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| October 03, 2013 |
 Successful mission of Sept 30 makes possible four Proton launches before year end Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 03, 2013 - The successful takeoff of a Proton-M Russian heavy launch vehicle from Baikonur on September 30 holds out hope for conducting another four Proton launches from that space center before the end of 2013, a Space Center spokesman told Interfax on Tuesday. Proton launches were postponed after the July 2 accident and a number of payloads the launch vehicles were supposed to put into orbit accum ... more |  |
 A Seasonal Ozone Layer Over The Martian South Pole Paris (ESA) Oct 03, 2013 - For the past decade, ESA's Mars Express orbiter has been observing atmospheric structure on the Red Planet. Among its discoveries is the presence of three separate ozone layers, each with its own characteristics. A new comparison of spacecraft data with computer models explains how global atmospheric circulation creates a layer of ozone above the planet's southern winter pole. Ozone (O3) i ... more |  |
 First CASIS Funded Payloads Berthed to the ISS Kennedy Space Center, FL (SPX) Oct 03, 2013 - The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the nonprofit organization managing research onboard the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory, congratulates Orbital Sciences on a successful launch of the Antares rocket and the berthing of the Cygnus cargo vehicle to the International Space Station. Orbital's successful mission also represents a milestone f ... more |  |
Taking Snapshots Galore at 'Solander Point' Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 03, 2013 - Opportunity is at the northern edge of 'Solander Point' on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is investigating the geologic contact at the base of Solander Point. Sol 3432 (Sept. 18, 2013), began with pre-drive color Panoramic Camera (Pancam) imaging of targets 'Long Nosed Potoroo,' 'Little Red Kaluta,' and some nearby rock outcrop. A short, 7 foot (2-meter) bump followed, set the rove ... more |  |
 US private spacecraft company SpaceX launches upgraded Falcon rocket Los Angeles CA (XNA) Oct 03, 2013 - U.S. private spacecraft company SpaceX launched its first new version Falcon 9 rockets from California, an ambitious test flight that also marked the company's first flight from the West Coast. "Launch was good," SpaceX's founder and chief executive Elon Musk tweeted Sunday. "All satellites deployed at the targeted orbit insertion vectors." The new-and-improved Falcon 9 rocket carrie ... more |  |
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First ARCA flight in the ExoMars Program completed successfully Valcea, Romania (SPX) Oct 03, 2013 - ARCA has successfully completed the validation test flight in the ExoMars Program High Altitude Drop Test (HADT), carried out in cooperation with the European Space Agency. The launch took place from the Black Sea coast and comprised three pressurized containers containing the avionics equipment that will be necessary to test the ExoMars spacecraft parachute during the incoming future flig ... more |  |
After Successful Spacecraft Docking, US Orbits Five Satellites Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 03, 2013 - Sunday saw two successful space debuts for the United States: hours after the Cygnus cargo spacecraft eventually reached the International Space Station (ISS), a new version of the Falcon 9 rocket took five satellites into orbit. The unmanned Cygnus cargo spacecraft, built by private US rocket company Orbital Sciences, docked with the space station ten days after its launch and became the ... more |  |
Aerojet Rocketdyne Thrusters Help Cygnus Spacecraft Berth at the International Space Station Sacramento CA (SPX) Oct 03, 2013 - Aerojet Rocketdyne has announced that its propulsion helped position Orbital Sciences Corporation's (ORB) Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft for a successful berthing with the International Space Station (ISS). Following in-orbit activation shortly after launch on Sept. 18, Cygnus carried out a series of tests and maneuvers using 32 Aerojet Rocketdyne MR-106M 7 lbf monopropellant hydrazine ... more |  |
 Proton booster back in service after mishap Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 03, 2013 - According to an announcement made by officials at the Russian spaceport of Baikonur in Kazakhstan, the remainder of this year should see four satellite launches performed with the help of the Proton geostationary booster. The first three months of next year should see at least four more. In all 8 instances, Russian military and international telecommunications and Earth surveillance ... more |  |
 Flood maps from satellite data can help emergency response Paris (UPI) Oct 1, 2013 - The European Space Agency says satellite data have helped create flood maps that are available quickly via the Internet for help in responding to disasters. Knowing the extent of a flood - such as the disasters seen recently in Germany and Central Europe - and understanding how it might develop is essential for teams responding to an emergency, researchers said. Normally such u ... more |  |
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 Future sea level rises should not restrict new island formation in the Maldives Exeter, UK (SPX) Sep 30, 2013 - The continued accumulation of sand within the iconic ring-shaped reefs inside Maldivian atolls could provide a foundation for future island development new research suggests. Islands like the Maldives are considered likely to be the first to feel the effects of climate change induced sea level rise, with future island growth essential to counter the threat of rising sea levels. The study p ... more |  |
 The deep Greenland Sea is warming faster than the World Ocean Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Oct 01, 2013 - Recent warming of the Greenland Sea Deep Water is about ten times higher than warming rates estimated for the global ocean. Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research recently published these findings in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. For their study, they analysed temperature data from 1950 to 2010 in the abyssal Greenland Sea, which ... more |  |
 Climate Models Show Potential 21st Century Temperature and Precipitation Changes Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 01, 2013 - New data visualizations from the NASA Center for Climate Simulation and NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., show how climate models used in the new report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimate possible temperature and precipitation pattern changes throughout the 21st century. For the IPCC's Phys ... more |  |
 Research: Water vapor In stratosphere has role in Earth's climate College Station, Texas (UPI) Sep 30, 2013 - Water vapor in the stratosphere contributes to warmer temperatures, research led by a Texas A&M University professor indicated. Andrew Dessler, a Texas A&M atmospheric sciences professor, and colleagues from the University of Colorado, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Science and Technology Corp. found increased surface temperatures, such as from adding carbon ... more |  |
 Spirals of Light May Lead to Better Electronics Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 01, 2013 - A group of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created the optical equivalent of a tuning fork-a device that can help steady the electrical currents needed to power high-end electronics and stabilize the signals of high-quality lasers. The work marks the first time that such a device has been miniaturized to fit on a chip and may pave the way to improvements in hi ... more |  |
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 Drexel finds new energy storage capabilities between layers of 2-D materials Philadelphia PA (SPX) Oct 01, 2013 - Drexel University researchers are continuing to expand the capabilities and functionalities of a family of two-dimensional materials they discovered that are as thin as a single atom, but have the potential to store massive amounts of energy. Their latest achievement has pushed the materials storage capacities to new levels while also allowing for their use in flexible devices. About three ... more |  |
Suggestion of supervolcanoes on Mars ignites controversy Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) Oct 2, 2013 - Some of Mars' deep craters were actually ancient supervolcanoes that may have changed the planet's climate, U.S. and British researchers suggest. Jacob Bleacher of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and colleague Joseph Michalski of the Planetary Science Institute and London's Natural History Museum say several irregularly shaped craters in Mars' Arabia Terra region have a structure sim ... more |  |
 How to make ceramics that bend without breaking Cambridge MA (SPX) Oct 01, 2013 - Ceramics are not known for their flexibility: they tend to crack under stress. But researchers from MIT and Singapore have just found a way around that problem - for very tiny objects, at least. The team has developed a way of making minuscule ceramic objects that are not only flexible, but also have a "memory" for shape: When bent and then heated, they return to their original shapes. Th ... more |  |
Methane Out, Carbon Dioxide In Charlottesville VA (SPX) Oct 01, 2013 - A University of Virginia engineering professor has proposed a novel approach for keeping waste carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Andres Clarens, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at U.Va.'s School of Engineering and Applied Science, and graduate student Zhiyuan Tao have published a paper in which they estimate the amount of carbon dioxide that could be store ... more |  |
Researchers demonstrate 'accelerator on a chip' Stanford CA (SPX) Oct 01, 2013 - In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher than conventional technology in a nanostructured glass chip smaller than a grain of rice. The achievement was reported today in Nature by a team including scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National A ... more |  |
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