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September 28, 2016

Elon Musk envisions 'fun' trips to Mars colony
Guadalajara, Mexico (AFP) Sept 28, 2016
SpaceX chief Elon Musk unveiled on Tuesday ambitious plans to establish a Mars colony by sending 100 humans at a time on massive spacecraft, possibly costing as low as $100,000 per person. Taking the stage under a large globe of Mars at the International Astronautical Congress, Musk showed his vision for a giant rocket that would propel people to the Red Planet "in our lifetime." "We need to go from these early exploration missions to actually building a city," he said to an overflow crowd at an ... read more

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Chinese Space Lab Tiangong-2 Ready to Dock With Manned Spacecraft China's second space laboratory Tiangong-2 is in good condition and ready to start docking process with the manned spacecraft Shenzhou-11, local media reported Monday. Ten days after its launc ... more		Tiangong-2 space lab enters preset orbit for docking with manned spacecraft Chinese scientists on Sunday maneuvered the country's Tiangong-2 space lab to a preset orbit 393 kilometers above Earth's surface, in preparation for a planned docking with the Shenzhou-11 manned sp ... more		Moon and Mars on a plane Who wouldn't want to run an experiment in lunar or martian gravity? ESA is offering European researchers the chance to test their theories on aircraft flights that offer 20 seconds of reduced gravit ... more
				NASA's Asteroid-Bound Spacecraft Aces Instrument Check Its science instruments have been powered on, and NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft continues on its journey to an asteroid. The spacecraft has passed its initial instrument check with flying colors as i ... more		Scientists and Engineers Evaluate Orion Radiation Protection Plan When astronauts in Orion venture far beyond Earth into deep space, they will expand humanity's frontier and push the boundaries of exploration. While the spacecraft is designed with systems and mate ... more

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Astronomers discover dizzying spin of the Milky Way Halo Astronomers at the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) discovered for the first time that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the s ... more		How to Merge Two Black Holes in a Simple Way If we had to choose the most important and newsworthy piece of science news for 2016, the discovery of gravitational waves would have every chance of winning first prize. The two signals that have b ... more		AI powered SAR imagery analysis tool launched by SATIM and ICEYE Ghosts of the Deep: China's AJX-002 XLUUV and the Geopolitics of Undersea Power Global Invacom unveils XRJ transceiver for government and defense satcom		New Low-Mass Objects Could Help Refine Planetary Evolution When a star is young, it is often still surrounded by a primordial rotating disk of gas and dust, from which planets can form. Astronomers like to find such disks because they might be able to catch ... more
				Import Substitution: Glonass Satellites to Switch to Russian Electronics By 2020 a Russian GLONASS K-2 global positioning satellite in place, built entirely from Russian-made parts as part of the government's ongoing effort to substitute imports amid sanctions, Izvestia ... more		New partnership with DigitalGlobe advances research innovation locally, worldwide CU Boulder and DigitalGlobe Inc. this week announced a partnership to provide access to DigitalGlobe's industry-leading high-resolution satellite imagery, data and analytics tools to the university' ... 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.

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Planet Mercury Found to Be Tectonically Active Images acquired by NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft show geologic features that indicate Mercury is likely still contracting today, joining ... more		Space Traffic Management May Soon be Here Over the past few years there has been a dramatic increase in low orbital activities. The government is increasingly concerned with the congestion within these orbits and the growing problem of orbi ... more		AI tool accelerates SAR image analysis with automated object detection Fossil energy 'significant' driver of climate-fuelled heatwaves: study Ethiopia's mega-dam ranks 15th globally		Spaceflight Industries marks successful launch of the BlackSky Pathfinder satellite aboard PSLV Spaceflight Industries has announced the successful launch of its BlackSky Pathfinder-1 satellite into a sun synchronous orbit from India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). From Satish Dhawan ... more
Research supports idea that moon was created by object hitting infant Earth New research led by Johns Hopkins University scientists argues that a layer of iron and other elements deep under ground is the evidence scientists have long been seeking to support the hypothesis t ... more		Race to near space: Superfast flight Chinese aerospace researchers are pushing the limits in a new sphere - near space - which promises superfast vehicles for passengers, business and military use. Nearly half of the 24 entries i ... more		Cosmic Dust Demystified by British Researchers The solar system is a dusty environment, with trillions of cosmic dust particles left behind by comets and asteroids that orbit the sun. All this dust forms a relatively dense cloud through which th ... more		SES unveils new tactical surveillance and communications solution SES S.A. has introduced a fully integrated portable surveillance and communications solution designed to provide enhanced situational awareness for border security, special event monitoring and disa ... more

	Lockheed's PAC-3 missile destroys ballistic missile targets in test Two Lockheed Martin PAC-3 missiles successfully intercepted two tactical ballistic missile targets during a flight test Wednesday, the company announced. ... more		DigitalGlobe's Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery Program Renewed DigitalGlobe reports that the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has renewed the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (Global EGD) program under the EnhancedView contract. For a sixth ... more

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Hubble spots possible water plumes erupting on Jupiter's Moon Europa		World's largest radio telescope starts operating in China		Rosetta: The end of a space odyssey		Rosetta: How to end the fairytale		Messenger probe images fault scarps on Mercury's surface
Pluto's heart sheds light on a possible buried ocean		Cosmology Safe as Universe Has No Sense of Direction		Yoyager's Golden Record not just for aliens anymore		ALMA uncovers "golden age" of galaxy formation in new Deep Field		Airbus Expands its German Satellite Building Facility

N. Korea air show thumbs nose at sanctions

Russia jails space engineer for 7 years for treason

U.S. intel agency renews contract for satellite imagery

French fighter jet deal: an Indian saga

Israel says new spy satellite sends first images

US Air Force set to replace intercontinental nuke arsenal

Scientists forge nanogold chains with atomic precision

California dreamin' for Chinese investors in US

Britain sends jets to intercept Russian bombers

Russia? China? Who hacked Yahoo, and why?

NASA Creates Software to Keep Tabs on Killer Asteroids

Batch production of Long March 5 underway

Scientific experiment apparatuses on Tiangong-2 put into operation

China space plane taking shape

China's space survival experiment goes on well

Rocket maker aims high with lofty output targets

NASA to reveal 'surprising' activity on Jupiter's moon

World's largest radio telescope starts operating in China

Universe is without direction, astronomers say

US Air Force works to bring prestige back to nuke missile roles

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