more
				Researchers find way to create wide variety of new holograms Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed techniques that can be used to create ideal geometric phase holograms for any kind of optical pattern - a significant advance over the l ... more		LockMart advances threat protection on USAF GPS Control Segment Security upgrades developed by Lockheed Martin for the current ground control system of the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System (GPS), are now fully operational to safeguard data and ensure s ... more

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Newfound Earth-size exoplanet may be an important milestone in search for alien life Researchers have discovered an exoplanet just slightly bigger than Earth and located much closer to our Solar System than any other terrestrial, alien world. Called GJ 1132b, it orbits a tiny red, d ... more		General Dynamics demos SGSS Command and Control Infrastructure for NASA A General Dynamics-led team successfully completed, on-schedule, the next phase of the implementation, integration and test of the NASA Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) program, Incre ... more		For sale: unique piece of land in strategic Arctic archipelago Daily ice loss in Greenland tracked by new GPS method Brazil's Porto Alegre: a flood disaster waiting to happen		Early Earth's haze may give clue to habitability elsewhere in space An atmospheric haze around a faraway planet - like the one which probably shrouded and cooled the young Earth - could show that the world is potentially habitable, or even be a sign of life itself. ... more
UCLA professor proposes simpler way to define what makes a planet Since the late 1980s, scientists have discovered nearly 5,000 planetary bodies orbiting stars other than the sun. But astronomers are still working on what exactly we should call them. At an America ... more		New Results from GPI Exoplanet Survey The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES) is an ambitious three-year study dedicated to imaging young Jupiters and debris disks around nearby stars using the GPI instrument installed on the ... more		Cygnus Starts Final Round of Processing for Station Cargo Delivery The next U.S. cargo delivery to the International Space Station is steadily progressing toward launch. An Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft is at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida undergoing a fina ... more		Measurement of Hubble constant questioned by Nobel laureate Riess' team In 1920's Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer, showed that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the earth, known as Hubble's law. Hubble's law is taken as the first ... more

	Recreating a heavenly chorus of plasma waves on Earth Recent experiments at the Large Plasma Device (LAPD) at the University of California, Los Angeles, have successfully excited elusive plasma waves, known as whistler-mode chorus waves, which have hit ... more		BU Satellite Team Gets Big Boost from NASA On March 10, 1989, a solar eruption blasted plasma toward Earth. Canadian utility Hydro-Quebec noticed a hop-skip-and-jump in the voltage on its grid two days later. On March 13, with plasma sweepin ... more

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