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| October 14, 2013 |
 French seek lock on Persian Gulf satellite deals Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (UPI) Oct 14, 2013 - The French government, fresh from securing a $913 million deal with the United Arab Emirates for two military satellites, is pushing hard to sell a military system to Saudi Arabia. The French are driving to corner a strategic foothold for satellite business with Arab monarchies in the Persian Gulf as they square off against Iran. "To win these contracts and secure the future of i ... more |  |
 Onward and upward as China marks 10 years of manned spaceflight Beijing (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - China marks 10 years since it first sent a human into space Tuesday, with its ambitious programme rocketing ahead while rival NASA is largely closed due to the US government shutdown. Yang Liwei orbited the Earth 14 times during his 21-hour flight aboard the Shenzhou 5 in 2003, blazing a trail into the cosmos for China. More than 40 years after Yuri Gagarin's groundbreaking journey, the ... more |  |
 End of an era at US Space Command Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - The 21st Space Wing closed the Air Force Space Surveillance System due to resource constraints caused by sequestration, marking the end of its 52 years of service to the Space Situational Awareness mission, Oct. 1. The Air Force Space Surveillance System was designed to transmit a "fence" of radar energy vertically into space to detect all objects passing through that fence. It operated fr ... more |  |
 Diamonds may be raining down on Jupiter, Saturn Madison, Wis. (UPI) Oct 14, 2013 - Diamonds, big enough to grace a necklace or bracelet, may be raining down in the atmospheres of Saturn and Jupiter, U.S. scientists say. Carbon in its dazzling crystal form may be abundant on the solar system's two largest planets, researchers told the annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society in Denver last week. The diamond creat ... more |  |
 Spaceport Colorado and S3 Sign Memorandum of Understanding Denver CO (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Spaceport Colorado has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with S3, an aerospace company that designs and engineers suborbital launch systems, formalizing a collaborative relationship and advancing the spaceport's long-term development and licensing plans. S3 is a Swiss-headquartered company now developing its presence in the United States to serve the North Americ ... more |  |
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Cosmic impact creates Sahara diamond field Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 15, 2013 - In the upcoming issue of 'Earth and Planetary Science Letters', South African scientists are to present new evidence of a major impact event which took place some 28mln years ago in what is now Egyptian Sahara. The jewelry found on the mummy of King Tut contains small pieces of a yellowish material resembling glass. Little stones of this kind have been found in Sahara for millennia - mainl ... more |  |
 Blurring the lines between stars and planets Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Astronomers including Niall Deacon of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) captured an image of an unusual free-floating planet. As the object has no host star, it can be observed and examined much easier than planets orbiting stars, promising insight into the details of planetary atmospheres. Can an object with as low a mass as this have formed directly, in the same way that star ... more |  |
 Russia Appoints New Space Chief Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 15, 2013 - Former Deputy Defense Minister Oleg Ostapenko will head up Russia's Federal Space Agency, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday. The move comes as part of a major reshuffle of the country's troubled space industry. During a meeting with Ostapenko Thursday, Medvedev said he hoped that, as head of the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, Ostapenko will help streamline the country's space p ... more |  |
 European satellites included in test of search-and-rescue system Paris (UPI) Oct 8, 2013 - A pair of dedicated ground stations at opposite ends of Europe will let satellites participate in global testing of a search-and-rescue system, scientists say. The completion of the Maspalomas station at the southern end of the largest island of the Canary Islands, linked with the Svalbard site on Spitsbergen in the Norwegian arctic, has enabled Europe's Galileo global positioning syste ... more |  |
 US Navy Next Gen Air And Missile Defense Radar Contract Awarded Tewksbury MA (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Raytheon has been awarded a $385,742,176 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the engineering and modeling development phase design, development, integration, test and delivery of Air and Missile Defense S-Band Radar (AMDR-S) and Radar Suite Controller (RSC). AMDR is the Navy's next generation integrated air and missile defense radar and is being designed for Flight III Arleigh Burke (DDG ... more |  |
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'White graphene' halts rust in high temps Houston TX (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Atomically thin sheets of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) have the handy benefit of protecting what's underneath from oxidizing even at very high temperatures, Rice University researchers have discovered. One or several layers of the material sometimes called "white graphene" keep materials from oxidizing - or rusting - up to 1,100 degrees Celsius (2,012 degrees Fahrenheit), and can be made ... more |  |
Direct 'writing' of artificial cell membranes on graphene Manchester UK (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Writing in Nature Communications, researchers at The University of Manchester led by Dr Aravind Vijayaraghavan, and Dr Michael Hirtz at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), have demonstrated that membranes can be directly 'written' on to a graphene surface using a technique known as Lipid Dip-Pen Nanolithography (L-DPN). The human body contains 100 trillion cells, each of which is ... more |  |
Mix of graphene nanoribbons, polymer has potential for cars, soda, beer Houston TX (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - A discovery at Rice University aims to make vehicles that run on compressed natural gas more practical. It might also prolong the shelf life of bottled beer and soda. The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has enhanced a polymer material to make it far more impermeable to pressurized gas and far lighter than the metal in tanks now used to contain the gas. The combination could be a boon for an ... more |  |
Carbon's new champion Houston TX (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Carbyne will be the strongest of a new class of microscopic materials if and when anyone can make it in bulk. If they do, they'll find carbyne nanorods or nanoropes have a host of remarkable and useful properties, as described in a new paper by Rice University theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson and his group. The paper appears this week in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano. ... more |  |
 Iron in the Earth's core weakens before melting London, UK (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - The iron in the Earth's inner core weakens dramatically before it melts, explaining the unusual properties that exist in the moon-sized solid centre of our planet that have, up until now, been difficult to understand. Scientists use seismic waves - pulses of energy generated during earthquakes - to measure what is happening in the Earth's inner core, which at 6000 km beneath our feet is co ... more |  |
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'Ship in a bottle' detects dangerous vapors Houston TX (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Rice University scientists took a lesson from craftsmen of old to assemble microscopic compounds that warn of the presence of dangerous fumes from solvents. The researchers combined a common mineral, zeolite, with a metallic compound based on rhenium to make an "artificial nose" that can sniff out solvent gases. They found that in the presence of the compound, each gas had a photoluminesce ... more |  |
 3D model reveals new information about iconic volcano Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - The volcano on the Scottish peninsula Ardnamurchan is a popular place for the study of rocks and structures in the core of a volcano. Geology students read about it in text books and geologists have been certain that the Ardnamurchan volcano have three successive magma chambers. However, an international group of researchers, lead from Uppsala University, Sweden, has now showed that the volcano ... more |  |
Crystals point to 'recycled' super-volcanic magma chambers Eugene OR (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - A thorough examination of tiny crystals of zircon, a mineral found in rhyolites, an igneous rock, from the Snake River Plain has solidified evidence for a new way of looking at the life cycle of super-volcanic eruptions in the long track of the Yellowstone hotspot, say University of Oregon scientists. The pattern emerging from new and previous research completed in the last five years unde ... more |  |
Flawed diamonds: Gems for new technology Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - A team of researchers led by University of Arizona assistant professor Vanessa Huxter has made the first detailed observation of how energy travels through diamonds that contain nitrogen-vacancy centers - defects in which two adjacent carbon atoms in the diamond's crystal structure are replaced by a single nitrogen atom and an empty gap. These "flaws" result in unexpected and attractive pr ... more |  |
Kepler Finds First Signs of Other Earths Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2013 - A new analysis of observations from the Kepler spacecraft reveals what may be the first earth-sized planets with earthlike temperatures found orbiting sunlike stars. Until now, Kepler's nearly continuous observations of over 150,000 stars have confirmed the existence of Earth-sized planets in the hot regions close to their star. Larger planets, some as small as one and a half times the Ear ... more |  |
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