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September 20, 2016

Exploration Team Shoots for the Moon with Water-Propelled Satellite
Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 19, 2016
A satellite propelled by the Earth's most abundant natural resource? Yes, it's true. Cislunar Explorers, a team of Cornell University students guided by Mason Peck, a former senior official at NASA and associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is attempting to boldly go where no CubeSat team has gone before: around the Moon. Not only is Peck's group attempting to make a first-ever Moon orbit with a satellite no bigger than a cereal box, made entirely with off-the-shelf materials ... read more

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Servosila Robotic Arms product line is launched by Servosila Servosila, a robotics technology company, announced a launch of a new line of robotic arm manipulators specifically targeted at mobile robotics market. "Servosila Robotic Arms are the first ma ... more		More stable way to send light through nano-photonic fibers Many phones, TVs and computers already rely on optical cables, which carry information in the form of light. But engineers have struggled to achieve stable light propagation across long distances. Thus, most optical cables require the introduction of an amplifier every so often. ... more		Earthquakes, 'Marsquakes,' and the Possibility of Life A new study shows that rocks formed by the grinding together of other rocks during earthquakes are rich in trapped hydrogen - a finding that suggests similar seismic activity on Mars may produce eno ... more
				Some Ancient Martian Lakes Came Long After Others Lakes and snowmelt-fed streams on Mars formed much later than previously thought possible, according to new findings using data primarily from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The recently ... more		Cassini Begins Epic Final Year at Saturn After more than 12 years studying Saturn, its rings and moons, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has entered the final year of its epic voyage. The conclusion of the historic scientific odyssey is planned f ... more

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First commercial space base to be built in Wuhan The country's first commercial space industry base will be built in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, according to an agreement signed on Monday. The Wuhan National Space Industry Base will fo ... more		China to begin building space station in 2017 China will begin building a space station that is more economically efficient and uses more data than the current International Space Station (ISS), starting as early as 2017, chief engineer of Chin ... more		Romania says Russian drone breached its airspace MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes AI powered SAR imagery analysis tool launched by SATIM and ICEYE		China acquires basic technology for manned lunar missions China has acquired the basic technology to carry out manned lunar missions, chief engineer of China's manned space program Zhou Jianping said Thursday. Compared with current missions, the technology ... more
				China to share space development benefits with all China will share the benefits of the development in its manned space program with all countries, especially developing countries, a space program official said Wednesday. China will also expan ... more		Tiangong-2 "another significant step" for building China's space station China on Thursday took "another significant step" towards building a manned space station around 2020 with the successful launch of its second experimental space laboratory, U.S. space experts said. ... 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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Antarctica Provides ICE to Study Behavior Effects in Astronauts A trip to the Red Planet begins long in advance of liftoff. NASA's journey to Mars includes preparing astronauts to cope with several months of isolation, confinement, and in an extreme environment ... more		Scientists move step closer to solving fusion plasma dilemma A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST claims to have made yet another step towards finding a solution to one of the critical but unsolved fusion plasma physics problems, which is to mitigate ... more		Cold plasma will heal non-healing wounds Russian scientists at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences (JIHT RAS), and Gamaleya Research Centre of ... more		Brain-sensing technology enables typing at 12 words per minute It does not take an infinite number of monkeys to type a passage of Shakespeare. Instead, it takes a single monkey equipped with brain-sensing technology - and a cheat sheet. That technology, ... more

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NASA launches first asteroid dust-retrieval mission

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A first for direct-drive fusion

Small asteroid flew safely past earth this week

Titan's Dunes and Other Features Emerge in New Images

New knowledge about the building blocks of life

Asteroid Mission Will Carry Student X-Ray Experiment

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

Tiangong 2 is coming soon, real soon

Scientists discover what extraordinary compounds may be hidden inside Jupiter and Neptune

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