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July 03, 2014

Does 3D printing have the right stuff?
Paris (ESA) Jul 03, 2014
3D-printed parts promise a revolution in the space industry, rapidly creating almost any object needed. But do the results really have the right stuff for flying in space? ESA is now checking if their surface finish comes up to scratch. 3D printing involves building an item by laying down successive layers of material, rather than cutting away from a solid block. ESA's Clean Space initiative continues to look at ways of reducing the environmental impacts of space technologies - and 3D printing sla ... read more

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Russia Sees No Progress in GLONASS Talks with US The United States has shown no interest in negotiations on the deployment of GLONASS navigation stations in the US, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos Oleg Ostapenko said Monday. "We s ... more		Are China's Astronauts Moonbound China has made tremendous progress with its lunar exploration program. It has sent two spacecraft to orbit the Moon and has also landed a robot rover on the surface. Later this year, we expect China ... more		Swiss Space Systems plan mock-up test flights of SOAR Swiss Space Systems Holding SA (S3) has announced its partnership with the City of North Bay and Canadore College. This partnership will enable S3 to initiate several technical activities from this ... more
				From Deep Sea to Deep Space How do you feed a six-person crew on a three-year mission to Mars? Food scientists are working on this and other challenges related to creating and optimizing food for astronauts, soldiers, pilots a ... more		China's domestic navigation system accesses ASEAN market Three model satellite stations based on China's domestically made Beidou navigation system were shown to the public Wednesday in an industrial estate in Thailand, the first step of Beidou into the A ... more

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ELASTx Stretches Potential for Future Communications Technologies Many existing compact, high-data-rate millimeter-wave wireless communications systems use integrated circuits (ICs) made with gallium arsenide (GaAs) or gallium nitride (GaN). These circuits provide ... more		ATK Provides Propulsion, Structure for Test of New Technologies to Land Larger Payloads on Mars ATK (ATK) supported NASA Saturday as it moved one step closer to landing advanced payloads on Mars following the successful test of a next generation braking system. A world-leading producer of rock ... more		Trump's 'Golden Dome' US missile defense plan faces major challenges Iran-US nuclear talks set for Rome this week Dealing with Russia: Strategic negligence, incompetence or worse?		Test-launch of Russia's Angara rocket delayed due to malfunction during pre-launch tests A defect in the drainage valve of the liquid oxygen tank detected during pre-launch tests led to cancellation of the first test launch of the light-class Angara carrier rocket 19 seconds prior to th ... more
				NASA's sounding rocket crashes into Atlantic NASA's engineers had roughly 19 seconds of excitement in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, as the agency's Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket appeared to successfully blast off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. But after less than a third of a minute of hang time, the rocket fell back toward Earth and walloped into the Atlantic Ocean. ... more		Ask the crowd: Robots learn faster, better with online helpers Sometimes it takes a village to teach a robot. University of Washington computer scientists have shown that crowdsourcing can be a quick and effective way to teach a robot how to complete tasks. Ins ... more

New Look At Skyrmions Holds Promise For Spintronics Skyrmions, subatomic quasiparticles that could play a key role in future spintronic technologies, have been observed for the first time using x-rays. An international collaboration of researchers wo ... more		NASA aborts launch of OCO-2 NASA's rocket engineers only had a 30-second window to launch its Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 spacecraft into the proper orbit. But at the last second, a problem was detected and, understandably, controllers weren't able to diagnose and repair the defect in just half of a minute. ... more		Microsoft AI weather forecast faster, cheaper, truer: study Tokyo to waive basic water bills to combat extreme heat Carbon capture pioneer Climeworks lays off one fifth of staff		Russia plans super-heavy rocket for Lunar, Mars missions The Russian state corporation Roscosmos intends to hold a meeting in August on developing super-heavy rocket carrier involving a wide range of enterprises of the industry. "In early August we will h ... more
Indian rocket launch delayed three minutes to avoid space debris The Monday morning blast off of an Indian rocket carrying five foreign satellites has been delayed by three minutes to avoid a collision with space debris, the space agency said. According to ... more		Indian launches PSLV C-23 rocket carrying five foreign satellites The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday successfully launched the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C-23 rocket at 9:52 a.m. local time with five foreign satellites from Satish Dhawan S ... more		Commercial Crew Partners Focus on Testing, Analysis to Advance Designs NASA's aerospace industry partners are taking their designs and operational plans for the agency's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) through a series of comprehensive tests, evaluations and review board ... more		Russia, China Ready to Cooperate in Space, Explore Mars Russia is ready to work with China to explore the Moon and Mars, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Monday. "If we talk about manned space flights and exploration of outer space, as w ... more

	Angara rocket to be test launched within weeks A decision concerning the first test launch of the Angara LV will be made shortly, Interfax-AVN reports. "The state commission will convene soon to ponder main theories of the June 27 situatio ... more		US Refusal to Host Russian Navigation Stations Political The refusal by the US to set up transmitters for Russia's GLONASS system is more of a political than a technical move, GLONASS CEO Alexander Gurko said Thursday. "There is a lot of politics an ... more

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Collaborative learning -- for robots

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