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February 04, 2016

Luxembourg's ultimate offshore investment: Space mining
Luxembourg (AFP) Feb 3, 2016
Luxembourg positioned itself Wednesday to pioneer the potentially lucrative business of mining asteroids in space for precious metals such as gold, platinum and tungsten. The government announced steps to create a legal framework for exploiting resources beyond Earth's atmosphere, and said it welcomed private investors and other nations. With a well-established satellite industry, Luxembourg is the first country in Europe to stake out rights for the mining of so-called "near-Earth objects," acco ... read more

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Philae comet probe: World prepares for final farewell In November 2014, a brave explorer on a daring mission strapped on a pair of studded boots and a hard hat, stuffed a cheese sandwich and a compass into a backpack, and leapt from a spacecraft. ... more		Russian spacewalk marks end of ESA's exposed space chemistry ESA's Expose facility was retrieved from outside the International Space Station by cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko and Sergei Volkov, who were completing a spacewalk to place new experiments on the out ... more		Lockheed Martin's GPS III completes thermal vacuum testing Lockheed Martin's Global Positioning System III satellite for the U.S. Air Force recently completed thermal vacuum testing to validate the design. ... more
				New study challenges Jupiter's role as planetary shield, protecting Earth from comet impacts Not only is the "Jupiter as shield" concept, implying that the planet shields Earth from comet impacts, not true, but perhaps Jupiter's most important role in fostering the development of life on Ea ... more		Small Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth March 5 A small asteroid that two years ago flew past Earth at a comfortable distance of about 1.3 million miles (2 million kilometers) will safely fly by our planet again in a few weeks, though this time i ... more

Lockheed Martin Awarded JCSAT-17 Satellite Contract From SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (SJC) has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for JCSAT-17, a satellite based on the A2100 common design. "We've built a number of satellites for SJC and we're hono ... more		Galactic center's gamma rays unlikely to originate from dark matter, evidence shows Bursts of gamma rays from the center of our galaxy are not likely to be signals of dark matter but rather other astrophysical phenomena such as fast-rotating stars called millisecond pulsars, accord ... more		Romania says Russian drone breached its airspace MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes Next-Gen Automotive Innovation: Smarter, Safer, More Connected		ASU satellite selected for NASA Space Launch System's first flight The first flight of NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), will carry 13 low-cost CubeSats, including one from Arizona State University, to test innovative ideas along with an uncrewed Or ... more
				Heliophysics CubeSat to Launch on NASA's SLS Just a bit bigger than a box of cereal, one of the first CubeSats to travel in interplanetary space will be NASA's miniature space science station, dedicated to studying the dynamic particles and ma ... more		JWST Instruments Are Coming In From The Cold After being tested at extremely low temperatures for more than two months, the four instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope are preparing to come in from the cold. First indications from the N ... more

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Russians spacewalk to retrieve biological samples Two Russians cosmonauts went on a spacewalk Wednesday to retrieve and replace biological samples from outside the International Space Station. ... more		N. Korea confirms imminent satellite launch North Korea confirmed Tuesday it was planning an imminent space rocket launch - a move the US immediately condemned as "another egregious violation" of UN resolutions following Pyongyang's nuclear test last month. ... more		Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems Bio-oil from agricultural and forest waste could help seal abandoned oil wells and store carbon Rice researchers turn wasted data center heat into clean power		Raytheon developing radar upgrade for Patriot system The main radar array of the Patriot Air and Missile Defense system is being upgraded by Raytheon for enhanced 360-degree coverage capability. ... more
Cornell researchers create first self-assembled superconductor Building on nearly two decades' worth of research, a multidisciplinary team at Cornell has blazed a new trail by creating a self-assembled, three-dimensional gyroidal superconductor. Ulrich Wiesner, ... more		Polar vortices observed in ferroelectric The observation in a ferroelectric material of "polar vortices" that appear to be the electrical cousins of magnetic skyrmions holds intriguing possibilities for advanced electronic devices. These p ... more		Nanosheet growth technique could revolutionize nanomaterial production After six years of painstaking effort, a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison materials scientists believe the tiny sheets of the semiconductor zinc oxide they're growing could have huge implica ... more		Controlling the magnetic properties of individual iron atom The iron Fe2+ atom embedded in a semiconductor exhibits a single non-degenerate ground state of zero magnetic moment. A team of scientists from the University of Warsaw has just shown that by using ... more

	Space Launch System's first flight will launch small Sci-Tech cubesats The first flight of NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), will carry 13 CubeSats to test innovative ideas along with an uncrewed Orion spacecraft in 2018. These small satellite sec ... more		Heliophysics CubeSat to launch on NASA's SLS Just a bit bigger than a box of cereal, one of the first CubeSats to travel in interplanetary space will be NASA's miniature space science station, dedicated to studying the dynamic particles and ma ... more

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Lunar Flashlight selected to fly as secondary payload on Exploration Mission-1		CuSP will observe solar energetic particles in outer space		NASA tests solar sail deployment for asteroid-surveying CubeSat NEA Scout		Saturn's rings: less than meets the eye		China launches 21st Beidou navigation satellite
Galileo signals covering more of the sky		Blast from black hole in a galaxy far, far away		NASA's ICESat-2 equipped with unique 3-D manufactured part		Boeing, Northrop Grumman conduct missile system flight test		China's major military restructuring aimed at closing the gap with US

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Expedition recovers mantle rocks with signs of life

Land plant became key marine species

Heavy fermions get nuclear boost on way to superconductivity

Novel 4-D printing method blossoms from botanical inspiration

Clarifying the role of magnetism in high-temperature superconductors

A step towards keeping up with Moore's Law

Scientists debate likelihood of finding life on other planets

New Tool Provides Successful Visual Inspection of ISS Robot Arm

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Novel Calibration Tool Will Help Astronomers Look for Habitable Exoplanets

Bright sparks shed new light on the dark matter riddle

Indra Expands Hispasat Ground Segment

Space-Earth System Produces Highest-Resolution Astronomical Image

Harris Corporation to offer fully digital GPS III payload

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Sandy Selfie Sent from NASA Mars Rover

Britain set to buy two Zephyr spy drones from Airbus

Israeli, South Korean firms forming JV for UAV production

Armed US Predator drone crashes in Turkey

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