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October 10, 2016

China getting ready for Shenzhou 11 launch
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 11, 2016
The rollout of the Long March 2F launch vehicle carrying the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft was a critical step in the lead-up to its launch. It's also an indication that the state of the rocket and the spacecraft are both good. Conditions at the launchpad at Jiuquan are also fine. That's partially a consequence of having a launch site that's deep inland, where it is protected from hurricanes. NASA and other tenants in Florida have recently experienced an unpleasant reminder of this problem. The Tia ... read more

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TESS will provide exoplanet targets for years to come NASA's search for planets outside of our solar system has mostly involved very distant, faint stars. NASA's upcoming Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), by contrast, will look at the brigh ... more		Closing windows on Shenzhou 11 China's Shenzhou 11 spacecraft will carry two astronauts to the Tiangong 2 space laboratory this month. Exactly when this will happen is yet to be confirmed by the Chinese themselves. At the t ... more		Orbital ATK and Stratolaunch partner to offer competitive launch opportunities Orbital ATK and Stratolaunch Systems has announced a multi-year production-based partnership that will offer significant cost advantages to air-launch customers. Stratolaunch Systems, in cooperation ... more
				Schiaparelli readied for Mars landing This week, the commands that will govern the Schiaparelli lander's descent and touchdown on Mars were uploaded to ESA's ExoMars spacecraft, enroute to the Red Planet. The Trace Gas Orbiter has been ... more		Voyage of Time: Awe and Thought-Provoking Eye Candy Fans of space odysseys, evolutionary storytelling, and tons of cosmic eye-candy will all have something to drool-and stew about--in "Voyage of Time," director Terence Malick's latest cinematic offer ... more

From nothing to glory in six decades - China's space program In China the number 60 is auspicious as it relates to a cyclic numeral system of the chronology. The past 60 years has seen China's space program develop from a concept to one success after another. ... more		Opportunity at First Science Spot of its 10th Extended Mission Opportunity is located at the terrain feature called 'Spirit Mount' on the rim of Endeavour Crater, the first science waypoint of the 10th extended mission. The rover has been positioned near ... more		SpaceX successfully launches Maxar Intelligence next-gen satellites OneNav introduces new L5-direct GNSS receiver in response to increased GPS jamming Macron floats Ukraine troop deployment if frontline breached		NASA maps help gauge Italy earthquake damage A NASA-funded program provided valuable information for responders and groups supporting the recovery efforts for the Aug. 24, 2016, magnitude 6.2 earthquake that struck central Italy. The earthquak ... more
				Japan Schedules Cargo Transporter Launch to ISS for December 9 Japanese cargo spaceship KOUNOTORI6 is set to be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on December 9, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Friday. KOUNOTORI is an unmanned c ... more		India Expedites Its Space Centric Warfare Program The Indian Air Force (IAF) will soon receive approval from the Indian Space Research Organization for its own dedicated satellite. Air Vice Marshal Sandeep Singh Commandant of the Aircraft and Syste ... more

6th Annual Modular Construction Summit for Oil and Gas Agenda - December 7-9 - Houston

Nuclear Plant Digitalization Conference - Nov 15-16 - Charlotte NC USA

Military Support for Innovation Is a Matter of Culture When Defense Sec. Ashton Carter reached out to Silicon Valley a year ago, the move was lauded as a Washington paean to innovation. Instead, it was only the first step toward a cultural-change goal. ... more		Case of the missing continental crust solved: It sank How do you make half the mass of two continents disappear? To answer the question you first need to discover that it's missing. That's what a trio of University of Chicago geoscientists and their co ... more		Largest carbon credit programme poised for quality label Kids study in overheated slum as Philippines shuts schools IncreasingAfrican tropical forest fires linked to climate change and deforestation		Ice cores reveal slow decline in oxygen over past 800K years Princeton University researchers have compiled 30 years of data to construct the first ice core-based record of atmospheric oxygen concentrations spanning the past 800,000 years, according to a pape ... more
How evolution has equipped our hands with 5 fingers Have you ever wondered why our hands have exactly five fingers? Dr. Marie Kmita's team certainly has. The researchers at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal and Universite de Montreal h ... more		New insights into how black carbon aerosols impact the atmospheric boundary layer It is widely known that black carbon, or soot, aerosol particles emitted from South Asia are spread across the northern Indian Ocean during the winter monsoon season. These masses of air pollution a ... more		Electrons in graphene behave like light, only better A team led by Cory Dean, assistant professor of physics at Columbia University, Avik Ghosh, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, and James Hone, Wang Fong- ... more		More stable qubits in perfectly normal silicon The power of future quantum computers stems from the use of qubits, or quantum bits, which do not have to be either 0 or 1, but can also be 0 and 1 at the same time. It is not yet clear on which tec ... more

	Scientists unveil first tetherless hopping robot A team of engineers with Disney Research have designed and built the first tetherless hopping robot, capable of bouncing on a single leg without an external power source. ... more		Physicists 'dissolve' water in an emerald Scientists from MIPT and several research teams working in Russia and other European countries have been the first to reliably realize and document the phenomenon of water molecular dipoles ordering ... more

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Orbital CRS-5 launching hot and bright science to space

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A Second Look at Plumes and the Search for life on Europa

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Students team up with NASA for space coms and navigation

Space for Shenzhou 11

ULA gets $860 million contract modification for expendable launch vehicle

Putin scraps plutonium disposal deal with 'unfriendly' US

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