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January 11, 2016

SpaceX will try to land its reusable rocket on an ocean dock
Lompoc, Calif. (UPI) Jan 8, 2016
SpaceX is launching another satellite in less than two weeks, which gives the aerospace company another chance to show off its reusable Falcon 9 rocket. This time, founder Elon Musk and SpaceX engineers want to land the Falcon 9 on a barge floating in the ocean. Late last year, SpaceX finally landed its reusable rocket after a trip to space and back. If the technology can be fully incorporated into the company's operations, it could permanently change the dynamics and economics of the sp ... read more

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Last-chance bid to contact space robot Philae Scientists initiated Friday a last-chance manoeuvre to contact a long-silent robot-lab dropped more than a year ago onto the surface of a comet hurtling through our solar system. ... more		Can we use magnetic fields to make and manipulate gravity? André Füzfa, a math professor at Namur University in Belgium, wants researchers to take a more aggressive approach toward the study of gravity. ... more		Vietnam army probes mysterious 'space balls' Vietnam's military is investigating the appearance of three mysterious metal balls - believed to be debris from space - which landed in the country's remote north, a senior army official said Friday. ... more
				Researchers squeeze hydrogen into 'metallic state' Inside laboratories in Scotland, hydrogen has assumed a strange new state - one only found naturally inside gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn. ... more		Strengthening Our Space Technology Future: Snapshots of Success NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) checked off a number of key accomplishments in 2015. These advancements pushed the technological envelope, not only for use near Earth, but also to ... more

Dawn imaging in close Ceres orbit Dawn is now performing the final act of its remarkable celestial choreography, held close in Ceres' firm gravitational embrace. The distant explorer is developing humankind's most intimate portrait ... more		China plans 20 launches in 2016 China will conduct more than 20 space missions this year, including a manned one and the maiden flights of two rockets, according to the nation's major space contractor. China Aerospace Scienc ... more		Military spending pushes Russian economic growth up Taiwan and China: different views across the strait; as coast guard ramps up patrols Poland to spend over 2.3 bn euros to fortify eastern border: PM		Turkey Targets 2019 for Launch of Indigenous Satellite After spending more than $1 billion on satellite programs, Turkey is preparing to build the country's first indigenous satellite. The target date to launch the first all-Turkish satellite is 2 ... more
				'X' Marks a Curious Corner on Pluto's Icy Plains "X" marks the spot of some intriguing surface activity in the latest picture of Pluto returned from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. Transmitted to Earth on Dec. 24, this image from the Long Ra ... more		Particles 'Go with the Flow' on Pluto's Surface Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission have combined data from two instruments to create this composite image of Pluto's informally named Viking Terra area. The combined data includes pic ... more

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Physicists offer theories to explain mysterious collision at Large Hadron Collider Physicists around the world were puzzled recently when an unusual bump appeared in the signal of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, causing them t ... more		Quiet quasar has apparently eaten its fill Astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) announced that a distant quasar ran out of gas. Their conclusions, reported Jan. 8 at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Kissimmee, Flo ... more		NREL research advances hydrogen production efforts Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have made advances toward affordable photoelectrochemical (PEC) production of hydrogen. NREL's scientists too ... more		Scientists simulate starting up tokamaks without using solenoid Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have produced self-consistent computer simulations that capture the evolution of an electric current inside f ... more

	New bimetallic alloy nanoparticles for printed electronic circuits "Printed electronics" has the potential to enable low-cost fabrication of electronics on flexible or curved surfaces, which will lead to the use of electronics in more varied applications. We will b ... more		New approach for controlled fabrication of carbon nanostructures An international team of researchers including Professor Federico Rosei and members of his group at INRS has developed a new strategy for fabricating atomically controlled carbon nanostructures used ... more

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China's Belt and Road Initiative catches world's imagination: Inmarsat CEO

Testing the James Webb Space Telescope with Radio Waves

'Seeing' black holes with the naked eye

NASA Telescopes Find 'Twins' of Superstar Eta Carinae

VLA Reveals New Evidence About Star, Planet Formation

40-Year-Old Mystery on Size of Shadowy Galaxies Solved

Iran airs footage of new missile in underground bunker

Chang'e-3 landing site named "Guang Han Gong"

Rover Rounds Martian Dune to Get to the Other Side

Hyten: Space Command Should be an Active Force in Dynamic Times

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