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March 22, 2016

Orbital set to send resupply mission to space station
Washington (AFP) March 22, 2016
NASA partner Orbital ATK was readying to send its Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station on Tuesday, a resupply mission that will include an unprecedented fire experiment after the craft leaves the orbiting outpost. The unmanned spacecraft is due to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket at 11:05 pm (0305 GMT Wednesday), the start of a 30-minute launch window. There is a 90 percent chance that the weather will be favorable at the time o ... read more

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NASA marks major milestones for the James Webb Space Telescope NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just got a little closer to launch with the completion of cryogenic testing on its science cameras and spectrographs and the installation of the final flight mirror ... more		New Gravity Map Gives Best View Yet Inside Mars A new map of Mars' gravity made with three NASA spacecraft is the most detailed to date, providing a revealing glimpse into the hidden interior of the Red Planet. "Gravity maps allow us to see ... 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		Cyborg cardiac patch may treat the diseased heart More than 25% of the people on the national US waiting list for a heart will die before receiving one. Despite this discouraging figure, heart transplants are still on the rise. There just hasn't be ... more
				Gravity glasses offer a view of the Earth's interior How does the ice on the polar caps change? And which are the geological characteristics of the Earth's crust beneath? What is the structure of the boundary between the Earth's crust and mantle? ... more		Astronomers Discover Colossal 'Super Spiral' Galaxies A strange new kind of galactic beast has been spotted in the cosmic wilderness. Dubbed "super spirals," these unprecedented galaxies dwarf our own spiral galaxy, the Milky Way, and compete in size a ... more

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Kepler Catches Early Flash of an Exploding Star The brilliant flash of an exploding star's shockwave - what astronomers call the "shock breakout" - has been captured for the first time in visible light by NASA's planet-hunter, the Kepler space te ... more		Ultra-fast winds near supermassive black hole New research led by astrophysicists at York University has revealed the fastest winds ever seen at ultraviolet wavelengths near a supermassive black hole. "We're talking wind speeds of 20 per ... 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		Hubble unveils monster stars international team of scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has combined images taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3 with the unprecedented ultraviolet spatial resolution of the S ... more
Five papers provide new data from flyby of Pluto Pluto's surface exhibits a wide variety of landscapes, results from five new studies in this special issue on the New Horizons mission report. The dwarf planet has more differences than similarities ... more		Astronomers found a star with a record variation period The Lomonosov Moscow State University astronomers who created a global network of robotelescopes MASTER detected that a bright star TYC 2505-672-1 has actually faded significantly. That finding indu ... more		Most eccentric planet ever known flashes astronomers with reflected light Led by San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane, a team of researchers has spotted an extrasolar planet about 117 light-years from earth that boasts the most eccentric orbit yet seen. ... more		Burning like the Sun Engineers building parts of a new type of power plant for generating green energy with nuclear fusion are using their expertise from building rockets like Europe's Ariane 5 to create the super-stron ... more

	Rosetta finds magnetic field-free bubble at comet ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has revealed a surprisingly large region around its host comet devoid of any magnetic field. When ESA's Giotto flew past Comet Halley three decades ago, it found a vast mag ... more		China's dark-matter satellite concludes in-orbit testing China's first dark-matter detection satellite has completed three months of in-orbit testing, with initial findings expected to appear before the end of the year, according to the Chinese Academy of ... more

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