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August 20, 2015

Will Rockets Ever Be Reliable
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 20, 2015
It's a fact of life. Rockets sometimes fail. The curse of the rocketeer strikes all, regardless of size, type, nationality or purpose. The history of rocket failures is older than spaceflight itself. It shows no signs of stopping in the future. The spaceflight community has ways of dealing with this. Test and check. Stop if there's a serious problem before launch. Launch if you can. If it fails, pick up the pieces (sometimes literally) and try to work out what happened. Do your best to make sure i ... read more

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				Russian Missile Warning System Can Detect Mass Launch of Ballistic Missiles The missile early warning system can detect any launch from any direction, said Chief of Staff of the Main Centre for Missile Warning of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Colonel Viktor Tymoshenko. ... more		Lockheed Developing a Missile That Can Hit Multiple Warheads American defense firm Lockheed Martin will design a missile defense component that can take out multiple warheads under a $10 million contract with the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency. "We w ... more

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Springer retracts 64 scientific papers with fake peer reviews Springer, a major science and medical publisher, recently announced the retraction of 64 articles from 10 of its journals. The articles were retracted after editors found the authors had faked the peer-review process using phony e-mail addresses. ... more		Technology CubeSat hitch-hiker on today's HTV launch Today's HTV supply launch from Japan to the International Space Station also marks the arrival in orbit of one of ESA's smallest missions yet - a CubeSat which will test miniaturised technologies fo ... more		How Space Exploration Opens Up New Horizons for Global Security and Governance Iran's defence, missiles not part of US nuclear talks says foreign office Hamas proposes end to war with Israel in talks in Egypt		ISS astronauts developing near real-time osteoporosis and bone cancer test A new test for offers the possibility of near real time monitoring of bone diseases, such as osteoporosis and multiple myeloma. The functionality of the test, which measures changes in calcium isoto ... more
				EUTELSAT 8 West B and Intelsat 34 set for Ariane 5 launch Arianespace's fourth flight of its heavy-lift Ariane 5 this year - and the company's seventh mission overall in 2015 - is a "go" for liftoff on Thursday, August 20, following today's launch readines ... more		Meet Chirok: Russia's Unique Hybrid Amphibious Drone A subsidiary of Russia's state technology corporation Rostec has unveiled the first photo of the Chirok, an amphibious reconnaissance and strike UAV outfitted with an air cushion, ahead of the MAKS- ... more

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Controlling the uncontrollable Instability in engineering is generally not a good thing. If you're building a skyscraper, minor instabilities could bring the whole structure crashing down in a fraction of a second. But what if a ... more		Drexel engineers 'sandwich' atomic layers to make new materials for energy storage The scientists whose job it is to test the limits of what nature - specifically chemistry - will allow to exist, just set up shop on some new real estate on the Periodic Table. Using a method they i ... more		Going Up! Elevator to Space Just Became Real A Canadian company has earned a US patent on a free-standing, inflatable 12-mile-high elevator that may revolutionize the future of space travel, and may even provide new opportunities for tourism. ... more		Orion Begins Critical Design Review Milestone NASA's Orion Program kicked off its critical design review at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston the week of Aug. 3, a major program milestone that will ensure the spacecraft's design is r ... more

	Countdown to Deep Space Continues with Latest RS-25 Test NASA's countdown to deep space continued today with a 535-second test of its Space Launch System (SLS) RS-25 rocket engine to collect engine performance data at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay ... more		Arianespace integrates EUTELSAT 8 West B and Intelsat 34 for Ariane 5 launch The fourth heavy-lift Ariane 5 for liftoff in 2015 is now complete as Arianespace sustains the mission cadence with its full launcher family, which also includes the medium-weight Soyuz and light-li ... more

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