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Manned Mission to Mars Space Propulsion Comparison
An arxiv paper looks at possible engines for a manned Mars mission that are currently being tested or with flight proven capabilities. One propulsion system that was examined that is unproven is the...
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Russian and Indian hypersonic missiles as early as 2020 and oxygen free...
A Russia-India joint venture is entering the final stages of work on a hypersonic missile.Russians have announced creation of special fuel for hypersonic vehicles and missiles, as well as the creation...
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Euro slide and US dollar rise likely to continue through 2017
Deutsche Bank said on Tuesday it expects the euro to fall to parity with the dollar as early as the end of this year, and it forecast the single currency would drop to just 85 cents per euro for...
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Russia will start mass production amphibious bomber hovercraft drones in 2016...
Russian will create a 2-ton flying / amphibious bomber hovercraft drone. The 750-kilogram Chirok drone designed by the United Engineering Corporation is used as a prototype for the new machine.Russia’s...
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Solar Electricity will generate $5 trillion of cumulative revenue by 2035 and...
Deutsch Bank expects solar electricity to become competitive with retail electricity in an increasing number of markets globally due to declining solar panel costs as well as improving financing and...
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Kazakhstan targets 23400 tons of Uranium production for 2015 and Cameco...
1. Kazatomprom, the world's biggest uranium producer, plans to increase output this year to 23,400 tU, up from 22,800 tU in 20142. Three US uranium producers say they are poised to ratchet up...
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Underground Ocean on Jupiter's Largest Moon Ganymede
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. The subterranean ocean is thought to have more water than all the water...
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600 million year old animal fossil found in China, 60 million years older...
Chinese scientists recently discovered a fossil of a primitive sponge animal believed to be 600 million years old, the oldest animal fossil in the world. The finding proves that sponges made their...
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China makes BMP-3 Armored Vehicle knockoff but copying more popular western...
China's new VN12 armored infantry fighting vehicle is based off of a Soviet BMP-3 design but is modified to look like western armored vehicles. The BMP-3 was priced at about $3 to 3.5 million. A US...
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Liquid water, possible non-Earth life and manned mission or colonization...
Oceans trapped under ice appear to be pretty common in the solar system and one of them, on a small moon of Saturn’s, appears to be quite hot. Scientists reported evidence for hydrothermal vents on the...
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Automated Complex Molecular printer for making organic small molecules could...
A new molecule-making machine could do for chemistry what 3-D printing did for engineering: Make it fast, flexible and accessible to anyone. Chemists at the University of Illinois, led by chemistry...
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Ten Kilowatts beamed 500 meters in a proof of concept for space based solar...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has conducted ground demonstration testing of "wireless power transmission," a new technology presently under development to serve as the core technology of the...
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Superefficient, superlight cubesat propulsion that is also ten times cheaper...
Small satellites are becoming increasingly popular tools for Earth-imaging, communications, and other applications. But they have major control issues: Once in space, they can’t accurately point...
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Russia and India designing fifth generation stealth version of the Su-35S...
Moscow and New Delhi have agreed to perform design work in India on what Russia claims would be a "fifth generation" version of the Su-35, an agreement that may lead to an Indian variant of the fighter...
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Best Colonization target in outer solar system is Titan
Titan is suggested as a target for colonization, because it is the only moon in the Solar System to have a dense atmosphere and is rich in carbon-bearing compounds. Robert Zubrin identified Titan as...
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Battery advances require integration of research with manufacturing and...
Countless breakthroughs have been announced over the last decade, time and again these advances failed to translate into commercial batteries. One difficult thing about developing better batteries is...
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Star Wars 8 in 2017 and Star Wars Rogue One set for Dec 2016
Star Wars 8 is set for May 26, 2017Rogue One is the first Star War stand alone movie. Rogue One will explores the characters and events beyond the core Star Wars saga. Rogue One will be directed by...
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NASA has budget to develop Europa multiple fly by mission
NASA’s 2016 budget proposal has funding to create a flagship Europa mission. In 2015, NASA received $100 million from Congress to begin preliminary work on such a mission, but was missing the...
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Laos and China Close to High-Speed Rail Deal this year and would form part of...
China and Laos will sign a construction contract for a $7.2 billion high-speed railway project planned by cash-strapped Laos, linking the two neighboring countries and extending to Thailand, the Lao...
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Virginia Class Submarines
US Navy's total requirement is for 30 Virginia Class Attack Submarines. The Navy placed a bulk-buy contract for the first five ships and, in January 2004, placed a multiyear contract for the following...
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