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February 20, 2016

NASA sees record number of astronaut applications
Washington (AFP) Feb 20, 2016
NASA has received a record 18,300 resumes from people keen on becoming astronauts, the US space agency said Friday. The number of applications for a spot in NASA's 2017 class is almost triple the amount that came in during the last recruitment call for the 2012 class. And it shatters the previous record of 8,000 in 1978. "It's not at all surprising to me that so many Americans from diverse backgrounds want to personally contribute to blazing the trail on our journey to Mars," NASA Administra ... read more

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Virgin Galactic unveils new spaceship 16 months after deadly crash Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company owned by British billionaire Richard Branson, on Friday unveiled a new commercial spaceship, more than a year after its predecessor crashed, killing one of ... more		Five-dimensional black hole could 'break' general relativity Researchers have shown how a bizarrely shaped black hole could cause Einstein's general theory of relativity, a foundation of modern physics, to break down. However, such an object could only exist ... more		Portion of ancient Australian chert microstructures definitively pseudo-fossils A team of scientists including Carnegie's Dina Bower and Andrew Steele weigh in on whether microstructures found in 3.46 billion-year-old samples of a silica-rich rock called chert found in Western ... more
				Opportunity Taking Panoramic Views and Prepping for Science Opportunity is exploring 'Marathon Valley' on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover is up on very steep slopes to reach high-value science targets on 'Knudsen Ridge.' For the past week, Oppor ... more		Longest-Lasting Stellar Eclipse Discovered Imagine living on a world where, every 69 years, the sun disappears in a near-total eclipse that lasts for three and a half years. That is just what happens in an unnamed binary star system ne ... more

NASA Report Details Expert Team Investigation of Asteroid Redirect Mission A new report chartered by NASA provides input to important areas of robotic mission requirements development and explores the science benefits and potential knowledge gain from the agency's Asteroid ... more		Puzzling asteroid observations explained by destruction of asteroids close to Sun An international team composed of researchers from Finland, France, the United States and the Czech Republic originally set out to construct a state-of-the-art model of the NEO population that is ne ... 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		Astronomer detects new source of intense gamma-radiation in the sky Analyzing the data collected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Maxim Pshirkov (The Sternberg Astronomical Institute, MSU) discovered a new source that confirmed the fact that binary systems wit ... more
				SpeedCast and Gazprom Space Systems expand VSAT services in Africa SpeedCast International Limited ("SpeedCast"), a leading global satellite telecommunications service provider, has announced a new agreement with Gazprom Space Systems ("GSS"), a Russian-based satel ... more		North Korea Set to Deploy KN08 Ballistic Missile North Korea has taken steps toward the deployment of its KN08 (Hwasong-13) road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) which could potentially launch a nuclear strike on the United States. ... more

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X Prize aims to show AI is friend not foe An X Prize unveiled on Wednesday promised millions of dollars to a team that could best show that artificial intelligence is humanity's friend, not its enemy. ... more		Canonical transformation provides insights into many-particle physics The concepts of rotation and angular momentum play a crucial role in many areas of physics, ranging from nuclear spectroscopy to molecular collisions and precision measurements. In a paper app ... 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		Oxygen-starved oceans held back life's recovery after the 'Great Dying' Stanford scientists have found that chronically low levels of oxygen throughout the oceans hampered the recovery of life after the Permian-Triassic extinction, the most catastrophic die-off in our p ... more
Fuel cells powering inner-city vehicles Inner-city deliveries in Austria may soon be powered by pollution-free fuel cell technology that is also being explored by ESA for satellites and robotic missions to Mars. Austrian transport s ... more		Can fables, fairy tales teach robots morality? Researchers at Georgia Tech are attempting to give robots a sense of right and wrong by teaching them fairy tales. ... more		Trump warns of Boeing plant going to China Donald Trump told South Carolina voters Tuesday to be wary of aircraft giant Boeing opening a plane finishing plant in China, saying he would not let it happen if he were president. ... more		Ultrafast microscope used to make slow-motion electron movie University of Colorado Boulder researchers have demonstrated the use of the world's first ultrafast optical microscope, allowing them to probe and visualize matter at the atomic level with mind-bend ... more

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Hubble Directly Measures Rotation of Cloudy 'Super-Jupiter'

CubeSat mission will demonstrate Virtual-Telescope technology

Japan launches satellite to study black holes

China Relocates 10,000 for Giant Telescope to Search for Alien Life

NASA Helps Power Grids Weather Geomagnetic Storms

How a NASA Team Turned a Smartphone into a Satellite Business

Glow from the Big Bang Allows Discovery of Distant Black Hole Jet

Engineer Makes Sure Commercial Crew Craft Will Make Smooth Landing

Scientists from MIPT gain insights into 'forbidden' chemistry

Dynamical systems theory enhances knowledge of Jupiter's atmosphere

Reproducing the large-scale Universe

NASA chooses ASU to design and operate special satellite

Chinese scientists invent leak detection system for moon exploration

First detection of super-earth atmosphere

China's space telescope to displace humans in search for aliens

Airbus DS develops partnerships for military satcom services in Asia Pacific

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