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July 06, 2016

Elite Team to Consider New Approaches to Asteroid Danger
Mountain View CA (SPX) Jul 06, 2016
A six-week-long research accelerator, championed by NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist and hosted at the SETI Institute, is engaging young researchers from around the world to take on one of the truly existential threats to our species. The NASA Frontier Development Lab (FDL) is bringing together a team of postgraduate researchers in data analytics and planetary science and challenging them to think outside the box on the threat of asteroid impacts. The initiative is under the aegis of expert ... read more

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Teenagers at Keele University Discover Possible New Exoplanet Twenty four students in years 10, 11 and 12, boys and girls aged 15 to 17, from local schools and colleges came together for the week in the Lennard-Jones building at Keele to work on a research pro ... more		Grade-school students teach a robot to help themselves learn geometry Computer technology has become integral to the learning process. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, at the end of the last decade, some 97 percent of U.S. teachers had one or ... more		Mercury's Surface Arose from Deep Inside the Planet NASA researchers have found that several volcanic deposits on Mercury's surface require mantle melting to have started close to the planet's core-mantle boundary, which lies only 400 km below the pl ... more
				Dutch Radio Antenna to Depart for Moon on Chinese Mission Yesterday, in Beijing, The Netherlands Space Office (NSO) and the Chinese national space agency CNSA signed a partnership agreement on a mission to the Moon, made possible by the organizations' Memo ... more		What Happens When You Steam a Planet The media often imply that the goal of the hunt for extrasolar planets is to find a rocky planet about the size of Earth orbiting a star like the Sun at a distance that would allow liquid water to p ... more

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

Mars Rover's Sand-Dune Studies Yield Surprise Some of the wind-sculpted sand ripples on Mars are a type not seen on Earth, and their relationship to the thin Martian atmosphere today provides new clues about the atmosphere's history. The ... more		How Planetary Age Reveals Water Content Water is necessary for life as we know it, but too much water is bad for habitability. Therefore, to study the habitability of extrasolar planets, determining the abundance of water is a key element ... more		Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm Top Chinese gaming companies continue to challenge		Unusual form of sand dune discovered on Mars Both Earth and Mars feature large sand dunes and small sand ripples. Recently, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity discovered and studied an expanse of medium-sized sand waves unlike any sand formations found on Earth. ... more
				China to launch second space lab Tiangong-2 in September China will send its second orbiting space lab Tiangong-2 into space in mid September, said a senior official with the country's manned space program on Saturday. The Shenzhou-11 manned spacecr ... more		China committed to peaceful use of outer space China welcomed a newcomer to its Long March carrier rocket family on Saturday as the new generation Long March-7 blasted off successfully. It brings China one step closer to its goal of operating a ... 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

Rocket launch gets China one step closer to own space station China on Saturday successfully blasted off its new generation carrier rocket Long March-7 from Wenchang space launch center in south China's Hainan province. In a cloud of white smoke, the rocket as ... more		China plans mega rocket for manned lunar missions China is planning to start using a huge carrier rocket powerful enough for manned lunar missions before 2031. The new rocket will measure over a hundred meters in length and nearly 10 meters in diam ... more		Solar-driven ionosphere charges may nudge stressed faults toward rupture Stable black carbon in mangrove soils boosts coastal climate role Low crystallinity iron minerals show promise for chromium cleanup and carbon storage		China to launch its largest carrier rocket later this year China planned to launch the Long March-5, its largest carrier rocket, in the latter half of this year, said a senior official with the country's space program on Saturday. The rocket, designed ... more
Upgraded "space shuttle bus" aboard new carrier rocket Long March-7, China's new generation carrier rocket, has carried an upper stage aircraft into the space in its maiden flight Saturday, said a senior space program official. The upgraded model ... more		OrbitOutlook integrates diverse network to help avoid collisions in space More than 500,000 pieces of manmade space debris-including spent rocket stages, defunct satellites, and fragments as small as flecks of paint-currently hurtle around the Earth at roughly 17,000 mile ... more		China's Midea moves step closer to acquiring German robotics firm Kuka Chinese appliances giant Midea moved a step closer to fulfilling its ambition to acquire German industrial robotics firm Kuka with a deal raising its stake to more than 35 percent. ... more		Researchers find human development's first gear Oxford University researchers are closer to solving a decade-old mystery after discovering that a set of genes they are studying play a key role in early human development. Evolutionary biolog ... more

	China's Midea buys nearly half of German robotics firm Kuka Chinese appliances giant Midea moved a step closer to fulfilling its ambition to acquire German industrial robotics firm Kuka with two weekend deals raising its stake to nearly a majority. ... more		'Squishy' motors and wheels give soft robots a new ride A small, squishy vehicle equipped with soft wheels rolls over rough terrain and runs under water. Future versions of the versatile vehicle might be suitable for search and rescue missions after disa ... more

AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners

Ancient guano drove Chincha coastal power

UAH lands first DARPA award for biological sciences department

3-D printing produces cartilage from strands of bioink		Recent Hydrothermal Activity May Explain Ceres' Brightest Area		ChemCam findings hint at oxygen-rich past on Mars		Researchers trace Mercury's origins to rare meteorite		Alex Parker Discovers Moon Over Makemake in the Kuiper Belt
When it comes to brown dwarfs, 'how far?' is a key question		Building a smart cardiac patch		Curiosity rover analysis suggests Mars has oxygen-rich history		Robotic vehicle's soft engine provides torque without bending		Foldable 3D, man-made proteins could make use by dates for medicines obsolete

Russia to spend $60M in 2016-2018 to fund space voyages to Moon, Mars

China launches new carrier rocket: state media

Airbus Defence and Space top construct new clean rooms in Poland

Chinese Space Garbageman is not a Weapon

China's new launch center to get new viewing areas

SSL Satellite For Dish Begins Post-Launch Maneuvers According To Plan

United Nations and China agree to increased space cooperation

Meet RobERt, Dreaming Detective for Exoplanet Atmospheres

Hundreds Of Events Worldwide Scheduled For Asteroid Day 2016

NASA Weighs Use of Rover to Image Potential Mars Water Sites

Opportunity is on its Final Science Campaign at 'Marathon Valley'

Scientists model universe with Full General Relativity

Researchers devise new tool to measure polarization of light

NASA Scientists Discover Unexpected Mineral on Mars

China's newest rocket ready for blast-off

Opportunity Wraps up Work on 'Wheel Scuff'

Hubble locates new dark spot on Neptune

Pluto's Subsurface Ocean Likely Exists Today

Hardware for Journey to Mars is a 'Big Catch'

Asteroid Impacts a Possible Solution to "Faint Young Sun Paradox"

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