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October 22, 2014

China's Secret Moon Mission
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 23, 2014
Soon, a rocket will launch a Chinese spacecraft to the Moon and back. It's the first time that China has attempted this long and perilous journey. It should be a great achievement for the nation, worthy of extensive publicity. Ironically, this mission has been shrouded in more obscurity than the "secret" X-37B spaceplane operated by the US Air Force, which even had its re-entry pre-announced and covered extensively on video. It would seem that Chinese President Xi Jinping is tightening the screws ... read more

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				China's space policy gets even tighter Anyone who watches China's space program is well aware of the nation's information policies. China has never been as open as we would like. We can understand that China operates under a different po ... more		China Completes Country's Largest Spaceport Construction of the fourth and the largest spaceport in China in the country's southern city of Wenchang has been completed and it is ready for launch, People's Daily reported Friday. Completi ... more

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China to send orbiter to moon and back: report China will launch its latest lunar orbiter in the coming days, state media said Wednesday, in its first attempt to send a spacecraft around the moon and back to Earth. ... more		Russia to Orbit 9 MilCom Satellites by 2020 The Russian military will add nine advanced communications satellites to its orbital grouping by 2020, a senior military commander said Monday. "By 2020, the orbital grouping of military commu ... more		'The war of tomorrow will begin in space': Macron UN watchdog calls on Iran to urgently allow 'long overdue' uranium stockpile verification How drones are altering contemporary warfare		Physicists build reversible laser tractor beam Laser physicists have built a tractor beam that can repel and attract objects, using a hollow laser beam that is bright around the edges and dark in its centre. It is the first long-distance o ... more
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Dava Newman nominated for NASA post The White House has announced the nomination of MIT's Dava Newman, professor of aeronautics and astronautics and of engineering systems, as NASA's deputy administrator, the space agency's No. 2 lead ... more		SSL Begins Post-Launch Maneuvers For Intelsat 30 Space Systems/Loral (SSL) has announced that a satellite designed and built for Intelsat, was launched yesterday and is successfully performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The sat ... more		Largest modern crater identified in Chinas Holocene geology Inner core of Earth found to exist in dynamic superionic phase Carbon-rich waters are becoming even more acidic as atmospheric CO2 levels rise		Russia to Create Space-Based Ballistic Missile Warning System Russia will create a space-based ballistic missile warning system capable of detecting launches of existing and test missiles, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Thursday. "The creati ... more
LockMart and NGC Deliver Payload for Fourth SBIRS Satellite Prime contractor Lockheed Martin and payload provider Northrop Grumman have delivered the payload for the fourth Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite of the U.S. Air Force's Space Based Infrar ... more		An android opera: Japan's Shibuya plots new era of robot music Life and death, surveillance and privacy, humans and robots: Keiichiro Shibuya likes to unsettle and push boundaries in music. ... more		Future computers could be built from magnetic 'tornadoes' Magnetic materials form the basis of most hard disc drives as they are able to store data. A team from the University of Sheffield's Faculty of Engineering have been investigating whether they could ... more		Stanford scientists create a 'smart' lithium-ion battery that warns of fire hazard Stanford University scientists have developed a "smart" lithium-ion battery that gives ample warning before it overheats and bursts into flames. The new technology is designed for conventional lithi ... more

	ORNL makes first observation of atoms moving inside bulk material Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have obtained the first direct observations of atomic diffusion inside a bulk material. The research, which could be used to g ... more		'Data smashing' could unshackle automated discovery A little known secret in data mining is that simply feeding raw data into a data analysis algorithm is unlikely to produce meaningful results, say the authors of a new Cornell University study. ... more

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