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June 12, 2014

NASA Selects Five Projects for 2015 X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 12, 2014
NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation have selected five universities to design systems, concepts and technologies to enhance capabilities for deep space missions for the 2015 Exploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge. The selections are the first milestone in a yearlong design and development effort for these five projects. Throughout the 2014-2015 academic year, the teams must meet a series of milestones to design, manufacture, assemble and test their systems and concepts ... read more

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Underwater return for Andreas and Thomas ESA astronauts Andreas Mogensen and Thomas Pesquet spent five days last year as part of NASA's underwater project to test technologies that could be used in future space missions - and now they will ... more		Lockheed Demonstrate 2nd Series of Advanced Autonomous Convoy Ops The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) and Lockheed Martin successfully completed new tests validating the ability of driverless military-truck convoys t ... more		UK Connects with Allied Protected Communication Satellites All partner nations are now using the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) protected communications satellite system after the United Kingdom connected earlier this year. Four nations will use t ... more
				Team Demonstrates Continuous Terahertz Sources at Room Temperature Imagine a technology that could allow us to see through opaque surfaces without exposure to harmful x-rays, that could give us the ability to detect harmful chemicals and bio-agents from a safe dist ... more		Seeing how a lithium-ion battery works New observations by researchers at MIT have revealed the inner workings of a type of electrode widely used in lithium-ion batteries. The new findings explain the unexpectedly high power and long cyc ... more

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2D Transistors Promise a Faster Electronics Future Faster electronic device architectures are in the offing with the unveiling of the world's first fully two-dimensional field-effect transistor (FET) by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley Nationa ... more		Rice University produces carbon-capture breakthrough Rice University scientists have created an Earth-friendly way to separate carbon dioxide from natural gas at wellheads. A porous material invented by the Rice lab of chemist James Tour sequesters ca ... more		Trump's 'Golden Dome' US missile defense plan faces major challenges Iran lawmakers ratify partnership treaty with Russia Iran-US nuclear talks set for Rome this week		Move fast on rocket choice, Europe space chief says European space boss Jean-Jacques Dordain on Wednesday called on the next-generation Ariane 6 rocket to be deployed "as swiftly as possible" and preferably before 2020. ... more
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Towards manned orbital mission: Iran to build its own spacecraft Iran has announced that it is planning to build its own orbital spaceship, the Fars news agency reports citing the head of the Iranian national space project, Mansur Kabganian. He said that "t ... more		Russia to launch biosatellite with mice on Board in 2019 The Russian biosatellite Bion-M2 with mice on board will be boosted into orbit in 2019, where it will operate for 60 days, the head of the Bion project Vladimir Sychev said. "The height of the ... more		Bank on it Drawing on their experience building complex software for simulating spaceflight, Portuguese scientists have created a 21st-century way of detecting banking fraud here on Earth. Today, every electro ... more		Monument to Gagarin can inspire young cosmonauts for their achievements Monument to pioneering Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin to be opened in Prague, the Czech Republic, on Tuesday. The idea to set up bust of first human in space belongs to Dialog of Cultures - United Wo ... more

	Space weather report for an alien world For the first time, ESA is providing regular space-weather reports for a spacecraft orbiting another planet. When your spacecraft is surfing deep into the atmosphere of an alien world, you need the ... more		US may send in drones to Iraq to battle jihadists Washington vowed Wednesday to boost aid to Iraq and is mulling drone strikes amid fears Iraqi forces are crumbling in face of militants increasingly emboldened since the US withdrawal. ... more

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