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January 21, 2016

2016 Goals Vital to Commercial Crew Success
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jan 21, 2016
NASA's Commercial Crew Program and its aerospace industry partners Boeing and SpaceX are on the eve of America's return to human spaceflight launches. By the time the year closes, Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon will be poised for the flight tests that allow our astronauts to travel to the International Space Station lifting off from Florida's Space Coast. It won't be easy. Successful missions will require a comprehensive testing regimen of numerous systems on the ground and in ... read more

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Russia starts assembling Soyuz 2.1a carrier rocket A new carrier rocket is being assembled at Russia's Vostochny spaceport ahead of its maiden launch in spring, the state agency responsible for land-based space infrastructure said. The first l ... more		PSLV launches India's 5th navigation satellite ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C31 has launched the 1425 kg IRNSS-1E, the fifth satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR ... more		Russian Space Agency discussing possible training of Iranian astronaut Russia's Roscosmos space agency is currently in talks with Tehran on the possible training of an Iranian astronaut for a space mission, Roscosmos General Director Igor Komarov said Wednesday. ... more
				Ariane 5 is readied for an Arianespace leading customer Intelsat Assembly of the Ariane 5 for Arianespace's year-opening mission from French Guiana is now complete, following encapsulation of the Intelsat 29e satellite in its protective payload fairing at the Spa ... more		Pakistan test-launches homegrown cruise missile: military Pakistan conducted a successful flight test Tuesday of a locally developed cruise missile named "Ra'ad" with a range of 350 kilometres (around 218 miles), the military said. ... more

Seeing where energy goes may help realize nuclear fusion An international team of researchers has taken a step toward achieving controlled nuclear fusion--a process that powers the Sun and other stars, and has the potential to supply the world with limitl ... more		Engineers Mark Completion of Orion's Pressure Vessel NASA's Orion spacecraft is another step closer to launching on its first mission to deep space atop the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. On Jan. 13, technicians at Michoud Assembly Facilit ... more		Space Force taps five firms to develop secure global tactical satcom solutions Russia urges caution in nuclear 'rhetoric' after Trump comments 'Unspeakable horror': the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki		EpicNG satellite installed on Ariane 5 for launch The launch vehicle for Arianespace's first mission of 2016 has received its payload, as the initial Intelsat EpicNG high-throughput satellite has been mated to the Ariane 5 at the Spaceport in Frenc ... more
				A firefighter drone that flies and crawls up walls The 1974 American disaster film Towering Inferno depicted well the earnest struggles of firefighters engaged in ending a fire at a 138-story skyscraper. To this day, fires at high-rise buildings are ... more		NASA-Funded Balloon Launches to Study Sun On Jan. 18, 2016, the GRIPS balloon team sent their instrument soaring towards the stratosphere above Antarctica, suspended underneath a helium-filled, football-field sized scientific balloon. GRIPS ... more

Military Radar Summit 2016 - Washington DC - February 29

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Zinnias from space One of the most triumphant moments in the book and recent movie The Martian comes when lead character, Mark Watney, successfully grows a potato crop on Mars. It's more than food for survival; he's a ... more		Russia wants to builds atomic engine for exploring deep space The Russian Federal Space Agency has presented its ten-year development plan, which includes the construction of a prototype engine powered by atomic energy, able to power a spacecraft on expedition ... more		SMOS mission reveals 15-year global forest carbon storage trends Pacific algae invade Algeria beaches, pushing humans and fish away Water shortages spell trouble on Turkey's tourist coast		China to debut new carrier rockets China will send two new models of carrier rocket in the Long March series on their maiden space trips in 2016, the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASC) said on Saturday. The ... more
Orbital ATK Receives Award for Rocket Propulsion System Development Orbital ATK has been awarded a $47 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center Launch Systems Directorate for the development of a solid rocket propulsion system protot ... more		Orbital ATK tests 3D-printed hypersonic engine combustor Orbital ATK has announced a successful test of a 3D-printed hypersonic engine combustor at NASA Langley Research Center. ... more		China aims for the Moon with new rockets China's space industry revealed that its new rockets would be used for an unmanned moon mission capable of returning soil samples, as well as a delivery vehicle for a new space station. China' ... more		Sikorsky tests unmanned ground vehicle with unmanned Black Hawk Sikorsky, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, partnered with Carnegie Mellon University for a joint autonomy demonstration involving an unmanned ground vehicle and an unmanned Black Hawk helicopter. ... more

	Orbital ATK producing alternative rocket warhead Orbital ATK is to produce a new alternative warhead for the U.S. Army's Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System, it announced Wednesday. ... more		Harris wins place on military communications contract Harris Corporation has won a place on a $4.3 billion Defense Information Systems Agency contract for telecommunications services. ... more

Study: Most US homes can save money and affordably weather blackouts with solar plus storage

Ultrasmall optical devices rewrite the rules of light manipulation

SFU researchers develop a new tool that brings blender-like lighting control to any photograph

Slowing growth and jihadist threat worry the elite at Davos		World View To Launch From Spaceport Tucson		Philippines to launch its 1st satellite in April: department		Newcomer Sierra Nevada to supply ISS alongside SpaceX, Orbital: NASA		Russia catches senior engineer on delayed space pad project 'taking bribe'
General Dynamics to support U.S. Army Stryker program		Afghanistan receives A-29 Super Tucano aircraft		Lockheed Martin to provide Pakistan with Target Sight Systems		Inside North Korea's secret UAV program		Iran denounces new US sanctions on missile programme

Germany's Tornado reconnaissance jets 'can't fly at night': report

Lockheed Martin installing special system on Israeli C-130J

Air Force awards two rocket propulsion system prototype OTAs

SMC releases RFP for GPS III Space Vehicles

Trimble to provide GPS survey systems for U.S. Marines

Lithuania uses Airbus helicopters for 24/7 SAR missions

CPI Aero wing components for Japan's E-2D aircraft

U.S. Army proceeds with Chinook Block II upgrade program

B-52 bombers get new weapons capability

Charities warn of 'desperate' plight of refugees in snow

US firms moving operations out of China: survey

Self-heating lithium-ion battery could beat the winter woes

China 2015 growth slows to weakest for 25 years: govt

Rockwell Collins to support Pakistani C-130 fleet

Abu Dhabi promotes new energy business opportunities

Creation of Jupiter interior, a step towards room temp superconductivity

Russia developing futuristic methane-powered rocket propulsion

Superoxide gives lithium-air batteries a jolt

China shoots for first landing on far side of the moon

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