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May 19, 2016

Debris Alert: A Crack in the Window
Bethesda MD (SPX) May 18, 2016
In recent days media coverage of space debris activity has been intense. Some commentaries are reminiscent of the hysteria in Chicken Little's report of the sky falling. Others recommend that the issue be ignore. They say, "Space is big, so don't worry." However, just last week a report revealed the existence of very small cracks in an International Space Station Window. Apparently, a tiny piece of space junk collided with a window in the Cupola, a European-built viewing compartment installed on I ... read more

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First CubeSat Built by an Elementary School Deployed into Space In 2012, the students from St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington, Virginia lined up in the shape of a space shuttle in the school parking lot and witnessed the flyover of the Space Shuttle D ... more		Australian, U.S. HIFiRE rocket achieves Mach 7.5 Australia and the United States have successfully fired an experimental rocket with a speed of more than seven times the speed of sound. ... more		Hints of wandering planets in distant cometary belt For the first time, astronomers have captured high-resolution imagery of the cometary belt surrounding HR 8799, the only star system with multiple planets that have been directly photographed. ... more
				Study: Jupiter blasted by an average of 6.5 fireballs each year Every year, Jupiter's upper atmosphere is hit by an average of 6.5 meteors large enough to trigger fireballs that can be seen from Earth. The number is an estimate arrived at by a team of amateur astronomers from all over the world. ... more		Evolution: Building blocks of life Biological evolution was preceded by a long phase of chemical evolution during which precursors of biopolymers accumulated. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich chemists have discovered a ... more

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Mars Rover Scientist Hopes to Find More Evidence of Liquid Water on the Red Planet Although the existence of liquid water on the Red Planet was confirmed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) last year, the scientific community is gearing up for a more thorough analysis of t ... more		Allan Sandage's last paper unravels 100-year-old astronomical mystery Carnegie's Allan Sandage, who died in 2010, was a tremendously influential figure in the field of astronomy. His final paper, published posthumously, focuses on unraveling a surprising historical my ... 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		Europa's ocean may have an Earthlike chemical balance The ocean of Jupiter's moon Europa could have the necessary balance of chemical energy for life, even if the moon lacks volcanic hydrothermal activity, finds a new study. Europa is strongly be ... more
				New Study Maps Rate of New Orleans Sinking New Orleans and surrounding areas continue to sink at highly variable rates due to a combination of natural geologic and human-induced processes, finds a new NASA/university study using NASA airborn ... more		Molecular 'Midwives' Helped Give Birth to RNA All life on Earth uses DNA to encode and store genes, and to pass them on from one generation to the next. RNA, a close molecular relative of DNA, is used within living cells to carryout a wide vari ... more

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Squeezing out mountains, mathematically, on Jupiter's moon Io Mountains aren't the first thing that hit you when you look at images of Jupiter's innermost moon, Io. But once you absorb the fact that the moon is slathered in sulfurous lava erupted from 400 acti ... more		Interns Make Archived NASA Planetary Science Data More Accessible An internship program offered by NASA's Planetary Data System's Small Bodies Subnode hosted at the Planetary Science Institute is making archived scientific information more accessible to researcher ... 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		China Launches Yaogan-30 Remote Sensing Satellite According to the Xinhua news agency, the satellite was launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 10:43 a.m. local time (02:43 GMT). The satellite was carried by a Long March-2D rocket. ... more
Retreat of the ice followed by millennia of methane release Scientists have calculated that the present day ice sheets keep vast amounts of climate gas methane in check. Ice sheets are heavy and cold, providing pressure and temperatures that contain methane ... more		New research estimates probability of mega-earthquake in the Aleutians A team of researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UHM) published a study this week that estimated the probability of a Magnitude 9+ earthquake in the Aleutian Islands - an event with su ... more		Macau shows off robot croupiers as hopes of recovery rise Robot roulette dealers, animated playing cards and a gaming table that shakes its own dice were on show in the gambling hub of Macau Tuesday as experts forecast a two-year casino revenue downturn could be coming to an end. ... more		Scientists discover new form of light Researchers in Ireland have discovered a new form of light. Their discovery is expected to reshape scientists' understanding of light's basic nature. ... more

	Airbus Defence and Space opens a ground station in Australia for its Skynet military satellite A brand new purpose built satellite ground station has been established in Adelaide, to land Airbus Defence and Space's Skynet secure military satellite communications. The Australian facility exten ... more		U.S. tests Saab's Sea Wasp underwater anti-IED device A new underwater device that relocates, identifies and neutralizes improvised explosive devices has been introduced by Saab. ... more

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