Steps into Space - Commercialisation, Occupation, Colonization: May 2013

Friday, 31 May 2013

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Lomiko, Graphene Labs And Stony Brook University Collaborate On Graphene Super-Capacitor And Next-Generation Battery Applications LMR.v 0 comments ...

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NASA TV Coverage Set for Space Station Cargo Ship Moves

NASA Television will provide live coverage in June of the launch and docking of the European Space Agency's (ESA) fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo craft (ATV-4) to the International Space Station and the departure of a Russian Progress resupply ship from the orbiting laboratory.

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Virgin Galactic, XCOR Race To Be Coolest Brand In Space Tourism ...

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The space race is back. But it's not a Cold War rivalry between the USA and USSR but a battle between private companies to become the out-of-this-world ...

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NASA Commercial Crew Partner Boeing Completes New Spacecraft, Rocket Milestones

The Boeing Company of Houston, a NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner, recently performed wind tunnel testing of its CST-100 spacecraft and integrated launch vehicle, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. The testing is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative, intended to make commercial human spaceflight services available for government and commercial customers.

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Asteroid 1998 QE2: Giant Rock Passes Earth

Radar astronomer Lance Benner, who is based at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said scientists expect to obtain a series of high-resolution images of the asteroid as it skims past Earth. He said: "Whenever an asteroid approaches this ...

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Giant asteroid flyby sets off study

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Asteroid 1998 QE2 is a very dark, carbonaceous object chock full of amino acids and organic materials, and the flyby will have the full attention of startup firms interested in mining asteroids. Planetary Resources Inc. is banking on financial backing ...

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QE2 Asteroid Makes Near-Earth Flyby In Two Weeks

Topics scheduled for the discussion include “asteroid identification, characterization, resource utilization, and hazard mitigation,” according to a statement from the space agency. The 1.7-mile wide asteroid will hurtle past Earth at a distance of 3.6 ...

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Video: Asteroid 1.7 miles across set to fly past Earth

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Nasa said it was an opportunity to get "best look at this asteroid ever." Private firms are keen to examine the possibility of mining such rocks which are thought to be rich in precious metals. Using powerful telescopes scientists should be able to ...

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Asteroid-mining company wants to put your face in space

If you can't go to space, will you be content to have a picture of you orbiting Earth? That's the proposal that an asteroid-mining company is floating now to the general public via the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. The company posted the bid ...

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Asteroid-mining company crowd sources to build telescope

A new space start-up company being backed by execs from Google is offering supporters a chance to wow their friends with a photo opportunity that's quite literally out of this world. Planetary Resources of Bellevue, Washington launched a crowdfunding ...

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NASA Invites Media to Space Weather Enterprise Forum

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will deliver the keynote address at the annual Space Weather Enterprise Forum Tuesday, June 4, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Auditorium and Science Center, located at 1301 East-West Highway in Silver Spring, Md.

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Graphene gel offers new possibilities for 'soft' robots

The material by itself — which Lee and his team have only thus far assembled into tiny structures — does not a robot make. So far, the "robots" built include a 0.4-inch (1 cm) "worm" that crawls when exposed to the infrared laser, and a roughly 0.8 ...

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Standing graphene film scores over flat cousin

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Wonder material graphene is bracing to get up and go, quite literally, with an innovative twist that makes it even more powerful. Researchers have synthesised 'standing graphene' in vertical sheets as opposed to its 'laid-back' cousin, the flat ...

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Even with defects, graphene is strongest material in the world

Graphene remains the strongest material ever measured and, as Columbia Engineering Professor James Hone once said, so strong that "it would take an elephant, balanced on a pencil, to break through a sheet of graphene the thickness of Saran Wrap.

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Company seeking money to build space telescope

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A Bellevue, Wash.-based company that wants to send robots into space to mine precious metals from asteroids has found another way to use the expensive technology it's developing for its space venture. Planetary Resources Inc. plans to launch an extra ...

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Asteroid-mining company crowd sources to build telescope

The company got off the ground last year and previously announced plans to capture asteroids flying through space with hopes of mining the rocks for precious metals and water — that's why the telescopes were originally designed. Now Planetary ...

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Asteroid-mining company wants to put your face in space

If you can't go to space, will you be content to have a picture of you orbiting Earth? That's the proposal that an asteroid-mining company is floating now to the general public via the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. The company posted the bid ...

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Kickstarter campaign looks to send a telescope into orbit

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Recent engineering research and development has gone in some interesting directions to secure necessary funding, but recent space mining startup Planetary Resources may have come up with the most unique - Kickstarter. Launched only four years ago, ...

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Another American High Frontier First: 3-D Manufacturing in Space

In preparation for a future where parts and tools can be printed on demand in space, NASA and Made in Space Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., have joined to launch equipment for the first 3-D microgravity printing experiment to the International Space Station.

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NASA 3D Printing Investing

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asteroid In 2012, a company called “Planetary Resources” appeared on the radar. It was the first company in human history to announce the intention to mine asteroids. You heard that right: asteroid mining. When most people hear the word 'asteroid ...

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Brent Spiner On Why Space Telescopes And Asteroid Mining Matter For Earth's ...

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Water is the company's highest search priority, the basic natural resource envisioned as fueling the prospective in-space economy. The extraction of rare metals from asteroids, on the other hand, would ... In the end, it's a bold mission indeed: space ...

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Asteroid-mining company crowd sources to build telescope

The company got off the ground last year and previously announced plans to capture asteroids flying through space with hopes of mining the rocks for precious metals and water — that's why the telescopes were originally designed. Now Planetary ...

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Cameras Are About to Get 1000 Times Better At Taking Low-Light Photos

The sensor is made from graphene, the same material found in your average number 2 pencil. Researchers found that when they arranged the material in a special one-atom thick structure, they were able to make sensors that are not only super sensitive to ...

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Graphene sensor holds the key to better low-light photos

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Graphene is a material that is already set to be used in consumer tech applications such as flexible OLED screens and has long been touted as the replacement for indium tin oxide (ITO). Earlier this year, Fujifilm announced that it was working on ...

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Quantum Dots within Thermoelectric Material Increase Heat-to-Energy Conversion

The dark spots show quantum dots within a thermoelectric material. University of Michigan researchers devised a way to increase the heat-to-energy conversion by 200 percent and the electrical conductivity of their material by 43 percent. Thermoelectric ...

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Mars webcast

Watch a live webcast on Monday, 3 June, marking the 10th anniversary of ESA’s Mars Express. 11:00 CEST start

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Asteroid mining company wants to put your face in space - Reuters ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A privately owned asteroid mining firm, backed in part by Google Inc's founders, launched a crowd-funding project on ...

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Company Proposes Crowd-Funded Space Telescope

Planetary Resources, an asteroid mining company, ultimately wants to build a fleet of Arkyd telescopes that can find asteroids -- then launch robotic spacecraft that can mine those asteroids for raw materials like precious metals and water. To garner ...

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Asteroid-Mining Company Seeks Money for Telescope

Aerospace company Planetary Resources, which aims to mine asteroids, plans to launch an extra space telescope in early 2015 to be used by the general public to take pictures of their favorite constellations, or to do their own research for the benefit ...

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Graphene-based image sensor to enhance low-light photography

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Graphene is a material composed of pure carbon with atoms arranged in a regular hexagonal pattern. It is a one-atom thick layer of the mineral graphite, a million times smaller than the thickest human hair and is known to have a high electrical ...

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Graphene sensor holds the key to better low-light photos

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The research was led by Assistant Professor Wang Qijie who made the sensor from a pure sheet of graphene, known for its high electrical conductivity. Graphene is a material that is already set to be used in consumer tech applications such as flexible ...

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Bam Construct wins £30m Manchester Graphene research centre

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Bam Construct has won a prestigious £30m design and build contract to build Manchester University's Graphene research centre. The design and build job is currently billed at £30m, though this figure may change with the course of negotiations. The ...

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Brent Spiner On Why Space Telescopes And Asteroid Mining Matter For Earth's ...

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In the end, it's a bold mission indeed: space exploration, asteroid mining and stopping the gradual environmental degradation of the earth's ecosystem by availing ourselves of the mineral and aquatic resources of asteroids in near-Earth orbit. Spiner ...

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Planetary Resources raises over $200000 on day one of crowdfunding for space ...

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Planetary Resources, a private venture aiming to mine near-Earth space rocks for water, minerals and other resources, announced Wednesday that it would build and launch a space telescope for public use if it could raise at least $1 million in 33 days.

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To connect with meQuanics: The Quantum Computer Game, sign up for Facebook .... The discovery that quantum physics allows fundamentally new modes of ...

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More graphene! This time in a broadband photosensor

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Therefore, manufacturers can easily replace the current base material of photosensors with our new nanostructured graphene material.” “The performance of our graphene sensor can be further improved (such as the response speed) through nanostructure ...

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Contractor picked for £61m Graphene Institute

The National Graphene Institute, designed by architect Jestico + Whiles, will be dedicated to finding commercial uses for graphene, which was discovered by Manchester's Nobel prize winning scientists Professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov.

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Asteroid-Mining Company Seeks Money for Telescope

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Aerospace company Planetary Resources, which aims to mine asteroids, plans to launch an extra space telescope in early 2015 to be used by the general public to take pictures of their favorite constellations, or to do their own research for the benefit ...

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Asteroid mining company wants to put your face in space

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A privately owned asteroid mining firm, backed in part by Google Inc's founders, launched a crowd-funding project on Wednesday to gauge public interest in a small space telescope that could serve as a backdrop for ...

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Mars Astronauts Face Killer Radiation. NASA Rethinks.

NASA Rethinks. May 30, 2013 By S.E. Whelan. Red Planet Though Dennis Tito, space tourism pioneer, is seeking volunteers for a Mars flight, NASA says the Mars trip would expose astronauts to radiation levels beyond U.S. exposure limits for a space flight.

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Thursday, 30 May 2013

Asteroid mining company wants to put your face in space

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A privately owned asteroid mining firm, backed in part by Google's founders, has launched a crowd-funding project to gauge public interest in a small space telescope that could serve as a backdrop for personal photographs, officials said. Planetary ...

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Planetary Resources wants to raise $1m with its first asteroid prospectors

Promising "a telescope for everyone" asteroid mining company Planetary Resources unveiled its campaign for the world's first crowdfunded space telescope, a 33-day program that aims to put the controls of one of the several satellites with a telescope ...

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Researchers Develop Graphene Sensor For Dim-Light Photography

Therefore manufacturers can easily replace the current base material of photo sensors with our new nano-structured graphene material.” Prof. Wang has filed a patent through NTU's Nanyang Innovation and Enterprise Office for his invention, and plans to ...

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PROJECT UPDATE: Lomiko, Graphene Labs, Stony Brook University to ...

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Over the last few years, graphene, a derivative of graphite, has been nicknamed the “wonder material” of the 21st century, largely due to its role in revolutionizing the technology surrounding a variety of industries, including telecommunications ...

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NanoKTN: UK Graphene Industrial Consultation Workshops: General Findings

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The first graphene workshop on structural and bulk applications was organised in conjunction with the Chemistry Innovation and Materials KTNs on 6th March 2013 in Manchester, followed by the electrical and electronic applications workshop held on 14th ...

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Quantum Mechanics - Academic Earth

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In this series of physics lectures, Professor J.J. Binney explains how probabilities are obtained from quantum amplitudes, why they give rise to quantum in.

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Here's Your Chance to Become One of the First Asteroid Prospectors

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Here's Your Chance to Become One of the First Asteroid Prospectors S. It was just over a year ago, back in April 2012, that we first learned the intentions of a company known as Planetary Resources: Asteroid mining. As in going into space, finding an ...

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NASA Hosts News and Social Media Events Around This Week's Asteroid Pass

Participants will discuss asteroid identification, characterization, resource utilization and hazard mitigation. The hangout can be viewed at the White House website at: https://plus.google.com/+whitehouse/posts . NASA recently announced plans to find ...

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Use-it-yourself orbiting space telescope in the works

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Use-it-yourself orbiting space telescope in the works. Asteroid mining company Planetary Resources has launched a $1 million Kickstarter campaign to raise money to put a publicly-accessible telescope into space, and fund educational research.

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Private Asteroid Mining Company Unveils New Project Today: How to Watch Live

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... science and discovery — Delivers a resource to thousands of institutions and researchers in need of greater access to space to further their work and rate of scientific discovery. Invites the public to participate in Planetary Resources' asteroid ...

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The Rocky Road to Building the Next Mars Rover

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Over the next three days, 10 college teams will compete in the Mars Society University Rover Challenge, using vehicles they have designed to accomplish tough tasks, similar to those faced by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, now in the midst of its two-year ...

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Planetary Resources launching publicly accessible space telescope

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Planetary Resourcs said that it wants to develop inexpensive robotic spacecraft geared towards exploring and mining asteroids "within our reach." But before it can do so, it needs to put a fleet of Arkyds into space to locate asteroids suitable for ...

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Asteroid mining company offers up 'Space Selfies' for crowd-funding space scope

Planetary Resources, a Seattle-based company that plans to extract raw materials from the asteroids for use in the exploration and development of space, kicked off its first Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign on Wednesday (May 29) to raise $1 million ...

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Space tourism industry seeks new heights

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Perhaps the most well-known space tourism ventures is Virgin Galactic, part of British mogul Richard Branson's Virgin Group. Virgin Galactic is testing a rocket plane to provide suborbital flights to tourists. The entire flight on the eight-seat ...

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More precision from less predictability: A new quantum trade-off

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Co-author Dr Michael Hall said the work represents an important advance in the quantitative understanding and experimental verification of complementarity; arguably the most important foundational principle of quantum mechanics. "Quantum mechanics is ...

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Now 14, Jacob Barnett is working on earning a PhD in quantum physics

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The mother of a 14-year-old boy who is already a Master's student and well on his way to earning a PhD in quantum physics, was once told her son would most likely struggle with basic everyday tasks such as tying his shoes laces. Jacob Barnett was ...

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UPDATE: Lomiko Jumps 9%; Enters Alliance Agreement for ...

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Lomiko Metals Inc (LMR.V)reports that the SUNY Research Foundation at Stony Brook University ( RF ), Graphene Laboratories, Inc. (Graphene Labs) and.

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Lomiko, Graphene Labs and Stony Brook University Collaborate on Graphene Super-Capacitor and Next-Generation Battery Applications. VANCOUVER ...

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Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Graphene Investing Grows

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For those who haven't already heard of graphene, the properties of the material can come as somewhat of a shock. While the substance may be made out of the same materials that one finds on the tip of a pencil, it happens to be ten times the strength of ...

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NASA's WISE Mission Finds Lost Asteroid Family Members

Data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to a new and improved family tree for asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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NASA Selects 31 Space Biology Research Proposals

NASA's Space Biology Program will fund 31 proposals to help investigate how cells, plants and animals respond to changes in gravity.

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Teams Prepare For NASA $1.5 Million Robot Challenge

Eleven teams from across the country and around the globe are preparing to compete for $1.5 million during NASA's 2013 Sample Return Robot Challenge, June 5-7 at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Mass.

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Space miner looks to Kickstarter for funds FTcom - Financial Times

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A company backed by some of Silicon Valley's biggest names has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a space telescope, which it plans to make available ...

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Dark energy dark matter still befuddling scientists | kslcom

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Scientists know what dark energy and dark matter do, but they have no idea ... farther from the center of the Big Bang and gravity had had longer to work ...

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NASA Hosts June 4 Media Briefing on Next Solar Mission Launch

NASA will host a news briefing at 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 4, about the upcoming launch of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission.

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Planetary Resources To Announce Program For The Public With Help From Star ...

It will deliver a resource to thousands of institutions and researchers in need of greater access to space to further their work and rate of scientific discovery. The company said it will be inviting the public to participate in its asteroid mining ...

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