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December 09, 2016
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Teaching an old satellite new tricks

Saturn's bulging core implies moons younger than thought

India Inc joins hands to bid for moon mission

Orbital ATK to develop critical technology for in-orbit assembly

ExoMars orbiter images Phobos

Opportunity team plot path forward to the 'Gully'

Mars One puts back planned colonisation of Red Planet

Meta musings on the origins of life

Evidence suggests early Mars was warmer and wetter

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ALMA measures size of seeds of planets

Curiosity Rover Team Examining New Drill Hiatus

Wall-jumping robot is most vertically agile ever built

TeamIndus signs contract with ISRO for lunar mission

Boeing to acquire Liquid Robotics

Chinese firm scraps German tech deal after US block



Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit

New telescope chip offers clear view of alien planets

Cassini Makes First Ring-Grazing Plunge



Russia to face strong competition from China in space launch market

Vega And Gokturk-1A are present for next Arianespace lightweight mission

Antares Rides Again

Four Galileo satellites are "topped off" for Arianespace's milestone Ariane 5 launch from the Spaceport

US-Russia Standoff Leaves NASA Without Manned Launch Capabilities

ExoMars orbiter images Phobos

Mars One puts back planned colonisation of Red Planet

Opportunity team plot path forward to the 'Gully'

Curiosity Rover Team Examining New Drill Hiatus

Evidence suggests early Mars was warmer and wetter

India Inc joins hands to bid for moon mission

TeamIndus signs contract with ISRO for lunar mission

Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin stable after South Pole health scare

Russian Space Agency Confirms Plans to Implement Lunar Sample-Return Mission

Skygazers gawp at extra bright 'supermoon'

New Perspective on How Pluto's "Icy Heart" Came to Be

New analysis adds to support for a subsurface ocean on Pluto

Pluto follows its cold, cold heart

New Analysis Supports Subsurface Ocean on Pluto

Mystery solved behind birth of Saturn's rings



Meta musings on the origins of life

ALMA measures size of seeds of planets

New telescope chip offers clear view of alien planets

Could There Be Life in Pluto's Ocean?

Biologists watch speciation in a laboratory flask

China develops non-toxic propellant for orbiting satellites

Allegations Rocket Engine Failure Behind Progress Spacecraft Crash Incorrect

United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches WGS-8 Mission for the U.S. Air Force

Hispasat 36W-1 arrives at Kourou Spaceport

ULA launches eighth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite



Chinese missile giant seeks 20% of a satellite market

China-made satellites in high demand

Space exploration plans unveiled

China launches 4th data relay satellite

Material and plant samples retrieved from space experiments

It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's the Tiniest Asteroid

Arizona Astronomers Characterize Smallest Known Asteroid

Chicxulub : a unique crater to elucidate planetary surfaces

Asteroid impacts could create niches for life

New Ceres Views as Dawn Moves Higher



Northrop Grumman to develop next-gen fighter laser system

UK to start laser gun program

Russia's Ray Guns: The Military Capability of Moscow's Secret Laser Weapons

US Navy keeps electromagnetic cannon in its sights

U.S. Air Force approves Lockheed Martin's SBIRS ground system

Raytheon to provide Patriot missile capability for undisclosed country

Saudis intercept missile fired from Yemen

US general says missile system in S. Korea in 8-10 months

Yemen rebel missile shot down near Mecca: coalition



Saturn's bulging core implies moons younger than thought

Cassini Makes First Ring-Grazing Plunge

Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit

NASA Saturn Mission Prepares for 'Ring-Grazing Orbits'

Vast equatorial jet stream in Saturn's atmosphere are revealed

New aspect of atom mimicry for nanotechnology applications

ANU demonstrates 'ghost imaging' with atoms

Supersonic spray yields new nanomaterial for bendable, wearable electronics

Researchers use acoustic waves to move fluids at the nanoscale

Researchers use graphene templates to make new metal-oxide nanostructures



LIGO Resumes Search for Gravitational Waves

Atomic beltway could solve problems of cosmic gravity

First GRACE Follow-On Satellite Completes Construction

Airbus completes first GRACE-FO satellite for NASA/JPL

Detour via gravitational lens makes distant galaxy visible

High-precision magnetic field sensing

'Spooky' sightings in crystal point to extremely rare quantum spin liquid

Confirmation of Wendelstein 7-X magnetic field

Controlled electron pulses

For the first time, scientists catch water molecules passing the proton baton

Daily Newsletters - Space - Military - Environment - Energy

Wall-jumping robot is most vertically agile ever built

Boeing to acquire Liquid Robotics

Chinese firm scraps German tech deal after US block

DARPA Creating Industry Government Group for Safe Operation of Space Robotics

China criticises US decision to block Aixtron deal

MBDA's Brimstone missile planned for Britain's Protector drone

Britain signs off on General Atomics' Protector program

NTU and Stratasys 3iD print operational ULTEM drone with embedded electronics

'Dronejacking' may be the next big cyber threat

FLIR Systems buys Prox Dynamics for $134 million



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