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November 05, 2015

Got the right stuff? NASA is hiring astronauts
Miami (AFP) Nov 4, 2015
Think you have the right stuff to be an astronaut? NASA issued a hiring call on Wednesday for space explorers that may fly on future missions aboard commercially built spacecraft or NASA's deep-space Orion capsule. With the American spaceflight program grounded since 2011 when the space shuttle was retired, NASA is looking to bolster its corps, which currently consists of just 47 astronauts. In 2000, at the peak of the space shuttle era, there were 149. US spacecraft will not return to f ... read more

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Super Strypi rocket launch fails in Hawaii The Super Strypi rocket, the first space launch from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range in Kauai, Hawaii, failed shortly after takeoff, the U.S. Air Force confirmed. ... more		Antares rocket engine failure causes Just three weeks ago, NASA's Independent Review Team released the Executive Summary of its Orb-3 Accident Investigation Report. This report chronicles the events and summarizes the likely failure ca ... more		Airbus Defence and Space launches XEBRA Airbus Defence and Space has launched its new XEBRA (Zee-brah) X-band milsatcom service using the world's most compact X-band terminals and the Skynet satellite network. The XEBRA service prov ... more
				Harris mesh reflectors deployed on 4th MOUS Bird Two unfurlable mesh antenna reflectors developed by Harris Corporation have deployed onboard the fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Navy. ... more		China launches new communication satellite China on Wednesday morning put a new communication satellite into orbit from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The "ChinaSat 2C" satellite was launched at 12:25 a.m. and carrie ... more

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Rocket Lab selects Alaska Aerospace for electron launch range safety Rocket Lab has announced they have selected Alaska Aerospace Corporation (AAC) to provide range safety support for their upcoming Electron launches in 2016. AAC's core business area is space launch. ... more		Rocket launch from Hawaii carrying UH payload experiences anomaly The U.S. Navy along with the U.S. Air Force's Operationally Responsive Space Office, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, the University of Hawaii's Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory, the ... more		Army names new hypersonic weapon 'Dark Eagle' India and Pakistan urged to have 'maximum restraint' after Kashmir attack Trump, Norwegian prime minister discuss ending Ukraine War		Japan's lofty 'hydrogen society' vision hampered by cost Japan has lofty ambitions to become a "hydrogen society" where homes and fuel-cell cars are powered by the emissions-free energy source, but observers say price and convenience are keeping the plan from taking off. ... more
				Unraveling the complex, intertwined electron phases in a superconductor A team led by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Cornell University has characterized a key arrangement of electrons in a high-temperature supercondu ... more		BAE and Reaction Engines to develop a new aerospace engine BAE Systems plc and Reaction Engines Limited ('Reaction Engines') have announced a strategic investment by BAE Systems and a working collaboration to accelerate Reaction Engines' development of SABR ... more

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Russian Space Agency signs contracts for 31 commercial launches in 2015 The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) signed contracts for 31 commercial space launches in 2015, the agency's head Igor Komarov said Tuesday. A number of these lauches will be carried o ... more		Russia to refurbish satan missiles as cheaper launchers The creation of new space launches using converted ballistic missiles, including the Satan, will be accomplished by 2017, a deputy director of a Rostech subsidiary said Tuesday. "We are curren ... more		Carinthian Research Centre Wins Contract for Space Research The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded the Carinthian research centre CTR in cooperation with the German-French company Airbus Safran Launchers GmbH the contract to further develop CTR's HiPoLa ... more		New design points a path to the 'ultimate' battery Scientists have developed a working laboratory demonstrator of a lithium-oxygen battery which has very high energy density, is more than 90% efficient, and, to date, can be recharged more than 2000 ... more

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UK, Italy's Eni unveil deal on carbon capture project

Top uranium producer Namibia to open talks on nuclear energy plant

Panama president says moving toward reopening contested mine

Developing Commercial Spaceports in the USA		Galileo pair preparing for December launch		Could Sino-U.S. cooperation bring the Martian home?		Airbus intros military satellite communications service		Studying Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Scientifically with UFODATA
Croatian Navy successfully test-fires RBS15 missile		Egypt's Sisi calls for NATO help in Libya 'vacuum'		Lockheed Martin tests F-16 durability		U.S. Army partners with Kuwait Amiri Guard for training		Globemaster aircrews train for global response in joint exercise

Full-Scale Drills at Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome to Start in Two Weeks

Boeing's AH-64 Apache Guardian helicopters headed for South Korea

F-35A Gatling gun system passes first aerial firing test

B-29 Doc flight test Kickstarter exceeds funding goal

Airbus Helicopters signs 750-mn euro deal with China

U.S. Air Force developing new advanced medical technology

ULA launches GPS IIF-11 satellite for US Air Force

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Using Google Street View to assess the engineering impact of natural disasters

Aid from neighbours reaches Yemen as cyclone eases

Croatia opens new migrant centre as winter approaches

Philippines' annual graveyard gatherings mix celebration with sadness

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