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April 14, 2016

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It was heartening to see President Obama's tweet to congratulate Spacex on that picture perfect first stage touchdown on their "of course I still love you" drone ship in the Atlantic last week, heralding the arrival of a new era in rocketry, emphasizing affordability and sustainability, the hallmarks of the newspace movement . At the same time, it is perplexing that not one of the presidential candidates running for office has yet to mention, let alone pay lip service to the nation's space program that ... read more

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Living in a bubble: inflatable modules could be the future of space habitats The astronauts of the International Space Station welcomed the arrival of what we call the "Bigelow Bungalow", officially known as the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) on April 10. If ... more		Concept's success buoys Commercial Crew's path to flight Five years in, NASA's Commercial Crew Program is at the doorstep of launch for a new generation of spacecraft and launch vehicles that will take astronauts to the International Space Station, enhanc ... more		Cooling down the hot side of space hardware In a world of micro-this and nano-that, space exploration also benefits from utilizing smaller, more efficient and more powerful devices. But such advances in technology typically entail higher heat ... more
				Coming soon to an orbit near you: GOES-R The GOES-R satellite is set to launch six months from now, on October 13, 2016. GOES-R, or GOES-16 as it will be known once operational, will launch on board an Atlas V 541 rocket from Cape Canavera ... more		New, fast solar wind propulsion system is aim of NASA, UAH study Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are set to use computer models to investigate the results of experimental testing at NASA'S Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville to ... more

Russia working on new generation of space rocket engines The Russian space industry is working on the creation of new rocket engines for advanced launch vehicles, Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos head Igor Komarov said Tuesday. The Russian-bu ... more		STRATCOM, UAE sign space cooperation agreement The United States and the United Arab Emirates Space Agency (UAESA) have signed a deal to share information about their orbiting space satellites, the US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) announced in a ... more		Romania says Russian drone breached its airspace MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes AI powered SAR imagery analysis tool launched by SATIM and ICEYE		Intelsat first anchor customer for Orbital ATK's Satellite Life Extension Service Intelsat has signed a contract with Orbital ATK to become the first customer for Orbital ATK's new satellite life extension service. As one of the world's leading commercial satellite services provi ... more
				Iranian space success result of close contact with Russian scientists Russia is celebrating Cosmonautics Day on April 12 in commemoration of the first manned space flight on April 12, 1961, when a booster rocket took the Vostok spacecraft into orbit with the first cos ... more		Are cosmic rays the key to galaxy formation The new Junior Research Group "High Energy Astrophysics and Cosmology" (HAC) has now started at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). HITS astrophysicist Dr. Christoph Pfrommer ha ... more

Human 2 Mars Conference May 17-19 2016 - Washington DC

Military Network Modernization 2016 - Washington DC - April 25-27

Space Tech Expo - Design - Build - Test - Pasadena CA - May 24-26, 2016

The World's Largest Commercial Drone Conference and Expo - Sept 7-9 - Las Vegas

Directed Energy And Next Generation Munitions - 20-22 June - Washington DC

China, India pave the way to BRICS cooperation in space The decision of China and India to work together on a joint system of satellites would allow the members of BRICS to be more independent and implement more complex engineering projects in space with ... more		Airbus wins contract for solid state recorder on NASA-ISRO SAR Mission Airbus Defence and Space will supply its latest generation Solid State Recorder for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission, slated for launch in 2020. The contract was recently signe ... 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		1917 astronomical plate has first-ever evidence of exoplanetary system You can never predict what treasure might be hiding in your own basement. We didn't know it a year ago, but it turns out that a 1917 image on an astronomical glass plate from our Carnegie Observator ... more
PPPL scientists help test innovative device to improve efficiency of tokamaks Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have helped design and test a component that could improve the performance of doughnut-shaped fusion faciliti ... more		Graphene is both transparent and opaque to radiation EPFL and UNIGE scientists have developed a microchip using graphene that could help wireless telecommunications share data at a rate that is ten times faster than currently possible. The results are ... more		Advance may make quantum computing more practical Quantum computers are largely hypothetical devices that could perform some calculations much more rapidly than conventional computers can. They exploit a property called superposition, which describ ... more		Nano-control of light pioneers new paths An Australian research team has created a breakthrough chip for the nano-manipulation of light, paving the way for next gen optical technologies and enabling deeper understanding of black holes. ... more

	So long lithium, hello bacteria batteries As renewable energy sources grow, so does the demand for new ways to store the resulting energy at low-cost and in environmentally friendly ways. Now scientists report in ACS' journal Environm ... more		Optical approach offers faster and less expensive method for carbon dating Researchers from Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO), within Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy have demonstrated a new compact spectroscopic instrument that offers a highly sensitive op ... more

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Kepler recovered from emergency and stable

New tool refines exoplanet search

Slovakia to send its first ever satellite into space

SLS Avionics get in the ring for the Journey to Mars

Cooked planets shrink due to radiation

Lunar lava tubes could help pave way for human colony

More accurately measuring distances between planetary nebulae and Earth

Glass beads, meteorite fragments hold secret to working on asteroids

Russia's space exploration 'reviving' despite sanctions, budget cuts

Stars strip away atmospheres of nearby super-Earths

SwRI-led team identifies clathrate ices in comet 67P

Solar storm researchers prepare for the 'big one' with new urgency

SpaceX cargo arrives at crowded space station

Lessons learned from Tiangong 1

SpaceX lands rocket on ocean platform for first time

Supernovae showered Earth with radioactive debris

Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place

When will a neutron star collapse to a black hole

Saturn spacecraft not affected by hypothetical Planet 9

Rafael rolls out 'Drone Dome' anti-drone system

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