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December 16, 2015

Satellite's Last Days Improve Orbital Decay Predictions
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 16, 2015
Scientists are learning more about how the upper atmosphere and ionosphere affect space satellites as well as communications and navigation here on Earth, thanks to new data from a U.S. Air Force satellite that recently completed a more than seven-year mission. The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite burned up in Earth's atmosphere during a planned reentry on Nov. 28, leaving behind a treasure trove of data about a part of the space environment that's difficult to ... read more

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Russia, China develop navigation system draft for SCO, BRICS Russian and Chinese experts have developed a draft project to create a global international navigation system based on China's BeiDou and Russia's GLONASS satellite navigation for the member states ... more		New NASA Satellite Maps Show Human Fingerprint on Global Air Quality Using new, high-resolution global satellite maps of air quality indicators, NASA scientists tracked air pollution trends over the last decade in various regions and 195 cities around the globe. The ... more		Second reserve battery for Israel's 'Iron Dome' becomes operational The Israeli military has qualified a second reserve battery to support Israel's "Iron Dome" missile interception system. ... more
				NASA: Asteroid to pass by Earth on Christmas Eve That's not Rudolph's nose, it's just a giant rock hurtling through space. NASA scientists calculate that asteroid 163899, also known as 2003 SD220, will make its closest approach to Earth on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2015. ... more		Scientists Launch NASA Rocket into "Speed Bumps" Above Norway A team of scientists led by Marc Lessard of the University of New Hampshire Space Science Center launched an instrument-laden, four-stage sounding rocket from Norway's Andoya Space Center about 280 ... more

How NASA Sees El Nino Effects From Space This winter, weather patterns may be fairly different than what's typical - all because of unusually warm ocean water in the east equatorial Pacific, an event known as El Nino. Because of El Nino, C ... more		Exoplanets Water Mystery Solved A survey of 10 hot, Jupiter-sized exoplanets conducted with NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has led a team to solve a long-standing mystery - why some of these worlds seem to have less wa ... more		North Korea declares nuclear statehood 'permanently enshrined' ArianeGroup to develop next-generation M51.4 missile for French nuclear deterrent Comtech modem earns first sovereign certification for SES O3b mPOWER network		Soyuz receives the Galileo payload for its December 17 liftoff The medium-lift Soyuz for Arianespace's 2015 year-ending mission is now complete following the integration of its "upper composite" - which consists of the two Galileo satellite passengers, their pr ... more
				Europe readies for satellite launch, moves closer to own satnav Europe was set to launch the next two satellites Thursday for its multi-billion-euro Galileo satnav system, a rival to America's GPS, according to space firm Arianespace. ... more		British astronaut docks with ISS as country cheers debut trip Tim Peake, the first British astronaut to travel to the International Space Station, on Tuesday docked with the orbiting laboratory with two other spacemen, to cheers and excitement back home. ... more

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Tim Peake begins six-month stay on Space Station ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian cosmonaut commander Yuri Malenchenko arrived at the International Space Station today, six hours after their launch at 11:03 GMT. ... more		XXL hunt for galaxy clusters Galaxy clusters are massive congregations of galaxies that host huge reservoirs of hot gas - the temperatures are so high that X-rays are produced. These structures are useful to astronomers because ... more		New U.S.-European Sea Level Satellite Will Help Safeguard Ships at Sea Planet captures first light from Pelican-3 satellite as constellation expands Trump signs memorandum to deploy U.S. National Guard troops to Memphis		Scientists teach machines to learn like humans A team of scientists has developed an algorithm that captures our learning abilities, enabling computers to recognize and draw simple visual concepts that are mostly indistinguishable from those cre ... more
MIT chemists characterize a chemical state thought to be unobservable For the first time, MIT chemists have measured the energy of the transition state of a chemical reaction - a fleeting, unstable state that is a reaction's point of no return. Chemists have lon ... more		Minerals from Papua New Guinea hold secret for recycling of noble gases With every breath we take, we inhale not only oxygen, but also a mix of gases. This mixture includes carbon dioxide and nitrogen, but also a gas called argon. Neon, the gas that illuminates the sign ... more		Quantum physics problem proved unsolvable A mathematical problem underlying fundamental questions in particle and quantum physics is provably unsolvable, according to scientists at UCL, Universidad Complutense de Madrid - ICMAT and Technica ... more		Heat radiates 10,000 times faster at the nanoscale When heat travels between two objects that aren't touching, it flows differently at the smallest scales - distances on the order of the diameter of DNA, or 1/50,000 of a human hair. While rese ... more

	Shaking the nanomaterials out Purifying water and greening nanotechnology could be as simple as shaking a vial of water and oil. At least that's the case for a new method to clean contaminated water full of unwanted nanomaterial ... more		Why US, China Could Reach Point of No Return A conflict between the US and China is highly unlikely at this point but existing trends indicate that one could develop in the future, military analyst Robert Haddick wrote for the National Interes ... more

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