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Orbcomm and SpaceX officials have announced that 11 mini-satellites for Orbcomm’s data relay business will be sent on Space X’s first mission since the launch failure took place in June. The launch will take place from Cape Canaveral in next six to eight weeks.
Due to the Falcon 9 launch failure, the company’s many missions were put on hold. But now Space X is hoping that things will get right and it will be able to launch two to three Falcon 9 by the end of this year.

Space X said, “As we prepare for return to flight, SpaceX together with its customers SES and Orbcomm have evaluated opportunities to optimize the readiness of the upcoming Falcon 9 return-to-flight mission”.

Scientists have gathered different images that were captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and made a beautiful video showing Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. The video is the first in a series of portraits under NASA’s Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) Program.

The video can be seen in high-quality 4K and in order to see it, experts have said that people need to set their You Tube settings to 4K viewing or 2160p. As per their suggestion, the video will be best seen on an ultra HD monitor.

A series of Spanish missions in Texas has acknowledged their World Heritage Inscription this weekend. Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, Mission Nuestra Señora de la Purisima Concepción de Acuña, Mission Espada and Mission San Juan Capistrano are the four missions that are included in San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.

San Antonio de Valero is the other mission that has acquired its place in history after a well-known battle in 1836. Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, said in a news release, “The San Antonio Missions are universally admired for their representation of the unique, interwoven heritage of Spanish and indigenous cultures in the US, and warrant worldwide recognition”.

Researchers at UC Riverside Engineering have designed a 3D printed bikini that cleans water around women who are wearing the bikini, according to reports.

The oceans are currently home to many finest species and all kinds of pollutants that subsist on the Earth. The 3D printed bikini is named as Sponge. As per the reports, the unique bikini cleans up the pollutants that are around the women who are wearing it.

Mihri Ozkan, UC Riverside by an electrical engineering professor, has designed the bikini. In Wearable Technology Competition, the 3D printed bikini has won award by acquiring top spot in the list of 15 other competitors. This new technology has been in limelight since then.

A team of scientists studying the water quality and tracking the number of dead dolphins washing shore said that the dolphin die-off is declining almost five years after the Deepwater Horizon Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Jenny Litz, a research biologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), said in a statement on Friday that the researchers noted that dolphin mortalities in the Gulf coast region have declined.

Previously from 2010 to 2014, the mass mortality was caused due to one of the biggest environmental disasters in history in which a BP oil rig exploded. The incident that took place in April 2010 killed 11 employees spilling 4.9 million barrels of oil into the ocean before.

Astronomers from University of Maryland have become the first to submit a research paper on the New Horizons flyby of Pluto. The findings were published in the October 16, 2015 issues of the journal Science.

Protopapa during the research helped to detect composition of Pluto’s surface and also played a major role in locating ice on the dwarf planet. Hamilton, on the other hand, helped in confirmation of the shapes, sizes and unique rotations of two of Pluto's moons.

The researchers hope that their findings will help scientists to properly understand the origins and history of Pluto and its moons.