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| September 29, 2013 |
 Unmanned cargo ship docks with orbiting Space Station Washington (AFP) Sept 29, 2013 - An unmanned cargo ship successfully berthed with the orbiting International Space Station on Sunday following a one-week delay due to a technical glitch, NASA said. ISS astronauts "successfully captured the Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo spacecraft with the station's robotic arm" at 1100 GMT, NASA said. "Following its capture, the spacecraft is being maneuvered by Luca Parmitano of the Eu ... more |  |
 Divers recover 10 1/2-pound meteorite fragment from lake in Urals Moscow (UPI) Sep 27, 2013 - Divers have raised what is believed to be the largest rock found so far from a meteorite that exploded over Russia in February, Russian officials said Friday. A spokesman for the town of Chebarkul, near the Urals lake where the 10 1/2-pound rock was retrieved, said the rock is "the largest [piece] found so far" of the meteorite that broke up over the Chelyabinsk Region, RIA Novosti repo ... more |  |
 Stanford scientists publish theory, formula to improve 'plastic' semiconductors Stanford CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2013 - Anyone who's stuffed a smart phone in their back pocket would appreciate the convenience of electronic devices that could bend. Flexible electronics could spawn new products: clothing wired to cool or heat, reading tablets that could fold like newspaper, and so on. Alas, electronic components such as chips, displays and wires are generally made from metals and inorganic semiconductors - m ... more |  |
 Astronauts Practice Launching in NASA's New Orion Spacecraft Houston TX (SPX) Sep 30, 2013 - NASA astronauts recently experienced what it will be like to launch into space aboard the new Orion spacecraft during the first ascent simulations since the space shuttles and their simulators were retired. Ascent simulations are precise rehearsals of the steps a spacecraft's crew will be responsible for - including things that could go wrong - during their climb into space. They can be ge ... more |  |
 NASA Wants Investigations for a Mars 2020 Rover Washington DC (SPX) Sep 30, 2013 - NASA has released its announcement of an open competition for the planetary community to submit proposals for the science and exploration technology instruments that would be carried aboard the agency's next Mars rover, scheduled for launch in July/August of 2020. The Mars 2020 rover will explore and assess Mars as a potential habitat for life, search for signs of past life, collect carefu ... more |  |
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NASA Rover Inspects Pebbly Rocks at Martian Waypoint Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 30, 2013 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has resumed a trek of many months toward its mountain-slope destination, Mount Sharp. The rover used instruments on its arm last week to inspect rocks at its first waypoint along the route inside Gale Crater. The location, originally chosen on the basis of images taken from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, paid off with investigation of targets that bear evid ... more |  |
Science Benefits From Diverse Landing Area Of NASA Mars Rover Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 30, 2013 - NASA's Curiosity rover is revealing a great deal about Mars, from long-ago processes in its interior to the current interaction between the Martian surface and atmosphere. Examination of loose rocks, sand and dust has provided new understanding of the local and global processes on Mars. Analysis of observations and measurements by the rover's science instruments during the first four month ... more |  |
 Several NASA Spacecraft Track Energy Through Space Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 30, 2013 - Scientists have provided the most comprehensive details yet of the journey energy from the sun takes as it hurtles around Earth's magnetosphere. Understanding the changes energy from the sun undergoes as it travels away and out into space is crucial for scientists to achieve their goal of some day predicting the onset of space weather that creates effects such as the shimmering lights of the aur ... more |  |
 China launches satellite to monitor natural disaster Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 30, 2013 - A satellite for natural disaster monitoring was successfully launched into orbit at 12:37 p.m. Wednesday, China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center has announced. The satellite Kuaizhou I, or speedy vessel I, will be used to monitor natural disasters and provide disaster-relief information for its user, the National Remote Sensing Center of China, a public institution under the Ministry of S ... more |  |
 Dawn Reality-Checks Telescope Studies of Asteroids Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 30, 2013 - Tantalized by images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based data, scientists thought the giant asteroid Vesta deserved a closer look. They got a chance to do that in 2011 and 2012, when NASA's Dawn spacecraft orbited the giant asteroid, and they were able to check earlier conclusions. A new study involving Dawn's observations during that time period demonstrates how this relat ... more |  |
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Dawn Marks Six Years In Space Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 30, 2013 - On the sixth anniversary of leaving Earth to embark on a daring deep-space expedition, Dawn is very, very far from its erstwhile planetary residence. Now humankind's only permanent resident of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the seasoned explorer is making good progress toward the largest object in that part of the solar system, the mysterious dwarf planet Ceres. The voyag ... more |  |
 Astronomers find missing link pulsar Canberra, Australia (SPX) Sep 30, 2013 - An international team of astronomers using CSIRO radio telescopes and other ground and space-based instruments has caught a small star called a pulsar undergoing a radical transformation, described today in the journal Nature. "For the first time we see both X-rays and extremely fast radio pulses from the one pulsar. This is the first direct evidence of a pulsar changing from one kind of o ... more |  |
 Australia's new prototype vehicle to improve Earth observation satellites' accuracy Canberra, Australia (XNA) Sep 30, 2013 - Australian scientists developed a prototype autonomous vehicle, "Outback Rover," to help scientists to improve the accuracy of Earth observation satellites that provide valuable data to Australia's mining and agricultural industries, according to a latest research statement from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, on Thursday. Just as the Mars Rover Curiosity is gathering informati ... more |  |
 China unveils its first and unnamed moon rover Beijing (XNA) Sep 30, 2013 - Chinese scientists described the country's first moon rover on Wednesday and invited the global public to come up with a name for it. Zhao Xiaojin, director of the aerospace department of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, depicted the lunar rover an orbiter adaptable to harsh environments; a highly efficient and integrated robot; and a high altitude "patrolman" carryi ... more |  |
 Experiment offers a cheaper approach to particle acceleration Stanford, Calif. (UPI) Sep 27, 2013 - A smaller and relatively less expensive approach to particle acceleration was a step closer, results of an experiment conducted by U.S. researchers indicated. Results of the experiment, conducted at California's Stanford University, could pave the way for table-top particle accelerators that could be used in multiple situations, ranging from security to medical, researchers said in an a ... more |  |
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Counting on neodymium Julich, Germany (SPX) Sep 25, 2013 - Magnetic molecules are regarded as promising functional units for the future of information processing. An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Julich and Aachen were the first to produce particularly robust magnetic molecules that enable a direct electrical readout of magnetic information. This was made possible by selecting the rare earth metal neodymium as the central building blo ... more |  |
Promising new alloy for resistive switching memory Washington DC (SPX) Sep 25, 2013 - Memory based on electrically-induced "resistive switching" effects have generated a great deal of interest among engineers searching for faster and smaller devices because resistive switching would allow for a higher memory density. Researchers have tested a number of oxide materials for their promise in resistive switching memories, and now a team of researchers in Singapore have demonstr ... more |  |
UCSB researchers make headway in quantum information transfer via nanomechanical coupling Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2013 - Fiber optics has made communication faster than ever, but the next step involves a quantum leap - literally. In order to improve the security of the transfer of information, scientists are working on how to translate electrical quantum states to optical quantum states in a way that would enable ultrafast, quantum-encrypted communications. A UC Santa Barbara research team has demonstrated ... more |  |
 How Engineers Revamped Spitzer to Probe Exoplanets Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 27, 2013 - Now approaching its 10th anniversary, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has evolved into a premier observatory for an endeavor not envisioned in its original design: the study of worlds around other stars, called exoplanets. While the engineers and scientists who built Spitzer did not have this goal in mind, their visionary work made this unexpected capability possible. Thanks to the extraord ... more |  |
First scoop of Mars soil contains 2 percent water: study Washington (AFP) Sept 26, 2013 - The first scoop of Martian soil analyzed by NASA's Curiosity rover held about two percent water, offering hope for hydrating humans who someday explore the Red Planet, scientists said Thursday. "We saw Mars as a very dry desert and while this is not as much water you will find in Earth soil... it's substantial," said Laurie Leshin, lead author of the study in the journal Science. In a cu ... more |  |
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