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August 21, 2016

How to dock CubeSats
Paris (ESA) Aug 19, 2016
The miniature satellites known as CubeSats already play a variety of roles in space. In future they could also serve as the building blocks of other, larger missions by being docked together in orbit. CubeSats are nanosatellites of standardised dimensions based on multiple 10-cm-sided cubes, which ESA is employing for both educational and technology-demonstration purposes. "The ability to autonomously rendezvous and dock CubeSats could enable in-orbit assembly of larger structures that simpl ... read more

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HERA crew returns paving the way for human research The HERA Mission 11 crew successfully "splashed-down" on Wednesday, Aug. 10, at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston. This 30-day, on-Earth, simulation paves the way for future human researc ... more		NASA Licenses New Auto-Tracking Mobile Antenna Platform NASA has designed an innovative antenna-mounting platform that meets the needs of the unmanned aircraft market by providing a low-cost, low-power mobile auto-tracking antenna. The patent-pendi ... more		China Ends Preparatory Work on Long March 5 Next-Generation Rocket Engine China has finished preparatory work on the engine system of the Long March 5 (LM-5) next-generation carrier rocket, China's PLA (People's Liberation Army) Daily (Jiefangjun Bao) reports. The n ... more
				Russia develops protected alternative to satellite communication Russian engineers have invented a long-range protected communication technology which can duplicate satellite communications, matching them in both speed and distance. Russia's United Instrume ... more		Natural scale caterpillar soft robot is powered and controlled with light Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, using the liquid crystal elastomer technology, originally developed in the LENS Institute in Florence, demonstrated a bioinspired m ... more

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2nd Integrated Air and Missile Defense - Securing the Complex Air Domain: Requirements for Sustainable, Global, and Reliable Solutions to Next Generation Air & Missile Threats - 28-30 September, 2016 | Washington D.C.

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