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June 08, 2016

Students Experience "NASA Satellites 101"
Laurel MD (SPX) Jun 08, 2016
Astronauts aren't the only ones who get to use NASA technology. Computer scientists and engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, work to make flight software and satellite technology more accessible in an effort to engage the public and educate students. Students at Capitol Technology University in Laurel, Maryland, for example, use NASA technologies to develop their own computers and build their own small satellites known as Cube-Sats. There has been an increasing i ... read more

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Wasteful galaxies launch heavy elements into surrounding halos and deep space Galaxies "waste" large amounts of heavy elements generated by star formation by ejecting them up to a million light years away into their surrounding halos and deep space, according to a new study l ... more		The mystery of the initial mass function solved For the first time, scientists used methods of network science to solve a fundamental astrophysical problem - explaining the so-called "initial mass function", a distribution of stars by mass in gal ... more		Aerospace Awarded NASA Grant for Innovative Space Debris Technology NASA has awarded Aerospace a grant to investigate the possibility of developing an extremely thin spacecraft that would wrap around debris and remove it from Earth's orbit. The innovative concept, c ... more
				Monitoring pipelines from space Dutch company Orbital Eye has developed a service that uses satellites to monitor gas and oil pipelines. A major African pipeline operator has already signed up for the service. Worldwide, gas and o ... more		Airbus Defence and Space has completed PeruSAT-1 in less than 24 months Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, has completed integration of PeruSAT-1, Peru's first Earth observation satellite. It was built in less than 24 months. PeruS ... more

Transition from Operations to Decommissioning by Preparing a Safe, Cost-Effective Shut Down and Waste Management Strategy

Russia delays launch of new crew to ISS until July 7 The launch of a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS) has been postponed until July 7 for safety precautions, Russia's space corporation Roscosmos said Monday. Expedition 48-49 cre ... more		Ensuring Satellite Connectivity No Matter What the Location or Climate Although children's books and animated films often depict them frolicking together, penguins and polar bears actually occupy opposite ends of the earth. Polar bears are found in the far northern lat ... more		US imposes trade curbs on Chinese firms over balloon incident Philippines defence chief says military must evolve fast Capella Space launches automated vessel detection service		Teams to compete in 5th year of NASA's sample return robot competition Twenty-one robotics teams are returning to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) for a fifth year to compete in NASA's $1.5 million Sample Return Robot Challenge. The autonomous robotic competition ... more
				US-Ukrainian Rocket Engine Proposal 'Formula for Disaster' A Ukrainian proposal to co-manufacture large rocket engines with the United States to replace Russian ones would face enormous problems, Spinney claimed. "From a program management point of vi ... more		China's wants to build its own Hubble class space telescope Chinese authorities revealed a plan to launch an independent orbital observatory that will outperform NASA's aging Hubble space telescope. The observatory's field of view will be 300 times as ... more

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Satellite Software 'Descends' to Drone Altitude Once upon a time, terrestrial mapping software was so big, so bad, and so expensive that only governments with satellites and budgets footed by taxpayers could make use of it. But thanks to drones, ... more		Russian Satellite for Defense Ministry Put Into Orbit A Russian satellite for the needs of the country's Defense Ministry has been successfully put into orbit, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday. "The launch [of the satellite] into orbit has ... more		Hotter, drier, sicker? How a changing planet drives disease In south Brazil, race to deliver aid ahead of new storms 'World coming to an end': Kenyan town copes with life underwater		Russia working on high-altitude drone Unmanned aircraft acting as hovering antennas could be used to provide mobile communications in major cities, and eventually take on some of the functions of space satellites. Scientists from the Sa ... more
Public private model would make DARPA's on-orbit service capability a reality The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announcement of a Robotics Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program in March is an important step towards extending the productivit ... more		CODE takes step towards more complex, resilient UAVs DARPA's Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) program seeks to help the U.S. military's unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) conduct dynamic, long-distance engagements of highly mobile g ... more		NASA studies details of a greening Arctic The northern reaches of North America are getting greener, according to a NASA study that provides the most detailed look yet at plant life across Alaska and Canada. In a changing climate, almost a ... more		Mapping that sinking feeling For a low-lying, densely populated country like the Netherlands, monitoring subsidence is critical. Until recently, tiny displacements in the ground beneath our feet couldn't be mapped nationally bu ... more

	Skyrmions a la carte Magnetic vortices - so-called skyrmions - were predicted theoretically more than 25 years ago, but it has only been possible to observe them experimentally in magnetic materials in recent years. Sky ... more		Scientists find surprising magnetic excitations in a metallic compound Some three-dimensional materials can exhibit exotic properties that only exist in "lower" dimensions. For example, in one-dimensional chains of atoms that emerge within a bulk sample, electrons can ... more

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