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October 18, 2016

Ready for the Red Planet
Paris (ESA) Oct 18, 2016
Next week, ESA's ExoMars has just a single chance to get captured by Mars' gravity. The spacecraft and the mission controllers who will make it so are ready for arrival. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is on a multiyear mission to understand the methane and other gases in Mars' atmosphere at low levels and could be evidence for possible biological or geological activity. The 3.7 tonne mothership is carrying the 577 kg Schiaparelli lander that will test key technologies in preparation for ESA's 2020 ... read more

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China closer to establishing permanent space station The launch of a new manned space mission brings China closer to the establishment of a permanent space station, international experts say. Chinese taikonauts, Jing Haipeng, 50, and Chen Dong, 37, we ... more		Ambitious space satellite projects set for liftoff A family of science satellites will be developed by China during the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20), senior researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences say. Technicians have begun preliminary rese ... more		What! - Go To Mars? Just last week President Obama again announced his ambitious goal to send humans to Mars by the 2030s. His plan calls for a safe return of astronauts after visiting the Red Planet. After that first ... more
				China to enhance space capabilities with launch of Shenzhou-11 Monday's successful launch of the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft is another step forward to put China among leading players in space technology, said Alexander Zheleznyakov, a Russian expert on history of s ... more		NASA's MAVEN Mission Gives Unprecedented Ultraviolet View of Mars New global images of Mars from the MAVEN mission show the ultraviolet glow from the Martian atmosphere in unprecedented detail, revealing dynamic, previously invisible behavior. They include the fir ... more

Modeling floods that formed canyons on Earth and Mars Geomorphologists who study Earth's surface features and the processes that formed them have long been interested in how floods, in particular catastrophic outbursts that occur when a glacial lake ic ... more		Spectacular Lunar Grazing Occultation of Bright Star on Oct. 18 As seen from a path about a mile wide extending from Los Angeles, Calif., to Denver, and on to Minnesota south of Minneapolis (and further east, to Lake Superior and Labrador), the bright star Aldeb ... 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		Mars explorer duo on course: ESA European-Russian spacecraft were on course for Mars Monday after crucial deep-space manoeuvres in preparation for a daring mission to find evidence of life on the Red Planet. ... more
				China sends two astronauts to space lab China launched two astronauts into space Monday, official media said, on a mission to its orbiting laboratory as the country works towards setting up its own space station. ... more		China launches 2 astronauts for 33-day mission The successful launch of China's Shenzhou 11 spacecraft is worth cheering, but it's just the opening move in a major mission for this nation's space program. Th ... more

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Buried glaciers on Mars This jumble of eroded blocks lies along the distinctive boundary between the Red Planet's southern highlands and the northern lowlands, with remnants of ancient glaciers flowing around them. This bo ... more		DARPA Helps Paralyzed Man Feel Again Using a Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm A DARPA-funded research team has demonstrated for the first time in a human a technology that allows an individual to experience the sensation of touch directly in the brain through a neural interfa ... more		Europe heads for Mars in search of life Thirteen years after its first, failed attempt to place a rover on Mars, Europe reaches a crucial stage Sunday in a fresh quest to scour the Red Planet for signs of life, this time with Russia. ... more		Proxima Centauri might be more sunlike than we thought In August astronomers announced that the nearby star Proxima Centauri hosts an Earth-sized planet (called Proxima b) in its habitable zone. At first glance, Proxima Centauri seems nothing like our S ... more

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