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October 28, 2015

Wall-less Hall thruster may power future deep space missions
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 28, 2015
Hall thrusters are advanced electric rocket engines primarily used for station-keeping and attitude control of geosynchronous communication satellites and space probes. Recently, the launch of two satellites based on an all-electric bus has marked the debut of a new era - one in which Hall thrusters could be used not just to adjust orbits, but to power the voyage as well. Consuming 100 million times less propellant or fuels than conventional chemical rockets, a Hall thruster is an attractive candi ... read more

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Russia Plans to Grant Private Companies Access to Space Services Market Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, will allow private companies access to the market of space services by 2020, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Tuesday. "By 2020, we plan to f ... more		Chinese Helium Airships to Hunt for Enemy Aircraft China began testing on a new type of helium stratospheric airship. The Yuanmeng aircraft can reach a height of 100 kilometers and conduct reconnaissance without being seen by other aircraft or rocke ... more		Lockheed begins full-scale assembly and test of Orion Lockheed Martin and NASA have completed the majority of Orion's Critical Design Review (CDR) which means the spacecraft's design is mature enough to move into full-scale fabrication, assembly, integ ... more
				NASA Marks Completion of Test Version of Key SLS Propulsion System A structural test article of the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) for NASA's new deep-space exploration rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), has been completed at United Launch Alliance i ... more		Dive of the RoboBee In 1939, a Russian engineer proposed a "flying submarine" - a vehicle that can seamlessly transition from air to water and back again. While it may sound like something out of a James Bond film, eng ... more

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Initial launcher assembly is completed for Arianespace's Vega mission with LISA Pathfinder The sixth Vega to be launched from French Guiana has completed its basic assembly at the Spaceport, readying this light-lift vehicle to receive Europe's LISA Pathfinder scientific spacecraft for an ... more		New Israeli anti-drone counter-measure makes debut A counter-measure system that detects, identifies and disrupts small drones has been debuted by Israel Aerospace Industries. ... more		Terran Orbital to build satellite buses for SDA Tranche 3 Tracking Layer UAV swarm algorithm boosts spectrum resilience in contested airspace Spatiotemporal resilience model targets IoT unmanned fleets		NASA SLS Prime Contractor Industry Team Reaches Significant Exploration NASA's Space Launch System program has completed its Critical Design Review, and major subsystems such as Orion's launch abort system and the SLS RS-25 engines have recently completed successful tes ... more
				Senior Russian space industry official held over corruption A Russian court said Friday it has detained a regional director of renowned space company Energia over corruption in the latest scandal to hit the country's fraud-plagued space industry. ... more		Reentry data will help improve prediction models A rare reentry of a suspected rocket body from a very high orbit next month offers an excellent opportunity to gather data to improve our knowledge of how objects interact with Earth's atmosphere. ... more

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Ariane 5 is delivered for Arianespace's sixth heavy-lift mission of 2015 Arianespace has received the sixth Ariane 5 for launch in 2015, keeping the company on track for a record year of mission activity with its complete launcher family at the Spaceport in French Guiana ... more		The Last Tiangong In less than a year, China is expected to launch the Tiangong 2 space laboratory. Despite its name, Tiangong 2 is expected to be a small space station, just like its predecessor, Tiangong 1. With it ... more		NASA Earth science faces rollback as Mission to Planet Earth era winds down OPERA satellite data sharpens US crop and water management Alen Space begins SATMAR satellite validation over Bay of Algeciras		NASA Completes Critical Design Review for Space Launch System For the first time in almost 40 years, a NASA human-rated rocket has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review (CDR). The agency's Space Launch System (SLS) is the first vehicle d ... more
The Study of Science through Popular Movies Who says class has to be all about lectures and labs? Andres Aragoneses, a quantum optics researcher at Duke, has created a class called "Science and Science Fiction" in conjunction with the Osher L ... more		Northrop Grumman wins contract to build next US superbomber Northrop Grumman beat out Boeing and Lockheed Martin on Tuesday to win a multibillion-dollar contract to build America's next generation of long-distance bombers. ... more		Lockheed Martin to build Ballistic Missile Defense radar The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a team, led by Lockheed Martin, a contract to develop, build and test the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR). The radar system will support a layered bal ... more		Russia's Iskander missile complexes to be offered for export Russia's largest arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, plans in the future to offer the country's Iskander missile system (NATO reporting name SS-26 Stone) on the foreign market, Rosoboronexport General D ... more

	Russia Prepares to Launch Glonass-M Navigation Satellite in December Russia's Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company has begun preparations for the regular operation of a new Glonass-M navigation satellite scheduled to be launched in December from the Pleset ... more		CIS Countries Plan to Create Joint Institute for Space Research The representatives of Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Azerbaijan agreed on multilateral cooperation, an interstate system for space monitoring of emergency situations, ... more

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