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| October 17, 2013 |
 Mission To Mars: A Critical Step In Space Globalization Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 17, 2013 - India is getting ready to become the fifth country to send a spaceship to Mars. The USA, Russia, the EU, China and Japan are working on their own programs of studying the Red Planet. And although it has already been proven that there is no life there, it does not make Mars any less interesting for people. To the contrary, a race of space projects to make colonies on Mars has started on Earth. ... more |  |
 The active Sun boosts Titan's outer atmosphere Paris (ESA) Oct 17, 2013 - The NASA-ESA-ASI Cassini spacecraft has been observing the Saturn system, including the giant satellite Titan, for more than 9 years. A detailed analysis of Cassini data has now confirmed predictions that the density of Titan's ionosphere is directly linked to the 11 year cycle of solar activity. All planets and satellites with atmospheres possess an ionosphere, a region in the upper atmos ... more |  |
 SES Partners With ESA To Develop Innovative Satellite Platform Electra Luxembourg (SPX) Oct 17, 2013 - SES has announced a public-private partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development of an innovative full-electric propulsion satellite platform. Corresponding contracts were signed at SES' headquarters in Luxembourg in the presence of ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain, the Luxembourg Minister for Higher Education and Research, Martine Hansen, and the Minister f ... more |  |
Russia to Make Second Attempt at Mars Moon Mission Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 17, 2013 - Russia will take a second crack at bringing back dust samples from Phobos, one of the moons of Mars, after an attempt in 2011 ended in the spacecraft crashing back to Earth, a top scientist said Tuesday. Russia's next bid to recover material from Mars' largest moon will take place between 2020 and 2022, Lev Zelyony, the director of the Space Research Institute at the Russian Academy of Sci ... more |  |
 Astronomers find clues to decades-long coronal heating mystery New York NY (SPX) Oct 17, 2013 - Drs. Michael Hahn and Daniel Wolf Savin, research scientists at Columbia University's Astrophysics Laboratory in New York, NY, found evidence that magnetic waves in a polar coronal hole contain enough energy to heat the corona and moreover that they also deposit most of their energy at sufficiently low heights for the heat to spread throughout the corona. The observations help to answer a ... more |  |
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Curiosity rover finds proof of Mars origin of meteorites Washington (UPI) Oct 16, 2013 - NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars has found evidence confirming some meteors found on Earth did in fact come from the Red Planet, scientists report. A key new measurement of Mars' atmosphere by the rover provides the most definitive evidence yet of Mars as the origin of many meteorites that have landed on the Earth, they said. A high-precision count of two forms of argon gas - Argo ... more |  |
Russia to make another attempt to bring back Mars moon material Moscow (UPI) Oct 16, 2013 - Russia will mount a second attempt to bring back dust samples from Phobos, one of the moons of Mars, after a failed 2011 try, a leading scientist says. Following last year's attempt - which ended with the spacecraft crashing back to Earth - Russia's next mission to recover material from Mars' largest moon will take place between 2020 and 2022, Lev Zelyony, the director of the Space Re ... more |  |
British engineers hope to reboot 50-year-old computer Milton Keynes, England (UPI) Oct 16, 2013 - Engineers in Britain said they are working to reboot a 50-year-old computer nicknamed Flossie, one of the oldest surviving mass-produced computers. The National Museum of Computing reports it is working to refurbish what it believes is the last ICT 1301 in good enough shape to have a chance of working again. The machine - hardly a "desktop" unit with its 20-foot by 23-foot size ... more |  |
 Two new cosmic explosions unveiled in sky survey analysis Washington (UPI) Oct 16, 2013 - Astronomers say software analysis of sky surveys created by telescopes in California has allowed them to link a supernova to the star from which it exploded. The astronomical survey software system - dubbed the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory or iPTF - also pinpointed the first afterglow of an explosion called a gamma-ray burst that was detected by the Fermi satellite, they sai ... more |  |
Biggest star is ripping itself apart - astronomer Paris (AFP) Oct 16, 2013 - The biggest known star in the cosmos is in its death throes and will eventually explode, astronomers said on Wednesday. Using a telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, the astronomers said they had spotted telltale signs in a star called W26. Located about 16,000 light years away in the constellation of Ara, or The Altar, the star has a diameter 3,000 times that of the S ... more |  |
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 Russia pulls huge 'Chelyabinsk meteor chunk' from lake Moscow (AFP) Oct 16, 2013 - Russian divers Wednesday pulled from a murky lake in the Urals a half-tonne suspected meteorite said to have been part of a meteor whose ground-shaking shockwave hurt 1,200 people in February. The dramatic recovery operation came eight months after a piercing streak of light lit up the morning sky in the central Russian region of Chelyabinsk in scenes some locals said made them think of the ... more |  |
 Boeing to build a new satellite for Inmarsat network El Segundo, Calif. (UPI) Oct 15, 2013 - Boeing will build a fourth Inmarsat-5 Global Xpress satellite as part of a strategy to widen the Inmarsat network. The first spacecraft in the series is scheduled to launch this year while the fourth is not due until 2016, the aerospace and aviation giant said. Global Xpress is intended to provide Inmarsat's government and commercial customers with mobile broadband connectivity o ... more |  |
 SwRI study finds that Pluto satellites' orbital ballet may hint of long-ago collisions Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 16, 2013 - A large impact 4 billion years ago may account for the puzzling orbital configuration among Pluto's five known satellites, according to a new model developed by planetary scientists from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). Starting with Charon, Pluto's nearest and largest moon, each of the successively more distant - and much smaller - moons orbits Pluto according to a steadily increasing ... more |  |
 Rosetta: 100 days to wake-up Paris (ESA) Oct 16, 2013 - ESA's comet-chasing mission Rosetta will wake up in 100 days' time from deep-space hibernation to reach the destination it has been cruising towards for a decade. Comets are the primitive building blocks of the Solar System and the likely source of much of Earth's water, perhaps even delivering to Earth the ingredients that helped life evolve. By studying the nature of a comet close-up wit ... more |  |
 Orbcomm And Savi Announce Strategic Partnership Rochelle Park NJ (SPX) Oct 16, 2013 - ORBCOMM and Savi Technology (Savi), have announced a strategic relationship to provide advanced location-based monitoring solutions to government and commercial markets. ORBCOMM and Savi have submitted a proposal in response to the U.S. Army RFID IV project, which will provide both ISO18000-7 RFID tags and a suite of satellite solutions for military logistics support. ORBCOMM's Globa ... more |  |
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Martian scars Run Deep Paris (ESA) Oct 16, 2013 - Ripped apart by tectonic forces, Hebes Chasma and its neighbouring network of canyons bear the scars of the Red Planet's early history. ESA's Mars Express has flown over this region of Mars on numerous occasions, but this new eight-image mosaic reveals Hebes Chasma in full and in greater detail than ever. Hebes Chasma is an enclosed, almost 8 km-deep trough stretching 315 km in an east-wes ... more |  |
 Iran To Launch 3 Satellites in 6 Months Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 16, 2013 - Iran plans to launch three domestically designed satellites in six months, a high-ranking Iranian aerospace official told the country's English-language Press TV on Thursday. Deputy head of Iran Space Agency (ISA), Hamid Fazeli, said that three satellites - Tadbir, Nahid and Sharif Sat - will be delivered to orbit before the current Iranian calendar year ends on March 20, 2014. Fazel ... more |  |
Comet ISON Details Emerge as it Races Toward the Sun Tucson AX (SPX) Oct 16, 2013 - Scientists are unraveling more information on Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) as it continues on its journey toward the Sun. Comet C/ISON will skim 730,000 miles above the Sun's surface on Nov. 28 and has the potential to be readily visible from Earth starting in early December. "We measured the rotational pole of the nucleus. The pole indicates that only one side of the comet is being heated by th ... more |  |
Telescopes Large and Small Team Up to Study Triple Asteroid 87 Sylvia San Francisco CA (SPX) Oct 16, 2013 - Combining observations from the world's largest telescopes with small telescopes used by amateur astronomers, a team of astronomers discovered that the large main-belt asteroid (87) Sylvia has a complex interior, probably linked to the way the multiple system was formed. The findings are being revealed at the 45^th annual Division of Planetary Sciences meeting in Denver, Colorado. This wor ... more |  |
 Water discovered in remnants of extrasolar rocky world orbiting white dwarf Warwick UK (SPX) Oct 16, 2013 - Astrophysicists have found the first evidence of a water-rich rocky planetary body outside our solar system in its shattered remains orbiting a white dwarf. A new study by scientists at the Universities of Warwick and Cambridge published in the journal Science analysed the dust and debris surrounding the white dwarf star GD61 170 light years away. Using observations obtained with the ... more |  |
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