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December 12, 2016

Airborne 12.12.16: KSMO FBO Evictions Held Off, Blues at Oshkosh!, F-4 Finale

Also: A/L Exec Arrested, BD5-J Microjet, First 787-10, Antonov, Military UAVs, Q400 Buy, Spaceport America Cup

The Santa Monica City Council has decided to put its fight to oust two fixed base operations from Santa Monica Airport until after the holidays. A superior court judge was to have issued a ruling a week ago on a preliminary injunction that would stop the city from evicting Atlantic Aviation and American Flyers, the two FBOs offering services at the airport. But with no ruling yet, the senior advisor on airport issues to City Manager said that the city and Atlantic Aviation had jointly decided to postpone further action on the matter until January 3. Here’s some great news for anyone headed for EAA AirVenture 2017. The U.S. Navy Blue Angels have included EAA AirVen

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NASA Announces First Geostationary Vegetation, Atmospheric Carbon Mission

Primary Goal Is To Monitor Plant Health And Vegetation Stress In The Americas

NASA has selected a first-of-its-kind Earth science mission that will extend our nation’s lead in measuring key greenhouse gases and vegetation health from space to advance our understanding of Earth’s natural exchanges of carbon between the land, atmosphere and ocean.

Careful Study Of Large Area Of Sky Imaged By VST Reveals Intriguing Result

Analysis of a giant new galaxy survey, made with ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope in Chile, suggests that dark matter may be less dense and more smoothly distributed throughout space than previously thought. An international team used data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) to study how the light from about 15 million distant galaxies was affected by the gravitational influence of matter on the largest scales in the Universe. The results appear to be in disagreement with earlier results from the Planck satellite.

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NASA has released its Spinoff 2017 publication, which takes a close look at 50 different companies that are using NASA technology – innovations developed by NASA, with NASA funding, or under a contract with the agency – in products that we all benefit from.