NASA Re-establishes Contact With Lost Craft After Two Years
• http://www.popsci.com, By G. Clay WhittakerTheir STEREO is working again!
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A Robot Army To Build Solar Panels (On The Moon)
• http://www.popsci.comOne of 10 insane ideas that just might save the world
NASA Test-Fires Engine for Most Powerful Rocket Ever
• http://www.space.com, By Sarah LewinNASA engineers blasted an RS-25 rocket engine for 7 minutes yesterday (Aug. 18) at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi as part of a development test for hardware that will make up the most powerful rocket ever.
Trailer Beyond Earth: the Beginnings of NewSpace
• Vimeo.com - DLI ProductionsCommentary by Michael Belfiore, interviews with Burt and Dick Rutan, Chris Hadfield, and more...
NASA Will Pay $1 Million If You Can Make This Robot Ready For Mars
• popsci.comHumanoid programmers get a shot at the stars
China's launch of quantum satellite major step in space race
• http://bigstory.ap.orgBEIJING (AP) -- China's launch of the first quantum satellite Tuesday will push forward efforts to develop the ability to send communications that can't be penetrated by hackers, experts said.
Scientists Built a 'Mini Black Hole' Out of Sound Waves
• http://motherboard.vice.com, by PAUL TADICHBlack holes are some of the most massive, mind-bending objects in the universe. They contain immense, almost unimaginable amounts of energy: Supermassive black holes help regulate entire galaxies, past research suggests.
Has a New, Fifth Force of Nature Been Found?
• http://www.space.com, By Mike WallThere may be a fifth force of nature, a new study suggests.
Colorado Towns Work to Preserve a Diminishing Resource: Darkness
• http://www.nytimes.com, By JACK HEALYAs people around the world stepped into their backyards or onto rooftops to peer up at the annual spectacle of the Perseid meteor shower early on Friday morning, few of them had a view like Wilson Jarvis and Steve Linderer.
SpaceX nails high-speed ocean landing
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What a planet needs to sustain life
• http://www.ted.com, Dave Brain"Venus is too hot, Mars is too cold, and Earth is just right," says planetary scientist Dave Brain. But why?
Blue Origin's Sweet Spot: An Untapped Suborbital Market for Private Spaceflight
• http://www.space.com, By Leonard DavidWith multiple flights of its New Shepard vehicle under its belt, Blue Origin is appraising the research market for scientific and technological experiments that can be lofted to suborbital space.
China is developing a hypersonic jet
• http://www.dailymail.co.ukChina is developing a hypersonic aircraft to take pilots, and perhaps even passengers, to the edge of space.
Watch Gorgeous New Footage Of SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Launches
• http://www.popsci.com, By Kate BaggaleyA slow-motion look at past missions
SpaceX has shipped its Mars engine to Texas for tests
• http://arstechnica.com, ERIC BERGERIf a full-scale Raptor engine is undergoing tests, the company is progressing to Mars.
SpaceX Has Started Testing The Rocket Engine For Its Mars Colonial Transporter
• http://www.popsci.com, By Kate BaggaleyA Raptor engine has been shipped to Texas
Comet Swift-Tuttle: The Icy Parent of the Perseid Meteor Shower
• http://www.space.com, By Sarah LewinThe spectacular Perseid meteor shower, peaking Thursday night (Aug. 11–12), lights up Earth's sky every summer as Earth passes through the trail left by Comet Swift-Tuttle, a miles-wide behemoth that swings by Earth every 133 years.
Space Mining Company Will Launch An Asteroid-Surveying Spacecraft By 2020
• http://www.popsci.com, By Kate Baggaleyeep Space Industries' Prospector-1 will hunt for valuables and land on an asteroid
Private company wins U.S. clearance to fly to the moon
• https://ca.news.yahoo.com, By Irene KlotzA Florida-based company won U.S. government permission on Wednesday to send a robotic lander to the moon next year, the firm's founder said, marking the first time the United States has cleared a private space mission to fly beyond Earth's orbit.
Vladimir Putin Plots a New Fleet of Spies in Space
• http://www.thedailybeast.comRussia is working on new, advanced surveillance satellites. But U.S. spooks are already a step ahead. The Russian military is apparently getting ready to launch a new generation of high-tech spy satellites.
Martians Might Be Real. That Makes Mars Exploration Way More Complicated
• http://www.wired.com,KEVIN CAREYHISTORY WILL NOTE that the guy who discovered liquid water on Mars was an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, a 20-year-old who played guitar in a death-metal band and worked in a planetary science lab.
Private company cleared for landing ... on the moon
• http://newatlas.com, Stu RobartsFor the first time ever, a private company has been given permission to land on the moon.
Reusable Falcon 9 rocket completes first full-duration test-fire
• http://www.redorbit.comHaving all but mastered landing their reusable Falcon 9 boosters, SpaceX on Thursday test-fired one of those rockets at full thrust for 150 seconds (the same amount of time they have to function during an actual trip to space) to demonstrate that the
Chelyabinsk Meteor: Wake-Up Call for Earth
• http://www.space.com, By Elizabeth HowellA small asteroid broke up over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013. The shock wave it generated shattered glass and injured about 1,200 people.
Life On Earth May Have Arisen Unusually Early
• popsci.comNow we wait for the rest of the cosmos to catch up
Warning Shots Fired: China Releases Video of Missile Launch, Amps Up Tensions with U.S.
• True ActivistAssuming the initial satellite performs well, as many as 20 additional craft would follow in the effort to create a new category of communications network. Chinese researchers believe their work could ignite a space race as other nations move to refi
Nasa to launch probe to investigate 'Armageddon' asteroid
• http://www.independent.co, Samuel OsborneThe asteroid will pass between Earth and the moon in 2135
SpaceX receives order for second manned mission
• http://www.gizmag.comSpaceX awarded a second post-certification mission order for its Crew Dragon manned spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the (ISS). NASA says that the new contract, which could lead to as many as six flights, will put the United States back into the man
Watch SpaceX Test A Million Pounds Of Reusable Rocket Thrust
• popsci.comThis booster's rigorous testing will determine if and how other rockets are reusable
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