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January 21, 2016

2016 Goals Vital to Commercial Crew Success
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jan 21, 2016
NASA's Commercial Crew Program and its aerospace industry partners Boeing and SpaceX are on the eve of America's return to human spaceflight launches. By the time the year closes, Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon will be poised for the flight tests that allow our astronauts to travel to the International Space Station lifting off from Florida's Space Coast. It won't be easy. Successful missions will require a comprehensive testing regimen of numerous systems on the ground and in ... read more

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Russia starts assembling Soyuz 2.1a carrier rocket A new carrier rocket is being assembled at Russia's Vostochny spaceport ahead of its maiden launch in spring, the state agency responsible for land-based space infrastructure said. The first l ... more		How we're shrinking the telescope Since Galileo first started gazing at the stars atop a mountain in Italy, to modern-day astronomers who can see billions of miles into space, the general design of a telescope has pretty much remain ... more		Russia postpones manned Lunar mission to 2035 Russia initially planned to launch a manned aircraft to the moon atop an Angara heavy rocket carrier from its Vostochny space port in 2025. The earlier version of the state space program - worth som ... more
				Caltech researchers find evidence of a real ninth planet Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mas ... more		PSLV launches India's 5th navigation satellite ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C31 has launched the 1425 kg IRNSS-1E, the fifth satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR ... more

How and When to See Five Planets at Once During the next two weeks, for the first time in more than a decade, you can see all five naked-eye planets - from Mercury to Saturn - together in the predawn sky. This celestial treat is relatively ... more		US to Test First ICBM Intercept in 2016 Russia has raised concerns that the US ballistic missile defense (BMD) architecture could be used to target Russia's strategic deterrent. Chinese authorities have raised similar concerns about US BM ... 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		Russian Space Agency discussing possible training of Iranian astronaut Russia's Roscosmos space agency is currently in talks with Tehran on the possible training of an Iranian astronaut for a space mission, Roscosmos General Director Igor Komarov said Wednesday. ... more
				Antarctic Microbes Hold Clue to Earth's Oxygen At the bottom of an icy Antarctic lake, a thin, slimy layer of bright green microbes is generating a tiny oasis of oxygen that might give a picture of what early Earth looked like before oxygen beca ... more		OG2 In-Orbit Testing Complete Orbcomm's operation team reports that it's continuing to make solid progress on our OG2 launch operations with Sierra Nevada Corporation completing In-Orbit Testing on all 11 OG2 satellites to verif ... more

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Ariane 5 is readied for an Arianespace leading customer Intelsat Assembly of the Ariane 5 for Arianespace's year-opening mission from French Guiana is now complete, following encapsulation of the Intelsat 29e satellite in its protective payload fairing at the Spa ... more		Antenova announces two new flexible antennas Antenova is adding two new positioning antennas, Bentoni and Asper, to its range of flexible FPC antennas. Bentoni is a positioning antenna for all of the global public satellite constellations: GPS ... 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		Record-Shattering Global Warm Temperatures in 2015 Earth's 2015 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ... more
Ancient underwater volcanoes may have ended 'Snowball Earth' Researchers say underwater volcanoes are responsible for ending one of Earth's most intense ice ages, known as "Snowball Earth." ... more		Diamonds used to 'probe' ancient Earth Diamonds dug up from ancient rock formations in the Johannesburg area, between 1890 and 1930 - before the industrialisation of gold mining - have revealed secrets of how the Earth worked more than 3 ... more		Mounting evidence suggests early agriculture staved off global cooling A new analysis of ice-core climate data, archeological evidence and ancient pollen samples strongly suggests that agriculture by humans 7,000 years ago likely slowed a natural cooling process of the ... more		Pakistan test-launches homegrown cruise missile: military Pakistan conducted a successful flight test Tuesday of a locally developed cruise missile named "Ra'ad" with a range of 350 kilometres (around 218 miles), the military said. ... more

	'Ninth planet' may exist in solar system: US scientists A previously unknown giant planet may have been discovered lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system, US scientists announced on Wednesday. ... more		New largest prime number found in Missouri There's a new largest prime number in town, and at 22 million digits, it's bigger than the last by 5 million digits. ... more

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FAU researchers investigate how light behaves in curved space		It's a 3-D printer, but not as we know it		American Astronomical Society Assumes Leadership of WorldWide Telescope		Seeing where energy goes may help realize nuclear fusion		Engineers Mark Completion of Orion's Pressure Vessel
The Voyage of a Lifetime: New Horizons Marks 10 Years Since Launch		Studying Pluto from 3 Billion Miles Away		Step aside, humans		EpicNG satellite installed on Ariane 5 for launch		A firefighter drone that flies and crawls up walls

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Explosive underwater volcanoes were a major feature of 'Snowball Earth'

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Russia wants to builds atomic engine for exploring deep space

Bridging the Bio-Electronic Divide

Launch of the first satellite in the "SpaceDataHighway" program

China to debut new carrier rockets

Orbital ATK Receives Award for Rocket Propulsion System Development

Nuclear warheads could save Earth from asteroids

Orbital ATK tests 3D-printed hypersonic engine combustor

The habitability of other worlds

Follow A Live Planet Hunt

Rover uses Rock Abrasion Tool to grind rocks

Japanese astronaut learned Russian to link two nations

'Space Warps' and other citizen science projects reap major dividends for astrophysics

Thales Alenia Space to supply reaction control subsystem for ExoMars

China aims for the Moon with new rockets

NATO considers first formal talks with Russia since 2014: sources

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