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• Atlas V Rocket Launches EchoStar 19 Broadband Internet Satellite Into Orbit

  18-12-2016 20:30
  
  The EchoStar XIX satellite (or EchoStar 19) launched into space atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, which soared into space at 2:13 p.m. EST (1913 GMT) from a pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Built by Space Systems Loral, EchoStar 19 will provide high-speed internet service to customers of HughesNet across North America.
  
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• Saudi Arabia, U.S. play down reports of curbs on military support

  18-12-2016 19:27
  By Katie Paul RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and the United States on Sunday played down media reports that Washington had decided to limit military support, including planned arms sales to the kingdom, over its war in Yemen. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said that Riyadh had not been officially informed of such decisions, which he described as contradicting the reality, while visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry suggested the issue related more to a long procurement process than
  
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• 'He Made Us Look Up': John Glenn's Legacy Celebrated at Memorial Service

  18-12-2016 16:00
  
  The life of John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, was celebrated at a public memorial service Saturday (Dec. 17), at Ohio State University in Columbus. Glenn, who died on Dec. 8 at age 95, was remembered by his family, his friends and by colleagues from his careers as a Marine Corps pilot, original NASA astronaut, four term U.S. Senator and adjunct professor at the college bearing his name. "There are those here today who have known Sen. Glenn for 60, 70 or even 90 years, but
  
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• EchoStar 19 High-Speed Internet Satellite Launching Today: Watch It Live

  18-12-2016 15:59
  
  An unmanned Atlas V rocket will launch a powerful new broadband internet satellite into orbit from Florida today (Dec 18) and you can watch the action live online. 
  
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• Space Junk Solution? Japan Would Use a Tether to Nab Debris & Destroy It

  18-12-2016 14:31
  
  The Japanese space agency will soon be testing a new technology that would use a roughly half-mile-long tether to grab large pieces of space debris and dispose of them. The proposed technology (first announced in 2014) would include a spacecraft that would deploy a 700-meter-long (2,296 feet) electrodynamic tether (EDT) and guide it toward a piece of space junk. The tether would latch onto the orbiting hunk of trash, and the operating spacecraft would then drag the debris down into the incinerat
  
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• Science News’ favorite books of 2016

  18-12-2016 11:30
  
  Science News writers and editors compiled a list of the books they were most excited about this year.
  
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• Experts panel created to identify emerging technologies of greatest help to Africa

  18-12-2016 06:00
  
  (Terry Collins Assoc) Harvard University's Calestous Juma will co-chair a new High Level African Panel on Emerging Technologies, created to identify and foster appropriate regulation and use of existing and emerging technologies of greatest help to Africa's economic development.The Panel is mandated to assess the ethical and safety requirements and standards of emerging technologies and help promote their responsible regulation without imposing an undue burden on their adoption.
  
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