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August 15, 2016

Sierra Nevada Corporation helps Juno "Keep Cool and Science On"
Sparks NV (SPX) Aug 15, 2016
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is celebrating the early success of NASA's Juno spacecraft as it stabilizes its orbit around Jupiter and begins powering on scientific instruments for data collection. Built by Lockheed Martin, Juno is the first solar-powered spacecraft designed to operate at such a great distance from the sun, making SNC's electronic-free thermal devices critical in helping keep the spacecraft's temperature regulated without drawing power away from the spacecraft's scientific paylo ... read more

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SpaceX lands Falcon 9 rocket after launching Japanese satellite SpaceX successfully landed a reusable Falcon 9 rocket on a floating drone ship at sea early Sunday after the vehicle had sent a Japanese communications satellite into orbit. ... more		Scientists to unveil new Earth-like planet: report Scientists are preparing to unveil a new planet in our galactic neighbourhood which is "believed to be Earth-like" and orbits its star at a distance that could favour life, German weekly Der Spiegel reported Friday. ... more		Methane-Filled Canyons Line Titan's Surface Liquid methane-filled canyons hundreds of meters deep with walls as steep as ski slopes etch the surface of Titan, researchers report in a new study. The new findings provide the first direct eviden ... more
				Neutrinos, ever bizarre, enjoy the spotlight Buzzing through space, through our bodies, virtually everywhere, are billions upon billions of neutrinos. Behind only photons as the most abundant fundamental particle in the universe, neutrinos are ... more		Discovery of a time-resolved supernova signal in Earth's microfossils Physicists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have succeeded in detecting a time-resolved supernova signal in the Earth's microfossil record. As the group of Prof. Shawn Bishop could show ... more

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NASA's Fermi Mission Expands its Search for Dark Matter Dark matter, the mysterious substance that constitutes most of the material universe, remains as elusive as ever. Although experiments on the ground and in space have yet to find a trace of dark mat ... more		NASA to hold Industry Day to discuss Universal Stage Adapter NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland will host an industry day on Aug. 17 to share information about a Draft Request for Proposal for the Space Launch System's (SLS) Universal Stage Adapter (US ... more		Canada tops up German fund for Ukraine air defenses Xi Jinping leaves Hungary, ends European tour: TV Pyongyang to deploy new multiple rocket launcher this year: KCNA		Much ado about nothing: Astronomers use empty space to study the universe Researchers who are looking for new ways to probe the nature of gravity and dark energy in the universe have adopted a new strategy: looking at what's not there. In a paper to appear in upcomi ... more
				Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster Like cosmic ballet dancers, the stars of the Pleiades cluster are spinning. But these celestial dancers are all twirling at different speeds. Astronomers have long wondered what determines the rotat ... more		NASA's Hubble Spots a Lopsided Lynx This galaxy, known as NGC 2337, resides 25 million light-years away in the constellation of Lynx. NGC 2337 is an irregular galaxy, meaning that it - along with a quarter of all galaxies in the unive ... more

2nd Integrated Air and Missile Defense - Securing the Complex Air Domain: Requirements for Sustainable, Global, and Reliable Solutions to Next Generation Air & Missile Threats - 28-30 September, 2016 | Washington D.C.

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

NASA to map Asteroid Bennu from the ground up How do you study the topography of an asteroid millions of miles away? Map it with a robotic cartographer! NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith E ... more		Limited power as Mar Lab approaches Murray Buttes MSL drove over 45 meters on Sol 1428, closer to the Murray Buttes. I helped select ChemCam targets again this morning, and was glad to see that some of them made it into the weekend plan. The ... more		Using MRI, engineers have found a way to detect light deep in the brain AI systems are already deceiving us -- and that's a problem, experts warn How the brain is flexible enough for a complex world without going crazy		Russia to Develop Unmanned Harvester Running on Glonass Navigation by 2018 Russia is set to develop unmanned agricultural machinery running on the Russian Glonass navigation system by 2018, Russian Izvestia newspaper reported Tuesday, citing the developer. According ... more
Launch of US Antares Rocket Powered by Russian Engine Postponed The first launch of the upgraded US Antares rocket, powered by the Russian RD-181 engine, has been postponed until late September, developer company Orbital ATK said in a statement on Wednesday. ... more		Micro Cooling Device Now Gets Defense, Satellite Systems Up and Running 4x Faster A new micro-size cryocooler from Lockheed Martin is enabling quick-startup infrared (IR) sensors for missile and sensor applications. Cryocoolers are standard components in IR-sensing platform ... more		Prototype chip could help make quantum computing practical Quantum computers are largely hypothetical devices that could perform some calculations much more rapidly than conventional computers can. Instead of the bits of classical computation, which can rep ... more		Two become one: How to turn green light blue The upconversion of photons allows for a more efficient use of light: Two photons are converted into a single photon having higher energy. Researchers at KIT now showed for the first time that the i ... more

	Simulating complex catalysts key to making cheap, powerful fuel cells Using a unique combination of advanced computational methods, University of Wisconsin-Madison chemical engineers have demystified some of the complex catalytic chemistry in fuel cells - an advance t ... more		Self-cleaning, anti-reflective, microorganism-resistant coatings Coatings or paints are materials applied to different surfaces basically for decorative and protective purposes. Yet today the market for these materials is being subjected to increasingly tougher s ... more

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1967 solar storm nearly took US to brink of war

World's first virtual reality camera satellite to be launched into space

Curiosity Has Disproved 'Old Idea of Mars as a Simple Basaltic Planet'

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IceCube search for the 'sterile neutrino' draws a blank

Perseid meteor shower 'surge in activity' Thursday, Friday

Lockheed Martin, NASA Ink Deal for SkyFire Infrared Lunar Discovery Satellite

India to Explore Planetary Evolution in Its Ambition Mars Mission-2

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DoD's Welby Wants Technology Development to Move Faster

China launches first mobile telecom satellite

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NASA releases 'Omics: Advancing personalized medicine from space to Earth'

Long-term health effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs not as dire as perceived

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