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January 08, 2016

Student-Built Experiment Integrated onto NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 08, 2016
A student-built experiment aboard NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has been integrated onto the spacecraft. The Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) will determine elemental abundances on the surface of asteroid Bennu, complementing the mineral and chemical mapping capabilities provided by two other instruments on the spacecraft. "The students worked incredibly hard to get to this point," said Mike Donnel ... read more

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NASA Office to Coordinate Asteroid Detection, Hazard Mitigation NASA has formalized its ongoing program for detecting and tracking near-Earth objects (NEOs) as the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO). The office remains within NASA's Planetary Science D ... more		Six Orion Milestones to Track in 2016 This year, engineers will make important progress developing and testing the Orion spacecraft that will send astronauts to deep space destinations on the journey to Mars. NASA will mark critical ste ... more		Galaxy Quakes Could Improve Hunt for Dark Matter A trio of brightly pulsating stars at the outskirts of the Milky Way is racing away from the galaxy and may confirm a method for detecting dwarf galaxies dominated by dark matter and explain ripples ... more
				Black hole affecting galactic climate team of researchers led by Eric Schlegel, Vaughn Family Endowed Professor in Physics at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has discovered a powerful galactic blast produced by a giant bl ... more		By the dozen: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mirrors One dozen flight mirrors are now installed on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, out of the eighteen mirror segments that make up the primary mirror. The assembly of the primary mirror is an importa ... more

Former COD Student Working in Antarctica on IceCube Neutrino Project Former College of DuPage student Robert Zill is spending his winter break at the bottom of the world. The Burr Ridge resident is currently in Antarctica as part of IceCube, the neutrino cosmology ex ... more		Getting Down to Earth with Space Hazards Magnetic storms can interfere with the operation of electric power grids and damage grid infrastructure. They can also disrupt directional drilling for oil and gas, radio communications, communicati ... more		Military spending pushes Russian economic growth up North Korea confirms missile launch, vows bolstered nuclear force 'Nice for them': White House jokes about Putin, Xi meeting		NASA's Great Observatories Weigh Massive Young Galaxy Cluster Astronomers have used data from three of NASA's Great Observatories to make the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster. This rare cluster, which is located 10 billion l ... more
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AAVSO observers contribute to understanding the black hole binary V404 Cygni V404 Cygni has been known as a variable star residing in the constellation Cygnus since the 18th century. It was believed to be a nova, a compact binary system containing a white dwarf primary and a ... more		Navy tests cooperative soaring for UAV sailplanes The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory has completed a series of flight tests for unmanned aerial vehicles, demonstrating the concept of cooperative soaring using shared data. ... more		Russia's Strategic Missile Forces to Go All-Digital by 2020 The Russian Strategic Missile Forces will completely switch to digital data transmission technologies by 2020, spokesperson of the Defense Ministry Maj. Dmitry Andreev told journalists. The in ... more		Iran shows off underground ballistic missile bunker Iran broadcast footage on state-owned television showing a ballistic missile bunker in a move that may further strain tensions in the region and with the West. ... more

	Israeli-made AirMule UAV performs first untethered flight A new Israeli-made VTOL unmanned aerial vehicle has performed its first untethered flight following months of delay caused by a ground incident. ... more		Bacteria, electrons spin in similar patterns There are certain universal patterns in nature that hold true, regardless of objects' size, species, or surroundings. Take, for instance, the branching fractals seen in both tree limbs and blood ves ... more

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