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February 13, 2016

Pentagon rolls out FY 2017 space budget
Washington DC (AFNS) Feb 13, 2016
Air Force leaders met with the media to discuss specifics of the service's fiscal year 2017 space budget at the Pentagon Feb. 11. Winston A. Beauchamp, the deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for space, and Maj. Gen. Roger Teague, the director of space programs for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, highlighted major themes of the space budget in relation to the Air Force's strategic understanding of the space environment. In fiscal 2016, the Air Force focused investme ... read more

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				N. Korea lacks technology for anti-US nuclear strike: Pentagon North Korea is committed to striking the United States with a nuclear-armed missile, but it can't do so without outside help, due to shortfalls in its own technology, the Pentagon said Friday. ... more		ISRO to launch cryogenic GSLV vehicle in December The Indian Space Research Organasion (ISRO) has confirmed that it would launch the Cryogenic mark-III based GSLV satellite launch vehicle during December this year. Senior ISRO official and VS ... more

Astronomers use Hubble to find rare supernova 'impostor' in a nearby galaxy Breanna Binder, a University of Washington postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Astronomy and lecturer in the School of STEM at UW Bothell, spends her days pondering X-rays. As she and ... more		Quantum mechanics explored in new study Here's a love story at the smallest scales imaginable: particles of light. It is possible to have particles that are so intimately linked that a change to one affects the other, even when they are s ... more		Faraday Effect Reveals Magnetic Role of Light in New Study Frontgrade unveils SADA-10 drive to increase efficiency for LEO and MEO satellites Orbital cloud project to combine solar powered AI compute and satellite network in low Earth orbit		KVH ships over 200,000 mobile satellite antennas KVH Industries, has recently shipped its 200,000th mobile satellite antenna, setting a milestone in the mobile satellite marketplace. The antennas include KVH's award-winning TracPhone line of satel ... more
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Body temperature triggers newly developed polymer to change shape Polymers that visibly change shape when exposed to temperature changes are nothing new. But a research team led by Chemical Engineering Professor Mitch Anthamatten at the University of Rochester cre ... more		Engineering researchers use laser to 'weld' neurons A research team based in the University of Alberta Faculty of Engineering has developed a method of connecting neurons, using ultrashort laser pulses - a breakthrough technique that opens the door t ... more		Biophysics: Partitioning by collision An ensemble consisting of a binary mixture of particles of equal size can partition itself into its component fractions - provided that the two species differ in their diffusion constants. If you sh ... more		A deep look into a single molecule The interaction of thermal energy from the environment with motional degrees of freedom is well known and often referred to as Brownian motion (also thermal motion). But in the case of polar molecul ... more

	Cockroach inspires robot that squeezes through cracks Our fear and disgust that cockroaches can quickly squeeze through the tiniest cracks are well justified, say University of California, Berkeley scientists. Not only can they squish themselves to get ... more		SLAC X-ray laser turns crystal imperfections into better images of important biomolecules Often the most difficult step in taking atomic-resolution images of biological molecules is getting them to form high-quality crystals needed for X-ray studies of their structure. Now researchers ha ... more

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