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September 13, 2016

Amazon's chief Jeff Bezos unveils new rocket design
Miami (AFP) Sept 12, 2016
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos unveiled plans Monday for a massive rocket called New Glenn designed to launch people to space and propel satellites into orbit, raising the ante in the US commercial space industry. Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post, said the rocket has been in the works for the past four years, and will be launched by decade's end. At 270 feet (82 meters) high for the two-stage New Glenn and 313 feet tall for the three-stage version, the rocket will be taller than any on the ma ... read more

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China's second space lab Tiangong-2 to be launched China's second space lab Tiangong-2 is scheduled to be put into space between September 15 and 20, according to the office of China's manned space program. The space lab was transferred with i ... more		What Happened to Sea Launch Sea Launch is a unique space launch system intended to be an attractive way to launch geostationary earth orbit (GEO) satellites. It was developed as a multinational endeavor that uses a mobile mari ... more		RapidScat Team Investigating Power System Anomaly Mission managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, are assessing two power system-related anomalies affecting t ... more
				Customer publishes performance evaluation of first commercial mini-synchrotron A team from the Technical University Munich (TUM) in Germany recently reported an independent analysis of the operation of the Munich Compact Light Source (MuCLS) in the Sept. 2016 issue of the Jour ... more		US has North Korea missile threat covered: Pentagon The Pentagon on Friday repeated reassurances that the United States and its regional allies are well protected against any threat from North Korean missiles, after Pyongyang conducted a new nuclear test. ... more

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Atmospheric behavior disrupts one of Earth's most regular climate cycles The normal flow of air high up in the atmosphere over the equator, known as the quasi-biennial oscillation, was seen to break down earlier this year. These stratospheric winds are found high above t ... more		Ceramic Composites Revolutionize Engine Efficiency Lighter, faster, more efficient. Whenever you advance a technology, that's the goal. As NASA looks to transform the commercial aircraft of the future, efficient engines are at the heart of it all. ... more		Torch.AI Introduces Firefly Earth Observation Capability for Enhanced National Security Defense contractor pleads guilty to selling inferior, Turkish-made parts for U.S. weapons systems China launches communication test satellites into medium-Earth orbit		SecAF visits Space Coast for 2nd time "It has been an incredible and busy seven days for you all at the 45th Space Wing," said Secretary of the Air Force the Honorable Deborah Lee James during an all call held Sept. 9, 2016, at Patrick ... more
				Astronomers discover 63 new quasars in early universe Astronomers have identified 63 new quasars - the largest number reported in a single scientific study. ... more		Stanford-hosted study examines how AI might affect urban life in 2030 A panel of academic and industrial thinkers has looked ahead to 2030 to forecast how advances in artificial intelligence (AI) might affect life in a typical North American city - in areas as diverse ... 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.

History of tetrapod move onto land rewriten This week in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France and the University of Cambridge in the United K ... more		Earthquakes can trigger near-instantaneous aftershocks on different faults According to a new study by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, a large earthquake on one fault can trigger large aftershocks on separate fau ... more		A fragment of human brain, mapped China sees continued decline in NOx emissions despite higher fossil fuel use New air-breathing spacecraft enhances Earth observation and communication capabilities		Rice University-led team morphs nanotubes into tougher carbon for spacecraft, satellites Superman can famously make a diamond by crushing a chunk of coal in his hand, but Rice University scientists are employing a different tactic. Rice materials scientists are making nanodiamonds and o ... more
Researchers peel back another layer of chemistry with 'tender' X-rays Scientists can now directly probe a previously hard-to-see layer of chemistry thanks to a unique X-ray toolkit developed at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley ... more		Memory for future wearable electronics Last March, the artificial intelligence (AI) program AlphaGo beat Korean Go champion LEE Se-Dol at the Asian board game. "The game was quite tight, but AlphaGo used 1200 CPUs and 56,000 watts per ho ... more		Subatomic microscopy key to building new classes of materials Researchers at Penn State and the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are pushing the limits of electron microscopy into the tens of picometer scale, a fraction of the size of ... more		Location matters in the self-assembly of nanoclusters Scientists at Iowa State University have developed a new formulation that helps to explain the self-assembly of atoms into nanoclusters and to advance the scientific understanding of related nanotec ... more

	Vigil for Tiangong 2 September 15 marks the opening of the launch window for China's Tiangong 2 space laboratory. It will also probably be the actual launch date. The launch window extends to September 20, but China has ... more		Rosetta's descent towards region of active pits Squeezing out unique scientific observations until the very end, Rosetta's thrilling mission will culminate with a descent on 30 September towards a region of active pits on the comet's 'head'. ... more

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Vega to launch ESA's wind mission

Reconciling dwarf galaxies with dark matter

Fujitsu to supply Super-Kamiokande Experiment with new computers

Small asteroid flew safely past earth this week

'Star Trek' 50-year mission: to show the best of humanity

Researchers design solids that control heat with spinning superatoms

Asteroid Mission Will Carry Student X-Ray Experiment

NASA Searches for Big Idea from Students for In-Space Assembly of Spacecraft

Astronaut returns home after logging record-breaking 534 days in space

Terzan 5 Is Like No Other Globular Cluster

First Gravitational Waves form After 10 Million Years

A first for direct-drive fusion

Recreating Our Galaxy in a Supercomputer

Massive Holes 'Punched' Through a Trail of Stars Likely Caused by Dark Matter

Titan's Dunes and Other Features Emerge in New Images

The enigma machine takes a quantum leap

New knowledge about the building blocks of life

Tiangong 2 is coming soon, real soon

OSIRIS-REx Prepared for Mapping, Sampling Mission to Asteroid Bennu

SpaceX appeals for help in probe of rocket blast

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